On TV tonight, Who Do You Think You Are? explores Kevin Clifton's heritage, Lucy Worsley's new game show kicks off on Channel 5, and call centre comedy Ruby Speaking lands on ITVX. 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
Who Do You Think You Are?, 9 pm, BBC One
The ever-fascinating genealogy show always likes to chuck a curveball into the mix, and we certainly never expected to see Kevin Clifton being sent off on the trail of an indigenous Canadian forebear. By his own admission, the former Strictly pro is ‘overwhelmed’ when he learns the amazing story of his five-times-great-grandmother Nancy McKenzie, also known as Matooski, who was recorded as a ‘half-breed woman’ and endured terrible tragedy.
Meanwhile, there’s more heartache when he discovers that his great-great-grandmother Emma Russell spent time in an orphanage and, as he investigates the troubled marriage of her parents,he hears details of a nasty divorce.
★★★★ CC
Puzzling, 8 pm, Channel 5
Historian Lucy Worsley turns quizmaster this week for a new 13-part game show, which aims to seek out Britain’s best puzzler by testing players’ problem-solving skills. Six contestants are split into two teams of three to play rounds on language, calculation, lateral thinking, visual intelligence and memory, before being pitted against one another in the final.
With different areas of intelligence being put to the test, we’re bound to get some answers right – and with Lucy at the helm, we can expect fun facts to boot. A welcome addition to our quiz-show viewing!
★★★★ RM
Windrush: Portraits of a Generation, 7:45pm, BBC Two
To commemorate 75 years since the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush to Tilbury on 22 June 1948, King Charles has commissioned 10 leading artists from Britain and abroad to paint 10 pioneering people from the Windrush generation. Each sitter, many of whom are in their 90s, talk to their artist about their experiences of arriving in Britain and the lives they made for themselves here.
The portraits will go on display later this month at The Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, and later in the year at The Queen’s Gallery, London.
★★★★ MC
Strictly star Jayde Adams leads the cast of this charming sitcom set in the Bristol call centre of a telecoms company. Ruby (Adams) takes good care of the callers, but her chronic lateness and lack of interest in upselling subscriptions means she’s in danger of losing her job unless she can prove she really is Hellocom material.
Lively performances from a mix of new and familiar faces give this six-part comedy a promising start – particularly Katherine Kelly as the call centre’s podcast-quoting manager Vicki and a scene-stealing Amy-Leigh Hickman (Our Girl) as Ellie, the permanently distracted training co-ordinator.
★★★★ SP
Best box set on TV tonight
Black Mirror season 6, Netflix
It’s four years since we last saw Charlie Brooker’s tech-based anthology series – and now it’s back for series six. There’s a great cast, with Aaron Paul and Josh Hartnett starring in an episode called Beyond the Sea set in 1969 about two men on a hi-tech mission, while British stars John Hannah and Monica Dolan’s story sees them in a Scottish town with dark secrets. Other stars include Industry’s Myha’la Herrold, plus Paapa Essiedu, Annie Murphy and Salma Hayek Pinault.
NC
Best film on TV tonight
Hot Fuzz, 9 pm, ITV4
An overly zealous, by-the-book London policeman is reassigned to a sleepy country village where the crime rate is virtually zero, and teamed up with an eager but dimwitted partner. But just as the officer's uneventful new environment begins to chafe, a grisly series of so-called accidents gives him reason to suspect a strange conspiracy is afoot. Action comedy, with Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Dalton and Paddy Considine.
Soaps
- EastEnders, 7.30 pm, BBC One
- Emmerdale, 7.30 pm, ITV1
- Hollyoaks, 6.30 pm, Channel 4
- Home and Away, 6 pm, 5Star
Live Sport
- Today at the Test: England v Australia, 7 pm, BBC Two
If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…
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