On TV tonight, Gregg Wallace is back Inside the Factory, it's the semi-finals of Interior Design Masters, Springtime on the Farm continues and there's a new episode of dark comedy Rain Dogs. 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
Inside the Factory, 8 pm, BBC Two
Does the hairnet donned by Gregg Wallace on his factory tours have magical properties? The minute it’s on his head, his enthusiasm is dialled up to 11 and he’s delighted by everything. This week it’s the bubbles formed in the crumpet-making process in Warburtons Burnley factory (they produce more than a million every day).
Quality manager Phil Tucker, aka the King of Crumpets, shows Gregg how the holes in crumpets are formed (‘The holes are burst bubbles!’ says Gregg in a Eureka moment), while historian Ruth Goodman looks back at the evolution of this teatime treat. Thank goodness things have moved on from the foul-smelling results produced when ‘hartshorn’ was used as a raising agent!
★★★★ JP
Interior Design Masters, 8 pm, BBC One
It’s the semi-finals (already!) and there are now just three potential winners left. To make it through to the big one, the remaining contestants have to put their own spin on the re-design of three Bristol hair salons on a tiny budget of £3,000. But who’s going to be, in Alan’s words, ‘hair today, gone tomorrow’?
Cue a huge groan from judge Michelle Ogundehin. Though it’s not as big as the groans of fear from the trio on trial when they hear who’s judging alongside Michelle – Mary Portas. Or as one of them puts it: ‘Mary Portas – wowsers!’.
★★★ SM
Springtime on the Farm, 8 pm, Channel 5
More bulletins from Cannon Hall Farm in South Yorkshire, where the Nicholson family are trying to save a Spitti lamb, a rare Swiss Valais, and there’s a foal in trouble after a difficult birth. On Adam’s spread in the Cotswolds it’s also lambing time, but up in the Pennines things are a bit chillier and spring isn’t quite so far along.
Following immediately on at 9 pm, in Beyond the Yorkshire Farm: Reuben & Clive, it’s yet more lambs, lambs, and quite a lot of heavy machinery as Clive rolls up his sleeves in the Yorkshire Dales while Reuben takes his mates to a vintage tractor fair at the Tractor World Event in Worcester. ★★★ SM
Rain Dogs, 10.40 pm, BBC One
He may be erratic and a whole heap of trouble but Selby (Jack Farthing) is also utterly intriguing and in this episode we finally get to learn more about his colourful background. When ex-cellmate Mason (Nick Blood) demands that Selby repay him £20,000, Selby reluctantly turns to his disapproving mother, Allegra (Anna Chancellor), for help, but, with their icy relationship needing a blowtorch to
warm it up, will she stump up the dough?
Meanwhile, Costello (Daisy May Cooper) goes on a date – which Selby gatecrashes! – and a blast from the past leaves her reeling. But Selby comes up with an idea that could change both their lives….
★★★★ CC
Best box set on TV tonight
Obsession, Netflix
From the Regency romp Bridgerton to the saucy shenanigans of Sex Education, Netflix is developing a reputation for spicy television, and this four-part erotic thriller might be its most lustful yet. The Stranger’s Richard Armitage and Happy Valley’s Charlie Murphy star in the intoxicating tale of top surgeon William Farrow, who becomes infatuated with his son’s fiancée, Anna (this adaptation of Josephine Hart’s novel Damage delves further into Anna’s story than the 1992 film starring Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche).
Filled with lies, deceit and plenty of bedroom antics, it’s a compelling look at the destructive power of forbidden desire.
★★★★ SMA
Best film on TV tonight
Queen & Slim, 10:10 pm, BBC Three
After his US breakout role in the Oscar-winning Get Out, British actor Daniel Kaluuya had his pick of films, including Black Panther and Widows, plus this 2019 release which seems to have gone under the radar a little. That’s a shame, as it’s well worth a watch, with Kaluuya and fellow Brit Jodie Turner-Smith as a pair of Black American youngsters whose awkward first date becomes electrified after an encounter with a racist cop turns them into outlaws. Also starring Bokeem Woodbine, Chloë Sevigny and Pose’s Indya Moore.
★★★★ JP
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
- EFL: Millwall v Birmingham City, 7:30 pm, (Kick-off 8 pm), Sky Sports Main Event
If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…
Don't miss Inside the Factory on TV tonight.
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