The Queen and I

Sky One, 6.00pm

A comedic dramatisation of the novel by Sue Townsend, The Queen and I is set in the early 1990s and imagines Britain as a republican state.

Watership Down

Saturday: BBC One, 7.00pm

Based on the novel by Richard Adams of the same name, Watership Down is a joint Netflix and BBC production.

The two architects of the programme – BBC Four channel editor Cassian Harrison and BBC Research & Development’s head of internet research and future services, George Wright – explained how they used artificial intelligence (AI) to create Made By Machine: When AI Met The Archive at an RTS London event in early December.
 
This followed up on an event in May, when RTS London explored how AI technology could shape TV’s future.

Nadiya’s Asian Odyssey

Monday: BBC One, 9.00pm

Former Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain uncovers her familial connections to southeast Asia and explores the culinary arts of Cambodia, Thailand and Nepal.

My Brilliant Friend

Monday: Sky Atlantic, 9.00pm

Based on Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, My Brilliant Friend centres on the relationship between two childhood friends from Naples.

A Woman Captured: Storyville

Monday: BBC Four, 10.00pm

Film-maker Bernadett Tuza-Ritter tells a harrowing story of modern slavery through one woman’s nightmare. Marish is 52, works 12-hour days in a Hungarian factor and has been a domestic slave for ten years.

Gay Britannia will feature bold stories that celebrate the LGBTQ community and highlight what it means to be gay in Britain today, whilst challenging existing preconceptions and prejudices.

The season of programming will mark 50 years since The Sexual Offences Act 1967, which partially decriminalised homosexual acts that took place in private between two men over the age of 21.

Locked Up - Channel 4

Walter Presents is also bringing back successful Spanish prison drama Locked Up.

The first series proved popular last year, with Walter Iuzzolino of Walter Presents telling the RTS that the day after the show launched online, “something like 11 000 people had already burned through the entire [series]”

The show, he said, “is “really different. It’s really Hispanic. It’s very technicolour. It’s fun. It’s very sweaty. It is Spanish exuberance!”

Written, directed and starring Mackenzie Crook (Andy), Detectorists will return this year with six new episodes.

Also starring Toby Jones (Lance) and Rachael Stirling as Becky, Andy’s wife, the new series continues on from the Christmas Special that saw Lance battling the ‘curse of the gold’ after finding an Anglo-Saxon treasure.