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STV, 7pm SEEMS like they’re taking it in turns this lot – and now it’s Vanessa who’s in trouble with the law when a row with Amy at the hospital gets seriously out of hand and she accidentally hits a nurse.
Vanessa ends up at the police station where she’s got the chance to tell police that Amy and Kerry were the ones behind the factory fire.
But this is a big dilemma for Vanessa as she knows that would implicate Tracy in Kerry’s current condition. EASTENDERS
BBC1, 7.30pm BIT naive of Martin to think he can call on the goodness of Ben’s heart and get him to agree to Stacey returning home. But there could be a deal to be struck when Ben hears that Jags has kidnapped Lola.
Mitchell Jnr is caught up in dodgy dealings yet again, so he tells Martin that if he doesn’t help out as hired muscle, then he’ll hand the incriminating wrench into the police. Elsewhere, Habiba tells Honey she deserves better than Adam. RIVER CITY
BBC1, 8pm AFTER spending the night with her new lover, Michael, Isobel returns home and is faced with a worried Kim.
Isobel doesn’t shy away from admitting she enjoyed a night of passion with Michael but Kim is horrified and confronts him in the Oyster Café.
Kim demands policewoman Lou arrests Michael for taking advantage and, despite Isobel’s pleas, Kim is adamant her mother is unable to consent due to her dementia. THE GREAT BRITISH
BAKE OFF Channel 4, 8pm IT’S Festival Week in the Bake Off tent. Nope, that doesn’t mean they’ll be making brownies with a “special ingredient” to flog at Glastonbury, or whipping up hog roast baguettes to serve to hungover rockers in a field.
Rather it’s a homage to all things festivaly and celebratory in nature. The signature sees the bakers go international for their festive inspirations, Famke Janssen as Jessica THE CAPTURE
BBC1, 9pm THIS hi-tech cryptic drama series has us gripped. Constant surveillance, manipulation of CCTV, data mining, deep fake images – it’s terrifyingly topical.
Half the time we haven’t had a clue what’s going on. We don’t know who the good guys are or who are the baddies, or what their motives are for whatever they’re doing.
But that’s what makes it brilliant – they’ve treated the audience as intelligent and trust then it’s a deep-fried Italian treat for the technical.
And the showstopper is their interpretation of an Indonesian carnival cake – a vibrantly coloured (apart from in Henry’s case) feat of planning and architecture.
To help inspire the bakers, Noel’s drawing on his memories (or lack of, more likely) of all the festivals he’s ligged at, while Sandi’s sporting some showgirl feathers and Prue’s bringing the carnival colours. Although to be fair that’s us to keep up and stay involved. So, now the finale has arrived, they’d better give us the answers we’re after.
They’re not likely to be supplied by Jessica Mallory, newly arrived in London and played by X-Men star Famke Janssen, who’s been brought in to make sure the intelligence service’s biggest secrets stay that way.
Meanwhile, Rachel finds herself facing an impossible choice that will decide Shaun’s fate and have huge repercussions for the whole criminal justice system. how she always dresses, so she might not even have known that was the theme.
We’re not quite sure why they’ve felt the need to introduce a load of strange gimmicky themed weeks – ditto setting obscure technical challenges that nobody’s ever heard of and that we don’t even want to eat.
Obviously, telly people are told they’ve got to keep things fresh, up RUFFLED Sandi with Henry who’s getting to work on his cake the stakes, not get stale (pun intended). But someone should tell them we viewers really wouldn’t mind in the slightest watching the contestants make the same bakes that have been done in previous series. You know – scones, pork pies, eclairs, Battenbergs, illusion cakes – that’s what we’re talking about.
Not curd cheese, veggie burgers and Indian milk sweets.