WHAT’S HOT TO WATCH TODAY
EVEN if you’re not that fussed about who’s won what, THE BRITISH SOAP AWARDS 2017 (8pm, ITV) are still a great watch. The clips remind us of the top soapy moments from the past 12 months (ie. murder, catastrophe, mental breakdowns, love rattery, various things crashing or blowing up, plus oodles of shouting, so basically all the stuff we love), while the sight of the stars in their finery gives us a rare glimpse of what these people are like when they’re briefly allowed out of Walford, Weatherfield or wherever. Some, of course, turn out to have spectacularly weird dress sense, which always gives us a good laugh, while others, the full-on actory types, will deliver their acceptance speech in a voice so disconcertingly different from their character’s that they end up sounding like a minor member of the royal family. In episode two of BROKEN (9pm, BBC1), Anna Friel’s Christina seems to have little choice but to face up to her crime – the one, remember, where she popped down to the post office to collect her mum’s pension, her mum finding the journey rather too much of an effort on account of having been dead for four days. Can Sean Bean’s Father Michael help her out of this mess? Reckon you can tell the difference between an Aunt Bessie’s apple pie and an M&S one? Or one from Morrisson’s or Sainsbury’s?
That’s one of the dead important blind taste-test challenges in Channel 4’s latest food show, TRIED AND TESTED: THE ULTIMATE SHOPPING LIST (8pm). It’s also comparing whiskies, baked beans and supermarket lamb shanks.