Mr Selfridge (ITV, Sunday, 9pm)
It seems like only yesterday when we first clapped eyes on Jeremy Piven from Entourage doing his shouty best as the very enthusiastic American who came up with the great Selfridges department store. Now we’re already on the third series with another 10 episodes starting this Sunday. This time the emphasis is less on stock issues in the knickers department and more on the personal lives of Selfridge and his underlings and family. In fact the series kicks off with the wedding of Selfridge’s daughter Rosalie to a dodgy Russian called Serge who is clearly digging for gold. Oh, and Rosalie and her sister Violette are now played by real-life sister thesps Kara and Hannah Tointon, and Zoe Wanamaker off My Family pops up in the campest of Russian accents as the mother of the groom. But, as ever, the great Amanda Abbington as Miss Mardle steals the show.
Dragons’ Den (BBC2, Sunday, 9pm)
You wait ages for one decent show on Sundays at 9 O’clock and suddenly three of then are on at the same time. As well as Mr Selfridge, above, and Last Tango, below, this weekend features the latest, tenth series of this still fun format. It’s also the last series for Dragons Duncan Bannatyne and Kelly Hoppen. Now the great scary-faced Dunc has been on the show from the very start so he’ll be much missed, whereas interiors expert Hoppen has only been involved for two series so it seems a bit premature for her to be off already. Anyway, in this first show, the entrepreneurial ideas include a high-viz clothing business, an eco light bulb, an invention which is meant to prevent high heels from sinking into mud (handy!), and perhaps best of all, ‘meggings’ – men’s leggings, if you will. I’ll have 20 pairs please.
Last Tango In Halifax (BBC1, Sunday, 9pm)
The final entry in this week’s special Sunday Night At 9pm column is the latest episode of the drama that just keeps getting better. Sally (Scott & Bailey, Happy Valley) Wainwright must now be the very best of TV writers around, and every single scene in this show is riveting, like the ones this week when Caroline (Sarah Lancashire) struggles to look after her late partner’s baby when the new nanny gets arrested for drunk driving, so she decides to get help from the kiddie’s biological father (Marcus Garvey). Or the bit when rich, handsome Gary (Rupert Graves off Sherlock), long lost son of Alan (Derek Jacobi) tells his family’s entire secret history to the local newspaper. What on earth is he thinking?
And don’t forget… After a brief post-Christmas break, the lovely Jonathan Ross is back with a new run of, you guessed it, The Jonathan Ross Show (ITV, Saturday, 9.20pm) and he’s got guests Colin Firth and Taron Egerton, his hot young co-star from the extraordinary new film Kingsman: The Secret Service, plus music from Take That, no less.