As thrillers go, Red Eye (ITV1, Sunday) sits on the part of the spectrum that houses Air Force One, with occasional blasts of Airplane! It’s Sunday night ludicrous, but enjoyably so, and you learn a thing or two as well. For starters, never eat someone else’s vegan meal.
As Humza Yousaf walked towards that increasingly famous Bute House podium he looked the picture of confidence.The task before him involved a certain degree of unpleasantness but there was no need to be brutal. The partnership with the Scottish Greens had outlived its usefulness, that is all. How long, one wonders, before the same is being said of him?
A lot of people in Wales hated the 20mph policy. Half a million of them to be precise, all of whom signed a petition to say so. And what did the Welsh government do? A lovely big U-turn, that is what. Councils were told they could go back to 30mph where it was deemed necessary and safe.
Across television and radio, politics show presenters competed to see who could best convey the mood of the past seven days. Kuenssberg said it had not been “the prettiest week” while The Sunday Show’s Martin Geissler described “another bruising week” for the Scottish Government and the Scottish Greens in particular.
Good Starring David Tennant (BBC4, Sunday, 10pm) brings a filmed performance of CP Taylor’s modern classic to the small screen. This is the National Theatre production that marked Tennant’s triumphant return to the West End post-pandemic. Directed by Dominic Cooke, the filmed version had a run in cinemas last April but now it comes to terrestrial TV and is yours to watch free (save for the licence fee).
Nina, whose cringeworthy father is played by Greg Hemphill, is a likeable sort. There are no unlikeable characters in Dinosaur, though a fair few are unbelievable. But like I said, it is glossy, different, upbeat and it tries hard.
For all the saturation coverage given to Donald Trump’s trial in Manhattan, the line that caught many people’s attention - guilty, your honour - was whether the former US president had enjoyed a nap during proceedings.
Asked on BBC1's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg how Labour was handling the accusations against Angela Rayner, the writer and Labour supporter John O’Farrell said it was a “ridiculous non-story” and “a bit of gossip” that Kuenssberg, and the BBC in general, should not feel obliged to keep reporting. “It’s not a story just because the Mail says it is a story,” he said.
The Regime (Sky Atlantic/Now from Monday, 9pm) is what Kate Winslet did next after the Emmy-winning Mare of Easttown and Lee, a biopic of Lee Miller. It’s a strange one, but from the off Winslet looks like she’s having a ball.
At the end of an Attenborough nature documentary there’s a behind-the-scenes segment showing how the sausage is made, as it were. Scoop (Netflix, Friday) did the same for Newsnight’s interview with Prince Andrew. Yes, that interview. There are now two filmed dramatisations of the sit-down. This one, based on the book by Sam McAlister, the booker who secured the interview, is the first to arrive. McAlister comes out of it well, natch, being portrayed as a plucky, working-class single mum who drags the snooty Newsnight lot into the social media age.
