Posh nosh for the not so posh
PICK DAY
Jai EMMERDALE STV, 7pm & 8pm MANDY gets rumbled by Chas, who has discovered the bag full of stolen cash and casino chips. Chas and the rest of the Dingles are furious but what will they do with it and is everything as it seems?
Meanwhile, Jai is shocked when Dan turns up with his estranged son Archie and the news that Archie’s mum Rachel has died.
Rishi hands out chocolate samples from his new venture as Manpreet bumps into Derek, a regular patient at the surgery. EASTENDERS
BBC1, 7.30pm BOBBY has been seeing dead people. Namely, his sister Lucy. At a train station, and under the influence of drugs, he has seen her walk along the tracks and wants to follow her and speak to her.
As he steps on to the tracks, he finds himself in terrible danger – will anyone find him before he gets hurt?
Meanwhile, Jay lets Mel into the funeral parlour to be with Hunter. And elsewhere, Louise arranges a surprise party for Bex. Troubled Bobby Gary sets up a buzzy new restaurant THE DOG HOUSE
C4, 8pm THERE’S a real gasp moment every time a dog peeks its head around the door to meet its potential new owners for the first time.
A bit like a blind date, the Wood Green charity staff are in the business of matchmaking pups with loving families.
Then there’s a big reveal when the match finally happens in a camera-rigged garden.
“We know that one family’s nuisance dog might be another family’s joy,” says staff member One of the German Shepherds on offer Chris. A litter of 10 German Shepherd puppies descends in this episode – at eight weeks old, they are ready for a new home.
But will anyone be able to pick just one?
The Stephens family can’t agree.
Elsewhere, Chris and Suzanne want a new dog to fill the gap left by their dear departed pets. But she wants a smaller dog and he wants a big dog.
Ralphie the Yorkshire Terrier is a small dog with a big attitude – can he win them both over?
“I hate all the fake bull***t around restaurants,” he says.
Gary was a school dropout who turned to drug-taking and shoplifting, but turned his life around.
“I thought I was going to be a loser for the rest of my life,” he says.
Now he is a top chef, restaurateur and force of nature. He’s on a mission to make delicious food that everyone can enjoy – wherever and whoever they are.
Cameras follow Gary as he sets out to open up in a place that, on paper, looks like the worst location to put a buzzy new restaurant.
He says: “My ambition is to open a decent little restaurant in a place that could really do with it.”
And so he heads to Prescot, Merseyside, a run-down town with sausage rolls and an arcade that hasn’t seen a new restaurant in three decades.
He hasn’t got the cash, so he’s crowdfunding the £50,000 he needs to build a French-style restaurant out of the rubble. He’ll also have to convince working-class locals to eat the posh bistro food.
You’ll be firmly on his side as he sets about his challenge with what feels like a genuine interest in changing a community, not a TV show gimmick.
Interspersed with little interviews with locals on the street and battles with builders, Gary also shows off recipes in his kitchen.
A gritty new cooking show with a Michelin-starred edge.