Broadchurch | Ade in Britain | The Great British Winter | The Flying Scotsman: A Rail Romance | Manchester United: Munich Air Crash | Common Ground | Cinema Komunisto
**Broadchurch*
9pm, ITV*
Harrowing new drama with an impressive cast including Olivia Colman, David Tennant, Andrew Buchan and Jodie Whittaker. A young boy is found dead on a beach, throwing the residents of a small seaside town into panic and suspicion. Tennant is the detective with a past brought in to investigate, Colman the local copper struggling to separate work and her real friendships. Nicely done, but not one for parents of a nervous disposition, as it's basically your worst nightmare turned into an eight–part series. JNR
**Ade In Britain*
4pm, ITV*
It's a second series for Adrian Edmondson's Ade In Britain, a show which sounds suspiciously like it was a case of name first, ask Adrian Edmondson second. This week, he takes his terrible geordie accent to the north-east to go salmon and trout fishing in Blyth, glass–blowing in Sunderland and pease pudding–making in Durham. His banter is stilted, the scripts are eye–rollingly leaden, his photography is terrible and it's not funny, but there's something homely and vaguely comforting about it nonetheless. BA
**The Great British Winter*
6.30pm, BBC2*
Naturalist Ellie Harrison's new series (showing each night this week) seeks out Britain's most extreme winter landscapes. Despite the harsh conditions, there's plenty here for nature fans: in tonight's episode she looks at mountain habitats (volcanoes, avalanches and reindeer); in later episodes throughout the week she examines rivers and lakes (featuring otters), forests (Eurasian beavers, squirrels and tree planting), and visits the UK's largest estuarine habitat in Morecambe bay. Things are rounded off with an outing to Shetland. MS
**The Flying Scotsman: A Rail Romance*
9pm, BBC2*
Most locomotives end their days unlamented at the wreckers' yard. But one, the Flying Scotsman, has become Britain's "steam sweetheart". How did this happen? To judge by this documentary marking the locomotive's 90th birthday, it's because the story of the engine is so extraordinary. Speed records, a starring role in a movie, even a tour of the US – it's all here. As for the sight of Scotsman going full pelt bedecked in LNER green, prepare to meet your inner train buff. JW
**Common Ground*
9pm, Sky Atlantic*
Last two comedy shorts of the series. There's a slightly patchy one – Nell, Ted And Marlon – about a member of So Solid Crew helping out with a community choir, but the real treat here is Alex Lowe and Fraser Steele's Barry, featuring Lowe's octogenarian character Barry from Watford. In his 80s and determined to live life to the full now his wife has left him for a local entrepreneur, he checks things off his bucket list with the help of his grandson. Joyous and such skilful character work. Full series please. JNR
**Cinema Komunisto*
8pm, Sky Arts 1*
The idea of movies as glorious escapism was not one that the 20th century's communist tyrannies were keen on. Mila Turajilic's film recalls a time and place – Yugoslavia under Tito – in which cinemas specialised in a kitsch exaggeration of the proletarian paradise that the regime insisted it was building. Yugoslavia's cinema was at least well– resourced: Tito was a keen cineaste, who lured Hitchcock, Burton and Welles to visit. This is riveting history, containing a suprising amount of camp grandeur. AM Reported by guardian.co.uk 11 hours ago.
**Broadchurch*
9pm, ITV*
Harrowing new drama with an impressive cast including Olivia Colman, David Tennant, Andrew Buchan and Jodie Whittaker. A young boy is found dead on a beach, throwing the residents of a small seaside town into panic and suspicion. Tennant is the detective with a past brought in to investigate, Colman the local copper struggling to separate work and her real friendships. Nicely done, but not one for parents of a nervous disposition, as it's basically your worst nightmare turned into an eight–part series. JNR
**Ade In Britain*
4pm, ITV*
It's a second series for Adrian Edmondson's Ade In Britain, a show which sounds suspiciously like it was a case of name first, ask Adrian Edmondson second. This week, he takes his terrible geordie accent to the north-east to go salmon and trout fishing in Blyth, glass–blowing in Sunderland and pease pudding–making in Durham. His banter is stilted, the scripts are eye–rollingly leaden, his photography is terrible and it's not funny, but there's something homely and vaguely comforting about it nonetheless. BA
**The Great British Winter*
6.30pm, BBC2*
Naturalist Ellie Harrison's new series (showing each night this week) seeks out Britain's most extreme winter landscapes. Despite the harsh conditions, there's plenty here for nature fans: in tonight's episode she looks at mountain habitats (volcanoes, avalanches and reindeer); in later episodes throughout the week she examines rivers and lakes (featuring otters), forests (Eurasian beavers, squirrels and tree planting), and visits the UK's largest estuarine habitat in Morecambe bay. Things are rounded off with an outing to Shetland. MS
**The Flying Scotsman: A Rail Romance*
9pm, BBC2*
Most locomotives end their days unlamented at the wreckers' yard. But one, the Flying Scotsman, has become Britain's "steam sweetheart". How did this happen? To judge by this documentary marking the locomotive's 90th birthday, it's because the story of the engine is so extraordinary. Speed records, a starring role in a movie, even a tour of the US – it's all here. As for the sight of Scotsman going full pelt bedecked in LNER green, prepare to meet your inner train buff. JW
**Common Ground*
9pm, Sky Atlantic*
Last two comedy shorts of the series. There's a slightly patchy one – Nell, Ted And Marlon – about a member of So Solid Crew helping out with a community choir, but the real treat here is Alex Lowe and Fraser Steele's Barry, featuring Lowe's octogenarian character Barry from Watford. In his 80s and determined to live life to the full now his wife has left him for a local entrepreneur, he checks things off his bucket list with the help of his grandson. Joyous and such skilful character work. Full series please. JNR
**Cinema Komunisto*
8pm, Sky Arts 1*
The idea of movies as glorious escapism was not one that the 20th century's communist tyrannies were keen on. Mila Turajilic's film recalls a time and place – Yugoslavia under Tito – in which cinemas specialised in a kitsch exaggeration of the proletarian paradise that the regime insisted it was building. Yugoslavia's cinema was at least well– resourced: Tito was a keen cineaste, who lured Hitchcock, Burton and Welles to visit. This is riveting history, containing a suprising amount of camp grandeur. AM Reported by guardian.co.uk 11 hours ago.