BRIDGET JONES’S BABY

2016

Channel 5, 10pm

Helen Fielding was hardly the first writer to mine being unmarried, female and in your 30s for empathetic laughs, but Bridget Jones’s endless mortification struck a real chord in the 1990s. In this third film, after breaking up with Mark (Colin Firth), Bridget (Renée Zellweger) has a one-night fling with Jack (Patrick Dempsey). She finds herself pregnant, but who is the father? It’s not as effortlessly hilarious as the original, but still good fun.

Leia (Carrie Fisher) are back, and there’s a new generation of rebels with them. Heroine Rey (Daisy Ridley) and ex-Stormtrooper Finn (John Boyega) take on the forces of malevolent warrior Kylo Ren (Adam Driver). Later sequels and spin-offs have offered diminishing returns but this one is worth watching.

ROSEMARY’S BABY 1968 Film4, 11.05pm

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Roman Polanski’s satanic horror is one of the finest of its kind, as well as being enormously influential. A film about sexual politics, trust, paranoia and manipulation, it is brilliantly woven together as Polanski mixes morbidity and sly humour. Mia Farrow is terrific as a naive housewife who believes she has been impregnated by the Devil via her husband, after she begins to suffer from bizarre symptoms and hallucinations.