MUST-SEE SHOWS
BLIND DATE Tonight, Channel 5, 8pm
HOST Paul O’Grady invites two more singletons to choose between three possible suitors, based on their personality alone. But once the wall slides back to reveal who they have chosen, will it be a case of love at first sight or an absolute fright?
In tonight’s show, the last of the series, white witch Amy from Preston is looking to cast a spell over three eligible bachelors and former military man Dean from Wiltshire, sets out to find his dream girl.
CALL THE MIDWIFE Tomorrow, BBC1, 8pm
NURSE Crane and Trixie investigate when a mother abandons her children at the clinic, fearing they were being abused or neglected.
Her husband admits that she has been behaving strangely lately, and when she is referred to a neurologist by Dr Turner, the truth proves devastating for the whole family.
THE X-FILES Monday, Channel 5, 9pm
THE truth may still be out there, but after this series, Gillian Anderson’s Dana Scully won’t be searching for it – she’s already announced that season 11 of the hit sci-fi series will be her last.
She isn’t doing much, in the opening episode either, at least not initially.
Mulder finds Scully unconscious on the floor of their FBI office and rushes her to hospital. Her brain is working overtime in a neural ‘frenzy’, and when she awakes, she reveals that everything she experienced was a premonition of the end of the world – and the only person who can stop it is their son William.
BACK IN TIME FOR TEA Tuesday, BBC2, 8pm
THE Ellis family from Bradford discover how life has changed for ordinary working families in the north of England over the last 100 years.
Jon, Lesley, Caitlin, Freya and Harvey experience the lives of previous generations, from the food people ate to the jobs they did and how they enjoyed themselves.
It opens just after the end of the First World War, and the north is on the cusp of great transformation. Presenter Sara Cox and social historian Polly Russell introduce the family to 1918 living, in a two-up-two-down with food based around tripe, bread and potatoes.
EUROVISION: YOU DECIDE Wednesday, BBC2, 7.30pm
THE Brighton Dome has an important place in Eurovision history – it’s the venue where Abba, arguably the contest’s biggest gift to the world, won in 1974 with Waterloo. But will some of their magic rub
off on this year’s would-be UK representatives as they take to the stage in the hope of being chosen by the public and a panel of experts?
The 2015 winner Mans Zelmerlow, joins Eurovision superfan Mel Giedroyc on hosting duties.
JAMES BULGER: A MOTHER’S STORY Thursday, ITV, 9pm
IN February 1993, the people of Britain were stunned to hear that two-year-old James Bulger had been abducted from a Liverpool shopping centre and murdered by two 10-year-old schoolboys.
Trevor McDonald visits Liverpool to re-examine a crime that, 25 years on, continues to raise many troubling questions, including what drove Jon Venables and Robert Thompson to commit such a horrific act.
James’s mother Denise Fergus also opens up about the day that changed her life for ever, and the years she has spent fighting for the justice she believes James has never had.
WINTER OLYMPICS 2018 OPENING CEREMONY Friday, BBC2, regions vary
CLARE Balding presents highlights from Pyeongchang, South Korea.
The Olympics are taking place in the country 30 years after Seoul hosted the summer Games in 1988, with more than 3,000 athletes expected to compete.
They include represenatives from Ecuador, Eritrea, Kosovo, Malaysia, Nigeria and Singapore, who are all making their Winter Olympics debut, plus a contingent of Russian athletes who have applied to compete under the flag of the International Olympic Committee.