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Following Christopher Eccleston's masterly portrayal of John Winston O'Boogie, the schedules are cleared for four hours of the music of the most complex, controversial and - not very controversial this - best Beatle, beginning with a new Classic Albums documentary about the making of John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. That's followed by Rock Shrines, a fans' tribute from New York's Central Park. Give Me Some Truth focuses on the Imagine album, and, in happier times, Phil Spector. TOTP2 features Lennon originals and covers. The night is rounded off with another showing of Lennon Naked with Eccleston kitted out in white suit and head-to-toe sarcasm.

BEST DRAMA

Identity

Monday, Border, 9pm

As sure as night follows day, as sure as the England football team travelling hopefully to a World Cup is followed by them leaving it with tails firmly planted between over-insured legs, ITV will nick a BBC star, imploring him/her: "That sexy cop thing or whatever it is - do it here!" Keeley Hawes, with the ashes of DI Bollyknickers from Ashes To Ashes still warm, gets a promotion to DSI for the role of Martha Lawson, head of a police unit investigating identity crime. Aidan Gillan is the unit's resident maverick and the first case involves a series of random murders which turn out - come on, keep up - to be linked.

BEST FACTUAL

In Loving Memory

Wednesday, BBC2, 9pm

You pass them all the time. Sudden bursts of flowers, photographs, maybe a tied-up football scarf - memorials at lampposts or by roadsides in memory of a loved one who died in an accident. For family and friends, the sites become shrines, tended for a while at least with the level of care found in churchyards. But to others they can be eyesores. Each memorial tells a story; here are some of them.

This article was first published in Scotland on Sunday July 4, 2010