WHAT’S HOT TO WATCH TODAY
AND so we come to the biggest TV event of the week. No, not Al Murray and Paul Chowdhry on CELEBRITY ANTIQUES ROAD TRIP (8pm, BBC2) – although obviously that’s going to be pretty flipping awesome as well and I’d imagine you’ll be watching it on catch-up – but this year’s CHILDREN IN NEED (7.30pm, BBC1).
I’m sure you know how it works by now. With hosting duties shared by the likes of Tess Daly, Ade Adepitan, Graham Norton and Mel Giedroyc, it’s five solid hours of fun-based fundraising (although, as ever, you’ll need to
switch temporarily to BBC2 at
10pm because they’re not allowed to move the news), with comedy bits, music bits and lots of reminders of the charity’s brilliant work.
And provided we all donate whatever we can afford (0345 7 33
22 33, before you ask), we needn’t feel bad about not watching the whole thing. In fact, I’ve checked, and apparently there’s not a single person on Earth who’s ever done that. Not one.
Highlights for which you may or may not want to dip in include a Strictly special, a peep at this Christmas’s Call The Midwife
(spoiler alert: a baby will be born) and the inevitable bit where the EastEnders cast prance around Albert Square looking like plonkers but, on the plus side, actually wearing smiles on their faces for once, rendering most of them unrecognisable.
That BBC2 thing at 10pm, by the way is MASTERMIND: CHILDREN IN NEED SPECIAL 2018, hosted by Stephen Mangan. Competitors will work in pairs, each consisting of a celeb guest and a child who’s been helped by one of the charity’s projects.