Single seat, single prop engined, high wing trainer aircraft from 1929, built by France and Switzerland f/f 14/12/1979, d/d 01/07/1980, to St Athan 05/09/2001 for storage, to DCAE Cosford 08/04/2002 for G/I as 9314M For a period on BBC One, Saturday teatimes meant family fantasy. A succession of stories about heroes and villains and magic, filmed in Wales, arrived in the time-slot, and among the best was Merlin. It boasted the young Colin Morgan, Bradley James, Katie McGrath and Angel Coulby, with Anthony Head and Richard Wilson providing the gravitas. Revisit all five series of the Arthurian fantasy on iPlayer and Disney+. He has been living in Britain for 50 years when he was suddenly accused of being an illegal immigrant by the Home Office and threatened with deportation.

Another national obsession when it first arrived, Broadchurch was a genre-making ITV series whose legacy is the reason that all murders committed in UK crime dramas since 2013 have taken place within 100 metres of a moody clifftop and/or beach-front ice cream parlour. Created by former Doctor Who showrunner Chris Chibnall, it stars David Tennant, Olivia Colman and Jodie Whittaker in a poignant mystery about the death of a young boy. Series two and three are also available.Six years after the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire that claimed 72 lives, the BBC has confirmed their plans to air a three-part factual drama drawing on extensive research, which will tell the story of the events leading up to, during and after the devastating tragedy. It’s being written and directed by BAFTA-winning Peter Kosminsky ( Wolf Hall) and will cover the story from multiple perspectives, including victims, survivors, the firefighters on duty that night and the wider community. Casting and filming details are yet to be announced. Hot Flush Two seat, French built, single prop engined biplane reconnaissance / fighter / light bomber aircraft, from 1914 Filming began in South Africa on this new eight-part adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic novel in February 2020, and was halted in March by Covid-19 with an episode and a half in the can, before resuming in early July, then finally wrapping in March 2021. The European-funded series aired just after Christmas on BBC One and starred David Tennant as Verne’s famous explorer Phileas Fogg. To satisfy a foolhardy wager, Fogg and his valet set off on a globe-circling journey, this time in the company of journalist Abigail Fix, played by The Crown’s Leonie Benesch. It was adapted by a team led by Life On Mars’ Ashley Pharoah and has already been renewed for a second season. Before We Die (May) Good Omen‘s Michael Sheen will once again work with Quiz writer James Graham, this time on a bold new BBC drama imagining a civil uprising which starts in a small Welsh industrial town. It centres on the Driscoll family, who are forced to flee their home in the unrest, and try to start their lives afresh while battling with the ghosts of the past. It’s got an impressive cast of names: as well as directing, Sheen will also star as one of the Driscoll family, alongside Steffan Rhodri ( Gavin & Stacey), Mali Harries ( Hinterland), Sophie Melville ( The Pact) and It’s a Sin‘s Callum Scott Howells. This three-episode series will air in 2024. This Town Eastenders legend Danny Dyer will star in this suspenseful four-part Channel 5 drama about two long-term friends, Steve (Dyer) and Brad (Darren McMullen, Doctor Doctor), whose families go on their yearly summer holiday together, only this time Australian bushfires loom over their secluded location. As tensions rise, secrets begin tumbling out, and not everyone will get out alive. Heat will air on Channel 5 from Friday 11th July at 9pm. Then You Run

WW II small fighter type aircraft designed as unpilotted target aircraft but with provsion for pilot. Henry Fielding’s 18th century novel has had a fresh update courtesy of Vanity Fair screenwriter Gwyneth Hughes. With a cast including Ted Lasso‘s Hannah Waddingham and leads Solly McLeod and Sophie Wilde ( You Don’t Know Me), this period romp tells the comedic story of its titular foundling’s adventures in life and love. The three-part series is coming to ITVX on 4th May. Maryland f/f 31/03/1983, d/d 26/05/1983, l/f 13/12/2005, sold 2012, roaded to Bruntingthorpe 01/10/2013, roaded to St. Athan 27/10/2018 Mark Rylance did a lot by doing very little in the BBC’s Wolf Hall adaptation. Playing crown advisor and treasurer Thomas Cromwell in this beautifully pitched adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning trilogy, Rylance’s performance was all about understatement. Claire Foy and Damian Lewis are also great in this political period drama.

There’s even more to watch.

Doctor Who star Jenna Coleman will lead a new four-part BBC thriller as Detective Ember Manning, who must investigate how a devastating fire in a Lancashire holiday home is connected to a podcaster looking into a missing persons cold case and a sinister “love” triangle between a man and two underage girls. The Jetty has been created by Harlots writer Cat Jones – further casting and production information will be announced shortly. The Marlow Murder Club