TV HIGHLIGHTS
Bake Off is back on our screens this week - Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood give us the lowdown
STRICTLY COME DANCING Tomorrow, BBC1, 7.45pm
The celebrity line-up has been announced, and it’s time to find out who the stars have been paired with as Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman host the Strictly launch show.
A couple of the celebs are about to make Strictly history as EastEnders actress Rose Ayling-Ellis becomes the first deaf contestant, and Great British Bake Off winner John Whaite forms the first all-male partnership.
The stars will take to the floor for a group dance, and we’ll discover what the judges – including veteran dancer Anton Du Beke, who is stepping in for Bruno Tonioli – think of their chances.
LAST MAN STANDING: SUGE KNIGHT AND THE MURDERS OF BIGGIE AND TUPAC Sunday, BBC2, 9pm
Documentary-maker Nick Broomfield looks at the unsolved murders of Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur, two hip-hop giants who ended up entangled in a turf war.
Broomfield examines Death Row Records and how Los Angeles’ street gang culture came to dominate its
business workings, as well as an association with corrupt LA police officers.
MANHUNT THE NIGHT STALKER
Monday, ITV, 9pm
In 2019, Manhunt chronicled the investigation into French student Amelie Delagrange’s murder, and its eventual connection to the deaths of Marsha McDonnell and Milly Dowler at the hands of serial killer Levi Bellfield. Written by
Ed Whitmore, it starred Martin Clunes as
ex-London Metropolitan Police detective, DCI Colin Sutton.
Whitmore and Clunes are back, exploring a case that went unsolved for almost two decades. Based on Sutton’s diaries, it follows the police pursuit of a serial rapist, whose 17-year reign of terror left thousands of elderly people in south east
London living in fear.
A HOUSE THROUGH TIME Tuesday, BBC2, 9pm
David Olusoga’s search through the history of a house in Leeds is up to 1913, when Number 5 is home to the respectable couple
Frederick and Louisa Pryce Lewis. A look through their photo album puts David on the trail of their son Walter, who went to the battlefields of Gallipoli before returning to Leeds and a life of crime.
The next residents were textiles chemist Percival King and wife Rose, whose seemingly happy family was torn apart when Percival admitted himself to a psychiatric institution.
GRAND DESIGNS Wednesday, Channel 4, 9pm
Kevin McCloud meets teacher Gretta, who moved to Malaysia 17 years ago with her husband Ray and two sons.
Then, a couple of years ago,
tragedy struck when Ray died.
Gretta returned to the UK and went to live with her sister Mary and brother-in-law Fernando in rural Cambridgeshire, in a caravan.
She has now bought part of their garden as a building plot and employed her nephew Carlos to design her a Malaysian-inspired, single-storey pavilion. With a budget of £300k and a schedule of seven months, they’re up against it.
TASKMASTER Thursday, Channel 4, 9pm
Series 12 of the hilarious comedy game show sees QI’s Alan Davies, comedian Desiree Burch, Man Like
Mobeen’s Guz Khan, The Windsors star Morgana Robinson and Only Connect’s Victoria Coren Mitchell take on a range of outrageous tasks in a bid to impress the Taskmaster, Greg Davies.
As usual, Alex Horne is on hand
to welcome the contestants to the Taskmaster house and keep score
THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW Friday, BBC1, 10.35pm
There is less than a week before the 25th entry in the James Bond canon No Time to Die, hits cinemas.
The Covid-19 delayed flick is the final outing for Daniel Craig as 007.
He joins French star Lea Seydoux to discuss the movie and we’ll hear from Rami Malek, who plays villain Safin, alongside Lashana Lynch, who has been touted as a potential replacement for Craig.
Also tonight, Ed Sheeran will perform his new single Shivers.