On TV tonight, Long Lost Family continues, The Bear season 2 arrives, Chris continues his travels in Wonders of the World I Can't See and the Food Unwrapped team explores the freezer aisle. Here's what you shouldn't miss on TV Tonight.
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What's on TV tonight
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Best shows on TV Tonight
Long Lost Family, 9 pm, ITV
As the genealogy programme returns for its 13th series of investigations, we meet Londoner and former amateur boxer Paul, who was thrown out with the rubbish by his birth mum at just two weeks old and grew up in care. Despite thinking he knew who his family were, a shock discovery sees him turn to Davina McCall, Nicky Campbell and the Long Lost Family team to help solve the puzzle of his birth.
We also follow Shaun, who had a happy adoption, but in recent years has found out that his birth parents stayed together afterwards and went on to have a family. Will the pair get the answers they’ve spent their entire lives searching for?
★★★★★ NH
The Bear season 2, Disney Plus
Are we looking forward to the second season of The Bear later this month? Yes, chef! Now is a good time to catch up with the award-winning first season of the show that restaurant workers have praised as one of the most accurate depictions of their industry, with the penultimate episode so realistically stressful it should come with a free blood-pressure monitor.
Jeremy Allen White stars as young chef Carmy, who applies skills honed in New York’s hottest spot to running a Chicago sandwich shop after his brother dies and leaves it to him.
★★★★★ JP
Wonders of the World I Can't See, 10 pm, Channel 4
Continuing his multisensory travels to find out if there is more to tourist hotspots ‘than just what they look like’, blind comic Chris McCausland is in Jordan with fellow straight talker Guz Khan. R&R is the first order of the day as the pair enjoy the feeling of floating in the Dead Sea. But Guz’s attempts to describe the ancient city of Petra – ‘This place is making London look like a Lidl’ – don’t impress cynical Chris, so Guz tries to get him to imagine its scale by feeling a hand carving of the famous Treasury in the gift shop. Chris is much more taken by a ride on a camel, meaning Guz thinks he’s hit on a winning formula for the rest of their trip…
★★★ NT
Supermarkets Unwrapped: The Freezer Aisle, 8 pm, Channel 4
The Food Unwrapped team are browsing each aisle of the supermarket on behalf of the consumer in a four-part series, beginning by keeping their cool in the frozen food section. Jimmy Doherty asks why pre-packaged chips contain more than just potato, while Briony May Williams has the surprising scoop (pun intended) on ice cream. Elsewhere, the ever-creative Andi Oliver demonstrates efficient hacks for home freezers, and Helen Lawal returns to that old chestnut – why even frozen meals must have expiry dates.
★★★ NT
Best box set on TV tonight
The Witcher season 3, Netflix
Season three – split into two, with five episodes released today, and three on 27 July – finds monster-hunting hero Geralt (Henry Cavill) joining forces with Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) to protect Princess Ciri (Freya Allan) from the monsters, mages and monarchs plotting to capture her. But when Yennefer shows Ciri how to harness her powers and leads her and Geralt to the fortress of Aretuza, the trio become cornered by dark magic… Hugh Skinner joins the cast as King Vizimir’s playboy brother Prince Radovid, while Cavill bows out this season, leaving Liam Hemsworth to take over as Geralt.
RM
Best film on TV tonight
Top Gun, 9 pm, Sky Showcase
An arrogant pilot's maverick flying skills earn him a place in an elite US Navy school, where he comes into conflict with a fellow student and falls for his civilian instructor. A tragedy in the air threatens to end his military career - until an international incident offers him a chance to redeem himself. Aerial action adventure, starring Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards and Tom Skerritt.
Soaps
- EastEnders, 7.30 pm, BBC One
- Emmerdale, 7.30 pm, ITV1
- Coronation Street, 8 pm, ITV1
- Hollyoaks, 6.30 pm, Channel 4
- Home and Away, 6 pm, 5Star
Live Sport
- Wimbledon 2023, from 10:30am, BBC Two
If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…
Don't miss Long Lost Family on TV tonight.
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