TV tonight: Our highlights for Tuesday, July 4

Lucy Buglass
·4 min read
Ross Kemp as Tony stands beside Beth Alsbury in a wheelchair as Hannah in front of a bank of CCTV screens in Blindspot.
Ross Kemp as Tony stands beside Beth Alsbury in a wheelchair as Hannah in front of a bank of CCTV screens in Blindspot.

On TV tonight, Ross Kemp's new drama Blindspot is here, there's more from The Yorkshire Vet, and there are some culinary delights as both Bake Off: The Professionals and Cooking With The Stars return. 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

  • Keep up to date with the latest soap spoiler storylines on TV tonight with our daily soap synopsis

  • For more information about what’s on TV tonight see our TV Guide

What's on TV tonight

Our expert TV journalists have picked the best things on TV tonight...

Best TV shows on TV tonight

Blindspot, 9 pm, Channel 5

Ross Kemp has been pretty busy putting his life on the line in a plethora of gritty documentaries over the past few years, but now he’s making a welcome return to the slightly safer world of acting as hard-nosed but inscrutable cop Tony Warden in this tense and twisty four-part thriller. The action follows wheelchair-user Hannah (talented rising star Beth Alsbury), who works in a CCTV operations centre and becomes convinced that she has spotted a murderer on screen.

However, when she tells Tony what she has seen, he is dismissive, but can determined Hannah crack the case as she lands herself in danger? Continues daily until Friday.

★★★★ CC

The Yorkshire Vet, 8 pm, Channel 5

The Yorkshire Vet season 16: members of the veterinary practice posing together
The Yorkshire Vet season 16: members of the veterinary practice posing together

First into Donaldson’s surgery today are sisters Jade and Caitlin with their pygmy goat Eugene. Eugene has a rare form of jaw cancer which, as a farm animal, would not normally be treated by a veterinary surgeon, but this goat is a much-loved therapy pet to Caitlin, who is autistic.

Will the chemo help give Eugene a longer life? Elsewhere, Julian’s friend ‘Exotic Joe’ has called him to castrate four alpacas at his petting zoo. Cue lots of testicle banter between Julian and Joe and in rude response spitting from the South American boys!

★★★★ MC

Cooking with the Stars season 3, 9 pm, ITV1

Cooking With The Stars season 3 contestants
Cooking With The Stars season 3 contestants

The cookery contest pairing up celebrities keen to improve their culinary skills with well-known Chef Mentors is back. Hosts Tom Allen and Emma Willis return to chivvy things along, but this time it’s personal as one of the hopefuls is Emma’s husband Matt Willis.

The Busted star is one of four (out of a total of eight) cooks in the kitchen tonight and he takes on Corrie’s Samia Longchambon in a Cooking Battle, but not before Joanna Page goes head-to-head with Peter Andre. The theme is the food of Italy, with two celebs facing the Cook Off in which they must prepare a dish they’ve never seen before to avoid elimination. Buon appetito! 

★★★ NT

Bake Off: The Professionals, 8 pm, Channel 4

Bake Off: The Professionals hosts and judges
Bake Off: The Professionals hosts and judges

The reality show is back and this time Liam Charles is joined by a new co-host, comedian and actor Ellie Taylor. Benoit Blin and Cherish Finden return to judge as the contestants are set a number of challenges, from secret tasks to a Showpiece that must be suspended in mid-air.

Family favourites such as bread and butter pudding and banoffee pie are recreated, while pavlova, peach melba and mille-feuille are reimagined. And, as always, you can expect some madcap designs. It’s enough to send you running to the nearest bakery.

★★★★ NH

Best box set on TV tonight

The Witcher season 3, Netflix

Geralt (Henry Cavill) standing in front of a portal in The Witcher season 3
Geralt (Henry Cavill) standing in front of a portal in The Witcher season 3

Season three – split into two, with five episodes released today, and three on 27 July – finds monster-hunting hero Geralt (Henry Cavill) joining forces with Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) to protect Princess Ciri (Freya Allan) from the monsters, mages and monarchs plotting to capture her. But when Yennefer shows Ciri how to harness her powers and leads her and Geralt to the fortress of Aretuza, the trio become cornered by dark magic… Hugh Skinner joins the cast as King Vizimir’s playboy brother Prince Radovid, while Cavill bows out this season, leaving Liam Hemsworth to take over as Geralt.

RM

Best film on TV tonight

Mission: Impossible 2, 9 pm, Film4

Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) dangles over a floor teeming with sensors as he tries to hack the C.I.A. mainframe in Langley, Virginia in order to catch a mole threatening to expose the true identities of its agents across the globe.
Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) dangles over a floor teeming with sensors as he tries to hack the C.I.A. mainframe in Langley, Virginia in order to catch a mole threatening to expose the true identities of its agents across the globe.

Secret agent Ethan Hunt sent to find and destroy the only sample of a deadly man-made virus. However, he faces tough opposition in a former spy-turned-criminal mastermind who has already acquired the cure and now wants the pathogen itself. Director John Woo's action thriller sequel, starring Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton and Anthony Hopkins.

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Live Sport

  • Wimbledon, from 10am, BBC One and BBC Two

If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…

Don't miss Blindspot on TV tonight.

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Happy viewing!