TV tonight: Mackenzie Crook’s lovely new supernatural sitcom

Small Prophets, 10pm, BBC Two. A sweet, supernatural new sitcom from Mackenzie Crook. Oddball Michael (Pearce Quigley) is Miss Havisham with a beard, living in the house his partner left seven years earlier and never returned to. His dad, Brian (Michael Palin), who has moved to a care home, says he knows a way to finally find answers – it involves using a little alchemy to grow homunculi (tiny humans).

Brian just needs to find the recipe to conjure them up. Jamie’s Feasts for a Fiver, 8pm, Channel 4. A spin on a classic dessert steals the menu this week: raspberry jam treacle tart, with added crunchy cornflake golden syrup, served with custard. It’s to be enjoyed after another teatime favourite Jamie’s cooking up: toad in the hole.

He also invites Patricia Chung to share her fish noodle soup, made with sardine broth and topped with crunchy chana dal. Silent Witness, 9pm, BBC One.

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