Pick of the Week: "Psychoville" -- BBC2, Thu @10pm
As usual, here's my personal selection of what the week has to offer British audiences, in terms of new television content:
MONDAY 15th
The Supersizers Eat... The Eighties (BBC1, 9pm) Six-part series where Sue Perkins and Giles Coren sample cuisine that was popular during a certain era.TUESDAY 16th
Occupation (BBC1, 9pm) Three-part drama about British soldiers coping with the after-effects of a tour in Iraq. Stars James Nesbitt, Stephen Graham & Warren Brown. Continues Wednesday and Thursday.Mary Queen Of Charity Shops (BBC2, 9pm) Three-part series where Mary Portas goes on a fashion crusade.
Personal Affairs (BBC3, 9pm) Five-part comedy about three women and their romantic entanglements. Stars Laura Aikman, Olivia Grant & Maimie McCoy.
WEDNESDAY 17th
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2009 (BBC2, 7pm) Culture Show special devoted to the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition, featuring Richard Wilson and Beth Ditto.The Bill (ITV1, 8pm) Return of the long-running police drama.
Price Of Life (BBC2, 9pm) Documentary following a man with a rare cancer and his battle to get access to a new drug called Revlimid that could extend his life by years.
Henry VIII: Patron Or Plunderer? (BBC4, 9pm) Historian Jonathan Foyle looks at the cultural life of the former royal, and the paradoxes therein.
THURSDAY 18th
Crude Britannia: The Story of North Sea Oil (BBC4, 9pm) Three-part documentary about the UK's oil industry.Psychoville (BBC2, 10pm) Seven-part black-comedy about a group of dispirate, bizarre characters with a strange connection. Stars Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Dawn French, David Bamber & Janet McTeer.
FRIDAY 19th
Hotel Babylon (BBC1, 9pm) Return of the lighthearted drama about a five-star hotel. Stars Nigel Harman, Dexter Fletcher, Anna Wilson-Jones, Emma Pierson & Martin Marquez.SATURDAY 20th
Russell Brand: Doing Life (Channel 4, 10pm) Live standup from the popular comedian's show at the Hackney Empire.SUNDAY 21st
Among The Apes (Five, 8pm) Primatologist Charlotte Uhlenbroek travels the world to meet primates.Top Gear (BBC2, 8pm) Return of the motoring magazine with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond & James May. In this opener, the trio compete in a London-to-Edinburgh race and discover what Top Gear might have been like 60 years ago.
James May On The Moon (BBC2, 9pm) To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo Moon landings, James May meets three of the men who walked on the moon, experiences weightlessness and flies in a U2 spy plane to see the curvature of the planet.
