AGATHA CHRISTIE’S WHY DIDN’T THEY ASK EVANS? TV PICKS OF THE WEEK
Tonight, ITV, 9pm
An all-star cast breathe life into a script written by Hugh Laurie, who also directs, and based on a novel by Agatha Christie.
Will Poulter and Lucy Boynton play lifelong friends Bobby and Frankie who are so bewitched by the titular question posed by a dying man that they set out to answer it – and their quest turns into a right rollicking adventure.
This three-part 1930s-set crime drama also stars Emma Thompson, Jim Broadbent, Conleth Hill and Laurie himself.
B&B BY THE SEA Tomorrow, BBC2, 6.30pm
Northern Ireland’s beautiful Causeway Coast provides the backdrop for this new series, which sees 15 celebrities taking it in turns to check into a Victorian villa.
Host Sharon McIlveen, Michelin-star chef Alex Greene, gardener Mary
Anne Farenden, and Rory
O’Kane, the B&B’s driver, will be helping their famous guests to unwind, sample some local produce, explore their surroundings, and try out activities including horse riding and paddle boarding.
The series begins with Dragon’s Den star Deborah Meaden, who will face a challenge when she arrives – cooking a meal for the first time
in her life.
SPRINGTIME ON THE FARM
Tuesday, Channel 5, 8pm
Helen Skelton, Adam Henson and Jules
Hudson are back at Cannon Hall to celebrate the
UK’s farmers during spring as they rush to bring the new life into the world.
It is a spring time packed with royal visits, famous faces helping out on the farm, and an exciting new mission to help the nation give back to the farmers that kept them fed during the pandemic.
The series continues tomorrow and all this week and next.
STACEY DOOLEY: READY FOR WAR? Wednesday, BBC Three, 9pm
Stacey follows a group of Ukrainian civilians as they arrive in the UK to begin five weeks of intensive army training.
With exclusive and unprecedented access to the British Army’s training mission, the recruits will learn to survive and to be lethal, as they prepare for deployment to the frontline fighting against Russia.
LONG LOST FAMILY: WHAT HAPPENED NEXT Thursday, ITV, 9pm
The series catches up with two people whose searches took them abroad. First up is Long Lost Family’s oldest-ever searcher, Roy David, who discovered his daughter Cheryl was living in New York.
It turns out that despite the distance, they have visited each
other as much as possible, and now Roy, who has developed glaucoma, is planning to travel to the Big Apple to celebrate his 89th birthday.
There’s also an update on Maria Costantino, who discovered that her Italian birth mother had passed away but has met her large family.
HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU Friday, BBC1, 9pm
Since Angus Deayton got caught up in his own scandal in 2002, Have I Got News for You has had 124 guest hosts, beginning with Paul Merton, who stood in at the last minute following his colleague’s departure. Now in its 65th series, the BBC’s satirical standard-bearer shows no sign of slowing down.
Charlie Brooker makes his 10th appearance, and his fifth as host. In the Black Mirror creator’s previous outing in 2020, Ian Hislop jokingly blamed him for the coronavirus pandemic, calling him “the purveyor of apocalyptic vision”.
BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT Saturday, ITV, 8pm
The nationwide talent search returns for a new run, with Ant and Dec on presenting duties once more. Bruno Tonioli joins Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Alesha Dixon on the judging panel, who will be giving their verdicts on the acts.
With auditions in London and Manchester for the first time since before the pandemic, the talent this year should be better than ever.