The week in TV: Small Axe: Mangrove; The Crown; The Great British Bake Off and more

Steve McQueen’s vital black British historical drama sears into the mind, and Peter Morgan’s saga of the Windsors returns waving its pro-Diana flag

Small Axe: Mangrove (BBC One) | iPlayer
The Crown (Netflix)
The Great British Bake Off (Channel 4) | All 4
Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One) | iPlayer
Offended By Irvine Welsh (Sky Arts) | sky.com

Some television lends itself to hinterlands of half-remembering. Even the good stuff: one can struggle to recall whether it was Ted Hastings in 2017, or Jane Tennison in 1993, or John Luther in 2010, refusing that bribe in that darkened west London bar. Not so Mangrove. Once Mangrove was watched, it stayed watched.