MUST-SEE SHOWS
CELEBRITY CATCHPOINT Tonight, BBC1, 6.30pm
PADDY McGUINNESS is back to host four celebrity editions of the family-friendly game show combining physical fun and tricky multiple-choice questions.
Each question Paddy asks has 10 sequential answers, each corresponding to one of a straight line of circles on the floor. The contestants then pick a spot to stand on and if it’s right, they’ll have a better chance of catching the prize ball that drops from the ceiling.
Tonight, Radio 1 DJs Matt Edmondson and Mollie King are up against presenter, author and columnist Dr Ranj Singh and Olympic long jump gold-medalist Greg Rutherford, with the prize money going to charity.
A PERFECT PLANET Tomorrow, BBC1, 8pm
WATER is vital for life – and our planet has plenty of it. Even if most of the water on Earth is in the seas and too salty for terrestrial species to use.
Tonight we learn that just 3% of the world’s H2O is freshwater and most of that is locked up in ice or in underground aquifers.
Sir David Attenborough looks at the role of weather in distributing water, and why differing amounts of rainfall around the world have give rise to an incredible diversity of species and habitats.
LONG LOST FAMILY
Monday, ITV, 9pm
THE Bafta-winning reunion show is back for its 10th series, as presenters Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell reunite more family members with loved ones.
Phyllis and Kevin Haran contacted the show after more than 40 years searching for their first-born son. The couple fell in love as teenagers in Ireland in the 1970s and a couple of months into their relationship, Phyllis became pregnant.
Aware of the scandal this would cause within their Catholic community, they hatched a plan to run away to England to bring up their baby. But, in London, their landlady discovered they were keeping a baby in their flat and gave them less than 24 hours to get out.
Homeless and jobless they agreed to place their son in the care of a family, with the possibility of adoption if they couldn’t find their feet.
FIRST DATES Tuesday, Channel 4, 10pm
FIRST into the new Manchester restaurant is 23-year-old Tory Jessie, a parliamentary assistant, who’s not exactly conservative about talking sex and politics on a date.
Taking her on is 25-year-old journalist Josh, who has been sworn at on dates in the past.
Self-confessed former ladies’ man Winston, a 69-year-old ex-roadie, wants someone to settle down with after surviving prostate cancer. He pulls out all the stops to impress 60-yearold glamorous grandma Donna.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: THE INAUGURATION
Wednesday, BBC1, 4pm THE race to the White House was a long and rather fraught one, to say the least. But now Joe Biden is about to be sworn in as the 46th US president, alongside his VP, Kamala Harris.
It’s usually lavish and hugely popular, but thanks to Covid only 1,000 tickets were available for the official ceremony.
DEATH IN PARADISE
Thursday, BBC1, 9pm
STRICTLY’S 2019 champ Kelvin Fletcher and comedian Jason Manford guest star in tonight’s episode.
Kelvin plays Gavin, husband of lottery winner Cherry, who is found dead at her luxurious flat.
When the corpse then appears to vanish into thin air, Neville (Ralf Little) is left with an even more complex puzzle to solve.
IT’S A SIN
Friday, Channel 4, 9pm
RUSSELL T DAVIES has one of the best track records in TV. So, expectations are high for his new drama series, which looks at the Aids crisis of the 1980s through the eyes of five friends.
It begins in 1981, as 18-yearold Ritchie Tozer (Olly Alexander) is leaving the Isle of Wight to go to university. He makes four new friends – Roscoe (Omari Douglas), Colin (Callum Scott Howells), Ash (Nathaniel Curtis) and Jill (Lydia West), and together they move into a flat where they can start to discover who they really are. But a threat is looming on the horizon.