On TV tonight, we revisit several threatened ecosystems as Our Changing Planet returns, Danny Dyer's new reality show Scared of the Dark gets underway on Channel 4, Dam Joanna Lumley reflects on her 60-year career in Joanna Lumley: In My Own Words, new true-crime drama The Hunt for Raoul Moat gets underway on ITV1, plus Dragon Deborah Meaden and The Repair Shop star Jay Blades head into the tent for The Great Celebrity Bake Off and there's a new episode of Great Expectations to look forward to. Here's what you shouldn't miss on TV Tonight.
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What's on TV tonight
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Best TV shows on TV tonight
Our Changing Planet, 7 pm, BBC One
This epic nature series, which launched in 2022 and plans to follow the impact on six under-threat ecosystems across the world over a seven-year period, returns for the first of what we hope will be many annual updates. Tonight’s opener features the first half of the latest reports, and sees Steve Backshall returning to the Maldives to discover the amazing new research that’s helping to protect coral reefs. Liz Bonnin heads back to California to learn about the natural solutions that are being developed to protect against wildfires, and Chris Packham is in Arctic Greenland following a herd of muskoxen.
★★★★★ SP
Scared of the Dark, 9 pm, Channel 4
Danny Dyer hosts this entertaining reality show in which eight celebrities face their fears by spending eight days locked up in a bunker in pitch-blackness (think Celebrity Big Brother meets The Blair Witch Project). Shown over five nights this week, the series features football legend Paul ‘Gazza’ Gascoigne, presenter Scarlett Moffatt, The Wanted’s Max George, Love Island’s Chloe Burrows, The Sandman’s Donna Preston, comedian Chris McCausland and boxers Chris Eubank and Nicola Adams. Infrared cameras and a clinical psychiatrist will be watching their every move, along with Danny, who provides hilarious commentary as the gang take on some genuinely scary tasks to win time in the light.
★★★★ RM
Joanna Lumley: In My Own Words, 9 pm, Channel 5
Dame Joanna Lumley shares memories of her best-loved projects over her illustrious 60-year career from The New Avengers and Sapphire & Steel in the 70s to Absolutely Fabulous and more recently her travelogues. This one-off documentary also features interviews with some of her celebrity friends including William Roach, David McCallum and Ruby Wax each offering their own anecdotes of working with the legendary star.
★★★★ MC
The Great Celebrity Bake Off 2023, 7.40 pm, Channel 4
We’ve seen some fabulous famous faces in the tent this series and the final is no exception, with Dragons’ Den’s Deborah Meaden, The Repair Shop’s Jay Blades, Loose Women’s Judi Love and comic Mike Wozniak displaying their baking ‘talents’. Poor Deborah is feeling none of her usual confidence, though, and admits her hands are shaking, while Judi wants to bake with her heart, which Prue warns her is a bad idea! For the Signature, they make baked cheesecakes, before a barbecue favourite for the Technical. But their Showstopper cakes, inspired by their first celebrity crushes, are a sight to behold and provoke a fair few giggles!
★★★★ CC
Great Expectations, 9 pm, BBC One
The aching vulnerability hidden beneath the steely veneer of Miss Havisham’s troubled ward Estella (Shalom Brune-Franklin) is really shining through now and she is tested to her emotional limits when she is sent to London to meet her
vile groom-to-be, Bentley Drummle (a deliciously nasty turn from Matthew Needham), for the first time.
The encounter doesn’t exactly fill Estella with joy at the prospect of marriage, especially when Drummle informs her that there will be dark consequences if she shows any sign of rebellion. But the meeting is also torture for Pip (Fionn Whitehead), who has to act as chaperone while battling his own feelings for someone else’s fiancée…
★★★★ CC
Best box set on TV tonight
Beef is a new 10-part comedy series about two people who collide after a road rage incident. This causes Danny Cho (Steven Yeun), a failing contractor with a chip on his shoulder, to go head-to-head with Amy Lau (Ali Wong), a self-made entrepreneur with a picturesque life.
Danny and Amy find their lives affected by this seemingly everyday encounter. With a great supporting cast on board too, this "edgy, smart, revenge fable" should be perfect binge-watch material.
LB
Best film on TV tonight
Galaxy Quest, 4.40 pm, Film4
The cast of a cancelled sci-fi series are reduced to a life of conventions and public appearances, only to find themselves genuinely transported into space. Naive aliens have mistaken the show for real life and want the actors to help defend them from an evil extraterrestrial warlord. Sci-fi comedy, starring Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman and Sam Rockwell.
Live Sport
- Premier League: West Ham v Arsenal, 2 pm, Sky Sports Main Event
- Premier League: Nottingham Forest v Manchester United, 4 pm (k-o 4.30 pm), Sky Sports Main Event
- Women's FA Cup: Aston Villa v Chelsea, 1.50 pm (k-o 2.15 pm), BBC One
- Snooker World Championship: 1.30 pm, BBC Two
If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…
Don't miss Our Changing Planet on TV tonight.
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Happy viewing!
