SEVEN DAYS

SUNDAY

A Taste Of Italy 12.30PM, CH4 ★★★

Chef and restaurateur Nisha Katona – recently seen on Channel 5’s Secrets Of Your Supermarket Food – brings Italian cuisine to life in her new series, beginning in Orvieto in Umbria. Here, she learns the secrets of ‘drunk chicken’.

Antiques Roadshow

8PM, BBC1 ★★★★

On the banks of Lake Windermere, the team assess items including a guitar rescued from a skip, a James Bond film poster scraped off a wall, and a pair of valuable ‘lost’ necklaces.

Chris Packham’s Animal Einsteins

8PM, BBC2 HHHH

How do you measure an animal’s IQ? And why have some species evolved to become more intelligent than others? In his new, six-part series, Chris Packham meets the brainboxes of the natural world and learns why mental agility can be as important as physical strength in the battle for survival.

Bloodlands ★★★★

9PM, BBC1

See TV Week, page 25.

Finding Alice 9PM, UTV ★★★★

As the series ends, Alice is landed with an unexpected lodger: her father, Roger, who has left Sarah. Meanwhile, George shows his true colours, and tension grows in an already crowded house – so Alice decides to organise a big family celebration.

Sruth

9.30PM, TG4 ★★★★

New series which looks set to feature some future stars, with eight young musos performing solo and collaborating with the likes of Duncan Chisholm and Ríoghnach Connolly. First up, Méabh Smyth and Innes White take to the stage.

MONDAY Would I Lie To You? ★★★★

8.30PM, BBC1

Maya Jama, Roman Kemp, Roisin Conaty and Dr Xand van Tulleken help captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell to sift fact from fiction.

Jamie: Keep Cooking Family Favourites

8.30PM, CH4 ★★★

Jamie Oliver is back with more easy-tofollow recipes, taking the ingredients we already know and love and reinventing them in new and delicious ways. First, the humble roast chicken is given a glorious makeover.

DIY SOS: The Big Build 9PM, BBC1 ★★★★

Build manager Mark Millar is on home turf in Co Down to help the McCreights – mother Mandy has complex medical issues, and is largely bedbound. Can the team help her to spend more time with her family?

Fleabag

9PM, RTÉ2 ★★★★★

Hugh Dennis guest stars in this excellent first-series episode in which Claire and Fleabag go to an all-female silent retreat. Both are cynical as to its benefits, but – thanks to some secrets coming to light – it proves transformational.

TUESDAY Interior Design Masters With Alan Carr

8PM, BBC2 ★★★★

In week four, the six remaining designers are put into pairs and challenged to work together to transform three very different shops. Who will prove to be a hit on the high street – and who will be put out of business for good?

Million Pound Pawn 8PM, UTV ★★★

In this new, three-part series, we meet brokers and their clients, who are trying to make ends meet by pawning their valuables. This week, a 1980s pop star needs to raise money to see him through these tough times.

Home Of The Year 8.30PM, RTÉ ONE ★★★

Judges Hugh Wallace, Suzie McAdam and Amanda Bone take a look at a modernised 1800s farmhouse with an extension in Co Cork, a late-1800s cottage in Dublin, and a self-build contemporary farmhouse in Co Down.

Forensics: The Real CSI 9PM, BBC2 ★★★★

Birmingham officers are called to a property where a man’s been stabbed, but the crime scene has been compromised by paramedics trying to save his life. The detectives must use CCTV and financial records to find the culprit.

Ben Fogle: New Lives In The Wild 9PM, CH5 ★★★

In this second revisit, Ben travels to Wales to catch up with Emma, who turned her back on her old life and is now largely independent of the outside world. He helps her to make a mud hut, learns about her spiritual side and marvels at her ‘wild cathedral’.

WEDNESDAY The Repair Shop 8PM, BBC1 ★★★★★

Metal expert Dominic Chinea is presented with the oldest item he’s ever worked on, a 200-year-old church weathervane. Can he help this mangled metal cockerel to stand tall again? Also in the shop this week are a diamond and sapphire engagement ring and a beloved guitar. The Bay

9PM, UTV ★★★★ Lisa identifies a suspect and a confession brings the team closer to the truth, but

the case takes an unexpected turn. And, when faced with a tough decision, will Lisa make the right one? This is the last in the series, but this gripping thriller is set to return.

Extraordinary Escapes With Sandi Toksvig 9PM, CH4 ★★★

Sandi’s companion this week is comedian

Sindhu Vee, who has performed in Edinburgh, but never explored Scotland. Their Scottish escape begins on a private island, where Sandi gets to show off her cookery skills.

Castle Rock

9.30PM, RTÉ2 ★★★★

The Stephen King drama reaches a crucial point as it hits the halfway mark, tonight’s double bill including a throwback to 1994 where Annie has a life-changing experience, and Rita arriving in town to find answers.

Operation Transformation 9.35PM, RTÉ ONE ★★★

Kathryn Thomas meets up with leaders Susuana, Sharon, Paul, Hazel and Andrew to see how they’re getting on in Ireland’s favourite fitness series. Have the fridge cams caught any bad behaviour?

THURSDAY

How To Keep A Healthy Weight With Michael Mosley 8PM, CH4 ★★★

Five volunteers from his Lose A Stone In 21 Days reunite with Michael Mosley to clear up some common misconceptions about losing weight and keeping it off.

Stand Up & Deliver 9PM, CH4 ★★★★

The Reverend Richard Coles, Shaun Ryder, Tory peer Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, Love Island’s Curtis Pritchard and former

Corrie star Katie McGlynn are the celebrities who will be trying to transform themselves into stand-up comedians in this two-part special in aid of Stand Up To Cancer.

Who Do You Think You Are?

10.15PM, RTÉ ONE ★★★★

Comedian Paul Merton knows his mother’s Irish parents died when she was young, so here he sets out to piece together the story of his grandfather’s involvement in events leading up to Irish independence.

Piers Morgan’s Life Stories

11.10PM, UTV ★★★★

Piers sits down for a candid chat with Trisha Goddard, the TV presenter who has enjoyed great success on both sides of the Atlantic. She has been married and divorced three times and survived breast cancer, so there’s plenty to cover.

FRIDAY Young Sheldon 7.30PM, RTÉ ONE ★★★

The latest series of the Big Bang spin-off continues as the pint-sized Poindexter prepares for college – his orientation not going to plan, as Mary is mistaken for a student and invited to a party.

Gogglebox 9PM, CH4 ★★★★

Back for a new, 17th series come everybody’s favourite armchair critics to give their funny, insightful and often plain silly views on the best – and the worst – of the week’s TV.

The Green Room With Ivan Yates

9PM, VIRGIN ONE HHH

Ivan is joined again by broadcaster and mimic Conor Moore and sports journalist Niamh Kinsella for another irreverent look at the world of sport – from the GAA to the EPL and beyond.

Raiders Of The Lost Past With Janina Ramirez

11.20PM, BBC2 HHHH

In episode two, the historian is in Scandinavia, investigating the lost 1,000-year-old ship that transformed the fierce reputation of the Vikings – and became a symbol of a nation’s fight for freedom.

SATURDAY

Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway

7PM, UTV & 7.30PM VIRGIN MEDIA ONE ★★★★

There have been some changes to Takeaway due to the pandemic, with the duo joined by a virtual audience. Undercover and I’m A Celebrity…Get Out Of Me Ear are back with Stephen Mulhern on hand for more rounds of Ant vs Dec. And there’s a new mini-series, Double Trouble, which sees the presenters being cloned – only for the new Ant and Dec to go rogue.

Great American Railroad Journeys 7.40PM, RTÉ2 ★★★★

Michael Portillo is still riding the rails, and this time his journey takes him on a stunning journey from Vermont to New York. He sets out from Burlington, following a route that winds through the Adirondack Mountains.

Enslaved With Samuel L Jackson

8.50PM, RTÉ2 ★★★★

The Hollywood star is joined by Afua Hirsch and Simcha Jacobici to learn more about the abolition movement and the political circumstances that brought an end to the Transatlantic slave trade.

Harlots

9PM, VIRGIN THREE ★★★

The second series of the period drama concludes as the Wells family goes in search of justice, but Madam Quigley could stand in their way. Meanwhile,

Lucy is having doubts about Lord Fallon’s innocence, but he has hatched a sinister plan.