On TV tonight, just like people, donkeys get lonely and vet Peter can't have a depressed donkey on his watch as The Yorkshire Vet returns for a new heart warming series on Channel 5. Celebrity MasterChef reaches semi-finals week on BBC One and Fake or Fortune? continues on BBC One. There's more love in the air as First Dates Hotel begins on C4 and The Pyrenees with Michael Portillo continues on Channel 5. Here's what you shouldn't miss on TV tonight.
- Our hand selected recommendations for what's on TV tonight include five 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
The Yorkshire Vet, 8 pm, Channel 5
The 15th series begins with kindly vet Peter Wright using all of his experience to save a mother sheep and her two lambs. Just as the owner thinks all hope is lost for the newborns, Peter performs an emergency C-section and saves the day, with mum and twins all doing well. He also pays a visit to old friends and clients Jean and Steve, who have sadly lost one of their beloved donkeys, leaving the remaining one all alone. But Peter knows just the people to call to help a depressed donkey and brings along a surprise new furry friend. Also, Julian Norton celebrates his 50th birthday and vet Matt Smith gets in a pickle during surgery on Miss Pickles, a poorly chameleon.
★★★ JL
Celebrity MasterChef, 9 pm, BBC One
Just eight celebs remain as semi-finals week begins with a challenge to cook for 70 hungry workers from the Essex & Herts Air Ambulance. Based in tents at the North Weald Airfield, the stars are split into two teams to rustle up four dishes to give the medics, pilots and support staff a feast to remember. Next, it’s back to MC HQ for a tricky Invention Test, using leftovers from the previous challenge. One star will be shown the door, while seven go through to the next episode on Thursday, and they’ll cook for a very special guest – Dame Mary Berry.
★★★★ JL
Fake or Fortune? season 10, 8 pm, BBC One
American couple Kim and Chuck believe the landscape painting they bought at auction near Chicago is actually an original from the influential British artist Alfred Sisley. The artwork would be worth a cool quarter of a million pounds if they can prove it’s genuine – but, as it’s already been turned down by the authentication board, Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould need to unearth new evidence to prove the pretty picture of a French village and river is the real deal. Their investigation takes them to Miami, Germany and Paris as they try to hunt down previous owners and the locations where Sisley was known to paint. But have they done enough to convince the experts this is a genuine work of art?
★★★ JL
First Dates Hotel, 9 pm, C4
Fred Sirieix and his team are ready to welcome more singletons to the First Dates Hotel in Italy, including Sandy, a retired taxidermist, who’s about to go on her first date in 39 years. Also checking in to check out the potential love interests is Gareth from South Wales who finds meeting new people tricky. He's surprised when he recognises his date, Carys, they've been previously matched on a dating app but didn't actually meet up. Is this finally their chance to let love blossom?
★★★ JL
The Pyrenees with Michael Portillo, 9 pm, Channel 5
On the third leg of his Pyrenees journey, Michael is in the Ariège region, one of the most unspoiled parts of France. The landscape is breathtaking, but the mist, rain and mud can make progress difficult, so it’s just as well that Michael doesn’t meet one of the brown bears said to be in the area. The local humans, though, are very welcoming, including a couple from Luxembourg who have bought a remote pig farm, and some self-sufficient nuns at an abbey. The latter give us a scene worthy of any travelogue: Michael, enormous rucksack still on his back, chats to a nun in French about faith while he feeds the abbey’s cows.
★★★★ JP
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 why she goes so far to help the troubled teen?
Best film to watch on TV tonight
Eastern Promises, 11.15 pm, BBC Two (not Wales)
In this crime drama from 2007, Viggo Mortensen does a terrific job as a driver and minder for one of London’s most notorious East European organised crime families, including volatile enforcer Kirill (Vincent Cassel). Naomi Watts plays a hospital midwife affected by the fate of a teenager who dies while giving birth, leaving a diary that holds life-threatening clues to the film’s mystery. Thanks to intense performances, David Cronenberg’s stylish direction and Peaky Blinders’ writer Steven Knight’s raw script, this is a fine thriller.
Live Sport
- World Cup Qualifier, England Women vs Luxembourg Women, 7 pm (k-o 7.30 pm), ITV
Soaps on TV tonight
- EastEnders, 7.30 pm, BBC One
- Hollyoaks, 6.30 pm, C4
- Home & Away, 6pm & 6.30 pm, 5Star
If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…
Don't miss The Yorkshire Vet on TV tonight — we return to Yorkshire for more heart warming tales of animal and people care. Watch out for Peter on a mission to cheer up a lonely donkey, it's enough to bring a tear to your eye!
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