On TV tonight, what other show on the box has a celeb dressed as a giant pair of scissors leaping around the stage? It can only be The Masked Dancer, which returns for another bonkers and great fun run on ITV. The Voice UK also returns on ITV and there's a double bill of Casualty on BBC One. Finally, Jeremy Clarkson is back for a new series of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? also on ITV. Here's what you shouldn't miss on TV tonight.
- Our hand selected recommendations for what's on TV tonight include four TV shows, a film, live sport and the latest trending need-to-binge-on-now box set
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What's on TV tonight
Our expert TV journalists have picked the best things on TV tonight...
Best TV shows on TV tonight
The Masked Dancer, 6.30 pm, ITV
The Masked Singer spin-off for smooth-moving celebs is back – and, unlike last year’s run, which aired on consecutive nights, this one is on weekly. Seven of the 13 secret stars perform tonight: Candlestick, Astronaut, Scissors, Odd Socks, Prawn Cocktail and the show’s first-ever duo, Pillar and Post. (We’ll have to wait until next week to see the other six – Pig, Sea Slug, Onomatopoeia, Tomato Sauce, Cactus and Pearly King – in motion.) Joel Dommett’s back as host, with ex-footballer Peter Crouch joining Davina McCall, Jonathan Ross and Oti Mabuse on the guessing panel. Can you work out who’s behind the masks?
★★★★★ SP
The Voice UK, 8 pm, ITV
As the singing show with spinning chairs returns, host Emma Willis and coaches Tom Jones, Olly Murs, Anne-Marie and will.i.am are back and – after being dropped during the pandemic – so are the studio audience! As the Blind Auditions get under way, the crowd can offer our coaches some subtle hints as more pop star wannabes perform for their lives in a bid to get those chairs turning. A change to the usual format sees the Battles replaced by the Callbacks – in which the coaches will decide which hopefuls will make it through to the semi-final. And, if this launch show is anything to go by, Sir Tom and the gang are going to have their work cut out…
★★★★ VW
Casualty, 7.45 pm & 8.30 pm, BBC One
The medical series is in fine fettle in tonight’s double helping, with an excellent mix of medic dramas, patient cases, action and comedy. On the personal front, Robyn is the talk of the ED as her surrogacy plans go through the rumour mill. An intriguing patient storyline sees Faith and Iain (Michael Stevenson ) fall out over alcoholic mum Liv… there’s more to this than meets the eye. Paramedic Teddy is plunged into a classic Casualty trope – a life-or-death rescue in a rapidly flooding tunnel – while comedy comes from Stevie, who gets excited by patients injured by darts and delivers some super, smashing, great Bullseye jokes!
★★★★ ER
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 9.30 pm, ITV
Jeremy Clarkson hosts a new run of the series with a fresh bunch of hopefuls using their general knowledge to try and bank a life-changing amount of money. For the first time winners from the new daily sister show, Fastest Finger First, which is presented by Anita Rani at 4.30 pm on ITV, will take their place in front of Jeremy in the hope that their winning streak continues!
★★★ ER
Best box set to watch on TV tonight
Devil in Ohio, Netflix
Bones star Emily Deschanel plays Suzanne Mathis, a psychiatrist who has her life turned upside down when teenager Mae (Madeleine Arthur) is brought into her hospital for evaluation after escaping a cult in this new eight-part thriller. But when Suzanne decides to let Mae stay at her home, a series of incidents leaves her family in chaos, and Suzanne’s daughter Jules (Xaria Dotson) suspects there’s more to Mae’s story than meets the eye. As the family and a local cop try to unravel the clues of Mae’s mysterious past, they end up in a fight to survive against the sinister cult. It also uncovers Suzanne’s backstory and asks why she takes Mae home in the first place and goes so far to help the troubled teen?
Best film to watch on TV tonight
Sense and Sensibility and Titanic, 2.25 pm & 5.10 pm, Film4
Made just two years apart in the 1990s, these movies, particularly Titanic, saw Kate Winslet’s career take off in a big way. Sense and Sensibility is still one of the best Jane Austen adaptations (Emma Thompson won an Oscar for her screenplay), while Titanic… well, what we can add about Titanic (5.10pm)? It won 11 Oscars and sparked a debate still going: wasn’t there room on that raft for both of them?
Live Sport
- World Cup Qualifier, Austria Women vs England Women, 4 pm (k-o 4.30 pm), ITV
- Cricket: The Hundred Final, 6 pm (start-time 6.30 pm), Sky Sports Main Event/NOW
If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…
Don't miss The Masked Dancer on TV tonight — the costumes are insane, the dancing hilarious and it's great fun trying to guess who is beneath the mask!
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Happy viewing!
