TV Tonight: Our highlights for Tuesday, February 7

Consent is a new Channel 4 drama. (Image credit: Channel 4)

On TV tonight, Consent starts on Channel 4, Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild continues, Bradley and Barney Walsh head to Costa Rica and it's the South West heats on The Great British Menu. Here's what you shouldn't miss on TV Tonight.

Our hand-selected recommendations for what's on TV tonight include 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

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Best TV shows on TV tonight

Consent, 10 pm, Channel 4

Rising stars Tom Victor and Lashay Anderson stand out in this powerful – and, be warned, graphic – one-off drama about a sexual assault. Feeling pressured by his friends to lose his virginity, private-school pupil Archie (Victor) takes classmate Natalie (Anderson), who has been drinking heavily, upstairs at his 18th birthday. In the following days, Archie is feeling jubilant - but Natalie remembers nothing about what happened and is horrified when Archie tells her they had sex, insisting she didn’t want that.

After reporting the incident to a sympathetic teacher, scholarship student Natalie realises that the school will always defend ‘its own’ against someone in her position, but will she find a way to ensure her voice is heard?

★★★★ SP

Sort Your Life Out, 9 pm, BBC One

TV tonight Stacey Solomon hosts. — (Image credit: BBC)

Stacey Solomon and her team are in Haslemere, Surrey, to help out Sue, who has six grandchildren who are unable to visit because her house is so full of clutter. Normally, Stacey will ask if whoever she is helping is able to let go of around 50 per cent of their stuff, but in Sue’s case, she thinks she’ll need a higher figure. ‘It would be nice to see the floor, wouldn’t it?’ muse Iwan Carrington and Rob Bent on their first recce inside, and it does seem insurmountable.

But soon the contents of Sue’s house are spread out on the warehouse floor and, with daughters Donna and Nicki, she can begin sorting. As usual, it’s emotional – and, as usual, Stacey is exactly the right person to be there to help.

★★★★ JP

Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild, 9 pm, Channel 5

Ben Fogle in New Lives in the Wild — (Image credit: Channel 5)

If you saw the 2021 documentary about Slab City, California, Ben Fogle & the Lost City (available on My5), you may remember one of its inhabitants, Pirate Rob. He spends six months of the year on an island near Oregon, and he’s invited Ben to see how he lives in the wild.

Rob has a tent with the basics, which he shares with his son, Damien, but Ben is a little surprised at Rob’s definition of ‘wild’ as the island is set in an industrial river. Everything else about his existence is wild, though, including catching food with rotten chicken and wearing odd shoes he finds on the riverbank. Ben’s nervous about unearthing Rob’s darker side – surely you don’t earn the nickname ‘Pirate’ for being mild-mannered?

★★★ JP

Bradley and Barney Walsh: Breaking Dad, 9 pm, ITV1

Bradley and Barney continue their Latin American road trip in Costa Rica, where they visit a cloud forest, so-called because of the low-level cloud cover. And if there’s a freakishly tall tree to climb, you can bet the boys are going up it! Why not, when there are breathtaking views to be had at the top?

With the adrenaline still pumping, Brad and Barns head off to meet a former Olympian in kayak slalom and they are soon hitting the rapids to go head-to-head in a time trial. Along the way, they also meet local celebrity Chito, who’s famous for being the best of friends with an unusually tame crocodile.

★★★★ MD

Great British Menu, 8 pm, BBC Two

Great British Menu season 18 celebrates Paddington plus cartoons, comics and games! — (Image credit: BBC2)

Week two sees the South West heats, which get off to a sparkling start with the unconventional stylings of host Andi Oliver and veteran judge Michael O’Hare, not to mention a chef who prefers to cook all his dishes over fire. This year’s theme is animation and illustration, and much-loved characters The Gruffalo, Wallace & Gromit and The Wombles all feature in vegan starters, with Thomas the Tank Engine providing inspiration for one of the fish dishes in the next round. But despite such creativity, one of the four chefs must go tonight. Whose time in the GBM Kitchen will draw to an end? Continues until Thursday.

★★★ NT

Royal Autopsy, 9 pm, Sky History

A skull with a crown on its head — (Image credit: Sky History)

As King Charles II lay dying in February 1685, his doctors offered up all manner of weird and wonderful remedies. Unfortunately for him, pigeon droppings, ground-up snakes, and powdered human skull did little to help matters, while burning him with hot irons also proved pretty futile.

The truth of the monarch’s final days makes fascinating reading for Professor Alice Roberts as she reconstructs what an autopsy on the king’s body might have been like while dispelling some of the mysteries surrounding his death. It’s an interesting process and one that makes us very grateful for 21st-century medicine.

★★★★ SMA

Best box set on TV tonight

Extraordinary, Disney Plus

Máiréad Tyers in a red and black top as Jen in Extraordinary holds a carton of milk in a supermarket. — (Image credit: Disney Plus)

Disney Plus is home to plenty of superhero stories, but Extraordinary couldn’t be more different from the typical Marvel project if it tried. In this new British comedy, we’re introduced to a version of Earth where everyone develops a superpower at the age of 18. Well, everyone except our 25-year-old protagonist, Jen (Máiréad Tyers). She’s left feeling (literally) powerless and is forced to look for a bit of hope in her everyday life. Extraordinary is fun, fresh and feels very original.

Best film on TV tonight

Star Trek Beyond, 6:40 pm, Film4

Star Trek Beyond cast aboard the Enterprise — (Image credit: Bad Robot Productions)

The USS Enterprise sets out on a rescue mission which turns out to be a deadly trap set by a mysterious warlord. The crew are left stranded on an unexplored planet, and join forces with a fugitive alien scavenger to find a way off the hostile world and prevent a terrible weapon being unleashed upon the galaxy. Sci-fi adventure, starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Idris Elba.