Redemption
9pm, ITV1
Another week, another weathered DI to get acquainted with. This time it’s a six-parter about Colette Cunningham (Paula Malcomson). While out on the beat in her Liverpool stomping ground, she gets a call from the Dublin Garda Síochána, who inform her of her estranged daughter Stacey’s suicide. Colette also learns that she has two teenage grandchildren, and so, in a “highly unusual” situation, swaps Liverpool for Dublin for six months to find out what has happened. Hollie Richardson
Comic Relief 2023
7pm, BBC One
A cloak from The Traitors is one of the TV items you can bid on as part of his year’s fundraising marathon (along with Pat Butcher’s earrings). Elsewhere, Gethin Jones is finishing his sponsored 24-hour dance challenge, with plenty of Strictly stars on hand to help. HR
Gardeners’ World
8pm, BBC Two
It’s a reliable sign of the changing seasons when the first Gardeners’ World of spring comes into bloom. While Monty Don busies himself with pruning roses and planting clematis, Carol Klein visits a skateboarder’s garden in Sheffield and Adam Frost discovers which plants will be best suited to survive the changing climate. Ellen E Jones
Becoming Frida Kahlo
9pm, BBC Two
The second instalment of Kahlo’s life story finds her fighting for her independence in the face of Diego Rivera’s affairs. In the early 1930s, Kahlo is shocked by the poverty in New York, while she and Rivera are surrounded by high society. But, as she loses her baby, the pain shows in her art. Hannah Verdier
When Comic Relief Did Big Brother
10pm, BBC Two
Chris Eubank entered the house on a scooter while wearing a kaftan. Vanessa Feltz had a very public meltdown. And, whether or not it was for charity, the pioneering reality TV format showed it was going to run and run. This documentary looks back at the roots of the small-screen phenomenon of the 00s. Phil Harrison
The Last Leg
10pm, Channel 4
Nish Kumar and Fern Brady can both be counted on to make an entertaining appearance wherever they go, so this week’s takedown of the news – which includes Jeremy Hunt’s budget and the aftermath of certain WhatsApp messages – will be a good ’un. HR
Film choices
Marlowe (Neil Jordan, 2023), 1.10pm, 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere
With Liam Neeson starring and Neil Jordan directing, it’s little surprise that Raymond Chandler’s hard-bitten private eye has become Irish. Apart from that, this tight thriller – adapted from a novel by John Banville – is reassuringly Chandleresque. It’s California, 1939, and a rich, blond, married woman (Diane Kruger) turns up at Marlowe’s office asking him to locate her lover. Murkiness ensues. It’s also nice to see a plum role for Danny Huston, offering echoes of his dad in Chinatown. Simon Wardell
The Curse of Frankenstein (Terence Fisher, 1957), 9.05pm, Talking Pictures TV,
Terence Fisher’s 1957 shocker launched Hammer as the greatest producer of horror of its day, made Peter Cushing a star and gave Christopher Lee (as the Creature) the leg up to a lead role in the even more influential Dracula. The blood-letting may be tame by today’s standards, but Hammer’s first colour feature makes the most of the claret on display. Cushing plays it straight amid the bandages and bubbling vials as Mary Shelley’s hubristic scientist, while Lee uses his height and gruesome makeup to menacing effect. SW
Four Lions (Chris Morris, 2010), 11.35pm, Film4
A close-to-the-bone satire from Chris Morris – co-written with Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong – that dares you to be offended. Riz Ahmed is Omar, leader of a group of inept would-be Islamist jihadis living in Sheffield that includes Kayvan Novak’s malleable idiot Waj and Nigel Lindsay’s preposterously hardline convert Barry. There are exploding crows, suicide bomber raps and, um, Benedict Cumberbatch, in a comedy that deadpans its way through religious intolerance, police incompetence and a panoply of ignorant posturing. SW
