THE COOPERS VERSUS THE REST, BBC2, 10pm
THE BBC are sloshing out a bucket-load of comedy pilots just now and this one is the best by a mile.
Tess is cheeky and sarcastic and Toby is soft and gentle. Together they’ve adopted three children who’re fine with their status. One of the little poppets nods sagely, saying to Mummy, “Yes, it’s because your cervix was hostile.”
Tess and Toby have wildly different approaches to parenting, and this funny, clever pilot shows the domestic chaos they live in.
Their eldest sneaks out to parties and they find it hard to keep tabs on her. Tessa sighs, “Why didn’t we adopt a panda? You get a newsletter and a photo.”
Meanwhile, their youngest is being pressured into religion by a pushy Gran from her “first family”, so she’s taken to dressing up in towels and pretending to be Mother Teresa.
And the middle child is so clingy he’s positioned mirrors in every room which let him watch his mother’s reflection wherever she might be in the house.
It seems raising children is “like a dog trying to do Suduko.”
ADOLF AND EVA: LOVE AND WAR, C5, 8pm
HITLER’S marriage to Eva Braun has become the stuff of history, not to mention infamy.
Soon after exchanging vows they went off to Hitler’s private quarters where Eva bit down on a cyanide capsule and her husband put a bullet through his skull.
This drama-documentary tells the story of their relationship from Eva Braun’s point of view, moving from her youthful infatuation with him through to her days as his mistress where he concealed her from the public, wanting to give the impression that he was devoted only to Germany.
This programme features lots of Eva’s amateur cine-film of the Fuhrer relaxing at home, and we also hear from surviving members of their inner circle.
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