Thursday’s best TV: Island of Dreams; Back in Time for School

Island of Dreams iopm, BBC Two

Harry Enfield plays Richard Branson, pupils and teachers zoom through too years of learning history – plus how to work off those mince pies

From The Windsors writers Bert Tyler-Moore and George Jeffrie comes a rollicking comedy pilot that sees Harry Enfield revel in the role of Richard Branson, lording over all in his Caribbean retreat, Necker Island. The conceit here is that, in addition to his commercial talents, Branson has a gift for solving the problems of our most treasured, but also most screwed-up, celebrities. The real question, though, is: does he have a more important master plan – a dark secret involving interplanetary travel? Mike Bradley