Channel Hopping

QUANTUM OF SOLACE

TODAY, RTE1, 9.45PM

PRECEDED by the impressive Casino Royale and followed by the even better Skyfall, this is the weak link in Daniel Craig’s (right)) outings as James Bond. But it iss still worth a look, if only too whet the appetite for his return to our cinemas next month in Spectre. The plot involves 007 trying to stop a plot to seize control of Bolivia’s water supply. Co-stars include Gemma Arterton.

LATER....WITH JOOLS HOLLAND

WEDNESDAY, BBC2, 11.15PM

HARD to believe, but this is the 47th series of this show since it started in 1992. The opening instalment features a performance by veteran singer-songwriter ter Rickie Lee Jones, who will ill be playing her classic Seventies hit Chuck E’s In Love. Other artists scheduled to appear include Foals, My Morning Jacket and Jools’s old bandmates Squeeze, while Richard Thompson, The Weeknd and The Libertines are dueue on in the coming weeks.

ALL CHANGE AT LONGLEAT

MONDAY, BBC1, 9PM

IT IS, of course, compulsory that all documentaries about English stately hhomes and their owneowners must be narrated by HHugh Bonneville, aka DoDownton Abbey’s Lord GGrantham. So it will be nno surprise to hear his dulcet tones in this three-parter as the cucurrent Marquess of BaBath, Alexander Thynn, hanhands over control of his £1190million estate – called LLongleat – to his 41-year-old son Ceawlin.

CILLA AT THE BBC

FRIDAY, BBC4, 10.25PM

THIS hour-long tribute features clips of Cilla Black’s performances on programprogrammes such as Top Of The PoPops, the Ken Dodd Show and Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s NoNot Only...But Also ththroughout the SSixties. There is also eextensive footage frfrom her self-titled tetelevision show, incincluding a seldomseenseen clip of a 1973 duet betwebetween Cilla (left) and glam rocrock star Marc Bolan.