CRITIC’S CHOICE

PICK OF THE DAY Taskmaster

9pm, Channel 4

The 17th series of Taskmaster and surely they’ve used up all the potential contestants, or Alex Horne (“The Harry to my Meghan Markle,” according to Greg Davies) must have run out of fresh ideas for his enjoyably silly tasks. Not a bit of it, and the latest line-up again mixes the relatively well-known (Steve Pemberton, left, Nick Mohammed and Sophie Willan) with the less familiar likes (to me, at least) of Joanne McNally and John Robins. Willan looks like taking on Lucy Beaumont’s mantle as the resident clueless comedian, Pemberton’s love of puns threatens to grate, while Mohammed, for some reason, comes dressed as a vampire. Enjoy.

=== The Apprentice

9pm, BBC One

It’s the shopping channel task, which is always good for a laugh. To recap: it’s the one where Lord Sugar tasks the candidates to sell consumer products live to the nation on a “leading TV shopping channel”. They must choose the right products and sing their virtues while contending with being directed by the gallery.

=== Bruce Lee: A Life In Ten Pictures

9pm, BBC Two

The kung-fu fighting actor Bruce Lee’s time as a bona fide movie star was tragically sort – he died in 1973 just as his debut Hollywood movie, Enter The Dragon, became a boxoffice hit and cultural sensation. Among those spinning their reminiscences off photographs are his daughter, Shannon, his widow, Linda Lee Cadwell, and Andre Morgan, the producer of Enter The Dragon. Raised in Hong Kong, Lee came to America aged 18, becoming fight trainer to the stars before making his own way to the screen.

=== The Twelve

9pm, ITV1

Channel 4’s recent experiment, The Jury: Murder Trial, highlighted the way in which members of a jury bring their own experiences, backgrounds and prejudices to bear on a court case that they should be judging dispassionately on the evidence provided. This 10-part

Australian drama (available on ITVX since February) does much the same thing, but with melodramatic storylines that focus on each jury member. Sam Neill brings a touch of class to the proceedings as the lead barrister, while the crime they’re judging involves an artist who is accused of murdering her 14-yearold niece, despite there being no body.

=== Whitstable Pearl

9pm, Drama

The slightly drab tone of this crime drama belies its plot precis, which this week sounds like pure Midsomer Murders. A retired police officer is killed during an English Civil War enactment, or “sad losers playing dress-up” as resident cop Mike McGuire (Howard Charles) prefers to

put it. The dead man’s widow doesn’t seem overly upset, but then her husband did have three mistresses.

=== Big Mood

10pm, Channel 4

Maggie and Eddie (Derry Girls’ Nicola Coughlan and Lydia West from Years And Years) have been best friends for a decade, but their relationship is subjected to a barrage of increased work, life and mental health pressures (Maggie, it transpires, is bipolar). In the opening episode, Maggie goes back to her old school to give a talk. However, she’s not there to inspire the children with her not-so-illustrious career as a playwright – she wants to find out if hot history teacher Mr Wilson (Tim Downie) still fancies her.