Pick of the day programme highlights for March 28th covering news, films, comedies, sci-fi, sport and all other programme categories picked daily by the DigiGuide staff
We're very nearly at the end of the second series of this sci-fi drama, which overall has had a mixed reception from the critics. When it's on form Torchwood can be very good indeed, but when it's off it's felt to be pretty average. Tonight's penultimate episode of the 13-part series is somewhere between the two, serving as a useful retrospective, showing how the various members of the team were recruited... (Click to continue reading)
Can veg protectors Wallace and Gromit trap the mysterious predator who's eating all the town's prize greens? It's a very tough call for the plucky duo... (Click to continue reading)
The often engaging sitcom, set at the Solana all-inclusive resort in Benidorm, returns for a second series. Everybody's back for more sun, sangria and swinging - including Madge's new boyfriend Mel, Didsbury's answer to Julio Iglesias. But things don't start well when Mel's diving competition with The Oracle leads to a near-fatal accident. (Click to continue reading)
The supersoap saga of the New York Darling family continues. Tonight Nick George(Peter Krause) tries to find out who killed his father with the help of airplane mechanic and Darling aficionado Norman Exley. Meanwhile Juliet sulks in her luxury hotel and refuses to participate in an important photoshoot for the family involving trained lions. (Click to continue reading)
This new sitcom, starring Adrian Edmondson as Vernon, an ageing ex-frontman of a punk band, has had a mixed critical reception. In the opener, Vernon is left homeless and penniless following a divorce with his wife, causing him to move in with his three children. Can he get back on the dating scene? And what will his daughter's tutor make of him? (Click to continue reading)
The true story of John Merrick, the heavily disfigured man who scraped a living as a Victorian fairground freak. Starring John Hurt as Merrick and Anthony Hopkins as the surgeon who rescued him, this 1980 David Lynch biographical drama is in the top drawer. (Click to continue reading)
David Lynch's shocking cult thriller, starring Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper and Laura Dern. Its premise is simple, but the delivery is exquisite, wrapped up in intricate detail. A young man delves beneath the perfectly normal outer surface of his small hometown and uncovers corruption, violence and horror. (Click to continue reading)
