MUST-SEE SHOWS
GRACE OF MONACO: HOLLYWOOD PRINCESS
Tonight, Channel 5, 9pm
GRACE KELLY’S life was the stuff of fairy tales. Blessed with brains and beauty, she started acting as a teenager, and starred in assorted classic films, including Rear Window, High Noon, To Catch A Thief and High Society. However, at the height of her fame she retired aged 26 and married Prince Rainier of Monaco. Sadly, she died aged 52 after a car crash in Monaco. This documentary looks back at her Tinseltown career and life as a princess to explore a global icon.
THE EDGE
Tomorrow, BBC2, 9pm
GREAT dramas about cricket are few and far between. When it comes to dramatising the sport, fiction is rarely more entertaining than the truth. Take England’s Test cricket team between 2009 and 2013 for example. They were the first and only English side to ever reach the top of the world rankings as this documentary reveals.
It features entertaining and rarely seen behind-the-scenes footage from that era, alongside candid interviews with players
and coaches, including Andrew Strauss, Kevin Pietersen, Alastair Cook, James Anderson, Stuart Broad and Monty Panesar.
THE DECEIVED
Monday, Channel 5, 9pm
NORMAL People’s Paul Mescal is among the stars of this new thriller co-written by Derry Girls’ Lisa McGee and husband Tobias Beer. It centres on Ophelia Marsh, who is studying English at Cambridge when, shortly after embarking on a fling with charismatic lecturer Michael Callaghan, he suddenly vanishes.
She tracks him to his family home in Knockdara, Ireland, where she discovers that his spouse, well known author Roisin Mulvery, has perished in a fire.
Michael takes her to his home,
where she meets rugged local builder Sean. At dinner, Michael admits to Ophelia that he told Roisin about their fling the night she died.
HOW TO LOSE WEIGHT WELL: SUMMER SPECIAL
Tuesday, Channel 4, 8pm
DR XAND van Tulleken and Dr Helen Lawal challenge three pairs of friends to try out the
latest popular diets, while cook Stacie Stewart demonstrates some healthy recipes.
Sophie and Zoe give the Citrus Diet and the Sexy Pineapple Diet a road test, Barbara and Denise spend six weeks on the Summer Salad Diet and the Summer Sandwich Diet, and Theo and Ervis take on the Greek Island Longevity Diet and the South American Diet.
LOSE A STONE IN 21 DAYS WITH MICHAEL MOSLEY
Wednesday, Channel 4, 9pm
GIVEN all the fridge-raiding many of us have been doing in recent months, this feels like January programming as we try to burn a few post-lockdown calories.
Here, doctor and dietician
Michael Mosley puts five volunteers on a very low-calorie diet for three weeks in an attempt to help them get their health back on track.
SEMI-DETACHED
Thursday, BBC2, 10pm
IN THIS real-time comedy, Lee Mack plays the hapless Stuart.
Things haven’t been going well for him and April (Ellie White)
since the birth of their child.
Faced with a make-or-break date, our ill-fated hero has to contend with disruptions from his promiscuous, drug-taking Dad Willie (Clive Russell), extortionist brother (Neil Fitzmaurice) and a major row erupting next-door.
EVERYTHING: THE REAL THING STORY Friday, BBC4, 9pm
THIS film chronicles how the ‘other four lads from Liverpool’ found stardom in the 1970s as Britain’s first million-selling soul and funk band. Against a backdrop of social and political turmoil, The Real Thing were the first all-black British group to hit No.1 in the pop charts with the perennial You To Me Are Everything.