Choose of the day: Joanna Lumley’s Spice Path Journey
9pm, ITV1
The Ab Fab actress embarks on considered one of her most epic voyages but, as she heads by way of the world’s best spice producers – touring Indonesia, Zanzibar, India and Madagascar. She begins in Indonesia, and a group of distant islands so small that her first problem is discovering them on the map. She meets a household on the Banda Islands who make their dwelling from nutmeg, uncovers the darkish historical past of Banda’s previous and discovers that its charms as soon as attracted A-list celebrities. And within the capital, Jakarta, Lumley investigates the mass attraction of clove cigarettes and develops a
liking for Indonesian pop music.
The Nice British Stitching Bee
9pm, BBC One
Heralded by Blur’s “Parklife” on the soundtrack, it’s 90s Week within the studio, beginning with the remaining sewers making cargo pants. Within the transformation problem – taking material scrap and turning them into tributes to 90s icons – the sewers lean closely into the Spice Women, whereas the made-to-measure job is impressed by the last decade’s supermodels. Glamorous, in brief.
Extraordinary Escapes with Sandi Toksvig
9pm, Channel 4
An eco-build in Rutland product of upcycled grain silos that boasts a wood-fired hot-tub and a disco toilet, and a rebooted Nineteen Seventies seashore home in Lincolnshire the place Toksvig learns that “Netflix and chill” doesn’t imply what she thinks it does – these are among the many stopovers as Rosie Jones accompanies the QI host across the Midlands.
Physique on the Seaside: What Occurred to Annie?
9pm, BBC Three
A four-part true-crime docuseries seems to be into the dying of Swede Annie Borjesson, whose physique was found on Prestwick seashore in Scotland in December 2005. Hazel Martin investigates why Annie’s dying was so shortly written off by police as a suicide, meets mates who described her as being completely happy on the time, and a forensic pathologist.
Ken Jeong as Dave Lee and Awkwafina as Nora in Awkwafina is Nora from Queens (Picture: BBC/Comedy Central/Matt Infante)
The Change
10pm, Channel 4
The concluding double-bill of Bridget Christie’s menopause comedy – “Shirley Valentine meets Deliverance” as she has described it – and it’s the much-discussed Eel Competition. Linda (Christie) is the primary Eel Queen, which concerned a number of undignified manhandling by Carmel and Agnes (Monica Dolan and Susan Lynch). “You possibly can’t knock individuals out and alter their garments,” she tells them, not unreasonably.
Awkwafina is Nora From Queens
10pm, BBC Three
The Loopy Wealthy Asians star’s semi-autobiographical sitcom returns with Nora (Awkwafina) having nightmares that she is afraid to share along with her household. She’s nonetheless working within the deli, whereas cousin Edmund’s appearing profession is taking off, making Nora ponder whether remedy is perhaps the reply. “Chinese language individuals don’t do remedy,” her grandma insists.
Meals for Ravens
10.10pm, BBC 4
Succession’s Brian Cox performs the NHS’s founding father, Labour politician Aneurin “Nye” Bevan, in Trevor Griffiths’ 2008 biopic bow being proven to mark the seventy fifth anniversary of the founding of the well being service. Taking its title from a Seventh-century Welsh poem, the play focuses on Bevan’s remaining days as he muses on his life and profession.
