Seven Days

MIKE MULVIHILL’S guide to the week’s TV

SATURDAY

ANT & DEC’S SATURDAY NIGHT

TAKEAWAY 7PM, ITV ★★★★

Gordon Ramsay is in the star guest announcer booth, it’s the return of the pandas as they attempt to escape from Hamleys, and Ant and Dec embark on a new adventure in clones-gone-rogue comedy serial Double Trouble. Plus, another lucky player gets the chance to ‘win the ads’.

THE WALL 7.35PM, BBC1 ★★★★

Back for a new series comes his royal highness Danny Dyer and another set of plucky contestants preparing to take on the unforgiving wall. It’s the most bombastic game show on TV – and loads of fun.

CASUALTY 8.20PM, BBC1 ★★★

Paramedic Jan is having a hard time of it this week. Not only does she have to deal with a disruptive patient with a complex history, but she also has her heart broken when her wayward son, Ross, is brought to the ED from prison. Can she keep her mind on the job?

ZARA AND ANNE: LIKE MOTHER,

LIKE DAUGHTER 9PM, CH5 ★★★★

Historians, royal correspondents and insiders lift the lid on Princess Anne’s relationship with her daughter, who was brought up to follow in her mother’s footsteps. Has Zara broken free of her family’s expectations?

SUNDAY

COUNTRYFILE 6PM, BBC1 ★★★★ While Anita Rani tours one of London’s ‘magnificent seven’ cemeteries, Tom Heap investigates a controversial decision that allows UK farmers to use a banned pesticide.

A NEW LIFE IN THE SUN: ROAD TRIP 7PM, CH4 ★★★

In this rather lovely spin-off series, Fred Sirieix takes us on a road trip around some of Europe’s most beautiful locations, meeting Brits who have set up new lives abroad. In this episode, we’re on a tour of southern Spain’s whitewashed villages in Andalusia.

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW

8PM, BBC1 ★★★

At the historic Stonor Park country house in Oxfordshire, the team value a genuine L.S. Lowry painting, a little brooch with a very big history, and some unusual carvings.

CHRIS PACKHAM’S ANIMAL EINSTEINS

8PM, BBC2 ★★★★

In the second of his series on intelligence in the natural world, Chris Packham looks at how animals communicate. We know birds use song to attract mates, while chimps use sign language to get their message across – but what are they really saying, and why?

MCDONALD & DODDS 8PM, ITV ★★★★

See Showtime, page 16. BLOODLANDS 9PM, BBC1 ★★★★

Episode two of this brooding drama, and the ghosts from the past are returning to haunt the present. After last week’s gruesome discovery, DCI Tom Brannick (James Nesbitt) is convinced the legendary assassin known as Goliath is back. But how much does Tom really know about the killings that took place more than 20 years ago?

MONDAY

MY UNIQUE B&B 6.30PM, BBC2 ★★★

In this new, weeknight series, Simon Parfett and his team help people to generate income by creating B&BS – tonight, they take on a battered camper van that’s been left to rust.

CONDITION CRITICAL: ONE DOCTOR’S STORY – DISPATCHES 8PM, CH4 ★★★

Over four months, Dr Saleyha Ahsan filmed her own journey through Covid-19’s second wave, capturing the pressures and personal tragedies she faced on the NHS front line for this sobering new Dispatches report.

JAMIE: KEEP COOKING FAMILY

FAVOURITES 8.30PM, CH4 ★★★

This week, Jamie Oliver shows us how to make pizza dough, then tops it with sausage, grapes and pine nuts, while son Buddy makes a sun-dried tomato pesto to go with it.

EDDIE IZZARD: FORCE MAJEURE

9PM, BBC2 ★★★★

Enjoy a typically inventive adventure inside the weird and fantastical world of Eddie Izzard with this stand-up performance from his hit 2013 world tour, which saw him visiting 27 countries across the world.

UNFORGOTTEN 9PM, ITV ★★★★

Episode two of this absorbing cold case drama and the stakes are raised as Cassie (the ever excellent Nicola Walker) becomes convinced that the five police probationers in the car on the night of the murder hold the key to the crime. But she has to tread carefully…

TUESDAY

FOR THE LOVE OF BRITAIN 7.30PM, ITV ★★★

The series that explores our country’s hidden gems returns, with Sheila Hancock revisiting childhood memories in Dorset. With reports from Martin Kemp, Liz Bonnin and Ben Fogle.

INTERIOR DESIGN MASTERS WITH

ALAN CARR 8PM, BBC2 ★★★★

This week, the designers will be flying solo for the first time as they make over beach huts. But the weather at Walton-on-thenaze in Essex has its own part to play as rain lashes down on freshly painted woodwork.

SECRET SAFARI: INTO THE WILD

8PM, CH4 ★★★★

In the last of the series, lion pride leader Sior tries to provide food for seven hungry cubs,

while impala Jaribou has his work cut out – mating with his harem of 50 females.

WHY IS COVID KILLING PEOPLE OF COLOUR?

9PM, BBC1 ★★★★

The actor David Harewood tries to understand why the Covid-19 pandemic is having such a devastating and disproportionate impact on people from minority ethnic backgrounds. As a black man with underlying health conditions, it’s a very personal investigation.

MARCELLA 9PM, ITV ★★★

This episode sees Marcella fully cutting ties with her old life to position herself at the centre of the Maguire family – at Finn’s side. Rav makes a desperate appeal, but Marcella won’t be swayed. The final part is at 10.45pm.

BEN FOGLE: NEW LIVES IN THE WILD

9PM, CH5 ★★★

Five years ago, Ben met the Masons – Dinah, Stig and their two sons – who had left London and were living in an extended horse box on four acres in Devon. They have since become even more self-sufficient, but Ben spots what could be a new challenge on the horizon.

WEDNESDAY

GORDON RAMSAY’S BANK BALANCE 9PM, BBC1 ★★★

Over the next three nights, the fiery chef turned game show host will be welcoming more hopeful pairs of contestants to the studio. All they have to do is keep a steady hand and a cool head to win £100,000.

THE TERROR 9PM, BBC2 ★★★★

This unsettling ten-part anthology series imagines what happened to the crews of the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus after they set sail on an Arctic expedition in 1845. We know the men met a grisly end, but no one knows precisely what happened, so this series seeks to fill in the gaps. Tobias Menzies, Jared Harris and Ciaran Hinds lead the cast, and it opens with a double bill.

FERGIE’S KILLER DRESSER: THE JANE ANDREWS STORY 9PM, ITV ★★★

True-crime documentary about Jane Andrews – a former dresser to the Duchess of York – who, in 2000, stabbed to death her millionaire boyfriend, Thomas Cressman, after he told her that he would never propose.

EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPES WITH SANDI TOKSVIG

9PM, CH4 ★★★

For her final escape of the series, Sandi is joined by Prue Leith, her Bake Off colleague for three series. Prue has lived in the Cotswolds for decades, so reckons she knows the area well – but Sandi has some surprises in store. Their first stop is a luxury tree house in the Wye Valley.

THE PANDEMIC AT NO 47 10PM, CH4 ★★★★

To celebrate – or commiserate – the first anniversary of the first national lockdown, director Paddy Wivell films the effect that this prolonged period of isolation has had on his own London community, finding out how his neighbours have got through this horrid time.

THURSDAY

YOUR GARDEN MADE PERFECT 8PM, BBC2 ★★★

As a full-time wheelchair user, Tracey struggles to navigate the tricky slopes of her West Sussex garden. Can the designers work their magic and make the space more accessible?

LUXURY HOLIDAYS: HOW TO GET

AWAY THIS YEAR 8PM, CH4 ★★★

It’s the question on everyone’s lips and so, Sabrina Grant investigates whether a proper break in 2021 is possible, and where we might be able to visit once restrictions are lifted.

PIERS MORGAN’S LIFE STORIES

9PM, ITV ★★★★

Rupert Everett joins Piers for another revealing, wide-ranging interview – and their first order of business is burying the hatchet after their famous clash on Comic Relief Does The Apprentice in 2007. Rupert was quite scathing after leaving that show…

STAND UP & DELIVER 9PM, CH4 ★ ★ ★ ★

In the final part, celebrities Shaun Ryder, Katie Mcglynn, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, Curtis Pritchard and the Rev Richard Coles have last-minute coaching before taking to the stage with their stand-up comedy routines.

THE YORKSHIRE RIPPER’S NEW VICTIMS 9PM, CH5 ★★★

Peter Sutcliffe was found guilty of murdering 13 women and attempting to murder seven others between 1975 and 1980. Now, nearly four months after he died in prison, this is the story of the Ripper’s reign of terror.

FRIDAY

GRAYSON’S ART CLUB 8PM, CH4 ★★★★

Grayson and Philippa Perry are joined by actor Russell Tovey, who makes an artwork on the theme of the week, which is nature.

KATE HUMBLE’S COASTAL BRITAIN

8PM, CH5 ★★★

Kate is in Dorset this week, taking in 13 miles of the South West Coast Path. Along the way, she learns about pioneering palaeontologist Mary Anning, visits a Lyme Regis mill that was listed in the Domesday Book, and heads out to sea with a local fisherman in Beer.

RAIDERS OF THE LOST PAST WITH JANINA RAMIREZ 9PM, BBC2 ★★★★

Janina is in Turkey, tracking a young explorer who found the world’s oldest city and rewrote the beginning of civilisation – until his reputation was destroyed by scandal.

GREGG WALLACE’S BIG WEEKEND

IN YORKSHIRE 9PM, CH5 ★★★

Over three days, Gregg explores York, the ‘capital of the north’, taking in the famous York Minster and meeting a chef whose menu is filled with dishes made with rhubarb.