Well Sunday is here and am I the only one who forgot just how long the original Great Escape is? Don't get me wrong, it's a classic but wow, I never remembered it being just short of three hours long. Maybe that's because, in my head, I interchange between the Great Escape and Escape to Victory. Anyhow, Channel 5 are showing the Great Escape tonight at 5.40pm and that's where our line up begins.
Of course if that doesn't grab you feel free to turn onto BBC 1 to watch Antiques Roadshow at 8pm. Watch in awe as family after family try to look as interested as possible in what their expert is saying, all the time wondering how much they'll get at auction for something swiped from a dead relatives house. See those smiles disappear when they're told it's only worth half what they thought. Cancel the holiday kids, mum and dad need to visit Grandma and liberate the silverware.
Switching over to BBC 2 at 9pm will bring you out at a Louis Theroux's LA stories, this week focusing on the city's thousands of stray dogs, meeting the dog catchers and dog rehabilitators. I'm expecting good things here seen as Theroux is a talented documentary maker that rarely makes a bad programme. I'll have to hang a warning here though, if you're a dog lover as I am, expect this to tug your heartstrings a few times.
If watching the news isn't your thing, understandable as it's not as good as it used to be, then flick over to Channel 4 at 10pm to catch the last hour or so of The Tourist. A movie which serves only to reinforce the argument that Johnny Depp should no longer leave the house without Tim Burton.
Slipping into the last precious moments of primetime and you're best bet, other than Match of the Day, is to go back to Channel 5 to watch A Bridge Too Far. Easily one of the best classic war films it boasts an all star cast including Sean Connery. The film centres around the battle for Arnhem in WW2 and to my mind that's the best way to round off a weekend in Spring, don't you agree?
