On TV tonight, Bake Off: The Professionals continues, Your Home Made Perfect tackles a house in Hertfordshire, and Stories from the National Portrait Gallery wraps up. 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
Your Home Made Perfect, 8 pm, BBC Two
‘Let there be light!’ Or a lot more of it, please. This seems to be a common prerequisite in home renovations these days, and never truer than in Caitriona and Kevin's 1930s Hertfordshire house. The kitchen is starved of natural light due to a bolted-on conservatory inherited from the previous owners. The couple bought the two-and-a-half-bedroom place five years ago, and now nine-year-old twins Fionn and Lilly make it a nightly battle over who gets to sleep in the box room. Architects Lynsey Elliott and Damion Burrows go head-to-head to come up with the perfect design solution within the family’s £85k budget.
★★★ MC
Bake Off: The Professionals 2023, 8 pm, Channel 4
In the second round of heats, the new teams limber up to enter the kitchen and they are immediately thrown in at the deep end by Benoit Blin and Cherish Finden (we’re sure they are making things extra difficult this year!). There’s a secret challenge in which the chefs must go all Scandi and make 36 mini Prinsesstårta - Swedish layer cakes - with just a sparse recipe and the added complication of a chocolate amenity sculpture on the side! Then, it’s back to the best of British for the Showpiece when they turn boring old bread and butter pudding into spectacular towering extravaganzas. But who will make it through to next week?
★★★★ CC
Stories from the National Portrait Gallery, 8 pm, Sky Arts/NOW (box set)
Presenter Kate Bryan embarks on her final tour of the recently reopened National Portrait Gallery in London. As a judge on Portrait Artist of the Year, Kate has always been intrigued by the self-portrait submissions from prospective candidates, and so it’s no surprise that the self-portrait room holds a special fascination for her. We also get an insight into Queen Elizabeth II’s favourite artists and some of the controversial work they produced of our late monarch. Meanwhile, special guest Jim Moir has a recce around the gallery for the one portrait he would like to take home – if only he could.
★★★ MC
Best box set on TV tonight
The Bear season 2, Disney Plus
Jeremy Allen White won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of troubled yet brilliant chef Carmen ‘Carmy’ Berzatto last year, and Disney Plus are serving up a second serving of the acclaimed drama. After saving their off-beat Chicago sandwich shop following his brother’s suicide, Carmy and his team are hoping to revamp and relaunch the restaurant this year, but soon find true excellence requires real sacrifice. Overflowing with stress-inducing drama, mouth-watering food, and some deeply tender moments, it’s a wonderfully shot examination of grief, friendship and hope that shows the first season was no flash in the pan.
★★★★★ SMA
Best film on TV tonight
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, 8 pm, Sky Cinema Greats
As the internet goes crazy for the trailer of Wonka starring Timothée Chalamet (out in cinemas in December), revisit the original adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, from which the new version takes inspiration. This musical take on the book wasn’t that well received on its release, but it has grown in stature since. Gene Wilder is exceptional as the madcap confectioner Willy Wonka. He’s funny, endearing and more than a little sinister as he gives five children a tour of his chocolate factory, with a macabre fate awaiting those with sticky fingers…
★★★★ DW
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
- FIFA Women's World Cup 2023, from 6.20 am, ITV1
If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…
Don't miss Bake Off: The Professionals on TV tonight.
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