The Gadget Show, C5, 7pm
SERIES 29 of Craig Charles’s ever-engaging strand kicks off with regulars Jon Bentley, Ortis Deley and Georgie Barrat exploring the gadget evolution we will experience this year and beyond. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, rollable TV screens and foldable phones are two of the technological advances on offer. As futuristic hyper-quality pictures could be the norm in the months and years to come, organic LED 4K TVs are also examined. Jon profiles the best of the bunch.
MasterChef: The Finals, BBC1, 8.30pm
AFTER several weeks of gruelling challenges comes the moment millions of cooking fans have been waiting for: the final. As the search for the country’s best amateur chef reaches its climax, the last three contestants have to come up with the goods before judges Gregg Wallace and John Torode choose the victor. There’s just three more hours for them to produce jaw-droppingly good food for the judges.
Gardeners’ World, BBC2, 8.30pm
MONTY Don gets busy on the vegetable plot and takes the next step in planting up his new paradise garden. With Mothering Sunday around the corner, he also provides some timely inspiration for planting up a spring pot as a present. Frances Tophill is thrilled to have her own allotment this year and here shares her plans for the season ahead, making a start on getting it shipshape.
Australia: Earth’s Magical Kingdom, BBC2, 9pm
AN exploration of how native creatures have adapted to survive in the human environment. In Melbourne, tree-dwelling possums have taken to sharing trees in city parks, risking encounters with traffic and cats. In Brisbane’s parks, over the past 150 years of so, eastern water dragons have become twice the size of their wild cousins and without trees to climb their limbs are getting longer and claws shorter. Beyond the cities, dingoes eke out an existence in the inhospitable environment of a desert goldmine.
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