CV: Andrew Davies

The latest literary adaptation from Andrew Davies, who turns 84 next month, A Suitable

Boy (9pm, BBC1) is another prestige addition to the writer’s impressive body of work…

● Born in Cardiff in 1936, Andrew started Jane Austen novels – Pride And Prejudice writing in the 1960s, while still working as a (1995, starring Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth teacher in London. His first of many radio plays Bennet, below, Netflix), Emma (1996), was broadcast in 1964, followed by plays for Northanger Abbey (2007, Britbox) and Sense TV, from 1967. His first literary adaptation for And Sensibility (2008, Amazon) – as well as a TV series was broadcast in 1980 – of R.F. fleshing out Austen’s incomplete manuscript Delderfield’s To Serve Them All My Days. for Sanditon (2019, Britbox).

● The 1990 political drama House Of Cards, ● Best-known for well-dressed from the novel by Michael Dobbs, was Andrew’s period dramas, he also adapts first major hit; it inspired the author to pen two contemporary novels, notably further novels, which Andrew also adapted Helen Fielding’s for TV. On Britbox, or to buy on Amazon. Bridget Jones’s

● Since the 1990s, Andrew has written a series Diary (2001) and the of successful TV adaptations of literary classics, first sequel (2004). Both including Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago films are on Ch5 this week, (2002) and, in 2005, Charles Dickens’s Bleak and are available to buy or rent

House (both on Britbox). He has adapted four on Apple TV and Youtube. 8.05 10.10

6.50pm FILM The Adventures of Tintin Animated adventure, with the voices of Jamie Bell and Andy Serkis.

9.00 Batwoman One of Gotham’s former

heroes returns to his old stomping ground.

10.00 Naked Attraction

7.25pm Come Dine with Me

8.00 Grand Designs

9.00 999: On the Front Line – Kids 10.00 Call the Cops

11.05 24 Hours in A&E

6.05pm Howards End Period drama, starring

Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins. 9.00 Red 2 An EX-CIA agent reassembles his team of retired operatives to recover a weapon. Thriller sequel, with Bruce Willis. 11.15 Serena Period drama, starring Bradley

Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence.

British F1 GP Highlights The British Grand Prix. Action from the fourth round of the season at Silverstone. Macgyver Angus is hired to steal a highly classified project from a military lab.

9.00 S.W.A.T.

10.00 Condor 2

11.00 Hawaii Five-0 8.00

FILM

Comedy, starring Burt Reynolds. FILM Metro Comedy thriller.

Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords FILM The Hunger Games A teenage girl in a dystopian future is forced to fight in a televised battle to the death. Sci-fi adventure, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson. Includes Access. Plastic Surgery Knifemares

What happens when dreams turn into plastic surgery nightmares.