FOUR OF THE BEST
Joanna Lumley’s Hidden Caribbean: Havana to Haiti
STV, 9pm
Her previous travelogues have seen her exploring the Silk Road, India, Japan and Greece, among other destinations, but for her latest adventure, the Ab Fab actress is heading two of the Caribbean’s most enigmatic and isolated countries, Cuba and Haiti. It’s a journey that begins in a Havana boxing gym, where Joanna meets one of the country’s rising female fighters.
The Split
BBC1, 9pm
Hannah’s affair is now out in the open, and she desperately tries to make amends to the people she has deceived and save her marriage.
The tape of Fi’s drunken night with Carrie and Richard is leaked on to the internet, with devastating repercussions for her divorce. But as Hannah tries to console her, she discovers this is not the last secret that is going to come to light. Richie employs manipulative tactics that could have dangerous repercussions.
Elizabeth I and II: Britain’s Golden Queens
Channel 5, 9pm
Historical documentary examining whether there are similarities between the two monarchs, from their ascensions to the throne to the battles they faced to protect their reigns. In the first episode, Elizabeth II is born a minor princess in the second rank of the royal family and grows up away from the limelight. Elizabeth I is the only child of
Henry VIII and his second wife
Anne Boleyn but, as a girl, she is an immediate disappointment. After Henry executes her mother, the young Elizabeth is cast into the wilderness. However, for both Elizabeths an extraordinary sequence of events will catapult them both onto the throne and their journey through trauma and disruption will make them strong.
Five Guys a Week
Channel 4, 9.15pm
Never let it be said that Channel 4 doesn’t want to help the people of Britain to find love. It’s already brought us Naked Attraction, First Dates and Flirty Dancing, and now it’s giving us another new format. The idea behind Five Guys a Week is that a singleton gets the chance to trial five in live-in boyfriends over the course of five days. That may sound like a more sensible way to get to know someone than performing a dance routine with them or seeing their exposed body parts, but the twist is that all of them will be moving in at the same time. In the first episode, 34-year-old marketing consultant Amy from St Albans meets surfer Trystan, country singer-songwriter Scott, debonair stuntman Michael, international fraud investigator Christian and local government consultant Glenn, who fears he’s less exciting than the competition.