TV Tonight: our highlights for Sunday, Nov. 21

TV tonight - A new batch of celebrities enter the castle.
A new batch of celebrities enter the castle. (Image credit: ITV)

On TV tonight, Ant and Dec and a new bunch of stars are in Gwrych Castle in Wales as the new series of I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! kicks off on ITV, Doctor Who: Flux continues on BBC1 and An Audience with Adele sees the superstar sing some of her greatest hits on ITV. Here’s what you shouldn’t miss on TV tonight.

  • Our hand selected recommendations for what's on TV tonight include three TV shows, a film, live sport and the latest trending need-to-binge-on-now box set 
  • Keep up to date with the latest soap spoiler storylines on TV tonight with our daily soap synopsis 
  • For more information about what’s on TV tonight see our TV Guide 

What's on TV tonight

Our expert TV journalists have picked the best things on TV tonight... 

Best TV shows on TV tonight

I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! 9pm, ITV

TV tonight Ant and Dec are in the rain, not rainforest

Ant and Dec are in the rain, not rainforest. (Image credit: ITV)

Can you believe it’s 20 years since celebs began to chomp on kangaroo bits in the rainforest? The pandemic has put paid to setting up camp in Australia, so it’s off to Gwrych Castle, Wales, for what’s likely to be a rainy second year. Among the campers are Richard Madeley and Arlene Phillips. Who’ll follow in the footsteps of 2020 winner Giovanna Fletcher? As always, Ant and Dec present from camp, and as well as the usual challenges and trials, there are tricky new ones!

★★★★★ NC

Doctor Who: Flux, 6.20pm, BBC1

TV tonight Professor Jericho and the Doctor help a troubled village

Professor Jericho and the Doctor help a troubled village. (Image credit: BBC)

Landing somewhere nicknamed ‘the cursed village’ is never a good idea, and things are far from ideal when the Doctor and her companions drop into the Devon village of Medderton in 1967. Not only has a young girl gone missing but there’s one gravestone too many in the graveyard and Professor Eustacius Jericho (Kevin McNally) is conducting experiments. Oh, one more thing: the Weeping Angels are in town. Sellotape your eyelids open if you have to – but whatever you do, don’t blink… 

★★★★ SP

An Audience with Adele, 7.25pm, ITV

TV tonight super star Adele

Adele performs tracks old and new. (Image credit: ITV)

Fans are in for a treat as the global superstar gives an exclusive concert at the London Palladium in front of fans, friends and celebrity guests. Adele, who has sold more than 120million records worldwide, will perform new single Easy on Me and tracks from her long-awaited album 30. The show will also include hits such as Hello and Someone Like You, and we’re expecting plenty of banter between songs from the straight-talking star who certainly knows how to put on a fantastic show. 

★★★★ TL

Best box set to watch on TV tonight

Tiger King 2, Netflix

TV tonight Jailed Joe Exotic appears in archive

The story of big cats and epic feuds continues for a second series.  (Image credit: Netflix)

Remember the first lockdown when it seemed like the whole world was tuning into Tiger King? The series ended with the gun-toting, mullet-haired Joe Exotic – real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage – being jailed after hiring a hitman to kill his long-time nemesis, animal rights activist Carole Baskin, who had campaigned to close his private zoo in Oklahoma. Now, a second season, picks up the story, though it remains to be seen just how much Exotic will star given that he’s currently serving a 22-year prison sentence for animal abuse and the murder-for-hire plot. Baskin has also refused to take part in the documentary but she will star in her own series on Discovery+, a two-parter called Carole Baskin’s Cage Fight (from Saturday, Nov. 13), which continues her fight to shut down private zoos. 

Best film to watch on TV tonight

The Man Who Knew Infinity, 10pm, BBC2

Dev Patel stars in the remarkable true story of self-taught, early 20th-century Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. This biopic focuses on Ramanujan's friendship with Cambridge don GH Hardy (Jeremy Irons), who invited him to England in 1913 and, in the midst of prejudice, became his ardent champion. Initially scorned, Ramanujan's work in number theory revolutionised mathematics, although his ideas were only be fully appreciated years after his tragically early death at the age of 32 in 1920. The film is a tad formulaic, but Patel's sympathetic performance keeps us engaged. 

Live Sport

  • Women's Super League, Manchester United v Arsenal, 12pm (k-o 12.15pm), BBC2
  • International Rugby Union, Ireland v Argentina, 1.45pm (k-o 2.15pm), C4
  • Premier League, Manchester City v Everton, 1pm (k-o 2pm) Sky Sports Main Event/NOW
  • Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur v Leeds United, 4pm (k-o 4.30pm) Sky Sports Main Event/NOW

If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…

Don't miss I'm a Celebrity on TV tonight – how will the new batch of celebs cope in the castle?

Not found anything you want to watch on TV tonight? Check out our TV Guide

Happy viewing!

Joanne Lowles
Freelance writer and editor

Joanne Lowles has been writing about TV since 2002. After graduating from Cardiff University with a Postgraduate Diploma in Magazine Journalism, she worked for All About Soap magazine covering the ups and downs of life on the cobbles, the square and the Dales. 

Next came nearly 10 years at TV Times magazine as a writer and then deputy features editor. Here she spent many happy days interviewing the biggest names in entertainment and visiting the sets of some of our most popular shows including Downton Abbey, Call the Midwife and Strictly Come Dancing

With a love of nature and wildlife she’s also interviewed the leading experts in this area including David Attenborough, Chris Packham and Steve Backshall. She’s also travelled the world visiting Mongolia, Canada and South Africa to see how the best in the business make the most brilliant natural history documentaries. 

Freelance since 2013, she is now is a digital writer and editor for What to Watch, previews the best on the box for TV Times mag each week and loves being constantly surprised, entertained and informed by the amazing TV that she is lucky enough to watch.