What's on TV 25-Mar-23

NEW Great Expectations Sunday, 9pm, BBC1 Drama Olivia Colman takes on the iconic role of wealthy jilted bride Miss Havisham in this new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic novel. Fionn Whitehead plays adult Pip in this famous tale of the orphan who meets escaped convict Magwitch (Johnny Harris). Shalom Brune-Franklin also stars as Estella, Miss Havisham’s adopted daughter. P13 Grace Sunday, 8pm, ITV1 Drama Roy Grace and his team are called to a deadly road-traffic collision involving an articulated lorry, a car and a blue pick-up truck. Something unexpected is found on the victim, suggesting there could by foul play at work, sparking an unsettling chain of events that leads Roy and colleague Glenn on a tense, desperate game of cat and mouse through Brighton… P8 NEW Project Icon Sunday, 9pm, BBC3 Reality Jordan North hosts this TV talent contest that sees…

LIVE! LATE NIGHT LYCETT Friday, 10pm, C4 Entertainment Q How does it feel to have your own Friday-night show? A I’m really chuffed. I love the idea of doing a risky live show from Birmingham. When I started doing standup, my aspirations were just to get enough gigs to survive. I still pinch myself and think, ‘Oh my God, this is my job!’ Q What can viewers expect from the show? A Birmingham will feature heavily. We’re doing it by the canal and it’s going to be rough around the edges. There will be a hodgepodge of guests mixing with Birmingham locals. The guests will get stuck in with the anarchy and chaos. We’ll also have outside broadcasts that may be hosted by people with no experience of live TV… That’s all I can say! Q Will…

Wonderful Wild Isles BBC1’s new Sunday-night nature show Wild Isles, fronted by Sir David Attenborough, drew an audience of 5.7m on 12 March for its opening episode. It was up against the final of ITV1’s Dancing on Ice, which pulled in 4.2m. Stacey slumps The last instalment of BBC1’s Sort Your Life Out with Stacey Solomon on 8 March tailed off a little, with just 1.8m watching – down on the 2m viewers who tuned in for the first episode of the series. It was beaten by the opener of the new season of ITV1’s The Bay (3.2m).…

Best known for… Lee was a child actor in the early 1980s, playing Harvey Moon’s son Stanley (right) in the hit ITV sitcom Shine on Harvey Moon. He starred in the landmark 1987 gay drama The Two of Us, and played Bevis Loveday in Grange Hill. Other achievements… He also appeared in The Gentle Touch and London’s Burning, plus movies Wish You Were Here! and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Legacy… Lee died on 17 February, aged 54. Paying tribute on social media, his agent wrote: ‘Lee was a great actor who has left a legacy of brave and groundbreaking work achieved at a particularly young age.’…

GRACE Sunday, 8pm, ITV1 Drama After discovering his wife, Ari, has been cheating on him, DS Glenn Branson is battling to save his marriage. The detective is hoping to move back home after staying with friend and colleague Det Supt Roy Grace, although it’s not clear whether he’ll be welcome. While Ari isn’t sure she and Glenn have a future, Roy is relieved to see his old friend back at work, and after a deadly road collision, the pair stumble upon a sinister case. ‘This is probably my favourite case of the series,’ says Richie Campbell, who plays Glenn. ‘It starts off as a regular road accident but they find a bag with drugs in it. Soon things start spiralling out of control and it’s a race against time. Plus there’s lots of action for…

NEW SUCCESSION Monday, 9pm, Sky Atlantic Drama Media tycoon Logan Roy is preparing for battle as Emmy-winning US drama Succession comes to a gripping climax in the fourth and final series. Kendall, Shiv and Roman Roy tried to seize control of their father’s multibillion-dollar firm at the end of the last series, but he was one step ahead of them and cut them out of the family business. To add insult to injury, it was Shiv’s husband, Tom (Matthew Macfadyen), who betrayed their plans to Logan! Now, the siblings must put their differences behind them and unite if they want to find a way back to the table, but will any of them win over their father? ‘Logan is finding a successor to his company,’ says Brian Cox, who plays Logan. ‘The kids don’t step up to…