Untold: The Rise And Rise Of Taylor Swift Hue and Cry Celebrity MasterChef Planning a night on the couch? Here are today’s top TV and streaming picks: Celebrity MasterChef BBC One, 8pm Craig Doyle, Charlotte Crosby, Edith Bowman, Ian ‘H’ Watkins and Snoochie Shy kick off a new series of culinary tests as four weeks of heats get underway. John Torode and Gregg Wallace set the tasks. Celebrity MasterChef The Full Monty RTÉ2, 9.
30pm & 10.30pm Another chance to see the eight-part Disney+ spin-off from the hit 1998 movie. Once again, it follows the fortunes of a group of ex-steelworkers from Sheffield as they try to make ends meet.
Robert Carlyle and Tom Wilkinson head the cast. Untold: The Rise and Rise Of Taylor Swift Channel 4, 11.05pm One-off documentary exploring the extraordinary celebrity and success of the US pop singer.
King’s College Neurology Department even wire up a Swiftie to see the impact that Swift’s music has on the brains of her legions of devoted fans. Hue and Cry Hue and Cry Film4, 4.40pm The first of Ealing Studios’ legendary comedies follows the fortunes of a group of teenage boys as they try to convince the adults around them that a criminal gang is passing messages via the pages of their favourite comic.
Harry Fowler and Alastair Sim head the cast. Blue Ribbon Baking Championship Netflix, streaming now For well over a decade, the Americans have been trying to devise their own Great British Baking Show ( Bake-Off to you). In fact, The Great British Bake Off is so popular Stateside that the show even got its own “bit” on The Simpsons .
Featuring a remarkably posh depiction of Paul Hollywod, Itchy and Scratchy attempt to create the “Piccadilly Jubilee Persnickety Cake” — before Itchy force-feeds Scratchy a vat of yeast. But I digress. Now, armed with all the bunting and brightly coloured appliances producers can muster, 10 award-winning pastry masters from across the US compete in the biggest blue-ribbon bake-off yet.
Only, they get much more than a ribbon; they also get the chance to pocket $100,000 (take note, Channel 4). White House pastry chef Bill Yosses and award-winning artisan baker Bryan Ford serve alongside head judge Sandra Lee. Trying his hand at presenting, we have American pie enthusiast Jason Biggs.
Inside The Mind of a Dog Inside The Mind of a Dog Netflix, streaming now “Food? Fun? Friend?” All things one can assume dogs would say if we could understand them. Although, when you think about how emotionally involved dogs are with their humans, (they can literally smell our stress), they’d probably spend a lot of time asking “Are you OK?” Rob Lowe narrates how dogs were first drawn to humans by the “yummy garbage” left by cavemen and explores whether they truly love us as much as we believe. The Mallorca Files Prime Video, streaming now In season three, the sun-drenched island of Mallorca is the backdrop to yet more high-stakes adventures, treasure hunts, arson, kidnappings, murders, plus Max and Miranda’s tensions.
The Instigators The Instigators AppleTV+, streaming now Matt Damon swaps out Ben Affleck for brother Casey for this new heist movie directed by Doug Liman ( The Bourne Identity , plus Mr & Mrs Smith ). It sounds slicker than it is. Fuchsia Libre Netflix, streaming now While a professional wrestler fights to make a name for himself in the ring, he grapples with telling his illiberal father the truth about his sexual orientation.
Consider it Cassandro (recently released and starring Gael García Bernal) but based in the Philippines. Matt Rife: Lucid Matt Rife: Lucid Netflix, streaming now In Netflix’s first “crowd work special”, Matt Rife gets personal with an “unpredictable” US audience to riff on all things dreams. For the uninitiated, crowd work is what Tommy Tiernan has been doing for years.
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