GOODNIGHT SWEETHEART, BBC1, 9pm
PREVIEW copies of this one-off revival have not been released, but the information I’ve been able to find has left me quite disappointed, because Gary Sparrow (Nicholas Lyndhurst) will not be travelling in time back to wartime London.
Instead, this is to be a sequel to Goodnight Sweetheart, and so time has relentlessly marched forward and we’ll find our hero slipping between the mundane present-day and 1962.
In the last episode of Goodnight Sweetheart, Gary was left stranded in the 1940s as his time portal had closed. Now he’s in the 1960s, can he keep claiming all those Beatles songs as his own?
And in a classic time travel scenario, he gets the chance to visit the maternity hospital to see himself being born, but this makes “the laws of physics go berserk” and causes the portal to the present day to re-open again.
But who would choose our current bland world over “swinging London” and Beatlemania?
LADY C AND THE CASTLE, STV, 9pm
I HAD the great privilege of not knowing who “Lady C” was until she appeared in I’m A Celebrity and was suddenly ubiquitous.
In this one-off programme, Lady Colin Campbell introduces us to her “new and great love”, Castle Goring, in Sussex.
It looks more like a fancy country house than a castle, but who’s quibbling?
It went on the market recently for £500,000 and Lady C “thought she could bag a bargain”, buy the old ruin, and start rescuing and repairing it. Such a project doesn’t come cheap though, hence Lady C’s appearance on the jungle reality show, which must pay well considering how many desperate celebs traipse through.
But perhaps it didn’t pay quite enough to buy her a new roof, so here she is again and we follow her comical progress as she tries to make the castle “fit for a lady”.
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