Best – His Mother’s Son (BBC Two) was a gloomy drama about Ann Best, mother of George, who was strictly teetotal until her mid-40s, when she had her first sip of sherry to celebrate her son’s footballing success. Ten years later, she was dead from alcoholism-related heart disease. The recreation of late-Sixties Belfast was accurate and, thank goodness, intelligently subdued: no comedy Ulster accents and no point-scoring subplot about the Troubles.

• BBC
• Lorcan Cranitch
• Luke de Woolfson
• Laurence Doherty
• Laura Donnelly
• Richard Dormer
• Michelle Fairley
• Stephen Hagan
• Paul Kennedy