Brilliant F1 documentary with 'Hollywood ending' you must watch on Sky this week

For a truly insightful, in-depth documentary, may I direct your attention to Hill, which is on Sky showed this week. Hill doesn't bend low to entertain; merely presents the story in as full a form as TV will allow of the life and career of former Formula One Racing World Champion Damon Hill.

The son of the late great two-times world champion Formula One legend Graham Hill, like me you may have assumed the son-following-in-father's tyre tracks story a simple one: rich kid makes it big with a little help from famous father's friends.

If so, however, you would be quite wrong. When Hill senior died, in 1975, after crashing the twin-engine light aircraft he was piloting, so did five other members of his Embassy Hill driving team.

Recalling the moment 15-year-old Damon heard the news on TV, relaying it to his mother in the kitchen where she broke down sobbing, "I knew it!" - is made even more fearful by Hill junior recounting how at the time of the crash his father's pilot's license had expired and therefore he was effectively uninsured.

It meant whatever money the family had went to the survivors, including the sale of their 25-bedrooom mansion.

Hill worked as a labourer and a motorcycle courier to support his mother while racing motorbikes. Coming relatively late to Formula One, via a job as a test driver for the championship-winning Williams team, he was 32 when he drove his first Grand Prix. By which time, he was also a father to two children, the eldest of which was born with a learning disability.

For once, the 'Hollywood ending' common to such documentary arcs - in this case with Hill winning the 1996 Formula One World Championship - feels fully warranted.

Meanwhile, over on Centre Court at Wimbledon this week, the BBC has had its multi-tiered coverage mapped out across a seemingly endless parade of TV, radio and online platforms - and jolly good it has been too.

For once the opening rounds have not seen just an avalanche of British players being called 'out' but a whole white-clad herd of seeds, fan faves and unpronounceable East European women coming unstuck in unusually spright fashion. It has ensured the first week is less the predictable bore of yore and much more... positive.