BEST OF THE REST

THE GREAT CELEBRITY BAKE OFF Channel 4, 8pm

“I WANT that apron bad,” says actor Russell Tovey. He’s next up to fight for the star baker apron in aid of Stand Up To Cancer, taking on TV presenter Rylan Clark-Neal, comedian James Acaster and actress Michelle Keegan.

They have three tough challenges ahead. First they must make 12 topped flapjacks, identical of course. It doesn’t go well for everyone. James describes his mixture as “like soup”.

The technical task sees the trio attempt to make six cream horns, filled with orange and ginger cream and dipped in dark chocolate.

There are fears of scrambled custard and if you’ve never seen anyone grease a unicorn horn with butter you ain’t seen nothing yet. Meanwhile, presenter Sandi Toksvig has a marshmallow gun which might ease the tension.

And finally the Showstopper sees the celebs recreate their happy places in meringue.

“There’s so much that can go wrong,” says judge Prue Leith. She’s not wrong.

THIS TIME NEXT YEAR ITV, 8pm

A FINAL tear-jerking offering from this show that sees people make a pledge to achieve something within a year.

In this episode, Davina McCall meets four-year-old Georgie Gibbs, diagnosed with cerebral palsy aged 12 months, who is hoping she will be able to finally walk to school without her sticks.

Jonathan Raiseborough, 19, has Asperger’s and OCD but hopes to become a published illustrator.

Claire and Ashley Cleaver have re-mortgaged their house to fund IVF and hope to be able to have their longed-for baby. Pensioner John Menzies wants to learn how to read and write so that he can write a love letter to his fiancée and read a bedtime story to his granddaughter.

And Colin Duff hopes to meet the stranger who saved his life twice. After a motorbike accident in 1980, Colin was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder and later needed not one, but two stem cell transplants. Will Colin finally meet the person that saved him?