Seven Days

SATURDAY

Pointless Celebrities 6.20PM, BBC1

The theme is space and science, so expect some particularly obscure answers from brainy teams including The Sky At Night’s Maggie Aderin-Pocock and astronomers Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest.

Proms Encore

7PM, BBC2

It’s the last of the series, and Katie Derham is joined on the bandstand by saxophonist Jess Gillam, baritone Gerald Finley and composer Daniel Kidane. Plus, soloist Jamie Barton sings ahead of her performance at next Saturday’s Last Night Of The Proms.

Britain’s Got Talent: The Champions

7.30PM, ITV

Previous winners returning to the stage this week are singer Jai McDowall (2011) and Lost Voice Guy, aka comic Lee Ridley (2018). Look out too for US husband-and-wife knife-throwing duo Deadly Games.

Casualty

8.40PM, BBC1

An incensed Archie takes justice into her own hands to support a wronged patient, while a friend from Iain’s past helps him to think about his own future and the adjustments he needs to make towards a happier life.

Monty Python Night

FROM 9PM, BBC2

Fifty years after Monty Python’s Flying

Circus changed the face of British comedy, the BBC pays tribute to the iconic TV comedy sketch show. The night begins with Monty Python: Almost the Truth, and is followed by the new documentary Python At 50: Silly Talks And Holy Grails (10pm), and the first episode of the sketch show itself (11pm).

SUNDAY

Countryfile

7PM, BBC1

In Northumberland, Helen Skelton meets the people who are teaching students from disadvantaged areas traditional boatbuilding skills, while Joe Crowley meets a man on a mission to map Britain – in poetry.

Antiques Roadshow

8PM, BBC1

The show continues with a Second World War special from Dover Castle where, in the spring of 1940, the evacuation of Dunkirk was organised. Tonight, Fiona Bruce meets 95-year-old Ray Palmer, who was first a child evacuee and then a serving soldier, while Hilary Kay samples a potato-based dessert made using a ration book recipe.

Dragons’ Den

8PM, BBC2

While Touker Suleyman recovers from illness, former Dragon Theo Paphitis steps in to hear pitches from the creator of a range of men’s cosmetics, the inventor of a pipefitting tool and twin drinks entrepreneurs.

Peaky Blinders

9PM, BBC1 Tommy (Cillian Murphy) agrees to dangerous new partnerships when a golden opportunity presents itself in episode four of the stylish gangster drama. Meanwhile, a Shelby party goes off with a bang...

Conspiracy Files: The Billionaire Global Mastermind?

9PM, BBC2 An investigation into the dealings of the multibillionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros. Some dismiss him as a money-driven bogeyman, while others claim he is a victim of resurgent anti-Semitism.

State Of The Union

10PM, BBC2 See TV feature, page 18.

MONDAY

Cooking Up A Fortune 5.30PM, CH4

In this new, 20-part daytime cookery challenge, pairs of amateur chefs do battle against each other in a food arena, selling their home-made culinary creations to paying diners. Who will make the most profits and stand the chance of turning their dreams of running their own food business into a reality?

Jamie’s Meat-Free Meals

8PM, CH4

After exploring the incredible produce in Asia’s biggest fruit and veg market, Jamie Oliver returns home to make a bean salad with lots of punch and an aubergine lasagne. Veggie dishes have never looked so tasty.

Food Unwrapped

8.30PM, CH4

Matt Tebbutt reveals the sweet secret of how supermarkets get the iced writing so perfect on birthday cakes, Jimmy Doherty is in Japan to discover the health benefits of soya beans, and Kate Quilton looks at the growing trend of hemp-based food products.

Celebrity MasterChef

9PM, BBC1

The newest celebrities to enter the kitchen are ex-Goggleboxer Dom Parker, comedian Josie Long, presenter and poet Mim Shaikh, The Chase star Jenny Ryan and Love Island’s Dr Alex George – and their first challenge is to make a pizza from scratch.

Rise Of The Nazis

9PM, BBC2

In the second part of this engrossing history series, it’s 1933, and Adolf Hitler is the Chancellor of Germany. However, with a democratic Parliament beneath him and a head of state above him, he still has work to do to dismantle the German state.

A Confession

9PM, ITV

In episode two of this gripping true-life drama, CCTV footage links local taxi driver Christopher Halliwell (a creepy Joe Absolom) to the abduction of the missing Sian O’Callaghan. But with Det Supt Steve Fulcher

(Martin Freeman) convinced that Sian is still alive, the decision is made not to arrest Halliwell. Has Fulcher made the right call?

TUESDAY

Saving Lives At Sea 8PM, BBC2

The brave volunteers of the RNLI race to save three children caught in a cave by the rising tide off the east coast of Scotland, while the crew at Blyth are called out to search for a missing 80-year-old man.

The Great British Bake Off

8PM, CH4

Week three is bread week, and the remaining bakers have a lot to prove with three tough challenges set by judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith.

The Capture

9PM, BBC1

The intrigue deepens in episode two of this absorbing surveillance thriller when key evidence is mysteriously removed from the case, forcing Carey to find other ways of pursuing chief suspect Shaun. The soldier, though, goes in search of answers of his own.

Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth

9PM, BBC2

Freddy is a likeable 30-year-old from Kent, who yearns to start a family – but for him, this ordinary desire isn’t easy. And that’s because Freddy is a gay transgender man. This sympathetic film follows Freddy over

three years as he goes through a process that presents a number of challenges to not just Freddy, but everyone around him.

Suicidal

9.15PM, CH5

Men in the UK aged 20 to 49 are more likely to die from suicide than any other cause of death. In this raw, heartfelt documentary, showing to coincide with World Suicide Prevention Day, six men with 20 suicide attempts between them tell their stories.

WEDNESDAY

Interior Design Masters 8PM, BBC2

It’s round five, and there’s no rest for the remaining interior designers as host Fearne Cotton and judge Michelle Ogundehin challenge them to transform some bland holiday lodges in the Lincolnshire Wolds.

The Big Hospital Experiment

9PM, BBC2

The 14 young volunteers begin their second week on the wards at the Royal Derby Hospital, and some have to deal with the raw emotion of caring for people approaching the end of their lives in the palliative unit.

Grand Designs

9PM, CH4

Entrepreneur Paul Wilkinson is a workaholic with a compulsion to get things done in the shortest time possible. But even he will be pushed to finish his giant new home, made up of five circular buildings, in just one year.

The Mighty Dreadnought: Monster Warship Of WWI

9PM, CH5 The fascinating story of how the launch of the revolutionary Royal Navy battleship HMS Dreadnought transformed the face of naval warfare for the next 35 years.

THURSDAY

The Dog House

8PM, CH4

Trying to find a perfect owner this week is Knobby the Chihuahua, who tries to charm his way into the affections and home of Alex and Kier. Surely, they can’t turn him down?

Jesy Nelson: ‘Odd One Out’

9PM, BBC1

When Jesy Nelson rose to fame with pop band Little Mix, she was abused online for being ‘the fat one’. Now, in this intimate documentary, Jesy opens up about the heartbreaking effects cyberbullies had on her life.

China: A New World Order

9PM, BBC2

The final film in this rather worrying series explores the growing tension between

China and the West over allegations that the Chinese state has used large-scale industrial espionage and hacking to steal the West’s business and technological secrets.

Billy Connolly’s Great American Trail

9PM, ITV The Big Yin continues to follow in the footsteps of fellow Scottish migrants to America, beginning this week in Kearny, New Jersey, a place known as Little Glasgow, where Billy discovers it was the Scots who brought football to America.

FRIDAY

Gardeners’ World

8PM, BBC2

In an hour-long episode, Monty Don adds autumn perennials to his borders, while on her Kent allotment, Frances Tophill catches up on some seasonal sowing.

The Great Model Railway Challenge

8PM, CH5

It’s full steam ahead for a second series of the captivating model challenge, which hosts Tim Shaw and James Richardson claim will be ‘even bigger, even better and even brillianter than ever’. Corby Model Railway Society, Fancott Miniature Marvels and The Train Set are the first teams to take on the challenge.

Gogglebox

9PM, CH4

Back for a new series come everyone’s favourite armchair critics, who will once again be giving their often hilarious views on the best and worst of the week’s TV.

Scarborough

9.30PM, BBC1

In episode two of the seaside sitcom, Mike and Karen (Jason Manford and Catherine Tyldesley) try to get their relationship back on track after Mike’s misstep last week.