Monday television & radio
Jamie Cooks Spring
8pm, Channel 4
Jamie Oliver concludes his seasonal cookery series by planting some spuds, then cooking some Jersey Royal potatoes dressed in a wild garlic pesto served with a side of stuffed salmon. He also makes a broad bean mezze served in a Roquefort cheese and crouton salad, and a rhubarb and custard tart.
Blue Lights
9pm, BBC One
Murray Canning (Desmond Eastwood), the smarmy intel officer, has been asking for a good slapping and Annie (Katherine Devlin) now obliges after Murray left Tommy at the mercy of his attackers. Back on the Loyalist estate, crime boss Lee Thompson continues his forgiveness of the locals’ debts. “I want things to go back to how they used to be around here,” he declares.
The Jennings Vs Alzheimer’s
9pm, BBC Two
A Nottingham family, the Jenningses, are the first in the world to be diagnosed with hereditary early-onset Alzheimer’s – a discovery which may be key to unlocking a cure. Despite widespread belief that Alzheimer’s had no familial link, Carol Jennings lobbied doctors, urging them to explore a hunch that her father and four siblings’ diagnoses were linked. This documentary follows
Carol and her children Emily and John as two new drugs that slow the decline of Alzheimer’s are set to be licensed. John and Emily know they have a 50:50 chance of developing the disorder, and face an agonising choice of testing for the mutant gene.
The Fortune Hotel
9pm, ITV1
A new reality game show hosted by Stephen Mangan and apparently inspired by “the glamour of
The White Lotus” (the HBO black comedy-drama anthology set in a luxury hotel) but which might also have a beady eye on the success of The Traitors. It sees 10 couples check into a five-star Caribbean resort, where each couple is handed a briefcase. Eight cases will be empty, while one contains £250,000 in cash and the other an early Checkout Card that leads to instant eviction. Over the next eight episodes, the contestants take part in challenges and try to work out who has the cash.
Meet the Richardsons
9pm, Dave
Presumably, the last ever series of Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont’s marital metamockumentary continues with Richardson buying a field and planning to rewild it – his agent Dani convincing him to “do a Clarkson” and monetise the project by turning it in to a TV show. Beaumont,
meanwhile, begins a Wagatha Christie-style investigation.
Me and the Voice in My Head
10pm, Channel 4
The comedian and former Hollyoaks actor Joe Tracini discusses life with borderline personality disorder, a condition that has led to struggles with addiction, suicide attempts and panic attacks that have ended his stand-up career. Tracini hopes that by exploring his childhood (his father is the squeaky-voiced comedian Joe Pasquale), he can finally get a handle on his BPD and get through a stand-up comedy show that he hopes will reignite his career. Gerard Gilbert
Miami Vice
5.45pm, Sky Cinema Greats (Michael Mann, 2006)
Miami PD’s finest, officers Crockett and Tubbs (Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx), are seconded to the FBI and go deep undercover as drug traffickers for a Colombian cartel – a high-risk mission that involves driving powerboats, supercars and flying jets.
Passengers
5.50pm, Sky Cinema Sci-Fi/Horror (Morten Tyldum, 2016)
Thirty years after he climbed into a hibernation pod, Chris Pratt wakes up all alone on a transport ship in deep space – 90 years sooner than he was supposed to. A year after that, he wakes up Jennifer
Lawrence. This expensivelooking sci-fi melodrama doesn’t really know how to handle the implications of its own scenario.
The Blood on Satan’s Claw
10.55pm, Legend Xtra
(Piers Haggard, 1971)
The Blood on Satan’s Claw is from the same potent strain of English folk horror cinema as Witchfinder General and The Wicker Man, establishing an uneasy co-existence of the pagan and the religious. It’s about the devilry that infects the children and a naughty streak that gets into the young women of an early-18th-century village after a farmer unearths a satanic relic in a field.
Laurence Phelan