MUST-SEE SHOWS
ROLLING IN IT Tonight, ITV, 6.25pm
THIS new game of chance sees three contestants play alongside some of their favourite stars in a bid to win a big cash prize.
Stephen Mulhern welcomes three teams made up of the player and their celebrity partner. They roll a coin down a moving conveyor belt towards slots labelled with large cash sums to win, but there are also ‘Bankrupt’ slots which mean the player loses everything.
Can Coronation Street stars Sair Khan, Antony Cotton and Jennie McAlpine help to win the jackpot in episode one?
A SUITABLE BOY Tomorrow, BBC1, 9pm
friendship with poet Amit Chatterji, Mrs Mehra enlists the help of a friend to find her headstrong daughter a husband.
When Rupa meets enthusiastic shoemaker Haresh Khanna she is immediately charmed, but Lata is not so easily convinced.
Banished to the countryside with his Urdu tutor, Maan is preoccupied by thoughts of Saeeda Bai, but as his eyes are opened to the hardships of rural life, he becomes an unlikely campaigner for social justice.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN IRAQ
Monday, BBC2, 9pm
A LOOK at the consequences of the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the US-led coalition, with America forced to return to confront the brutal legacy when Isis emerges to take over huge swathes of the country.
Omar Mohmamed, a university professor from Mosul, recalls the night armed men invaded his city, proclaiming they were the Islamic
State. For the next three years, he lived under one of the world’s most brutal regimes, witnessing daily executions, hand cutting and stonings.
HOW TO BEAT – PAIN Tuesday, Channel 4, 8pm
KATE QUILTON and Dr Javid Abdelmoneim enlist nine volunteers from around the UK to take part in a six-week experiment to see what simple techniques can help treat chronic pain.
The programme tries out various methods including yoga, tai chi, acupuncture or cold-water swimming, and question how much of the experience of pain is psychological.
REPORTED MISSING Wednesday, BBC1, regions vary
INDIRA VARMA narrates the first in the returning series about missing people.
One Sunday evening, Cheshire Police get a call from Mark Moran of the Blue Apple Veterans Association, a charity in Warrington. Following an argument with his wife Denise, the charity’s founder, former soldier Mark Smith, has not been seen for almost 24 hours.
Moran reports that Mark suffers from PTSD and that he has been behaving increasingly erratically for weeks. A major search operation begins.
THE LIFE & TIMES OF CAPTAIN SIR TOM Thursday, ITV, 9.15pm
hearts of millions. Captain Tom Moore, a humble ex-soldier from Yorkshire who, aged 99, wanted to raise a few quid for the NHS by walking laps of his garden. As the news crews descended on his home to film the great man, that few quid eventually turned into a phenomenal £30m.
Given that achievement, there was little wonder he was recently knighted by the Queen.
This documentary features the man himself, telling for the first time his life story and the key events in his 100 years.
8 OUT OF 10 CATS DOES COUNTDOWN
Friday, Channel 4, 9pm
ADAM BUXTON’S Ramble Book is one of the funniest and most moving titles of the year.
Chances are you’ll be crying with laughter as he returns to Dictionary Corner, where he will no doubt be reading more video comments, a little like his show Bug.
Team captain Sean Lock will be welcoming This Country’s Daisy May Cooper, while Travel Man’s Richard Ayoade is joined by Ivo Graham. Susie Dent, Joe Wilkinson and Rachel Riley.