Born And Bred (BBC1); Final Demand (BBC1);Leonardo (BBC1).

"Everyone," says matchmaking Jean, "needs at least one stuffed animal in their life". Wise words indeed. What else would you expect as 1950s-set slice of nostalgia Born And Bred returns for a new series.

I say new, although it's really the same old thing. Only the names have been changed to fool the innocent. This is feelgood TV as its most feelgood, and the BBC are being absolutely beastly pitting it directly against ITV's hit feelgood drama Heartbeat.

Some feel bad wallowing in these pools of nostalgia where everyone, except the occasional guest star, is so nice. Even a blackmailer demands only a quarter of gobstoppers from his victim. But he's only a schoolboy.

Once in a while, a line makes me chuckle. My favourite from the opener was an unwilling game player's comment: "I've hated charades ever since your mother did Gone With The Wind".

Born And Bred, at least, lasts only an hour. Final Demand teased us with a 90-minute opener by the end of which the seemingly disparate strands of the story were hardly any closer together. You have to watch tonight's concluding 90 minutes to see the dots of the plot joined together.

Deborah Moggach's drama is unbalanced by being promoted as the latest TV project starring Tamzin Outhwaite. This means undue weight is attached to her side of the story - as Natalie, who works in the accounts department of a telephone company. "Boring job, no money, I just can't wait for life to begin," says Natalie.

She aims to kickstart her good fortune by stealing from her employee. All she needs to do is marry a man whose surname begins with T so she can divert customer cheques into her own account.

The plan works until she pockets a cheque from a pub owner whose daughter was attacked by a killer just before last night's end credits rolled.

Simon Pegg's gasman Colin is the chap chosen by Natalie, because she loves not him but his last name, Taylor with a T. He's amazed that she's not put off by his reptile collection. "I never met a girl who liked frogs or toads before. Wait until I get my python," he says. With chat-up lines like that, how could Natalie resist? At least he avoided any reference to trouser snakes.

I suppose Leonardo Da Vinci could ask prospective partners if they'd like to come up and see his etchings. As the first of the three-part Leonardo told us, sex in 15th century Florence (or even with Florence) could land you in trouble. Sodomy was a crime, sometimes punishable by being burnt at the stake.

There were receptacles around the city where people could deposit notes listing accusations - sort of postboxes for sexual complaints. Leonardo was named in one such missive, getting off with a warning because his friend was the son of a powerful man.

This latest addition to the reconstruction and talking heads school of historical documentary has a lot of writer and presenter Alan Yentob wandering around admittedly-spectacular Italian locations, as he relates Da Vinci's story.

There are pauses in the narrative to test inventions of the man considered one of the geniuses of western civilisation. Enthusiasts built a parachute to his designs, then tested it by jumping out of a hot air balloon at 10,000ft. As the parachutist landed safely, he enjoyed a real feelgood moment.

Published: ??/??/2003