60 Days with the Gypsies (C4, 9pm)

Is 2022 turning into the year of Sheridan Smith? It’s still only February and she’s already starred in Four Lives and The Teacher, and now she’s taking a lead role in this new drama. She plays Kathy, who is looking forward to an all-inclusive holiday in Turkey with her husband Martin (Michael Jibson), teenage kids Noah (Louis Ashbourne Serkis) and Jess (Lily Sutcliffe), and her sister Megan (Sian Brooke) and her family. It’s supposed to be a time to switch off and relax, so Martin understandably doesn’t think much about it when 16-year-old Noah heads off to beach party. However, the next time Kathy and Martin see their son, he’s being dragged away in handcuffs after being accused of a serious crime which could see him spending years in a Turkish prison.

With proposed new legislation giving police increased powers to move encampments on, explorer and adventurer Ed Stafford is spending two months living with Gypsies and Travellers to find out more about their way of life. In the resulting two-part documentary, he hopes to look beyond the stereotypes and offer a new insight into one of Britain’s most private groups and the challenges they face. In the first instalment, he heads to Chichester to spend time with a group of families who have set up camp on the side of a busy A-road next to a housing estate – and who are then evicted after just three days. In Cornwall, he learns why it’s not unusual for children within the community to leave school at just 11, and has another experience of the cycle of eviction.

The Pennines: Backbone of Britain (More4, 9pm)

Stretching from Derbyshire to within touching distance of the Scottish Borders, the Pennine range is as beautifully varied as it is long. This new series explores this magnificent upland range and meets the people who call it home. We begin in the Peak District National Park, as climber Andi Turner takes his friends Jesse and Molly Dufton up a route called Encouragement. At Ladybower reservoir, it’s up to Richard Grainger to ensure the neighbouring rivers are well stocked with fish, and in Castleton’s Blue John’s Cavern, miner John Turner digs out the beautiful semiprecious gem.

Imagine - Marian Keyes: My (BBC1, 10.35pm) Her best-selling novels are often described by the somewhat dismissive term ‘chick lit’, yet as her readers know, Marian Keyes has never shied away from difficult subjects, ranging from grief to domestic abuse. Many of her books have also drawn on her own experiences of alcohol addiction and depression, as well as growing up in a rowdy Irish Catholic family. Now, as she publishes her latest novel Again, Rachel, a sequel to Rachel’s Holiday (arguably the book that showed her work should not be judged by the pastel covers), she talks to Alan Yentob about her own story.