As ever, there are plenty of options on TV and on demand. Over the next seven days it's goodbye to Ant & Dec (well, sort of) and hello to Josh Holloway. Yep, Sawyer from Lost is back!
Dates covered: Saturday Apr 2-Friday April 8
Drama
Happy Valley, RTÉ One, Thursday
If you missed this second season of this gritty cop drama when it was recently broadcast on BBC One, you're in for a real treat. Already, it's being tipped to win heavily at awards time.
Former Coronation Street star Sarah Lancashire returns as Catherine Cawood, a no-nonsense, dedicated police sergeant based in a small Yorkshire town.
It's 18 months on from the end of the first season, and while killer Tommy Lee Royce (James Norton) is in prison, the death of his mother implicates Cawood in a series of murders.
Totally engrossing, this is BBC drama at its best, with a great cast that also includes Charlie Murphy, Siobhan Finneran and Katherine Kelly.
Drama
Undercover, BBC One, Sunday
This new six-part thriller written by Peter Moffat (North Square, Silk) promises to be bold and gripping, but coming in the wake of the excellent The Night Manager, it's got big boots to fill.
Storywise, it's like this: for the past 20 years Maya Cobbina (Sophie Okonedo) has defended Rudy Jones (Dennis Haysbert), a man falsely imprisoned for murder. Today he is to be executed by lethal injection in Louisiana. Rudy's parting words are "Go big" - he wants her to change the system that allows such injustices to occur.
With Rudy's appeal ringing in her ears, Maya returns to London and discovers that she's been pegged to take the role of Director of Public Prosecutions, a prominent position that might allow her to finally bring to justice the death of her friend Michael Antwi (Sope Dirisu), a charismatic anti-racism campaigner.
Entertainment
Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, UTV Ireland
It’s all aboard for the dazzling grand finale of this particular run of Ant and Dec's pacey and slick teatime show, and this promises to be quite an event as it comes live from the deck of a cruise ship in Barcelona.
Drama
The People Next Door, Channel 4, Wednesday
This is the latest drama from the award-winning team behind the fantastic Cyberbully from last year.
A middle class couple are interviewed by the police, who seem convinced the couple have committed a crime. The story of how they got here is revealed through flashbacks via 'evidence' they recorded as the couple turn to increasingly elaborate forms of surveillance to find out what is happening behind the closed doors of their 'neighbours from hell'.
Drama
The Walking Dead, Monday, Fox
It's the season six finale of this comic book adaptation. This latest run has seen more slaughter than ever, as much on humans as zombies. So fans can expect a fair old bloodbath and a jaw-dropping death or two as Rick and company continue a relentless journey that can't possibly end well.
On Demand
Silicon Valley: Season 1-2, Sky Atlantic, from Thursday
The first two seasons of the award-winning comedy become available through Sky Box Sets and if you haven't seen it yet, you're in for a treat. From the creator of Beavis and Butt-Head, the show follows a group of semi-dysfunctional techies as they found a start-up company in Silicon Valley, a place where reality tends to take a back seat to pretty much everything else. Hilarious.
Documentary
Mavis! Sky Arts, Sunday
Powerful live performances, rare archival footage and conversations with the likes of Bob Dylan, Prince and Chuck D, illustrate the struggles, successes and intimate stories of soul music legend and civil rights icon Mavis Staples and her family group, The Staple Singers.
Drama
The Durrells, UTV Ireland, Sunday
Keeley Hawes, who was outstanding in last year's second season of Line of Duty, heads the cast in this period drama based upon Gerald Durrell’s classic trilogy of Corfu memoirs including My Family and Other Animals. Set in 1935, it's about an English widow and her chaotic life with four children in Corfu, including a young Gerald Durrell. Sounds like jolly good Sunday night viewing. Cocoa optional.
Comedy
Camping, Sky Atlantic, Tuesday
Written and directed by, as well as starring the inimitable Julia Davis, a very unique voice in British comedy, with her follow-up to the potty-mouthed period comedy that was Hunderby.
This time around it's a tale of a couples' camping trip that descends into derangement and debauchery.
All six episodes will be available from Tuesday on Sky Box Sets.
Drama
Colony, Sky 1, Thursday
Former Lost star Josh Holloway – you do remember Sawyer? - and Sarah Wayne Callies star in this new drama from Carlton Cuse, an executive producer and joint showrunner on Lost.
Set in a near-future Los Angeles strictly controlled by a mysterious foreign force, former FBI agent Will Sullivan (Holloway) and his wife Katie (Callies) are desperate to find their 12-year-old son after they were separated from him during the invasion.
This is a place where there are terrible consequences for anyone bending the rules, powerful Proxy Alan Snyder (Peter Jacobson, House) presents Will with his only chance of being reunited with his son, leaving Will with a momentous decision to make.
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