BEST OF THE REST
SAM SMITH AT THE BBC
BBC1, 8pm
ADELE has done it, Michael Bublé has done it, and now it’s the turn of Sam Smith to join the ranks of the ‘music stars successful enough to have their own show on the BBC’. It’s (not quite) the same as having your own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Expect the usual format as the Oscar and Grammy Award-winning singer performs tracks from his latest album The Thrill Of It All, as well as classic hits. And Fearne Cotton interviews him about his life and career.
But most entertaining are the more off-piste moments, such as when Sam pranks a couple of audience members, dressed in silk dressing gown and gold heels. You’ll want to ‘stay with him’ for this entertaining hour of telly.
JOHN BISHOP IN CONVERSATION WITH...
W, 9pm
SHE’S a Hollywood great, a Golden Globe-winning star of the stage and screen with a career spanning 75 years.
As you might expect from a film megastar, Dame Joan Collins, 84, rarely gives interviews. So this is a coup for John Bishop, who quizzes the actress and author on her extraordinary life.
Glamorous as ever, Dame Joan discusses her early success in Britain, before her move to Hollywood, aged 22, winning a film role over Marilyn Monroe.
John talks to Dame Joan about her close relationship with her late sister, novelist Jackie Collins, the resurgence of her career in 80s soap Dynasty, and she speaks candidly on marriage, heartache, being a mother and grandmother, and life with her soulmate, husband Percy.