What to watch
Arts
Between the Covers
BBC TWO, 7.30PM
Sara Cox’s amiable, celebrity book group gathers Andi Osho, Adrian Edmondson, Jo Brand and Will Young to talk about their sometimes unlikely favourite novels (tonight including Spike Milligan’s Puckoon) and the book of the week, Louise Hare’s This Lovely City, a love story set in post-windrush London.
Documentary
Sammy Davis Jr: I’ve Gotta Be Me PBS AMERICA, 8.45PM
Sam Pollard’s profile of
one of the great song ’n’ dance men is all the better for acknowledging the controversies as much as it celebrates the successes. In the view of his Rat Pack compadre Frank Sinatra, “your talent is the hero and your excess is the villain”, and we see plenty of both.
Drama The Mandalorian
DISNEY+
Arguably the best Star Wars incarnation since the original trilogy returns for a hotly anticipated second season as the eponymous gunslinger (Pedro Pascal) and the Child (“Baby Yoda”) continue to negotiate a galaxy still reeling from the break-up of the Empire. Expect the likes of Timothy Olyphant to join the cast.
Entertainment
Somebody Feed Phil NETFLIX
A fourth series for this light-as-a-soufflé conceit, in which Phil Rosenthal, creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, travels to sample foods and chat to locals.
Later – with Jools Holland BBC TWO, 10PM
Jarvis Cocker headlines tonight, with R’N’B artist Greentea Peng and New Order-ish electronica outfit Working Men’s Club.
The Graham Norton Show BBC ONE, 10.45PM
Jessie Buckley leads what should be an entertaining line-up, with Bill Bailey talking Strictly (see left), David Walliams plugging his new book and Dermot Kennedy performing his latest single. GT