TV tonight: Our highlights for Tuesday, August 1, 2023
On TV tonight, Bake Off: The Professionals continues, it's the last episode of Live: Lost Dogs, and Dara Ó Briain hosts a documentary about the moon. 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
Our expert TV journalists have picked the best things on TV tonight...
Best TV shows on TV tonight
Bake Off: The Professionals, 8 pm, Channel 4
One of our favourite-ever bakes from the Bake Off family was in 2020 when the amateurs were tasked with creating celebrity cake busts and we were very taken with Mak’s Bill Bryson. Tonight, the two remaining teams are similarly asked to recreate their music icons, but because they are the professionals, the ante is upped and they must make them into two batches of 24 identical modern religieuse (choux pastry stacks that look like little men).
Before that, the pastry chefs design 24 millefeuille and 24 pavlovas to be served in imaginative new ways. You really will have never seen anything like this, and it looks like such hard work. It makes us wonder what’s lined up for the final when this is only episode five...
★★★ NT
Live: Lost Dogs with Clare Balding, 8pm, Channel 5
It’s last-chance saloon for Clare to try to reunite missing pets with their owners as the appeal show concludes. Rav Wilding tests out a doggy DNA database to see if that provides answers, while Deacon Blue drummer Dougie Vipond is in Ayrshire with his Gordon setter Jessie to meet a group who have developed techniques to track down dogs. Let’s hope Clare has some success before the hour’s up.
★★★ NT
Wonders of the Moon with Dara Ó Briain, 9 pm, Channel 5
Amateur astronomer Dara Ó Briain takes us on a fascinating and entertaining voyage of discovery about the moon. He reveals how it commands time and tides on Earth and has spawned many myths and legends, from werewolves to the belief that a full moon changes behaviour. He returns to Ireland, to Newgrange in County Meath – an ancient archaeological site where the mysterious markings on stones created by Stone Age people could make it the world’s first lunar calendar. Concludes tomorrow.
★★★★ JE
Best box set on TV tonight
Silo is set in a tragic, toxic future, Rebecca plays Juliette, or Jules, an independent and hardworking engineer. Jules lives in a community in a giant silo hundreds of stories deep, which is the only way to survive on a planet where the air is poisonous. The survivors are forced to follow the strict rules they believe are meant to protect them. However some rebel against the regulations and dare to hope and dream for a better future.
These people are considered to be dangerous and the punishment for breaking the rules is simple — they are forced outside to "clean". And that’s a task they won’t survive.
NC
Best film on TV tonight
The Italian Job, 6:55 pm, Film4
A crook assembles a motley gang to steal £4million in gold bullion from an Italian armoured car, which brings Turin to a standstill and enables the robbers to make a quick getaway in a fleet of Minis - but they end up falling foul of the Mafia along the way. Crime comedy, starring Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Benny Hill, Tony Beckley and John Le Mesurier.
Soaps
EastEnders, 7.30 pm, BBC One
Emmerdale, 7.30 pm, ITV1
Hollyoaks, 6.30 pm, Channel 4
Home and Away, 6 pm, 5Star
If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…
Don't miss Bake Off: The Professionals on TV tonight.
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Happy viewing!
