The weekend's TV highlights

Saturday 13 November The Pillars Of The Earth 9pm, Channel 4 Aliena and Richard are skint again now her wool's gone up in smoke and the market licence has been revoked. And the cathedral builders down tools for a mead break while they wait for a new master builder to be appointed. King Stephen thinks God is actually talking to him now, while William's still going on about his immortal soul. Meanwhile, Aliena must choose between her lilo-lipped lover boy and marriage to money. And Regan takes steps to rid herself of an irksome priest. But hark, is that the sound of dodgy roof joists? Al Murray: The Pub Landlord 9pm, Dave Forget the thoroughly ill-advised sitcom and the still-less advised sketch show, and disregard even the pretty decent Happy Hour – tonight's shows remain the absolute essence of Al Murray. Revel as, without the need for guests or formats, he toys with the beautifully British-named members of the front row and casts his philosophical net far and wide from Formula 1 ("not dangerous enough, is it?") to the overrated Mozart and back, time and again, to the Germans and the French, expounding beer barrel nonsense with irresistible absurdity. Hail to the Al! Take That: Look Back, Don't Stare 9.30pm, ITV1 It took an ITV documentary to lift Take That back into the firmament in 2006, and here's another one to mark their full comeback. One member of Take That complained in a recent interview that the presence of TV cameras as the foursome awkwardly welcomed Robbie Williams back into their ranks didn't help ease tensions. That should help make for interesting viewing as we follows the manband learning to work together for the first time since the mid-90s on their to-be-huge new LP, Progress. Marked 10pm, Crime & Investigation Network Now they're all over footballers' arms and X Factor contestants' hands, but it wasn't that long ago that tattoos were mainly found on the bodies of people who wanted them to communicate something more than their love of giving it 110%/music/Celtic swirls. This five-part documentary series looks at the ink you'll find covering yakuza members in Japan, Vietnam vets in America, Chicago street gangs and biker clubs. Marked starts with the complex codes found in Russian prison tattoos, where church steeples, skulls and cobwebs reveal the number of jail sentences, if you've killed and whether or not you've had a drug addiction. A Night With Neil Diamond 10.15pm, BBC2 In streamlining their Electric Proms events, the BBC's television coverage has allowed a little more focus to be thrown on the artists concerned. Like Robert Plant and Elton John before him, Neil Diamond gets an evening devoted to his long and varied career. We get Sings, a compilation of covers from Lulu to Urge Overkill. Better yet is new documentary Solitary Man, charting his rise from Brill Building sweathouse songwriting sessions to penning hits for the Monkees. Best of all is the recent Roundhouse gig, where he's performing his songs himself. Robin Williams: Weapons Of Self Destruction 11pm, More4 Following a bout of heart surgery Williams bounced back with this HBO stand-up special first screened in the UK earlier in the year. Sadly, this is more crock than Chris Rock. Predictable anti-Sarah Palin jibes melt into a sad old man leching about women's gymnastics, while his use of the F-word is the vituperative equivalent of dad dancing. Sunday 14 November Remembrance Sunday: The Cenotaph 10.25am, BBC1 Today's Remembrance Sunday coverage starts with David Dimbleby and Sophie Raworth live from the Cenotaph, as the Queen lays a wreath in memory of those who have died in armed conflict. Later, Katherine Jenkins hosts Songs Of Praise from Holy Trinity Church, Folkestone. Garrow's Law 9pm, BBC1 Writer Tony Marchant's impressive 18th-century-set legal drama returns for a second series with an episode that explores the horrors of slavery. Not that idealistic barrister William Garrow gets to prosecute a murder case when 133 Africans are thrown from a ship. Instead, amid suspicions that the prisoners were ditched because they were too unhealthy to fetch a decent price and were thus deemed more valuable dead than alive, it's an insurance case because "cargo cannot be murdered". Away from the courtroom, there's a second plotline in Garrow's attraction to Lady Sarah Hill, whose powerful husband is convinced he's been cuckolded. Mark Lawson Talks To Tom Jones 9pm, BBC4 Since being revived to cover Kiss, Tom Jones has been the beneficiary of a remarkably generous amount of mainstream indulgence, even headlining Glastonbury. It all seems a bit postmodern and out of proportion, formidable as his pipes undoubtedly remain – as attested by his recent, well-received gospel/blues cover album. While not probing too deeply into his infidelities, Lawson extracts a good deal of interesting stuff from Jones, especially from his childhood and early showbiz days. I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! 9pm, ITV1 The bug-munching, star-baiting reality series is back for a 10th run, and with it, a whole new breed of semi-celebrities willing to face their deepest fears on the chance that they might win the public over. Since most celeb-reality involves bringing out the darkest, most competitive side of people who are typically dark and competitive anyway, it's easy to see the appeal of this – it's one of the only shows that makes them seem vulnerable and, by extension, quite nice. Plus, as Dean Gaffney and Paul Burrell once proved, vicarious fear is often very funny. Bring on the next few weeks. Chekhov Comedy Shorts 9pm, Sky Arts 2 Produced by Baby Cow and featuring the likes of Steve Coogan and Julia Davis in future episodes, these delicious sub-half-hour productions recall a lost age of relatively low-budget TV treatment of the classics. In the opener, Johnny Vegas is perfectly cast as the put-upon Tolkachov, who visits his friend Murashkin (Mackenzie Crook) to deliver a spittle-flecked monologue full of pathos and purgatory about his put-upon working and domestic life, only to get more, or rather less, than he bargained for, in the apparently sympathetic Crook's eventual response. The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Todd Margaret 10.40pm, More4 Re-cut and largely refilmed from the Comedy Lab pilot, David Cross (best known as Tobias Fünke from Arrested Development and the legendary early HBO sketch show Mr Show) stars again as the clueless US temp mistakenly sent to head his company's UK division. The biggest change from the pilot is the recasting of Todd's sole employee Dave – out goes Russell Tovey, in comes a much more charming Blake Harrison, aka Neil from The Inbetweeners. Everything else, including cameos from Will Arnett and Spike Jonze, remains more or less in place and it's a funny and promising start.