Meet The Parents Celebrity Race Across the World The Repair Shop Call My Agent! Planning a night on the couch? Here are today’s top TV and streaming picks: Celebrity Race Across the World BBC One, 9pm This week’s TV schedules are perhaps more celebrity-laden than ever, certainly when it comes to factual shows. Returning to our screens for new series are Celebrity MasterChef and Who Do You Think You Are? as well as this star-studded programme. Tim Harcourt, from production company Studio Lambert, says: “After the phenomenally successful run of the first celebrity series – and more recently the fourth run of the regular series – we can’t wait to bring audiences along with us to the huge South American continent and its jaw-dropping scenery, in a race which will push our celebrities and their loved ones to their absolute limits.
” Celebrity Race Across the World Broadcaster Alex Beresford and his dad Noel won the first season, which involved a journey, using limited resources, from Marrakech in Morocco to Tromsø, Norway. This time, as Harcourt alludes to, the going is arguably more difficult – it begins in Belém, Northern Brazil, which is known as the gateway to the Amazon, and takes in five checkpoints along a 12,500km route that ends in the Andes at Frutillar in Southern Chile. TV presenter Jeff Brazier and his son, Freddie; actor Kola Bokinni and his cousin, Mary Ellen; broadcaster Kelly Brook and her husband, Jeremy, and BBC Radio 2 DJ Scott Mills and.