Monday

The Great Benefits Row: Channel 4 Dispatches

Channel 4

8pm

Ade Adepitan investigates the proposed cuts to welfare benefits that have caused turmoil in Government. After Iain Duncan Smith resigned and attacked his own department’s plans to cut disability benefits, Adepitan will look at how, despite many of the cuts being put on ice, the controversial Personal Independence Payment is still going ahead.

 

Tuesday

Camping

Sky Atlantic

10pm

Hunderby creator Julia Davis’ new comedy pitches up on Sky Atlantic for a double bill tonight. Inside No. 9’s Steve Pemberton stars as put-upon Robin, whose wife Fiona (Vicki Pepperdine) organises a camping trip to celebrate his 50th birthday. Things don’t quite go to plan, however, when recently separated Tom (Rufus Joes) and his uninhibited new partner Fay (Julia Davis) arrive.

 

Wednesday

What British Muslims Really Think

Channel 4

10pm

In the wake of terrorist attacks by Islamic extremists in Brussels and Paris, Channel 4 claims to have commissioned one of the “most rigorous surveys ever carried out” to find out if the claims that the threat of home-grown jihadists represents a tiny minority of British Muslims in the UK.

 

Thursday

@elevenish

ITV2

10.50pm

With @elevenish wedged between Celebrity Juice and Family Guy in ITV2’s late night schedule, it would be easy to miss this brilliant new topical comedy show.

Each episode is driven by a set of ‘rules’ devised by the show’s producers that incorporate popular topics from the past week. The show features a mix of sketches, quick-fire comic monologues and commentary from up-and-coming comedians including Bobby Mair, Lolly Adefope and Adam Hess.

 

Friday

People’s History of Pop 1955 – 1965 – The Birth of The Fan

BBC Four

9pm

Sixties icon Twiggy presents the first instalment of the People’s History of Pop, looking back at the early years of pop fandom, through the eyes of the people who were there.

The programme will hear from the Lonnie Donegan fan who asked his hero to come back to his parents house so they could have an impromptu skiffle jam (he said yes),what it was like going to the recording of legendary music show Ready, Steady, Go and about the time when a schoolgirl’s dreams came true when The Beatles stopped in at the pub her mum worked at.

Fans will also share their memorabilia from the time including a recording of John Lennon’s first-ever recorded performance with his band The Quarrymen and a very rare pressing of Please Please Me.

 

Saturday

Michael McIntyre’s Big Show

BBC One

7pm

Michael McIntyre returns with a brand new, jam-packed entertainment show recorded in front of a live audience at London’s Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

This week McIntyre is joined by Tinie Tempah and the Peres Brothers group.

He will also be playing his favourite game, Celebrity Send to All, sending a text to Spice Girl Geri Horner’s entire phone book.

 

Sunday

Natural Born Winners

BBC Two

8pm

Sporting heroes Donovan Bailey, Gareth Thomas, Iwan Thomas and James Toseland travel to Calicut in India to discover the spiritual world of ‘Kalaripayattu’, a fierce fighting system, said to be the root of all martial arts.

Using a combination of acrobatic moves and lethal weaponry, they will need to impress a panel of Kalari masters in movement, stick fighting and stick and shield combat.