Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage (BBC2, 8pm)

YORK actor and author Dame Judi Dench celebrates a 60-year career with this documentary tribute, plus the showing, at midday, of the 1987 romantic drama 84 Charing Cross Road and the 2004 period drama Ladies in Lavender plus the 6.30pm film, alongside Dustin Hoffman, dramatising Roald Dahl's light-hearted yarn Esio Trot.

Billy Connolly, Samantha Bond and Harvey Weinstein are among those featured, with comedian Connolly recalling the time that, while the pair were filming the Victorian drama movie Mrs Brown, he began to suspect that she was actually falling in love with him.

Bond, meanwhile, describes just how nervous former James Bond star Pierce Brosnan was ahead of appearing alongside Dench (who played spy boss M in the films) for the first time. Renowned American film producer and film studio executive Harvey Weinstein reveals how Dame Judi once thanked him for kick-starting her Hollywood movie career in a somewhat unusual fashion – by getting a tattoo in a rather intimate area.

Among the other stars lining up to pay tribute are Sir Ian McKellen, who was Macbeth to Dench's Lady Macbeth in the Royal Shakespeare Company's late-1970s production of the Scottish Play; Daniel Craig, the most recent James Bond star; Ann Mitchell, who acted alongside Dench in the 1966 series Talking to a Stranger; and Spectre and Skyfall director Sam Mendes.

Actor Colin Salmon, who plays the right-hand man to Dench's M in the Brosnan and Craig-era Bond films undertakes narration duties.

At the age of 81, she remains active and very productive in her work, and the Oscar-winner, who said recently that "retirement is a rude word", shows little sign of slowing down. This year she appeared in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, as headmistress Esmeralda Avocet; has several other feature films in production, and is currently filming a new take on Murder on the Orient Express, which is due for release late next year.

Despite the vast number of projects she has undertaken over the course of the past six decades, it's impossible to find anyone who would describe her as difficult to work with – or, indeed, anything less than a tremendous pleasure and a privilege.

Jamie and Jimmy's Friday Night Feast (C4, 8pm)

NEW series. Jamie Oliver and Jimmy Doherty return to their caff at the end of Southend Pier for a fourth series, cooking up feasts for the weekend, helped by some very special guests who receive the cooking lesson of a lifetime. Jamie cooks up an amazing Thai green curry and shows comedian John Bishop how to make the best lasagne ever. Jimmy, meanwhile, builds a log hive hoping to attract wild bees to his farm, and both presenters try to change the way children are fed during the school holidays.

2016 A Year in the Life of a Year (BBC4, 10pm)

THERE have been so many surprises – and shocks – over the past 12 months, you might have thought that comedians could keep themselves busy just coming up with one-liners about Donald Trump. However, the writer and director of Life of Rock with Brian Pern, Rhys Thomas is taking a different approach with this spoof. The show seamlessly re-edits film and TV footage from the past 12 months in order to create a unique – and defiantly silly – take on 2016's key cultural and national events.

Dara O Briain Crowd Tickler (BBC2, 10.30pm)

IT'S been another good year for Irish comedian Dara O Briain, who can now add 'bringing back Robot Wars' to his already impressive CV. However, while we may enjoy watching him keeping order over battling machines (and equally fractious comedians on Mock the Week), it's as a stand-up that he really shines. Here, the Irish comedian performs at the Hammersmith Apollo, as part of his 2015 tour. Not surprisingly, he leads the audience through expertly crafted routines, cracking one-liners and some more off-the-cuff moments.

Viv Hardwick