BEST OF THE REST
MASTERCHEF BBC1, 9pm
IT’S finals week for MasterChef and 60 amateur cooks have been whittled down to just four.
Their perseverance has been rewarded with a culinary trip of a lifetime to Mauritius, an island paradise in the Indian Ocean.
If you thought judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace looked smug on a normal day, wait until you see them giving instructions from the Mauritian coastline.
The first challenge for Thomas, Claire, David and Sandy is to cook a traditional street food lunch for 16 local fishermen in the town of Mahebourg.
“I love being out of my comfort zone,” says Sandy.
But there’s trouble with chutney, another takes an age to prepare prawns and one chef is yet to grind a kilo of split peas. Then later, they work a busy lunch service at a top hotel on the island’s capital, Port Louis, before cooking for some leading foodies.
Standard MasterChef levels of stress and tension, with a beautiful backdrop.
RUN
Sky Comedy, 9pm
IF YOU like your TV shows to come with good credentials, then check out this new comedy drama that boasts Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge as an executive producer.
Written by Phoebe’s longtime creative collaborator Vicky Jones, it’s a series about leaving it all behind – and the consequences.
It starts with Ruby Richardson, played by Unbelievable star Merritt Wever, sitting in her car looking fed up with life.
She receives a text message with one simple word. “RUN” from someone called Billy. After a moment’s hesitation she texts the same back.
It turns out that Billy Johnson, played by Harry Potter actor Domhnall Gleeson, is Ruby’s college boyfriend.
The two made a pact 17 years earlier: If either one of them texted the word “RUN” and the other replied with the same, they would drop everything and meet in Grand Central Station and travel across America together.
But what have they left behind and do they really know each other anymore?