The Great British Bake Off
8pm, Channel 4
In recent years, Bake Off has started to feel like a show on borrowed time. But here we are again with a new batch of keen and charming bakers attempting to impress the increasingly demanding judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith, with Alison Hammond and Noel Fielding returning as jocular, empathetic ringmasters. We begin, sensibly, with cakes – specifically, the loaf cake. Phil Harrison
Designing the Hebrides
7pm, BBC Two
Aussie interior designer Banjo Beale sets sail for the island of Harris to meet cheery herbalist Amanda. Her apothecary shop is packed with fragrant potions, but is ultimately just a big industrial shed. Beale and his team are tasked with transforming it into something a little more magical within a brutally tight timeframe. Graeme Virtue
Nadiya’s Cook Once, Eat Twice
7.30pm, BBC Two
The Bake Off champ turned ally of busy working parents everywhere has another set of time-saving ideas for weekday meals, without the food waste. Fancy a Mongolian beef stir-fry that can be repurposed as sushi-style wraps? Or a way to transform stale bread into a delicious breakfast granola? Nadiya Hussain has got you sorted. Ellen E Jones
M&S: Dress the Nation
8pm, ITV1
The competition that doubles as an attempt to drag venerable but ponderous high-street giant M&S into the 21st century continues. It’s lingerie week, and model and actor Rosie Huntington-Whiteley joins the panel as a guest judge as another contender bites the dust. PH
Into the Jungle With Ed Stafford
9.30pm, Channel 4
Tough love for struggling families in this new series, in which former soldier Stafford invites fathers and children into the Central American wilderness for a series of challenging but fulfilling outdoor experiences. They start with a scary leap from a cliff into deep water – which amusingly dents the ego of one particularly overconfident dad. PH
Colin from Accounts
10pm, BBC Two
What elevates this sublime sitcom from good to great are the moments of emotional clarity and acuity nestled among the laughs. Ash is trying to make amends for her hurtful comment but is making things worse, while Gordon is channelling his grief into an attempt to turn Colin into a screen star. PH
Film choice
Official Competition (Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat, 2021), 9pm, Film4
Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn’s film-making satire explores the clash between collaboration and solipsism that is inevitable when a feted director and two top actors meet. Penélope Cruz is the director, Lola, who casts theatre actor Iván (Oscar Martínez) and film star Félix (Antonio Banderas) in her new work. The two actors are poles apart in their methods, but equally vain and self-aggrandising, while Lola has an idiosyncratic approach to her craft. Cue relishable comic backbiting and an excess of thespy emoting, with Martínez and Banderas serving as great sparring partners. Simon Wardell
Second Coming (Debbie Tucker Green, 2014), 1.25am, Film4
Nadine Marshall’s benefits office worker, Jackie, discovers she is pregnant. But why is she reluctant to tell her husband, Mark (Idris Elba), or son JJ (Kai Francis Lewis)? From that setup, writer-director Debbie Tucker Green builds an intriguing narrative of a family unit slowly drifting apart. The film’s title and Jackie’s visions of cascades of water in her bathroom hint that something else is going on – but it’s a sly, evasive film, posing as a tale of domestic life but suggesting so much more. SW
