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ROSS KEMP: LIVING WITH DEMENTIA ITV, 7.30pm
ROSS KEMP shines a spotlight on Britain’s biggest killer in this emotional special about dementia.
He says: “I’ve always believed that to understand a problem, you need to get as close to it as you possibly can. With almost a million people living with dementia, I’m meeting people battling with the disease.”
He has a personal reason too – his close friend and the woman who played his mum in EastEnders for over a decade, Dame Barbara Windsor.
“Somebody who I love dearly has Alzheimer’s,” he says.
It’s a devastating insight as Ross chats to Barbara’s husband Scott Mitchell, who reveals: “There was a change in her personality. Her joy had started to go. It’s just so cruel.”
Elsewhere, Ross stays with a family where dad Jerry, 56, has Parkinson’s and dementia.
“I remember when he could pick me up and twirl me around and he can’t now,” says his son Jack. “It makes me feel quite sad.”
WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS BBC2, 10pm
THIS revamp of the 2014 film returns for a second series, following the nightly exploits of clueless vampire roommates navigating modern life on Staten Island.
As the mockumentary picks up, Nandor (Kayvan Novak) has had a “summer of self discovery” – he transformed into a vapour but then got sucked into an air purifier.
Meanwhile, Nadja and Laszlo (Natasia Demetriou and Matt Berry) have not had much luck finding a new familiar – a human devoted to the vampire world. They just keep dying on them.
Only one familiar remains – Guillermo (Harvey Guillen), who is desperate to get into their inner circle and become a vampire himself.
So he is not impressed when the newest recruit, Topher, turns up and seems to be more favoured than him, even though he does all the bloody work.
“He’s absolutely spectacular,” coos Nadja.
Topher, by the way, is played by Haley Joel Osment, The Sixth Sense boy who saw dead people. Nice touch.