CRITICS' CHOICE

GARDEN EXPERTISE Big Dreams Small Spaces, 7pm, BBC2 THIS week, Monty Don meets two sets of ambitious amateur gardeners. In Bath, Ant and Jake want to replicate an authentic Japanese garden, while in Leyton, Tariq and Sairah want to transform their back yard into a swanky space for entertaining. Can Monty help them to realise their dreams? PET PEEVES Room 101, 8.30pm, BBC1 FRANK SKINNER’S guests for the first in a new series are Catherine Tate, Rylan Clark-Neal and Nigel Havers. Who would like to see the back of hipster restaurants, and who wants to consign Jeremy Corbyn to the dreaded room. GAG-A-MINUTE Not Going Out, 9pm, BBC1 SET eight years into the marriage of Lee and Lucy (Lee Mack and Sally Bretton, pictured), the sitcom’s eighth series opens with the revelation that the family has expanded — little Charlie has been joined by five-yearold twins, Benji and Molly. So, how has Lee adapted to married life and parenting — has he finally grown into a responsible adult? Not quite . . . STUNNING HOUSES The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes, 9pm, BBC2 IN THE second of four episodes, architect Piers Taylor and actress Caroline Quentin explore homes built in forests. They begin in a pine forest outside Madrid, moving on to the Catskill Mountains in the state of New York, and to Piha in New Zealand. FILM CHOICES From Here To Eternity, 2.35pm, BBC2 AS THE surf laps at the entwined bodies

of Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in that famous adulterous beach clinch, director Fred Zinnemann gently turns the dial on the bubbling tension at a U.S. Army base in Hawaii — on the eve of Pearl Harbor. Simply marvellous. The Black Balloon, 12.25am, BBC1 TONI COLLETTE holds together this heartfelt Australian family drama. She’s the mother of two teenaged sons,sons one of whom,whom Charlie (Luke Ford), has autism. The elder boy, Thomas (Rhys Wakefield, pictured with Collette), struggles with his brother’s erratic behaviour, and the embarrassment and responsibility that come with it.