1. Designer classics

IN A world of interior indulgence and extravagance, those wishing to take themselves back to basics may have found a home.

2. Hanging around this half-term?

Deep in the Bracknell forest, you can banish those winter blues by going for a swing through the trees.

3. ‘It sounds like a Guy Ritchie film mixed with Shakespeare’

Rehearsals haven’t yet begun, but soon South Hill Park will receive the premiere of an intense and dramatic Steven Berkoff play based on a classic Greek tragedy. Will it be all right on the night?

4. Also showing: Things We Lost In The Fire (15)

After Audrey Burke’s husband Brian is killed in a random act of violence, she turns to Jerry Sunborne, a down-and-out addict who has been her husband’s close friend since childhood.

5. Raising a glass to the return of Happy Hour

COMEDY on ITV has perked up of late, with the return of Al Murray’s Happy Hour alongside the new improvisation show Thank God You’re Here.

6. Also showing: Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (18)

Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham-Carter team up for this Tim Burton-directed film based on the classic Stephen Sondheim Broadway musical about a Victorian barber intent on revenge.

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8. Familiar faces put in unfamiliar places

BASED on an Australian show that’s been franchised to our shores, Thank God You’re Here is somewhat reminiscent of classic comedy like Whose Line Is It Anyway?

9. Also showing: Underdog (U)

The superhero canine with a gift for rhyme returns in an live-action version of the classic cartoon of the same name.

10. Also showing: Over Her Dead Body (12a)

Kate, a demanding and controlling woman is about to marry Henry, an easy-going vet and the only person who can calm her down during the chaos of their wedding preparations.