WHAT’S HOT TO WATCH TODAY
EVERY year at around this time, in the run-up to Children In Need, we have an event called CHILDREN IN NEED ROCKS 2018.
This is a big show in which famous people from the music world perform a selection of their top tunes, plus a few covers, and refuse to shut up until we’ve handed over enough cash. Or at least I think that’s how it works. If it isn’t, the organisers are missing a trick.
Tonight, at 8.30pm on BBC1, we’ve got this year’s do, hosted by Fearne Cotton and Radio 1’s Clara Amfo and coming from whatever the heck Wembley Arena is currently meant to be called.
Performers include All Saints, George Ezra, Jess Glynne, Nile Rodgers & Chic, Olly Murs, Tom Odell, Rita Ora, Sir Rod Stewart, and lots, lots more. Well, OK, maybe not lots, lots, but certainly a few, few. And of course there’ll be reminders throughout the evening of the genuinely excellent cause this is all in aid of.
Also, just so you’ve been warned, if you watch the whole thing and you don’t cough up a penny (there’ll be plenty of chances, after all), then your television has been specially programmed to actually melt before your eyes. It’s amazing what technology can do nowadays. ELSEWHERE, a new series on BBC2 takes us INSIDE THE FOREIGN OFFICE (9pm), to follow some of the mind-boggling diplomatic wrangling etc. that went on there when Boris Johnson was Foreign Secretary.
AND talking of great laughs, it’s followed straight after by a new series of LIVE AT THE APOLLO (10pm, BBC2), hosted this week by The Mash Report’s Ellie Taylor.