What's on the box this week?

'Canoe Man' (BBC 4, Wednesday, 9pm) - Bernard Hill and Saskia Reeves star as John and Anne Darwin in this true story that captivated the public's imagination and dominated the world's press in 2007. The drama begins with John Darwin entering a West London police station in 2007 claiming to have amnesia, having disappeared five years previously in a canoeing accident. After a joyous reunion with sons, Mark and Anthony, cracks in the story soon begin to appear. John has actually been living secretly with wife, Anne, in their family home and the bedsit next door - accessible through a hole in the bedroom wall hidden behind the wardrobe. The couple head to Panama to start afresh using the life insurance Anne has received. But, when John realises things aren't going to be as straightforward as he first thought, he believes his best option is to return to the UK and claim to be suffering from amnesia. It is only when a photograph surfaces of John and Anne together with a Panamanian estate agent, that the real events of this extraordinary fraud come to light. 'Welcome To My World' (RTE 1, Friday, 7.30pm) - Jerome Blows, from South Africa, works for a security firm in Dublin. He met Ronan Bools when he was working as a security guard in a bank, where Ronan is a manager. Ronan, married with two children, still lives in the house he grew up in. The two men have a shared interest in sport, dogs and food. Together, they visit Jerome's old haunts from Johannesburg to Cape Town. As a boy growing up in Johannesburg, Jerome was surrounding by gangs and violence. When his parents split up, the 12-year-old Jerome moved to Cape Town with his father. After he was seriously injured in a stabbing incident, he tried to stay out of trouble. When he turned 18, he joined the army and later the police force. He became a Muslim. In 2001, he came to Ireland with his wife and children. 'The South Bank Show' (ITV, Sunday, 10.15pm) - Billy Connolly was first interviewed by Melvyn Bragg in 1979, when he was starting to take his stand-up comedy to the masses, and again in 1992, the day after his 25th anniversary stand-up gig back in his hometown of Glasgow. For their third meeting, Bragg meets Billy Connolly in New York, where he now lives, to talk about the old days and the future, having exorcised many of his personal demons since his last interview. In his unique and comic way, Connolly talks about his continual desire to be like Victor Borge, by eternally touring the great venues of the world - and gives some fascinating insights into the nature of comedy and the role of the comedian in society. 'Ladies And Gentlemen, Gavin Friday' (RTE 1, Tuesday, 10.15pm) - Gavin Friday, vocalist, musician, producer, painter, actor, trusted ears of U2 and onetime Virgin Prune, is 50. This is the story of the man, his music and his enduring friendships and collaborations. Born Fionan Hanvey in Dublin in 1959, Friday exploded onto the drab landscape of '70s Ireland, and 'Late Late Show' screens, with the calculatedly outrageous punk band The Virgin Prunes. His friends and fellow Prunes, including Bono, The Edge and Guggi Rowan, remember the tension between the smothering claustrophobia of a moralistic society and Friday and his band-mates' pushing of sexual, visual and performance boundaries. The band's eventual disintegration led on to his own career in music and film, as boyhood friends rose to become the biggest rock band in the world. And alongside the very public life of Gavin Friday, this documentary tells the intimate tale of Fionan Hanvey's powerful and often antagonistic relationship with his father, of the disintegration of his marriage and of his mother's profound acceptance of her unusual and challenging son. Movie Of The Week: 'The Italian Job' (Channel 4, Saturday, 9pm) - Mark Wahlberg and Charlize Theron star in this glossy update of the classic Michael Caine original centering on a daring heist. Transferring the action from Italy to Los Angeles, there's plenty of action, and the new Mini Cooper never looked so attractive.