The Great Pottery Throw Down

Channel 4, 7.45pm

Comedian Ellie Taylor (below) takes temporary charge of the contest while regular presenter Siobhán McSweeney recovers from a broken leg. Hopefully that will be the only damaged goods around when a new batch of 12 amateur potters makes a children’s crockery set and ceramic milk bottles. Tearful judge Keith Brymer Jones and his more stolid counterpart

Rich Miller offer their verdicts. ★★★