THE WEEK’S BEST FILMS

Finding Neverland (2004) (BBC2, 1.55pm) When his new play The Admirable Crichton fails to woo audiences on its opening night in 1902, writer JM Barrie (Johnny Depp) surrenders to crippling self-doubt. However, a chance encounter with widow Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Kate Winslet) and her four sons leads to a life-changing friendship. The boys, with the exception of Peter (Freddie Highmore), adopt the writer as a surrogate father and thrill to his fantastical tales. In time, Peter also rediscovers his sense of childhood wonder, which inspires Barrie to immortalise the family in an adventure about a boy who never grew up.

My Old Lady (2014) (BBC2, 10.20pm)

Adapted by writer-director Israel Horovitz from his own play, My Old Lady is an entertaining character study that brings together strangers from opposite sides of the world and thrusts them together in a Parisian des res. Mathias Gold (Kevin Kline) abandons New York in financial dire straits, bound for the French capital where he intends to sell an apartment he has just inherited from his estranged father. Wandering from room to room, Mathias is shocked to find a 92-year-old lady called Mathilde Girard (Maggie Smith) living there with her daughter Chloe (Kristin Scott Thomas). It transpires that Mathias cannot sell the apartment until Mathilde, the sitting tenant, dies. So he takes up residence with the women and spies on Chloe and her current beau.

SUNDAY

21 Jump Street (2012) (5*, 9.pm)

Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum earn top grades with this inspired remake of a 1980s TV series about baby-faced cops going undercover in a high school. Morton Schmidt (Hill) and Greg Jenko (Tatum) enrol at police academy and work together to ensure they complete the final exam. Life as cops turns out to be quite dull and their first bust ends in embarrassment. So they are sent in disgrace to Captain Dickson (Ice Cube), who orders the pair to pose as pupils at the local school where drugs are rife. In a reversal of their own school days, Morton becomes a popular member of the student body thanks to his brains and sensitivity while lumbering hunk Greg is viewed as an idiot by everyone except his teacher Ms Griggs (Ellie Kemper).

Eddie the Eagle (2016) (Channel 4, 9pm)

WEDNESDAY