PICK OF THE DAY

NW, 9PM, BBC2

STILL living in the North-West London borough in which they grew up, best friends Natalie and Leah (Nikki Amuka-Bird, and Phoebe Fox, pictured) have steered their lives in very different directions, with one eagerly social climbing and the other almost defiantly staying put. At times grittily authentic (the stabbing), at others strangely unconvincing (the implausible X-rated sex scenes), this rather rushed, feature-length adaptation of Zadie Smith’s novel charts the women’s hitherto unbreakable friendship as it is suddenly threatened by the life choices they have made.