DENIAL ÌÌÌÌÌ

2016 BBC Two, 11.15pm

In 1996, the Holocaust denier David Irving filed a lawsuit against Penguin Books and the American historian Deborah Lipstadt, claiming that she’d libelled him by defining him as such. The case went to the High Court. Mick Jackson’s legal drama is a bit humdrum, and Rachel Weisz is straining at Lipstadt’s accent, but Timothy Spall, as Irving, is the film’s ace in the hole. Just when it seems stuffy, he manages to light a spark.