Seven Days

Mike mulvihill’s guide to the week’s TV

SATURDAY THE WINDSORS: SECRETS OF THE ROYAL TOURS

7pm, ch4 HHHH

This final instalment takes a look back at the royals in the final decade of the 20th century and ahead to the next generation, from the work and death of Diana, Princess of Wales to the tours undertaken by her sons.

POINTLESS CELEBRITIES

7.45pm, bbc1 HHHH

In honour of St David’s Day on Sunday, this special sees former athlete Colin Jackson, Hi-de-hi! star Ruth Madoc, singer Lucie Jones and other Welsh celebrities testing their general knowledge.

GREAT AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNEYS

8pm, bbc2 HHH

Michael Portillo begins his latest journey on the east coast of Canada, at the Atlantic port of Halifax, and learns more about Nova Scotia’s Scottish roots. Then, he catches the ferry to Prince Edward Island, the setting for children’s classic Anne Of Green Gables.

CATCHPOINT SPORT RELIEF SPECIAL

8.30pm, bbc1 HHH

Paddy Mcguinness kicks off a new series of the Saturday-night game show with a celebrity Sport Relief special as netball star Eboni Usoro-brown and stand-up Darren Harriott take on comedian Susan Calman and Strictly professional Johannes Radebe.

CASUALTY

9.10pm, bbc1 HHH

As Faith and Lev prepare for Luka’s surgery, their colleagues rally round in support – and Zsa Zsa (guest star Sharon Gless) flies in to perform the operation. Plus, Charlie returns to work, and realises things have changed…

SUNDAY SONGS OF PRAISE

1.15pm, bbc1 HHHH This week’s edition comes from the beautiful Kew Gardens, where Aled Jones takes a tour in the company of Alan Titchmarsh, who was a student there 50 years ago. Plus, to mark St David’s Day, there’s a special performance by the Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel.

DOCTOR WHO

6.50pm, bbc1 HHH In the epic and emotional series finale— which writer Chris Chibnall describes as ‘massively game-changing’ — the Cybermen are on the march and Graham, Ryan and Yaz face a terrifying fight to survive. And for the Doctor, nothing will ever be the same again…

ALL THE QUEEN’S HORSES

7pm, ch5 HHHH

This intimate documentary includes unseen footage to illustrate Her Majesty’s love of all things equine, from owning horses to riding them and watching them race. It’s a passion the Queen has had for 90 years, ever since she had her first riding lesson at the age of three.

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW

8pm, bbc1 HHHH

Back for a new series comes Fiona Bruce and her team of experts, who first set up shop at Battle Abbey in East Sussex. There, they value royal letters from Queen Victoria’s children, a ninth-century gold coin, a once-pawned diamond ring and a rare Beatles guitar.

TOP GEAR

8pm, bbc2 HHHH

Paddy Mcguinness, Freddie Flintoff and Chris Harris find out which of the emergency services – fire, police and ambulance – is the fastest, while on the track, Paddy tests the new BMW M8. Tom Allen is the studio guest.

LAST TANGO IN HALIFAX

9pm, bbc1 HHHH

Celia and Alan’s relationship is feeling the strain – a situation not helped by the arrival of Alan’s brother, Ted (Timothy West), who has flown in from New Zealand with a lot of luggage and a few surprises.

MONDAY MOVING ON

2.15pm, bbc1 HHH

A new series of Jimmy Mcgovern’s superior daytime dramas. Each of the five episodes tells a stand-alone story about people facing turning points in their lives, from a taxi driver convicted of assault to a grieving mother who befriends a young homeless man.

FOOD UNWRAPPED

8.30pm, ch4 HHH Helen Lawal travels to California to search for the secret to perfectly shelled walnuts, while closer to home, Matt Tebbutt finds out what makes sour sweets so sour.

WARSHIP: LIFE AT SEA

9pm, ch5 HHH HMS Duncan sails into hostile waters after Iranian forces seize control of a Britishflagged ship in the Gulf, and hold its crew hostage. An attempt to capture another vessel leads to a very tense stand-off.

INSIDE NO 9

10pm, bbc2 HHH

What links a lonely elderly single man with a bright young internet star, a US serial killer, a talented young gospel singer and a woman in therapy? Find out in this week’s cleverly crafted tale of the unexpected.

TUESDAY BACK IN TIME FOR THE CORNER SHOP

8pm, bbc2 HHHH

In this second part, the Ardern family run the suburban Sheffield shop as it would have been in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. At first, supplies were plentiful; then, war broke out, rationing was introduced – and customers blamed shopkeepers for the shortages.

LOVE YOUR GARDEN

8pm, itv HHHH

A Birmingham baker known as The Cake Lady has been making cakes for injured service personnel since 2009; here, Alan Titchmarsh

and the team salute this tireless volunteer by creating a tea garden, complete with a kitchen and raised beds to grow ingredients.

BEN FOGLE: MAKE A NEW LIFE IN THE COUNTRY

9pm, ch5 HHH

In the last of the series, Ben travels to the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire to meet Hani and Sarah, who left behind good jobs and comfortable lives in London to follow their dream of owning and running a beer brewery.

THE WINDSORS

10pm, ch4 HHHH

In the second episode of the hilarious royal spoof, Fergie takes daughters Beatrice and Eugenie to the Glastonbury Festival, while Meghan catches Harry in a compromising situation with flirty sister-in-law Pippa.

WEDNESDAY SAVING LIVES AT SEA

8pm, bbc2 HHHH

Volunteers at the Loch Ness RNLI station race to the rescue of a family in danger of being thrown from their yacht into the icy waters, while on a summer’s day in Cleethorpes, two teenagers are stuck in the mud of the Humber estuary – and the tide is coming in.

HEALTH FOODS: ARE THEY A CON?

8pm, ch5 HHH

Paul Connolly investigates health products to see if the big-name brands are really worth the money. Products being put to the test are online intolerance tests and celebrityendorsed hair products. But are they worth it?

TIGERS: HUNTING THE TRAFFICKERS

9PM, BBC2 HHHH

There are fewer than 4,000 tigers left in the wild, and the illegal trade in their parts, mainly for sale in China, is pushing these majestic cats to the brink of extinction. In this sobering Natural World film, ex-marine Aldo Kane goes on the trail of the traffickers on a dangerous journey across southeast Asia.

THE TROUBLE WITH MAGGIE COLE

9PM, ITV HHHH

Promising new six-part drama, with Dawn French on top form as a local historian and all-round busybody who ends up in a whole heap of trouble when she reveals rather too much about her community during a drunken radio interview.

100 KILO KIDS: OBESITY SOS

9PM, CH4 HHH

With half of Britain’s children now overweight or obese, this eye-opening documentary meets the patients and specialist NHS staff on obesity’s front line at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, which is home to Britain’s leading childhood obesity clinic.

SARAH PAYNE: 5 MISTAKES THAT CAUGHT THE KILLER

9PM, CH5 HHH Here, detectives and forensics experts reveal how they managed to catch and convict Roy Whiting for the horrific murder of eight-yearold schoolgirl Sarah Payne in July 2000.

SANDYLANDS

10PM, GOLD HHHH See TV feature, page 20.

THURSDAY SECRETS OF THE MUSEUM

8PM, BBC2 HHH

At the V&A this week, Frankenstein’s monster is brought back to life, curators discover photographs of the real Alice In Wonderland, and Shakespeare’s First Folio is repaired.

MASTERCHEF

8PM, BBC1 HHHH

Over the next two nights, 12 more amateur chefs try to prove to judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace that they have the potential to be the 2020 Masterchef champion.

NOUGHTS + CROSSES

9PM, BBC1 HHHH

This bold adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s young-adult novel is set in an alternative Britain, where black Africans are the ruling class and white Britons are seen as the underclass. It’s a thought-provoking story that challenges ideas of race relations.

HOSPITAL

9PM, BBC2 HHHH

The penultimate part of this real-life medical drama heads to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, where new technologies and treatments have saved many children who might not have survived a decade ago.

10 YEARS YOUNGER IN 10 DAYS

9PM, CH5 HHH

This week, Cherry Healey hopes to restore a bit of self-esteem to Paulette, a recovering alcoholic who worries that years of drinking – now six years in the past – took a toll on her looks. Plus, can Tom ditch his hairy biker look, and get to grips with make-up for men?

FIRST DATES

10PM, CH4 HHHH Heading to the restaurant are 31-year-old wedding singer Georgina, who is ‘always the singer, never the bride’. And remember Howard from the Halifax TV adverts?

Well, he’s single and arrives looking for love.

FRIDAY THE YORKSHIRE STEAM RAILWAY: ALL ABOARD

7.30PM, CH5 HHH

It’s the annual steam gala and this year, in a bid to generate as much money as possible, the railway decides to put on a spectacular show featuring a record 15 locomotives.

CELEBRITY BRITAIN BY BARGE: THEN & NOW

8.30PM, CH5 HHH

On the second part of their Scottish leg, the famous foursome join the Glasgow and Edinburgh Union Canal, rising above the water on the Falkirk wheel before heading east.

GREG JAMES’ SPORT RELIEF HEROES

10.35PM, BBC1 HHHH

In the run-up to this year’s Sport Relief, the Radio 1 DJ meets up with celebrities – including David Walliams, Davina Mccall and Zoe Ball – who in the past have undertaken gruelling challenges in the name of charity.