DAVID BADDIEL: JEWS DON’T COUNT Channel 4, 9pm
Following superb documentaries on the scourge of Holocaust denial and social media, this adaptation-cum-enhancement of David Baddiel’s bestseller of the same name establishes him as a formidable and serious factual film-maker. He talks to a wide variety of prominent Jews, from Sarah Silverman and Stephen Fry to Neil Gaiman and Jonathan Safran Foer, trying to get to the bottom of why antisemitism is never treated or tackled with quite the same urgency and seriousness as other forms of racism. Baddiel covers a huge amount of ground, from Labour’s problems under Jeremy Corbyn to the historical weight of centuries of oppression and negative stereotypes. Equally valuably, he pre-empts plenty of familiar ripostes – most intriguingly, what about Israel? – and is happy to accommodate dissenters, engaging in amicable debate with Miriam Margolyes. The climax follows the first meeting between Baddiel and Jason Lee, the striker for whom Baddiel used blackface to mock on Fantasy Football League in the 1990s, in a showdown which proves cathartic to both men and allows Baddiel to tick off the “journey” element of a consistently witty and stimulating film. Gabriel Tate