Published: Wednesday, 7th July, 2010 4:53pm

What's On the Box this week?

by John Daly

Aisling Loftus is Lindsey, a young athlete who is faced with a choice of the Olympics or motherhood in the new BBC drama 'Dive' (BBC 2, Thursday and Friday).
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'Dive' (BBC 2, Thursday and Friday, 9pm) A two-part drama written by Bafta Award-winner Dominic Savage about Lindsey (Aisling Loftus), a talented diver with nothing else in her life but the 2012 Olympics.

One night, she breaks her total work routine and goes out on the town to chill after the news that her parents are breaking up. There, she meets Robert and falls in love, while preparing for her next diving competition where the British Olympic team selectors will be in attendance.

In the midst of this, she is attacked by an ex-girlfriend of Robert's and ends up in hospital, where she discovers that she is pregnant. As Lindsey continues to train with more determination than ever, the team selectors are so impressed by her that they want her to take her diving training further and train officially for the Olympics.

Lindsey finds she must make a choice: Olympic success or motherhood. Aisling Loftus plays Lindsey McCallum, Jack O'Connell plays Robert Wisley, and the top-notch supporting cast includes Gina McKee, Mark Adams and Gemma Bryden.

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'Identity' (ITV, Monday, 9pm) A new six-part drama series starring Aidan Gillen and Keeley Hawes follows an elite police unit formed to combat the explosion of identity-related crime.

Written by Ed Whitmore, the series tackles the darker side of reinvention: murderers who literally take other people's lives, criminals who create new personas to escape evil pasts, impostors who look, talk and sound just like us but would kill you in a heartbeat.

In this episode, the Identity Unit is investigating the murder of a British girl in Australia. Hours after her death, records showed another woman using her passport to enter the UK. A game of cat and mouse ensues with the imposter always remaining one step ahead.

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'The Old Guys' (BBC 1, Friday, 9.30pm) Roger Lloyd Pack, Clive Swift and Jane Asher return in 'The Old Guys', a comedy about two typical flatmates who argue about everything, including whose turn it is to do the washing up, and then end up eating olives for breakfast as neither of them wants to do the shopping.

The 'boys' also spend a lot of time vying for the attention of their neighbour, Sally. However, these aren't twentysomething flatmates striking out from home for the first time...Tom and Roy are both pensioners with freedom passes who moved in together when Roy got divorced. Together, they have been growing old, but not growing up.

Tom is a baby boomer who grew up in the '60s and won't admit he's ageing. Unlike his flatmate, Roy settled down and married, and relies on Tom to bring a touch of colour and sparkle to his life.

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'World Cup Final' (RTE 2, Sunday, 7.30pm) Housewives and soap-lovers everywhere will breathe a sigh of relief as the month-long feast of football in South Africa reaches its climax in Johannesburg with the World Cup Final, the most eagerly awaited soccer game every four years. TV schedules will return to normal after tonight and the irritating buzzing from the vuvuzelas will be just a memory. Will the champions of the world be Holland, Uruguay, Germany or Spain? Bill O'Herlihy will be joined by John Giles, Eamon Dunphy and Liam Brady for reviews and expert analysis with match commentary by George Hamilton and Trevor Steven. A highlights programme featuring all the day's action will be at 11.55pm.

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Movie Of The Week: 'Being There' (RTE 1, Friday, 12.00) An oldie but goodie from 1979 starring Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine, directed by Hal Ashby. Chance, a simple-minded gardener, is mistaken for Chauncey Gardner, a laconic but wisely insightful adviser to men of wealth and power in Washington DC. Adored by the media for his comments on gardening which are mistaken for meaningful observations of geo-politics, Chance becomes something he's not. But, then again, that's nothing new in politics...

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