Film choice

Triple Cross (1966) BBC TWO, 12.10PM ★★★

 This slow-paced Second World War drama is loosely based on the exploits and autobiography of Eddie Chapman (Christopher Plummer), a British safe-cracker who offered both the Third Reich and British Intelligence his services as a spy while he was a prisoner in the Channel Islands. The lack of suspense makes you wonder if this is really the same director – Terence Young – who did the quickfire early James Bond films. The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years (2016)

CHANNEL 4, 9.00PM ★★★ 

While you watch this peppy documentary from Ron Howard, which focuses on the band’s notoriously hectic touring period, from 1962-66, you feel pop history whistling past at speed. “We were force-grown, like rhubarb,” John Lennon observes in one of many well-chosen snippets. It’s a line that chimes with every step Howard shows us the band taking.

Bridesmaids (2011) ITV2, 9.00PM ★★★★★

This sharply written and hilarious comedy combining bad taste with good humour is a valiant backlash against sugary chick flicks, but also a poignant evocation of loneliness. Annie (Kristen Wiig) agrees to be her best friend Lillian’s (Maya Rudolph) maid of honour, but finds herself competing with a richer, more elegant bridesmaid (Rose Byrne) when it comes to pleasing the bride. Matt Lucas and Rebel Wilson also star.