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POST-PANDEMIC WORLD Lockdown Live: What Next?, 7pm, BBC1
IN THIS live BBC News special, Naga Munchetty and Nick Robinson are at a vaccination centre in Newcastle to look back over a year in lockdown. They are joined by a panel of special guests who have stories to tell about how the pandemic has impacted us all, while also reflecting on what the future might hold.
FINAL SHOWDOWN Interior Design Masters With Alan Carr, 8pm, BBC2
HAVING survived seven tough design challenges, finalists Siobhan (pictured) and Lynsey go head to head to battle it out for the ultimate prize. Awaiting the winner is a career-defining design contract with a hotel in the Lake District.
CATCHING CRIMINALS The Detectives: Fighting Organised Crime, 9pm, BBC2
AS THIS true-crime series returns, we’re following the work of the Greater Manchester Police as they target an organised crime gang behind a spate of kidnappings. As the investigation unfolds, specialist undercover and firearms units are assigned to find and arrest those involved.
PARENTAL ARRANGEMENT Strangers Making Babies, 9.15pm, Ch4
THERE are thousands of people in the UK looking for platonic partners to have children with. This new series meets some of them (including Sarah, pictured), wouldbe parents who are throwing themselves into a ground-breaking scheme to try to find
someone suitable to make a baby, without the complication of finding love first. FILM CHOICES Killer Secrets in the Snow, 2.15pm, Ch5
AUBREY REYNOLDS stars in this TV-movie thriller as Christina, who’s heading deep into the snowy countryside to meet new boyfriend Ted’s family. But Christina’s trip takes an unsettling turn as memories are stirred of the mysterious death of Ted’s brother.
Shadow Of A Doubt, 4.20pm, Sony Classic
A MARVELLOUS Hitchcock thriller that spins on a good guy/bad guy dilemma for teenager Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Newton (Teresa Wright). She and her family are at first thrilled, then perturbed, when her enigmatic uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten, pictured) pays them a visit.