Jamie’s Quick and Easy Food, C4, 8pm
JAMIE Oliver returns with more stress-free recipes, perfect for busy days but designed to deliver maximum flavour. Here, he serves up super-fast peachy pork chops, peas, beans, chilli and mint, and berry meringue ripple – a ridiculously easy pudding to assemble in an emergency. To top it all off, the chef also prepares the fastest roast chicken ever – a harissa chicken traybake. As usual, these dishes require just five ingredients.
Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back, C4, 8.30pm
HE’S an acclaimed stand-up comedian and as The Great British Sewing Bee showed, he has a gift for putting stressed-out stitchers at ease. But Joe Lycett also has another talent: complaining. He has entertained audiences with his tales of taking on officials, including a now-legendary campaign against a parking fine. Now he’s about to use that skill to get consumer justice for the great British public, whether it’s poor customer service, shocking practices or out-and-out scams.
Have I Got News for You, BBC1, 9pm
DAVID Dimbleby makes a return to presenting to keep order in the first episode in Have I Got News for You’s 57th series. Dimbleby called the chance to appear “an intriguing invitation” and added: “When chairing Question Time I became used to dealing with difficult panellists, but Ian Hislop and Paul Merton are another matter.” Joining them are Stacey Dooley and German comedian Henning Wehn.
Pilgrimage: The Road to Rome, BBC2, 9pm
LAST year a group of famous faces set out on a medieval pilgrimage, the Camino de Santiago, for a BBC2 documentary. Now, in the run-up to Easter, the channel is bringing us another series which sees more celebrities giving up their creature comforts to embark on a gruelling journey that will test them physically and spiritually. Their mission is to complete the 600-mile Italian section of the ancient Via Francigena Pilgrimage, starting in the Swiss Alps and ending in St Peter’s Square, Rome.
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