The Hood is back, and BBC America has him. The 25-year-old Jonas Armstrong and 19-year-old Lucy Griffiths breathe new vitality into the roles of Robin and Marian in the 13-episode adaptation of “Robin Hood” (8 p.m. today, BBC America).

It takes a stylish reinvention of this story to remind us just how much “Robin Hood” influenced great adventure movies from classic Westerns to “Star Wars.” A tale of guy gets girl, right fights wrong, goofball sidekicks, athletic derring-do, swordplay and straight shooting, “Robin Hood” is infectious fun.

¢ Mary-Louise Parker stars as a murdered woman with a fascinating past and no shortage of enemies in the flashback-driven mystery “The Robber Bride” (7 p.m. today, Oxygen), adapted from a novel by Margaret Atwood.

¢ How do you fit 600 years of history into a two-hour documentary? “The Dark Ages” (8 p.m. Sunday, History) does it one story at a time.

Using dramatic re-enactments, interviews with experts and period art, “Dark” sheds light on a misunderstood period of political chaos and cultural and scientific stagnation.

¢ Rob Corddry stars in the limited-run sitcom “The Winner” (7:30 p.m. Sunday, Fox). The good news: This is not half as dreadful as I expected.

While the show takes place in 1994, Corddry’s character, Glen Abbott, narrates the show from present day, where we are told, he is known as the richest man in Buffalo, N.Y. But back in ’94, he was an unemployed neurotic who lived with his parents. Then Allison (Erinn Hayes) moves next door.

The object of Glen’s adolescent affections and the subject of decades of daydreams, Allison is newly divorced and a doctor to boot.

Glen bonds with her son, Josh (Keir Gilchrist), an awkward adolescent with phobias and ticks that remind Glen of his own. In a deft combination of “The Wonder Years” and “Rushmore,” Glen lives out and relinquishes his perpetual adolescence by becoming the best friend/coach to a real adolescent. The result is funny, but also an odd combination of the endearing and borderline creepy.

Today’s highlights

¢ “Great Performances” (7 p.m., PBS) presents “Jerry Lee Lewis: Last Man Standing: Live.” Merle Haggard, John Fogerty, Don Henley, Chris Isaak and others join the rockabilly legend.

¢ A family copes with Alzheimer’s in the 2007 made-for-cable drama “Sacrifices of the Heart” (8 p.m., Hallmark).

¢ “Backstage Pass” (9 p.m., BBC America), a British variation on “True Hollywood Story,” dishes the dirt on the Beatles. Next week: the Rolling Stones.

Sunday’s highlights

¢ Scheduled on “60 Minutes” (6 p.m., CBS): a profile of the co-creator of “The Simpsons” and his efforts to save and train stray dogs; dire financial predictions from the U.S. comptroller general.

¢ Octavian (Simon Woods), Mark Antony (James Purefoy) and Lepidus (Ronan Vibert) strike a deal on “Rome” (8 p.m., HBO).