Cilla (ITV, 9pm)

ANYONE who had a heart, as Cilla’s famous single goes, would look at this and simply love the beautifully nostalgic re-creation of a Sixties world which promised so much for rags-to-riches youngsters.

Part two of Jeff Pope's biopic charting Cilla Black's rise to fame in Liverpool is highly-watchable thanks to Legally Blonde West End star Sheridan Smith, who has undoubtedly won the battle of the wigs alongside Aneurin Barnard as her on-off boyfriend Bobby. Barnard’s barnet looks a little like he’s wearing an uncooked bap, but he somehow manages to produce a bread and butter piece of acting from under this doughball of delight.

Bobby was dumped last week prior to Cilla’s disastrous Cavern audition for Brian Epstein (Ed Stoppard) alongside The Beatles – Tom Dunlea offering an amusing Ringo with Jack Farthing, Keith Mains and Michael Hawkins not quite ready for the magical mystery tour as John, Paul and George. Tonight, Epstein sees Cilla in her element as she wows a large nightclub audience and offers her the management deal she’s after.

Cilla’s also reunited with Bobby, but then finds her debut song fails to make a dent in the charts and is on the verge of another low. Epstein suggests a change of direction, as that other legend of the Swinging Sixties, George Martin (Elliot Cowan), appears on the scene.

History shows that Cilla flopped with the 1963 single Love Of The Loved written by those upstarts John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Thankfully, this didn’t damage the reputation of two of the world’s greatest songwriters. Cilla’s second release, which came out at the start of 1964, was a version of the Burt Bacharach and Hal David song Anyone Who Had a Heart, originally given to Dionne Warwick. Cilla beat Warwick's recording into the UK charts and grabbed the top spot in Britain in February that year, where it stayed for three weeks, selling 800,000 copies.

New Tricks (BBC1, 9pm)

IT seems, for a moment, that the team might have had a stroke of good fortune when a Roman sword is found, complete with traces of blood. After all, Ucos is trying to discover what happened to a headless corpse recovered from Heathrow in 2008. The decapitee remains unidentified, and the owner of the sword is also deceased.

The team decide to search the sword owner's lock-up, after learning that he, also met his end in 2008. When the missing head turns up, they presume the rest of the case must start falling into place.

However, Dan (Nicholas Lyndhurst) is distracted by the news that his wife is up for release from the secure hospital she's been recuperating in for the past few years – just as he's starting to develop feelings for colleague Fiona (Tracy-Ann Oberman).

Jon Richardson Grows Up (C4, 10.35pm)

TWO men and an orange camper van in search of the answer to some of life's great questions is the latest vehicle for stand-up Jon Richardson. This week, he and best friend Matt Forde look at their uneasy relationship with money and meet a lottery winner whose windfall proved a mixed blessing. The person who made the biggest impression on the duo is Brian Burnie, from Newcastle – a self-made millionaire, whose life changed when his wife was struck by cancer.

"She became very ill, and he started to realise that for people who don't have very much money, getting to and from treatment is worse than the treatment itself." says Jon. "So he gave literally every penny away. Sold their house, bought a building which he runs the charity from. And they now live above the charity, renting a flat from the charity with his pension. It was the kind of thing you might hear about, or read about in the paper, but I will never in my life shake hands with someone again who has given away nearly £20million to set up a charity."