Celebrity Gogglebox, C4, 9pm
RYLAN Clark-Neal winding mum Linda up on his Saturday Radio 2 show is always a joy. Now we get to watch the duo giving their opinions on the week’s TV, along with other famous faces. Kelly Osbourne and her friend Sammy Barratt-Singh; Denise van Outen and boyfriend Eddie Boxshall; Oti Mabuse and sisters Motsi and Phemelo; Chris Eubank Sr and Chris Eubank Jr, and I’m a Celebrity veteran Stanley Johnson and Georgia ‘Toff’ Toffolo also take part.
The Nile: Egypt’s Great River with Bettany Hughes, C5, 9pm
BETTANY visits the west bank of the Nile opposite Luxor where, for 500 years, the Ancient Egyptians buried their pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings, among them the boy-king Tutankhamun. However, the historian crosses the local hills to the Workers’ Village, where generations of skilled royal tomb-builders lived. As it turns out, they also dumped masses of domestic rubbish, which is now giving some insight into the highs, lows and preoccupations of ancient Egyptians. Bettany then heads south on the Nile’s oldest steam ship SS Sudan, which inspired Agatha Christie to write Death on the Nile.
The Looming Tower, BBC2, 9pm
SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 is just another day at the office for John O’Neill, now the World Trade Centre’s chief of security – until disaster strikes. Then no one can get hold of him. In Yemen, FBI agent Ali Soufan is with other Americans being evacuated when he is summoned back to the US Embassy. The CIA needs his expertise to confirm if the hijacked aircraft attacks are the work of al-Qaeda, so local agent John Chihoyne finally hands over intelligence Soufan has been requesting for months.
Code 37: Sex Crimes, More4, 9pm
THE Belgian crime thriller continues as Chief Inspector Hannah Maes and her squad continue to deal with the most disturbing sexual crimes committed in the city of Ghent. Hannah is also driven to find her mother’s rapist.
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