FIVE THINGS FOR YOUR WEEK...
MYSTERY TASKS
Challenge Anneka, Saturday, C5, 8.50pm: The jumpsuit is back. After her last Challenge nearly three decades ago, Anneka Rice returns to take on more mystery tasks that will benefit local communities. For 60 years, Foal Farm in Kent has rescued and rehomed thousands of abandoned dogs. The farm has reached capacity and they now have to face the heartache of turning homeless dogs away. Anneka’s challenge is to build a brand new megablock of kennels, a grooming parlour and a doggie play area all in time for Foal Farm’s 60th anniversary. The presenter meets some Foal Farm success stories where the team have helped dogs with physio, and this inspires the Challenge team to blag a full-size hydrotherapy pool. Then, with the Farm due to throw open the gates, it’s touch and go whether the team will make it. Will a massive late-night push be enough?
MUSIC
Chaka Khan at the BBC, Saturday, BBC2, 8.50pm:
The latest star to be featured in BBC Two’s Saturday night music slot is the multiGrammy Award winning American singer dubbed the ‘Queen Of Funk’. Born Yvette Marie Stevens in
Chicago, Chaka Khan’s career has spanned more than five decades, and began in the 1970s when she was the lead vocalist of Rufus. Khan became the first R&B artist to have a crossover hit featuring a rapper, with I Feel for You in 1984. And this programme will feature that hit as well as I’m Every Woman, Ain’t Nobody and collaborations with other stars.
CONSPIRACIES
Conspiracies Decoded, Saturday, Quest, 10pm: Using cuttingedge forensic science and CGI, some of the world’s leading investigative experts uncover the stunning truth behind compelling mysteries. Future episodes look at a mystery at Alcatraz, a Nazi Doomsday Project, the Yellowstone supervolcano, Amelia Earhart’s disappearance and the Shroud of Turin. However, the series begins with a look at startling new evidence suggesting that Hitler’s second-in-command was secretly replaced by a doppelganger to escape war crimes and impending justice.
CHARITY BAKING
The Great Celebrity Bake
Off for Stand Up to Cancer, Sunday, C4, 7.45pm: This first edition alone features comedians Rose Matafeo and Tom Davis, as well as former Little Mix member (and now solo star) Jesy Nelson, but arguably the biggest signing is actor David Schwimmer, better known as Ross from Friends. It’s an impressive line-up, but there is one star who is conspicuous by their absence in this edition – host Noel Fielding, who was unwell during filming. Luckily, the episode was shot before Matt Lucas stepped down from the programme, so he is on solo presenting duties, and Paul Hollywood and Prue
Leith are also present, correct and ready to judge the celebs’ attempts at savoury pies, a fiddly French confection and a showstopper that depicts one of their most embarrassing moments in meringue.
POLICE DRAMA
Grace, Sunday, ITV/STV, 8.00pm: The detective drama is back for a third series. For newcomers, the drama is based on the books by Peter James and stars John Simm as Brighton-based DS Roy Grace who, when he’s not out solving cases, has been haunted by a mystery closer to home – the disappearance of his wife. And the previous series ended with the news that she might still be alive… As the new run gets under way, the cop looks into a series of disturbing attacks which remind him of a previous investigation. Could they be the work of a copycat?