SIX HIGHLIGHTS FOR WHAT EVER MOOD YOU’RE IN

IF YOU WANT ANCIENT HISTORY... TREASURES OF THE WORLD

SATURDAY, 8PM, CH4 In this new, five-part series, the engaging historian Bettany Hughes (right) takes viewers on a tour around the treasures of the ancient world. She begins in Greece, a country stuffed full of artefacts, monuments and myths. Sparta, the birthplace of Alexander the Great and Olympia are on the itinerary.

IF YOU WANT BANKSIDE CHAT... MORTIMER & WHITEHOUSE: GONE FISHING

SUNDAY, 8PM, BBC2 Good friends Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer (right) are back for more bankside musings of the meaning of life, love and everything in between. They begin the first of six fishing trips on the island of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides, where they are hoping to net fresh sea trout.

IF YOU WANT MURDER MYSTERY... VERA SUNDAY, 8PM, ITV

Brenda Blethyn is back as the dishevelled detective Vera Stanhope, who’s still going strong after ten years on our screens. In the first of two compelling feature-length episodes, Vera and DS Aiden Healy (Blethyn and Kenny Doughty, right) investigate when a much-loved local builder is found beaten to death.

IF YOU WANT TRUE-LIFE DRAMA... STEPHEN MONDAY, 9PM, ITV

This new, three-part sequel to The Murder Of Stephen Lawrence is set 13 years after the teenager’s death, and shows the family’s ongoing struggle for justice. Sharlene Whyte and Hugh Quarshie play Stephen’s parents, Doreen and Neville, while Steve Coogan is dogged detective Clive Driscoll (right).

IF YOU WANT NEW FACES... A QUESTION OF SPORT FRIDAY, 7.35PM, BBC1

The long-running sports quiz has been given a much-needed shake-up. Paddy Mcguinness takes over from Sue Barker as host, while the new team captains will be Olympic gold medal-winning hockey player Sam Quek (right) and former rugby union star and Strictly contestant Ugo Monye.

IF YOU WANT COSY CRIME... GRANTCHESTER FRIDAY, 9PM, ITV

After Vera on Sunday comes the return of another ITV stalwart, with Robson Green and Tom Brittney back as DI Geordie Keating and sleuthing Reverend Will Davenport (right). As we pick up the action, it’s 1958, and the pair’s summer break is interrupted when the holiday camp’s owner is murdered.