Penguins: Meet The Family

6.30PM, BBC1 ★★★★

This soothing documentary should bring some respite during these chaotic times – well, for an hour, at least.

It’s a stunning celebration of one of the most iconic birds on the planet. But be ready to have your image of penguins shattered for ever as we meet all 18 species (including the yellow-eyed penguin, right) and follow their lives in some of the most extreme places on Earth. We begin in the forests of New Zealand, where they first evolved, and where there are now more species than anywhere else in the world.