Telly week

ITV A new decade dawns when the Inspector Morse prequel returns for a new three-part series. It’s New Year’s Eve 1969, and normal service has been resumed at Castle Gate CID with DS Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans) and the team working together again, just like the old days. In the opening episode, Morse and co investigate when a body is found on a canal towpath, and their only clue is a witness heard whistling on the night of the crime. Roger Allam is also back as DCI Fred Thursday.

BBC1 This Agatha Christie mystery stars Rufus Sewell as Mark Easterbrook, an historian who tries to unravel the mystery surrounding a list of names that’s been found in a dead woman’s shoe. Has it got anything to do with a trio women who are rumoured to be witches? Rita Tushingham, and Sean Pertwee also star.

Rio and Kate face a challenge

BBC1 The 2017 documentary Rio Ferdinand: Being Mum and Dad followed the former footballer, as he came to terms with losing his wife Rebecca to cancer and dealt with the effects it had on him

and his kids, Lorenz, Tate and Tia. This one-off looks at a new chapter for the Ferdinand family in the run-up to Rio’s wedding to Kate Wright, as the former TOWIE star prepares to be stepmum to three grieving children.

Together again: Morse and Thursday

Rufus investigates…

BBC3 A coming-of-age comedy drama –schoolboy Mick (Nathan QuinnO’Rawe) is dealing with the death of his dad, while coping with a hugely swollen testicle he can’t tell anyone about. Deep Water’s Sinead Keenan plays Mick’s mum Patricia.