SATURDAY
Kurt Cobain: Moments That Shook Music
BBC2, 9.25pm
Featuring powerful and unseen archive footage, this documentary covers the impact of Nirvana’s lead singer, Kurt Cobain, taking his own life in 1994. His untimely death is placed in context of global events in the Nineties, and it features an old interview with Kurt himself where he seems reasonably optimistic. It also includes moving moments of his wife, Courtney Love, reading extracts from his final letter at a vigil.
SUNDAY
Midsomer Murders
ITV1, 8pm
Barnaby and Winter return to investigate more quirky fatalities against a bucolic backdrop. When Warren Kaine dies after receiving death threats, his cheating widow Clodagh tells her lover Guy – Warren’s best friend – that she’s happy he’s gone. However, Guy then also meets a sticky end, prompting fingers to point. And the killing spree’s not over yet… With Neil Dudgeon, Annette Badland and Nick Hendrix.
MONDAY
Blue Lights
BBC1, 9pm
The breakout hit of last year was, arguably, this drama about probationary police constables trying to maintain order on the streets of Belfast. If you enjoyed series one (and if you’ve not seen it, blitz it on iPlayer now!), you can finally learn how the delicately poised relationship between patrol partners Stevie and Grace (Martin McCann and Siân Brooke, above) has progressed. Elsewhere, Annie is paired with an enigmatic new recruit.
TUESDAY
For The Love Of Dogs With Alison Hammond
ITV1, 8pm
Stepping into Paul O’Grady’s legendary shoes was always going to be a difficult task, but Alison Hammond manages it with aplomb, making it easy for viewers to accept her as the new face of Battersea Dogs & Cats Home. Her first episode will – as ever – have us holding back the tears, as she meets a three-week-old puppy who’d been thrown in a bin, before she falls hopelessly in love with injured spaniel Nelly.
WEDNESDAY
Mammoth
BBC2, 10pm
Tony Mammoth (Mike Bubbins) is a man frozen in time. Literally. Presumed dead after an avalanche on a school skiing trip to France in 1979, his body is found decades later and miraculously brought back to life – and while his old-school macho, blunt ways are at odds with the modern day, he’s too thick-skinned to notice. So, when he finds a job as a Cardiff PE teacher, he’s soon rubbing people up the wrong way… With Siân Gibson.
THURSDAY
The Apprentice
BBC1, 9pm
We know the drill, but like Lord Sugar and his limited number of feints in a firing situation (‘And for that reason, I’m struggling…’) let’s trot it out again. As we reach the final, the last two remaining candidates launch their business ideas, helped/hindered by those they’ve previously cast out of the competition. A digital billboard, a TV ad and a Q&A are all that separate the winner from £250K of the boss’ money.
FRIDAY
Michael Portillo’s Long Weekends
Channel 5, 9pm
The former politician takes a break from playing with trains to guide us around three of his favourite European cities, starting in Madrid, with Prague and Milan to follow. He’s going behind the scenes of all the major sights, and hits the best restaurants, bars, food markets and hotels. The city is home to 10,000 restaurants and our man heads for the world’s oldest, founded in 1725, where suckling pig is the only dish on offer.