Gary Lineker’s latest gig involves chuckling from a tower as Z-listers stumble around a disused car park to find tokens. Graeme Souness, Shakira Khan and JB Gill are among the celebrities playing mundane games – egg-and-spoon races, rock-paper-scissors – with minor twists. The fun is in the team bonding: Joey Essex asking John Bercow if he’s feeling reem is surprisingly pleasing.
Phil Harrison Be Our Guest! It’s a night of Disney bangers at the Royal Albert Hall, as an ode to the man behind the music, Alan Menken. The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra will be joined by special guests and the National Youth Music Theatre to create the magic.
Hollie Richardson Gareth Malone may be able to spot a bum note at 50 paces, but can he spot the answers in Carr’s picture puzzles? The choirmaster pairs up with Steph McGovern to battle Will Best and Fleur East, plus standup Ellie Taylor and Derry Girls’ Jamie-Lee O’Donnell – all vying to bank £10,000 for their chosen charities. Ali Catterall This hardy medical drama has surprisingly polemical roots, beginning its long life as a defence of the NHS in the face of Thatcherism.
It ruffles fewer feathers in middle age but, even so, this birthday special is a furious affair as a firebombing in Holby means a frantic, eventually devastating night in A&E. PH A church burns, artily, in a dark wood – the veteran Swedish sleuthing series is back. As the fiery death of a rock musician turned pastor disturbs a web of guilt and hidden loyalties, Alex (Jennie Silfverhjelm) conceals a personal link to the congregation that could banjax the investigation.
Jack Seale Lorne Michaels is revered in US TV circles for creating Saturday Night Live in 1975. The producer is also fairly elusive – a fact this entertaining documentary is happy to lean into. Fortunately, there are plenty of big hitters to tell his story – Conan O’Brien, Tina Fey, Chris Rock and Andy Samberg are among those testifying to his brilliance.
PH The Mandalorian and Grogu, out now, Disney+ With one of the best Star Wars series going feature-length, its biggest draw, “Baby Yoda”, rightly shares top billing with Pedro Pascal’s perma-helmeted bounty hunter. Otherwise, it’s business as usual for the grumpy Mando and his cute, Force-friendly ward as they get involved in a spot of Hutt family politics. Hired by the New Republic to track down a warlord still sympathetic to the old empire, they must deal with Jabba the Hutt’s siblings, who want the return of their abducted nephew Rotta (Jeremy Allen White) in exchange for information.
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