Bringing up baby only creates laughs in TV-land

A few seasons into any sitcom, the writers long to get a character pregnant so they can take advantage of the stream of jokes that giving birth and raising a child can bring.

Well, not in real life of course. It's only funny in TV land.

Having spent many nights waking up to feed a baby, struggling to try and them to nod off and spending months in sleep deprivation (which you only realise much later when you actually start to get a good night's sleep) was never something that made me laugh.

Either at the time or in the years afterwards.

So the set-up of this episode, where couple Nat and Steph spend ages driving around trying to get their babies to sleep, isn't really going to make me laugh.

Rather, it brought back unpleasant flashbacks.

On the upside, there is a nice chemistry between Madeleine Sami and Antonia Prebble - who play Nat and Steph.

Also, there is the angle that they're sharing a house, so there's some comedy to be mined in the way their flatmates deal with the lack of sleep caused by children who aren't theirs.

When the first season of this series proved to be a great success it was inevitable that we'd see it come back on our screens.

Created by Stephen Knight - the guy behind the hit Peaky Blinders - it's based on the real-life exploits of the SAS. Though the series makes clear there is some artistic licence taken here.

Which should no longer surprise us - though judging by the "how accurate is show X" Google searches, we seem to misunderstand there's a difference between a TV series and a documentary.

With the military group's job in North Africa complete, this second season sees the SAS (though renamed the Special Raiding Service) spearheading the invasion of Sicily.

It carries on the top-notch work done in the first season; the scenes where they are ordered to leave behind British soldiers drowning in the ocean are especially hard to watch.

Again, the soundtrack includes songs recorded decades after the events - such as UK ska band Madness. It shouldn't work but it does, making the series feel more alive and enhancing the devil-may-care, reckless image portrayed by the main characters.

The story of Jesse Owens vs Adolf Hitler at the 1936 Berlin Olympics is one Americans know and love.

It saw a black man winning gold medals at a Games where Hitler had hoped to showcase the Aryan superiority of German athletes.

What gets less focus in the narrative is how Americans at the time treated black people themselves.

Here was Owens being praised while representing America on the world stage while back home, he was viewed by many as a second-class citizen.

This documentary captures much of that conflict, as well as the pushback Owens faced from some who felt going to the Berlin Games was tantamount to an acceptance of what was going on in Germany - and in the United States.