COMEDY: Beautiful People, 9.30pm, BBC2
THIS new comedy from Jonathan Harvey (Gimme, Gimme, Gimme) is adapted from the novel by Simon Doonan (now creative director of New York’s famous store Barneys), based on his childhood.
The enjoyably cheeky series, starring Luke Ward-Wilkinson and Samuel Barnett (who play the young and old Simon), explores Simon’s recollections of his teenage life in Reading.
There he grew up with best (male) friend Kylie and his eccentric family, including Auntie Hayley (Meera Syal), before following his dream to live among the ‘beautiful people’ in New York, where he became a successful window-dresser.
NB: 11.50pm IN EIRE, NI