UPSTART CROW, BBC2, 10pm
I RETURNED to Upstart Crow kicking and screaming, forced into watching it by the dearth of good TV this week.
Euro 2016 has taken up much of the scheduling space, the games festooned on either side by droning analysis and followed by the news with its camera-phone footage.
In this miserable melee, where is the good TV? I couldn’t find it, so was compelled to watch the final episode of Upstart Crow, having been left stone-cold and unimpressed by its earlier outings.
Making fun of the money-grabbing investors who put their money into the newly-discovered potatoes, tobacco and “cases of syphilis” from Virginia, Shakespeare (David Mitchell) prefers to put his money into the theatre. Still, high jinks and a court case arise when his cash goes missing.
There are some very deliberate reminders of Blackadder II here – but all that does is make you pine for what you’re missing.
AN IMMIGRANT’S GUIDE TO BRITAIN, C4, 10pm
THIS is a comedy series, but with the EU referendum debate becoming ever more poisonous it’s often hard to see the funny side here.
Presented by German comedian Henning Wehn, it’s a humorous documentary telling newcomers how to fit into Britain. But for how long can we chuckle about Boris when he stands ready to pull Britain out of the EU before making a grab at becoming Prime Minister?
It’s hard to push aside the awful image of PM Bo-Jo shaking hands with President Trump and that rather intrudes on this light-hearted show about the quirks of British life.
But tonight, Wehn encourages us to forget our looming fears and laugh about British horrors such as tinned pies and bingo and the even greater terror of standing too close to someone.
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