Patsy, Eddy, Saffy, Bubble and their celebrity fans tell all. Plus: David Olusoga returns with his brilliant history series. Here’s what to watch this evening

Thu 17 Oct 2024 06.20 BSTShareAbsolutely Fabulous: Inside Out9pm, Gold
Chill the Bolly for this Ab Fab treat, sweetie. Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Jane Horrocks and Julia Sawalha dish all the fabulous dirt on the making of their hit sitcom, from its beginnings as a sketch to making the pilot (“I’ve never found women being drunk very funny,” said then BBC head of comedy Robin Nash) and turning it into classic television. Fans Emerald Fennell, Meera Syal and Ruby Wax join in, too. Look out for a young Idris Elba, and Whoopi Goldberg going totally off-script. Hollie Richardson
View image in fullscreenDavid Olusoga in A House Through Time: Two Cities at War. Photograph: Steve Bell/BBC/Twenty TwentyA House Through Time: Two Cities at War9pm, BBC Two
David Olusoga is the history teacher we all deserve in the return of his fascinating series that tells the stories of residential buildings and the people who lived in them. This time, he traces the tenants of Montagu Mansions in London and 72 Pfalzburger Strasse in Berlin. We begin in the 1920s, in the aftermath of the first world war. HR
Taskmaster9pm, Channel 4
Andy Zaltzman finding a pen, Jack Dee attempting a New York accent and Emma Sidi downing some gross wine? It can only be another hour with taskmaster Greg Davies and his assistant Little Alex Horne, putting this series’ celebrities to the ultimate (pointless) test. HR
Sweetpea9pm, Sky Atlantic
Ella Purnell continues to outperform the material in part two of this tale of a downtrodden young woman turned murderer. She’s got some colour in her cheeks, co-workers are starting to respect her and she smiles unexpectedly as she reminisces about the killing. One question remains: who was the victim? Alexi Duggins
Everyone Else Burns10pm, Channel 4
It’s the second coming of the sitcom that, yes, puts the fun in religious fundamentalism. Rachel is offering Jesus to girls with brighter futures than her. David is smitten by a woman who “knows how to make cheese from scratch”. And Fiona worries her relationship is about to “unravel like a big sexless cardigan”. Ali Catterall
Brassic10pm, Sky Max
Two daft plots strive to out-farce each other in this rollicking instalment of the Joseph Gilgun-led comedy. Lovable hunk Ash lets it all hang out to infiltrate a commune that practises nonsexual nudity, while Tommo plans to scupper a rival nightclub using liquid fox scat. Graeme Virtue
Arthouse erotica … Chiara D’Anna as Evelyn in The Duke of Burgundy. Photograph: Artificial EyeFilm choiceThe Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland, 2014), Film4
Peter Strickland dives into the world of 70s European arthouse erotica with his seductive 2014 curio. The sadomasochistic relationship between Sidse Babett Knudsen’s mistress Cynthia and Chiara D’Anna’s servant Evelyn (sin and evil?) seems mutually fulfilling, but the balance of power is delicate – just like the butterflies they and their (exclusively female) neighbours study and classify. It’s a sultry, hallucinatory film where passions are controlled and nature constrained. Simon Wardell