Celebrity Masterchef
What you’ll be watching in the weeks ahead
WED THU FRI 15-17 July, times vary BBC1 Cookery
Presenter Jeff Brazier feels the heat as he competes against I’m Alan Partridge’s Felicity Montagu, musician Lady
Leshurr, The One Show’s Gethin Jones and Travelling Blind’s Amar Latif. Jeff often cooks for his family, but can he tell the real garlic apart from plastic decorations in the Masterchef larder?
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BBC2’S nature series The Secret Life of the Waterhole sees Ella Al-shamahi and Chris Packham presenting from Tanzania. They and their team create the world’s first waterhole with a built-in specialist camera rig to find out why the springs are so vital to the African ecosystem and the wildlife that drink there.
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Lily James stars in a Netflix adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s bestselling novel Rebecca. She plays newly married Mrs de Winter, who moves into her husband’s mansion in Cornwall, in the shadow of his dead first wife, the mysterious Rebecca…
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Forget baking, sewing and pottery – Lee Mack hosts a new contest for the country’s finest carpenters! The Chop: Britain’s Top Woodworker on Sky History will see 10 chippies try to whittle, carve, saw and chop their way to woodworking glory.
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Amazon Prime Video’s conspiracy thriller The Terminal List follows Navy SEAL James Reece (Chris Pratt), who loses his entire platoon in an ambush. But when he returns home, James discovers it was part of a big political conspiracy…
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Silent Witness star Emilia Fox turns coldcase sleuth for C4’s In the Footsteps of Killers. The three-parter follows Emilia and criminologist Professor David Wilson as they look into historic unsolved crimes and unearth new evidence.
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Sara Cox hosts a six-part BBC2 book club, Between the Covers, which celebrates the joy of reading. Each week, she’ll be joined by four famous faces, who’ll discuss their favourite ever book, as well as a chosen book of the week.