MasterChef: The Professionals is tonight's TV highlight

Marcus Wareing, Anna Haugh in chefs' whites and Gregg Wallace in a dark suit and white shirt stand at a kitchen counter as Marcus cuts pasta and Anna uses a frying pan in MasterChef: The Professionals.

MasterChef: The Professionals will see more mouthwatering dishes tonight! (Image credit: BBC)

On TV tonight, MasterChef: The Professionals continues, Ennio: The Maestro celebrates the life of the late composer, Jamie & Harry's World Cup Challenge kicks off, Netflix's Blockbuster series arrives and we've got a great film recommendation too. Here's what you shouldn't miss on TV tonight.

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What's on TV tonight

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Best TV shows on TV tonight

MasterChef: The Professionals, 9 pm, BBC One

MasterChef: The Professionals continues tonight where Anna Haugh's Skills Test challenges the chefs on their butchery skills, while Marcus Wareing asks them to butterfly sardines, and serve them with tomato paste and olive tapenade.

The four chefs then have a final chance to impress in the Signature Menu round, when they have 90 minutes to serve up an outstanding main course and dessert of their own choosing.

★★★★ LB

Ennio: The Maestro, 8 pm, Sky Arts

Ennio Morricone — (Image credit: Getty Images)

Here’s an absolute treat for fans of film and film music. This feature-length documentary looks at the glittering career of composer Ennio Morricone, who died in 2020 aged 91. Even a shortlist of his greatest scores would be too long to mention, but among them are A Fistful of Dollars, Once Upon a Time in the West, Cinema Paradiso – its director Giuseppe Tornatore helms this documentary - and The Untouchables.

Contributors including fellow composers such as Hans Zimmer and John Williams plus Clint Eastwood, Bruce Springsteen and Quentin Tarantino pay tribute to the man who brought pleasure to millions of cinemagoers the world over.

★★★★ JP

Jamie & Harry's World Cup Challenge: Got, Got Need, 9 pm, Sky Max,

Jamie Redknapp and Harry Redknapp — (Image credit: Sky)

When comic Jack Whitehall sets Jamie Redknapp the challenge of ‘collecting’ his own World Cup team by meeting footballers who’ve played in the tournament, Jamie enlists the help of his dad, former manager Harry. As the pair set off across the UK and Europe, will Redknapp’s contacts open some doors? ‘I still remember my first World Cup sticker album – Spain 1982,’ says Jamie. ‘I never managed to find Peru’s Hugo Gastulo! I hope I do better with this one.’

★★★ NH

Blockbuster, Netflix

Melissa Fumero and Randall Park in Blockbuster — (Image credit: RICARDO HUBBS/NETFLIX)

The last Blockbuster Video store in America is the setting for this workplace comedy from Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Superstore writer Vanessa Ramos. Fresh Off the Boat’s Randall Park stars as shop manager Timmy and among his employees is his longtime crush Eliza (Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Melissa Fumero).

‘Timmy loves this family and wants nothing more than for them to stay together and work together and to thrive in this Blockbuster,’ says Park. ‘It just reflects the reality of our world. We’re out there, working and struggling together, and we’re all friends and we get along and it’s not always contentious.’

★★★ JE

Trump: The Comeback?, BBC iPlayer

Whatever your views on Donald Trump, everyone can agree that he was the most divisive US President in living memory. British-born, US-based journalist Katty Kay travels into Trump country to talk to those who voted for him, many of them believers in ‘the big steal’ (that the 2020 election was rigged), to find out how they now feel about their guy.

As they line up to buy baseball caps bearing the legend ‘God, Guns and Trump’, the wind looks like it’s blowing in Trump’s direction. But are there enough true believers to make POTUS 45 into the 47th president as well?

★★★★ SM

Best box set to watch on TV tonight

The Devil's Hour, Prime Video

Peter Capaldi and Jessica Raine sit opposite each other for The Devil's Hour — Peter Capaldi stars in this tense thriller. (Image credit: Prime Video)

Social worker Lucy Chambers springs awake at 3.33 am every morning – a time known as the ‘devil’s hour’. In this nail-biting six-part thriller with a supernatural edge, Jessica Raine plays Lucy, a haunted and overburdened mother who has recently separated from her husband. Lucy is also struggling with the demands of caring for her schizophrenic mother and her troubled eight-year-old, Isaac, who she takes to see a child psychiatrist (Meera Syal). Meanwhile, a murder is being investigated by DI Ravi Dhillon (Nikesh Patel) and DS Holness (Alex Ferns), one with bizarre links to Lucy’s visions and connected to a murder-obsessed stranger, Gideon, played by Peter Capaldi.

★★★★ SMA

Best film on TV tonight

If Beale Street Could Talk, 9 pm, BBC Four

If Beale Street could talk actors KiKi Layne and Stephan James — (Image credit: Netflix)

After a Best Picture Oscar win for Moonlight (the film, which also won Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Mahershala Ali, is available to watch on BBC iPlayer), Barry Jenkins followed it up with this 2018 drama based on a James Baldwin story. A young woman (KiKi Layne, in a really impressive feature film debut) and her family try to clear the name of her boyfriend (Stephan James), the father of her unborn child, who has falsely been accused of rape. Regina King, who won an Oscar for her role, co-stars.

★★★★ JP