Laura Kuenssberg leads the BBC’s coverage of this year’s local elections, widely considered as the first big test of Rishi Sunak’s leadership. There’s a particularly tense, funny scene where the awkward Albert (Allan Mustafa) must choose between cheating on his wife and insulting one of the most dangerous men who ever lived. Tonight’s double-bill of the crime comedy follows the hapless thieves to Colombia, where they hope to make a trade with infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar (Juan Cely). The sufferer is Gareth (Reece Shearsmith), whose plan to barricade himself indoors for the day is ruined by a nosey postie (Samantha Spiro). Only Inside No 9 could make a farce about Paraskevidekatriaphobia, the crippling fear of Friday the 13th. The suspects are many, but the most obvious – perhaps too obvious – is former client Garry (Yaseen Aroussi), a sociopath who Venetia once cleared of murder. This week the detective (played by Bertie Carvel) investigates the murder of hotshot defence barrister Venetia Aldridge (Sara Stewart), as adapted from P D James’s A Certain Justice. There is a polished simplicity to Dalgliesh that makes it irresistibly watchable. His interview with the billionaire is thankfully a tad more critical than that – they cover topics such as tax avoidance and whether space tourism is doing more harm than good.

“This guy is a rock star,” says journalist Amol Rajan, as he watches Richard Branson meet staff. The series also features a wonderful roster of British comic talent, including Shirley Henderson and Hannah Waddingham.

Unfolding like a bawdy fairy tale, it follows big-hearted orphan Tom Jones (Solly McLeod) as he is raised to be a gentleman. Today’s other big sexy period piece is this four-part adaptation of Henry Fielding’s comic novel. The more interesting plot is that of a young Lady Danbury, an unhappy wife who makes a risky deal with the King’s mother. Especially when it comes to George’s famous struggles with mental illness. The romance of a young George III (Corey Mylchreest) and Charlotte is less about will they, won’t they thrills and more about compromise. It doesn’t quite have the same risqué spark as Bridgerton, but there is an absorbing quality to its witty scripts. It is an idea only alluded to in Bridgerton, but forms the spine of this six-part prequel in which a young Queen Charlotte (India Amarteifio) and Lady Danbury (Arsema Thomas) must navigate the attitudes of a less enlightened time. Instead, it is revealed that the show is set in some sort of parallel-universe version of history: one where the marriage between King George III and a black Queen Charlotte (played by the formidable Golda Rosheuvel) fundamentally changed high society.

One of the more interesting quirks of hit Regency bonkbuster Bridgerton is that its diverse cast was not the product of colour-blind casting.

Die Young with Me by Rob Rufus