On TV tonight, Laura Whitmore hosts a new series of Love Island on ITV2 from a brand new villa in Majorca, there's a Long Lost Family Special: Switched at Birth on ITV, new Aussie drama Love Me arrives on Acorn TV and Silent Witness continues on BBC One. Finally, it's Chocolate Week on Bake Off: The Professionals with an extra tricky showpiece challenge – no licking the spoon Stacey! Here’s what you shouldn’t miss on TV tonight.
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What's on TV tonight
Our expert TV journalists have picked the best things on TV tonight...
Best TV shows on TV tonight
Love Island, 9pm, ITV2
If Strictly signals the arrival of autumn, then Love Island is the show that’s guaranteed to kick-start summer. Get ready for more couple-ups, break-ups and cries of ‘I’ve got a text!’, as a new crop of sexy singletons descend on a brand-new villa on the island of Majorca in search of true love. We love catching up with our nightly dose of secret chats, heartache and epic tantrums, and we can’t wait to decide which couples we love… and those we love to hate! Welcome back, Love Island!
★★★★ VW
Long Lost Family Special: Switched at Birth, 9pm, ITV
What if you suspect you were accidentally swapped with another baby when you were born? That’s the extraordinary fear of 77-year-old Rosemary Rawlins, the subject of a special episode kicking off a new run of Long Lost Family. As Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell take on Rosemary’s quest for the truth, a mind-boggling story unravels involving a ‘switch’ that happened during a World War Two air raid when newborn babies at a nursing home were briefly taken from their mothers to shelter in a basement. In a second ‘switch’ story, Davina McCall meets two Italian mothers who brought up the wrong daughters for three years after a shocking hospital error.
★★★★ RF
Love Me, Acorn TV
This poignant Australian drama focuses on a family who are forced to cope with grief. It stars Line of Duty’s Shalom Brune-Franklin, Hugo Weaving, William Lodder and Bojana Novakovic, and follows the Mathiesons, who appear to have it all. But when mum Christine falls ill and dies suddenly, her loved ones’ lives are thrown into dramatic freefall. Christine’s husband Glen is left coping with a tsunami of pain and guilt, while daughter Clara is left emotionally ambivalent due to her fractious relationship with her mother. Christine’s son Aaron is genuinely devastated, but feels like he’s the only one. Can they all pull together instead of falling apart?
★★★ NC
Silent Witness, season 25, 9pm, BBC One
When another person with a keen interest in UNITAS turns up dead, the evidence is mounting to suggest Sam (Amanda Burton) may have been involved in foul play, until a dramatic turn of events appears to rule her out. Meanwhile, Sam’s husband, Jomo, and his son, David, have a falling-out, and Nikki continues to look into the possibility of DNA being faked, which could undermine the world of forensic science. But when the security of the Lyell Centre is compromised, it looks as though she could be back at square one. Brace yourself for a shocking conclusion to tonight’s penultimate episode. Concludes tomorrow.
★★★★ IM
Bake Off: The Professionals, 8pm, C4
Dare we suggest that judges Benoit Blin and Cherish Finden were experiencing a sugar rush when they set Chocolate Week’s Showpiece? Not only do the remaining teams need to construct a tall chocolate centrepiece but also incorporate a moving part plus 48 chocolate bars and bring it all together under the theme of ancient mythology. Can these temples of tempered chocolate withstand the heat of the kitchen, and which team will be ancient history after this extra tricky task?
★★★★ JL
Best box set to watch on TV tonight
The Midwich Cuckoos, season 1, Sky Box Sets/NOW
The man behind BBC One’s espionage hit The Night Manager turns his hand to sci-fi as he brings John Wyndham’s iconic 1957 sci-fi novel to the small screen. Writer David Farr has brought the tale, which sees all the women of childbearing age in a small town fall pregnant by aliens, into the modern age. The setting is now an affluent commuter town just outside of London, rather than a rural village as in the original novel and Keeley Hawes drives the story forward as Dr Susannah Zellaby, a character reimagined as a woman, which is an excellent way to tell this sinister and uniquely female horror story. Also watch out for Max Beesley as DCI Paul Kirby and Aisling Loftus as expectant mum Zoe Moran.
Best film to watch on TV tonight
Knives Out, 9pm, Film4
Rian Johnson writes and directs this rollicking homage to those Agatha Christie-films stuffed with an all-star cast. Johnson utilises the considerable charm of Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc, a private sleuth from the Deep South, investigating the death of a wealthy crime novelist (Christopher Plummer) in his Massachusetts mansion. His eccentric family includes Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson and Toni Collette, with Ana de Armas as his home help and seemingly the only one upset by Plummer’s demise. It’s a wild ride with red herrings thrown around with abandon. The sequel Knives Out 2 is due out later this year, with Craig’s Benoit investigating a new mystery.
Live Sport
- Test Cricket, England vs New Zealand, 10.15am, Sky Sports Main Event/NOW
Soaps on TV tonight
- EastEnders, 7.30pm, BBC One
- Emmerdale, 7.30pm, ITV
- Coronation Street, 8pm, ITV
- Hollyoaks, 6pm & 6.30pm, C4
- Neighbours, 6pm, Channel 5
- Home and Away, 6pm & 6.30pm, 5Star
If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…
Don't miss Love Island on TV tonight – "I've got a text!"
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Happy viewing!
