The next 007 should be confirmed by the end of the year, but in the meantime it’s Nick Mohammed who has a licence to thrill with a night of Bond classics. You Only Live Twice, Nobody Does It Better and Diamonds Are Forever should all be on the bill, conducted by Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser with some top-secret guest singers. Hollie Richardson Snaps, cackles and pop (stars): the zippy visual guess-’em-up gets a special charity edition featuring soap veterans (Charlie Brooks and Sue Cleaver), radio presenters (Richie Anderson and Jason Mohammed) and former chart-toppers (Kéllé Bryan and Lee Latchford-Evans).
Graeme Virtue Surprisingly, Sandi Toksvig has never visited Hadrian’s Wall. She puts that right in this episode of the enjoyable archaeology series. While she’s in Northumberland, she ponders the lives of the soldiers guarding this outpost of the Roman empire and cleans a boot found in one of Vindolanda fort’s defensive ditches.
Phil Harrison It may not be as adorable as the British original but, five seasons in, the US sitcom remake is still a vehicle for smart plots and quick gags. This week’s triple bill includes an unseasonal two-part Christmas special. Before that, the visit of an obsessive history podcaster causes undead jazz singer Alberta (Danielle Pinnock) to reveal more of her life story.
Jack Seale In both cultural and political terms, it’s hard to articulate exactly how much of an outlier George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley’s 1985 trip to China really was. This fun and fascinating film tells the inside story, putting the tour into its sometimes fraught cold war context while also offering a charming insight into the friendship between the duo. PH These are the final episodes of this superb, albeit apocalyptically bleak series, and the consequences of the false promises made by the western allies are fully playing out on the ground.
Gilles’ humanitarian efforts are facing Taliban hostility and American indifference. Meanwhile, Zahara looks to have escaped but soon faces an impossible choice. PH This is the first novel by bestselling British crime writer Alex North to be made into a film but, with the Russo brothers producing, it surely won’t be the last.
The eight-year-old son of widowed author Tom (Adam Scott) has been abducted, in a way reminiscent of serial killer the Whisper Man. However, the murderer was caught years ago by Tom’s estranged detective father Peter (Robert De Niro). So is a copycat at work or did Peter arrest the wrong person?
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