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Some welcome good news with some new shows and a return of old favourites as TV stations adjust their schedules for the coming months (according to Auntie)…
Ross Kemp and Rustie Lee are to front a new TV series celebrating the efforts of some of the UK's 750,000 volunteers during the coronavirus crisis.
'Ross and Rusties Volunteer Army' will see the TV personalities join those helping the vulnerable with everything from shopping to delivering hospital equipment.
The BBC One daytime show is among a raft of new programmes aimed at helping audiences through the lockdown.
New comedy, including a Charlie Booker special, will also come to BBC Two.
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe is given a hilarious new twist being renamed Antiviral Wipe
And ITV will screen a series of one-off dramas under the Isolation Stories banner, featuring such stars as Sheridan Smith, Robert Glenister and Eddie Marsan - and in some cases their families too.
The actors and their families have filmed the scenes themselves in isolation, with directors watching remotely and giving advice about camera positioning, scene composition and lighting.
Smith will star in Mel as a heavily pregnant isolated woman facing childbirth alone, without the married father of her child and without her family, who have given her the cold shoulder.
Smith said: "I am heavily pregnant and have been isolating at home so I jumped at the chance to make a drama about the massive drama going on all around us right now.
"I think it's really important to try and reflect what's happening to us whilst it is still actually happening."
Glenister and his actor son Tom will star in Ron and Russell. The Hustle and Spooks star will play a man suffering with coronavirus, who is isolated with his son in an increasingly tense home environment.
Marsan will be joined by his sons Blue and Bodie in another instalment, while further episodes will feature David Threlfall, Darren Boyd and Angela Griffin.
Other new BBC One shows include Saving Our Nurses, which will shine a light on a mentorship scheme set up by one NHS hospital trust before the coronavirus outbreak.
Another five-part series, Our Finest Hours, will look at how the UK has responded with acts of kindness and resilience to previous times of crisis, such as during World War II, and compare past experience with the impact of Covid-19.
On BBC Two, Charlie Brooker's Antiviral Wipe will be a one-off special edition of his satirical Screenwipe series, looking at the things people are watching and doing to keep themselves occupied.
Meanwhile, Comedians Playing With Themselves will feature John Bishop, Joe Pasquale and Romesh Ranganathan in six 15-minute episodes.
ITV is also reportedly working on a lockdown reboot of its game show All Star Family Fortunes, to be hosted by Stephen Mulhern, which was last seen on screens in 2015 and giving celebrities and their families the chance to win spot prizes and a lower top prize of £25,000 to reflect the economic downsizing many ordinary families are facing.
Instead of being filmed in a studio, cameras will go into the homes of the two competing families, according to Deadline.
BBC will also be showing reruns of some of their all time comedy favorites including The Green Green Grass, All Round to Mrs Browns and My Family, whilst ITV will show repeats of some of it's most heartwarming drama series including Londons Burning, The Bill and Hartbeat.
Ross Kemp and Rustie Lee are to front a new TV series celebrating the efforts of some of the UK's 750,000 volunteers during the coronavirus crisis.
'Ross and Rusties Volunteer Army' will see the TV personalities join those helping the vulnerable with everything from shopping to delivering hospital equipment.
The BBC One daytime show is among a raft of new programmes aimed at helping audiences through the lockdown.
New comedy, including a Charlie Booker special, will also come to BBC Two.
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe is given a hilarious new twist being renamed Antiviral Wipe
And ITV will screen a series of one-off dramas under the Isolation Stories banner, featuring such stars as Sheridan Smith, Robert Glenister and Eddie Marsan - and in some cases their families too.
The actors and their families have filmed the scenes themselves in isolation, with directors watching remotely and giving advice about camera positioning, scene composition and lighting.
Smith will star in Mel as a heavily pregnant isolated woman facing childbirth alone, without the married father of her child and without her family, who have given her the cold shoulder.
Smith said: "I am heavily pregnant and have been isolating at home so I jumped at the chance to make a drama about the massive drama going on all around us right now.
"I think it's really important to try and reflect what's happening to us whilst it is still actually happening."
Glenister and his actor son Tom will star in Ron and Russell. The Hustle and Spooks star will play a man suffering with coronavirus, who is isolated with his son in an increasingly tense home environment.
Marsan will be joined by his sons Blue and Bodie in another instalment, while further episodes will feature David Threlfall, Darren Boyd and Angela Griffin.
Other new BBC One shows include Saving Our Nurses, which will shine a light on a mentorship scheme set up by one NHS hospital trust before the coronavirus outbreak.
Another five-part series, Our Finest Hours, will look at how the UK has responded with acts of kindness and resilience to previous times of crisis, such as during World War II, and compare past experience with the impact of Covid-19.
On BBC Two, Charlie Brooker's Antiviral Wipe will be a one-off special edition of his satirical Screenwipe series, looking at the things people are watching and doing to keep themselves occupied.
Meanwhile, Comedians Playing With Themselves will feature John Bishop, Joe Pasquale and Romesh Ranganathan in six 15-minute episodes.
ITV is also reportedly working on a lockdown reboot of its game show All Star Family Fortunes, to be hosted by Stephen Mulhern, which was last seen on screens in 2015 and giving celebrities and their families the chance to win spot prizes and a lower top prize of £25,000 to reflect the economic downsizing many ordinary families are facing.
Instead of being filmed in a studio, cameras will go into the homes of the two competing families, according to Deadline.
BBC will also be showing reruns of some of their all time comedy favorites including The Green Green Grass, All Round to Mrs Browns and My Family, whilst ITV will show repeats of some of it's most heartwarming drama series including Londons Burning, The Bill and Hartbeat.
