Channel Hopping

A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS Today, 2.30pm - RTÉ1

ROBERT Shaw remains best known for his performance as shark hunter Quint in the 1975 blockbuster Jaws. Almost a decade earlier, however, he put in an Oscarnominated role as Henry VIII in this excellent film. The plot centres on the refusal by Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield) to sign a letter asking the Pope to annul Henry’s marriage to his first wife. Suffice to say it doesn’t end well for Sir Thomas.

I KNOW WHO YOU ARE Today, 9pm - BBC4

THE principal character in this new ten-part thriller is Juan Elias (Francesc Garrido), a middleaged lawyer found staggering along a highway and apparently suffering from amnesia. But it quickly emerges that his 22-year-old niece is missing and traces of her blood have been found in his car.

JUMBO: THE PLANE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD Wednesday, 8pm - BBC4

NEXT year is the 50th anniversary of the Boeing 747, the first wide-bodied plane, going into production. It was ‘a game changer’, says the programme blurb, which describes the 747 as ‘the airliner that revolutionised mass, cheap air travel’. We are also told that this is the ‘remarkable untold story of the jumbo, a billion dollar gamble that pushed 1960s technology to the limits to create one of the world’s most recognisable planes’.

THE SWEENEY Wednesday, 10.45pm - Film 4

RAY Winstone, left with Ben Drew, has been playing tough guys for 40 years. This 2012 film, based on the Seventies TV series, is worth a look for the first ten minutes alone. And the rest of it isn’t bad either.