What to watch
Nadiya’s Asian Odyssey BBC ONE, 9.00PM; SCOTLAND, 10.45PM
Two years ago, Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain launched the next phase of her TV career with The Chronicles of Nadiya, a documentary exploring her Bangladeshi roots. This new two-part series attempts to emulate that show’s success, with Hussain travelling to south-east Asia on another (purported) journey of self-discovery. She’s discovered, you see, via a DNA test, that she has Cambodian and Thai heritage. But the ancestry thing is really just a pretext for an amiable two-part cookery-show-cum-travelogue, in which Hussain cooks her way around both countries.
Instead of exploring any possible genetic links between the population of south-east Asia and herself, Hussain delves into weird cuisine such as “cricket nachos”, and whips up her own pad Thai. She could be anywhere, really. But that’s not to say that this isn’t entertaining, for Hussain has impressive cookery skills – the Paris-brest she creates with Cambodian patisserie students is amazing – and is sweetly vulnerable too, as when, during several “pinch me” moments, she says things like, “Girls like me don’t do stuff like this!” This journey, in the end, turns out to be more about confidence than DNA. Vicki Power