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The Omen (1976) ★★★★ BBC Two, 11.15pm Never before has a child been so devilishly terrifying as in Richard Donner’s seminal horror. It’s a wonderful dramatic insight to the giant of British culture, and Fry is devastatingly raw as Wilde as he battles through the era’s unfair obstacles. Fry plays the esteemed writer, whose massive success as a playwright and author was marred by society’s intolerance and criminalisation of his sexuality.

Wilde (1997) ★★★ BBC Four, 11pm Stephen Fry is fantastic in this loose-adaptation of Richard Ellmann’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Oscar Wilde. Selick’s new film Wendell & Wild, written with Jordan Peele, is on Netflix from Friday. My Massive C**k Channel 4, 10pm Not so much a boast as a be-careful-what-you-wish-for film exploring the eye-watering problems of possessing a titanically proportioned penis – from getting clothes that fit, to difficulties around sex.Ĭoraline (2009) ★★★★ BBC Three, 7pm Henry Selick (The Night Before Christmas) directs this playfully menacing animation that follows 11-year-old Coraline (Dakota Fanning), who, after moving to a new home with her self-absorbed parents, discovers a parallel world, populated by characters with buttons for eyes, where she gets the attention she craves. Gemma’s (Gibson) decision to dupe Terry (Vegas) into going undercover has entertaining consequences. Murder, They Hope Gold, 9pm Johnny Vegas and Sian Gibson return with another short run (airing until Wednesday) of their old-school comedy about a pair of romantically entangled tour bus operators who double up as private detectives. Topics covered include his jail-time as a teenager, his love of language and the mental health challenges he has faced. Stephen Fry in Conversation with Alan Yentob BBC Four, 9pm The former BBC arts supremo invites the writer, comedian, presenter and reliably entertaining raconteur Stephen Fry on stage to talk about his extraordinary career and national-treasure status.

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The first in a three-part series not only serves as a prism for looking at the present, but also explores how a Britain in social turmoil contributed to world change through its politics, culture and technology. Made in the 80s: The Decade that Shaped Our World Channel 4, 9pm The 1980s has a good claim to being the decade that most influenced how we live today in terms of mass communications technology, the reset of the old world order and the rise of consumerism. It’s not long before he has to reconsider when the threats made against his wife and children prove all too real. The Walk-In ITV, 9pm The penultimate edition of Jeff Pope’s tense true-life thriller finds anti-terrorism activist Matthew Collins (Stephen Graham) attempting to protect far-right whistle-blower Robbie (Andrew Ellis) in his own home while the police build a case. House of the Dragon Sky Atlantic, 2am & 9pm Last week’s episode finally tapped into the spirit of Game of Thrones and set the stage for this finale, when Daemon (Matt Smith) and Rhaenyra’s (Emma D’Arcy) response to the Hightowers’ throne-seizing will hopefully provoke the eruption of fire and blood the series has promised. Scriptwriter Pete McTighe goes to such enormous lengths to keep viewers guessing throughout this first episode (of six), that we won’t even hint at what’s coming, but from the outset it looks like there might be something bad in Christine’s past about which she hasn’t been entirely honest.

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With a full change of cast and location (from Merthyr Tydfil to coastal Penarth) the focus is now on the Rees family – social worker Christine (Rakie Ayola) and her three adult children – who are struggling with a tragic loss when a stranger contacts them claiming a seemingly impossible connection.

The second series turns out to be a grittier, more hard-nosed affair with a premise that seems, at first, less credulity-stretching. The Pact BBC One, 9pm The only problem with last year’s debut series of The Pact was its premise: would a group of otherwise sensible middle-aged women really kidnap their nasty boss for fun, then lie and attempt a cover-up when he accidentally (apparently) dies mid-prank? To their credit, the outstanding cast (especially Laura Fraser and Julie Hesmondhalgh) worked hard to convince us that, yes, they might, and carried viewers with them through to an entertaining finale.