SIX HIGHLIGHTS FOR WHAT EVER MOOD YOU’RE IN

If you want comedy... THE GINGE, THE GEORDIE AND THE GEEK

Sunday, 7.30pm, BBC2 Very big on the Edinburgh Fringe, Graeme Rooney, Kevin O’Loughlin and Paul Charlton bring their pacey, inventive, offbeat humour to TV in a series that makes a promising start, with a few misfires but quite a good number of real laughs.

If you want period drama...

DOWNTON ABBEY

Sunday, 9pm, ITV Episode two of the fourth series finds Lady Mary beginning to emerge from her grief and take an interest in the estate – a development that her father doesn’t entirely welcome. Meanwhile, Bates hatches a plan to help Molesley. (Pictured: Charles Edwards as Gregson, Laura Carmichael as Lady Edith.)

If you want racy crime drama... MISS FISHER’S MYSTERIES

Tuesday, 10pm, Alibi A new run of the entertaining series about glamorous amateur sleuth Miss Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis, right), who sashays around 1920s Melbourne cracking crimes – and, in this first episode, going undercover as a fan dancer at a club.

If you want an hour of calamities... MAYHEM & MISHAPS

Thursday, 9pm, BBC1 Mark Chapman (right) presents this one-off that mixes the entertainment value of CCTV and home video footage of unfortunate mishaps with useful information about the risks and how to avoid getting into such difficulties yourself.

If you want lovable apes...

NATURAL WORLD

Friday, 9pm, BBC2 Orangutans: The Great Ape Escape reports on a pioneering project to release orphaned orangutans back into the wild. But, after years of living in luxury in their sanctuary (run by Lone Droscher Nielsen, right), will the apes learn to fend for themselves and settle down to a new life in the jungle?

If you want sitcom...

CITIZEN KHAN

Friday, 9.30pm, BBC1 Adil Ray (second left) returns with a new series of the sitcom built around his bravura performance as Mr Khan, family man and self-styled ‘community leader’. Pompous, self-serving, but essentially ridiculous and rather sweet, Mr Khan this week decides to sort out his daughter’s education. Is this wise?