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MUST-SEE SHOWS

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BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT Tonight, ITV, 8pm

SIMON COWELL’S juggernaut is back, but not quite how we know it.

The series has been split in two, with the opening part concentrat­ing on the audition rounds, which were filmed some time ago.

We’re then promised that the live finals – which can’t currently take place due to social distancing – will turn up later in the year.

WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIR­E? CELEBRITY SPECIAL

Tomorrow, ITV, 7pm

IF you had to put your money on any celebrity bagging £1m on this quiz, who would you choose? Perhaps Stephen Fry, along with David Attenborou­gh. And not far behind would surely be Richard Osman. Tonight, the Pointless co-host has a go at answering the 15 questions that could bag cash for his chosen charity. Also joining host Jeremy Clarkson is singer Charlotte Church and former Liverpool and England footballer-turned-pundit John Barnes.

QUIZ

Monday, ITV, 9pm

IF you’ve seen the trailers for this new three-part drama, which is showing over consecutiv­e evenings, you will have already had a glimpse of Michael Sheen’s uncanny Chris Tarrant impersonat­ion.

Many of us will remember Who Wants to Be a Millionair­e?’s case of the so-called ‘Coughing Major’ Charles Ingram (Matthew Macfadyen), who was accused of cheating his way to the top prize.

In the opening episode, television producer Paul Smith

(Mark Bonnar) puts everything on the line to make his new quiz

show a hit. And Charles’s wife Diana (Fleabag’s Sian Clifford) and his brother-in-law Adrian (Trystan Gravelle) are keen to get in the hotseat.

PRUE LEITH: JOURNEY WITH MY DAUGHTER Tuesday, Channel 4, 9pm

FORTY five years ago, restaurate­ur, chef and writer Prue Leith adopted a 16-monthold baby girl called Li-Da from a Cambodian orphanage. The Great British Bake Off judge found Li-Da after her parents were victims of Cambodia’s killing fields. Li-Da had an idyllic English upbringing but now, in this intimate and revealing documentar­y,

 ??  ?? Britain’s Got Talent: judges David Walliams, Amanda Holden, Simon Cowell and Alesha Dixon
Britain’s Got Talent: judges David Walliams, Amanda Holden, Simon Cowell and Alesha Dixon
 ??  ?? Sian Clifford, Matthew Macfadyen and Michael Sheen in Quiz
Sian Clifford, Matthew Macfadyen and Michael Sheen in Quiz
 ??  ?? Li-Da Kruger and Prue Leith
Li-Da Kruger and Prue Leith

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