TV Episode Guide: Sunday night

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TV Episode Guide: Sunday night 29/4/7

5:15pm - 5:35pm BBC1 BBC News; Regional News; Weather

6:20pm - 7:10pm Five Everybody Hates Chris 1/23 & 2/23 - Everybody Hates Rejection Chris Rock narrates stories based on his life growing up in the Bedford Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, New York.  Tyler James Williams plays the teenage Chris. (1) Chris goes on a date and Whoopi Goldberg is a nosey neighbour who falls out with Chris's mum over a neighbourhood watch scheme. (2) Chris runs for class president. 

7:10pm - 8:00pm Five Joey 1/23 & 2/23 - Joey and the Big Break. (1) Joey worries about his character in TV series Deep Powder being killed off. Michael poses as Uncle Joey  to get a date. Kevin Smith guest stars. (2) Joey fails a film audition, but tried to persuade the film director he deserves the part.

8:00pm - 9:00pm BBC1 Victoria's Empire 1/3 - India/Hong Kong/Borneo Victoria Wood acts as tour guide to the British Empire. She starts in noisy Calcutta, before taking a steam train to Darjeeling to escape the city heat. She proceeds to Hong Kong, then Borneo to visit orphaned orang-utans. Queen Victoria never managed to visit her empire, Victoria Wood does the job for her with some panache and much humour. 

9:00pm - 10:00pm ITV Kingdom 2/6 - Gentle comedy drama starring Peter Kingdom (Stephen Fry) as a bumbling, but effective, country solicitor. Running themes include his missing brother and manic sister Beatrice (Hermione Norris). Tonight: the wrong poles are delivered to the dyke-leaping contest.  A woman from Estonia has a child kidnapped by a seedy local farmer.

10.00pm-11.50pm Channel 4 Shaft Movie (2000) Samuel L Jackson is a detective chasing a racist criminal suspected of murdering an innocent black man. The only witness is reluctant to talk; the killer is from a wealthy family. Shaft quits the force to chase the murderer. Also starring Christian Bale and Toni Collette

Record 11.00pm-12.05am  ITV The South Bank Show Melvyn Bragg interviews British film director Shane Meadows on This Is England, an account of his childhood as a skinhead. Includes stars Thomas Turgoose and Stephen Graham, producer Mark Herbert. Also contributions from  Bob Hoskins and Ken Loach.

12.05am ITV The Moral of the Story Alastair Stewart leads a panel examining the moral content of recent news stories.