TV Tonight: Our highlights for Tuesday, May 23

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On TV tonight, Waterloo Road continues, it's the semi-finals in MasterChef, and there's more from Kevin McCloud in Grand Designs: The Streets. 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

Waterloo Road, 8 pm, BBC One

There’s scrapping in the school canteen in tonight’s episode - and that’s just the adults! It’s a big day for young Kelly-Jo (Alicia Forde) at Waterloo Road, but when her mum Debs (Hollie-Jay Bowes) fails to show up to support her, she relies on her aunt Nicky (Kym Marsh) for comfort and lets slip a family secret. This results in sisters Nicky and Debs coming to blows…

And a show favourite getting caught in the crossfire! Meanwhile, Amy is developing a massive crush on a colleague - but taking unsolicited advice from Neil has unfortunate consequences… With high drama, laughs and shocks aplenty all in one episode, this is shaping up to be another classic series.

★★★★ VW

MasterChef, 9 pm, BBC One

John Torode and Gregg Wallace — (Image credit: BBC)

Semi-finals week is always a challenging one, and tonight the remaining eight amateurs must prepare for a fine-dining mass-catering event, the first in which they work in teams. They must feed 120 staff at the Fire Service College, before an Invention Test sees them grapple with getting the best from tinned food! With the chance to work alongside Jozef Youssef, who specialises in multisensory eating, later in the week, none of the hopefuls will want to be offered the close-but-no-cigar digestif. Continues on Thursday and Friday.

★★★ NT

Inside Kabul: Storyville, 10 pm, BBC Four

Inside Kabul is an animated short about two young Afghan women’s plight after the Taliban captured the capital city in 2021. Raha and Marwa exchanged voice messages in the months that followed and they have been taken as the inspiration for this film. Raha chooses to stay in Kabul, where she is faced with the violence and chaos of the regime. Marwa, on the other hand, makes a quick escape with her husband and ends up in a refugee camp in Abu Dhabi, waiting and hoping to be welcomed by another country.

★★★ MC

Grand Designs: The Streets, 9 pm, Channel 4

Grand Designs: The Streets season 3. Kevin McCloud outside a house. — (Image credit: Channel 4)

Kevin McCloud returns to Graven Hill, Bicester, the UK’s largest self-build community. Tim’s project – to build the first basement in the area, to house a motorbike workshop – has lost all foundation as the specialist equipment he’s ordered does not even fit in the space to start work. How can Kevin convince us this is the stuff that dreams are made of? By paying a visit to resourceful neighbour Jitinder, whose plans to create a swanky bachelor pad were thwarted by damp when Kevin first met him – but now he’s living like he’s in Hollywood.

★★★ NT

Best box set on TV tonight

Missing: Dead or Alive, Netflix

Missing: Dead or Alive? press shot of police investigating missing person cases — (Image credit: Netflix)

Missing: Dead or Alive is the latest true crime offering from the streaming giant. Instead of focusing on classic whodunit cases or profiling a murderer, Missing: Dead or Alive follows a Missing Person team as they investigate sudden disappearances.

Shot as a fly-on-the-wall documentary, the gripping four-parter follows officers from a South Carolina sheriff’s department as they urgently search for individuals who’ve disappeared under troubling circumstances.

Best film on TV tonight

Sister Act, 6:55 pm, Film4

Nightclub singer Deloris Van Cartier agrees to testify against her gangster boyfriend after witnessing a murder. Placed in protective custody by the authorities, she is less than pleased to discover she is expected to pose as chaste nun Sister Mary Clarence in a convent. Comedy, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Harvey Keitel, Maggie Smith, Bill Nunn and Kathy Najimy.