TV gold… the return of Netflix’s peerless House Of Cards. Kevin Spacey at his sinister best. Matthew Mcfadyen on Churchill’s Secret. Bear Grylls on Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway.

TV dross… ITV’s celebrity travelogue Davina McCall: Life At The Extreme. Extremely banal. The Voice’s self-important judges. The Voice’s unimportant contestants. 

My favourite lines

Bear Grylls: Mission Survive… Bear savours his celebrity victims’ ordeal: “It’s literally plucking them out of their comfort zones and dropping them into hell. I love it!” Sadist.

EastEnders… and airhead Honey sighs: “I think I’ve done something stupid.” So what’s new?