DID YOU KNOW? Himesh Patel

Currently starring as Emery Staines in The Luminaries (9pm, BBC1),

Himesh, 29, has done very well for himself since graduating from Eastenders…

● Born in 1990 and raised in Sawtry, Jo Brand and Alan Davies (All 4). His knack for Cambridgeshire, Himesh joined a local comedy was first discovered on Eastenders, theatre group, but his real training as an when Tamwar tried his hand at stand-up. In actor began when he was cast as Tamwar recent US space comedy Avenue 5, Himesh Masood in Eastenders when he was 16 played a stand-up comic who struggles – the year he completed his GCSE exams. to make people laugh. (Sky/now TV).

● He played Tamwar for nine years and, ● In his debut feature film, the Danny when he left the soap in 2016, Tamwar Boyle comedy Yesterday (Sky/now departed Albert Square to go travelling TV), he starred as the only person with his girlfriend, Nancy Carter who remembers the music of The (Maddy Hill). When it was later Beatles – and makes the most of it. announced that Tamwar and Nancy

● Himesh has a role in Christopher had got engaged off screen, fans of

Nolan’s soon-to-be-released film the soap congratulated Himesh.

Tenet, and he will also star in an

● In late 2016, he played social worker upcoming HBO miniseries of Emily St Nitin in sitcom Damned, alongside John Mandel’s novel Station Eleven.

7.25pm Come Dine with Me

8.00 Grand Designs

9.00 999: On the Front Line – Collisions 10.00 24 Hours in A&E

11.05 999: What’s Your Emergency?

5.05pm Big Eyes Biopic of painter Margaret

Keane, starring Amy Adams.

7.10 Table 19 Comedy, starring Anna Kendrick.

9.00 Atomic Blonde Spy thriller, starring

Charlize Theron and James Mcavoy.

11.15 How to Lose Friends & Alienate

People Comedy, starring Simon Pegg.

Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords FILM Fatal Attraction A married lawyer has a one-night stand with a business associate, who becomes obsessed and begins stalking him and his family. Thriller, starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close. Includes Access.

FILM Scary Movie 2 Spoof horror sequel, starring Anna Faris.

The Simpsons

The Simpsons

The Simpsons

The Simpsons

Micky Flanagan: Back in the Game FILM Doom Sci-fi thriller based on the video game, starring Dwayne Johnson, Karl Urban and Rosamund Pike.