CELEBRITY MASTERCHEF
We saw flashes of
Sandra Oh’s comedic skill in Grey’s Anatomy and Killing Eve, and this new comedy takes that and runs with it.
She plays Dr Ji-Yoon
Kim, pictured, the new Chair of the English department at the prestigious Pembroke University, but she is no stuffy professor.
Confronting issues of race, class and cancel-culture, this is a comedy for our times. It’s a world where a forward-thinking Asian woman in her 40s is chair of a department, amid a staff made up mostly of pensioner-age white men.
When she arrives the department is in dire crisis. Enrolments are down, the budget is being cut and the Dean wants her to fire some of the old-timers.
BBC1, 9pm
On this show all the celebs generally start out laughing and joking about how terrible they are at cooking. But if they progress... suddenly the eye of the tiger appears and they morph into competitive, non-smiling assassins.
Tonight is the quarter-final and TV presenters Penny Lancaster and Melanie Sykes and reality star Megan McKenna are each desperate for one of two places in the semi-final.
Mel cooks John Dory for the first time, Penny panics over ravioli, while Megan’s maths might catch her out.