The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer (Channel 4, 8pm)
OSCAR winner Richard Dreyfuss, former EastEnder Patsy Palmer,
The Inbetweeners star James Buckley and TV personality Scarlett Moffatt take part in the culinary challenge. Presenters Sandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding guide them through the assorted tasks, while Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith pass judgment on their baking skills. The quartet is tasked with making roulades for the Signature challenge, alongside a tricky
Technical and their favourite place in the form of a cake for their Showstopper.
The Art Mysteries (BBC Four, 8.30pm)
THEY are among the most celebrated masterpieces of art, and yet, hidden inside them are codes and puzzles that no-one has been able to decipher ... yet. In this new series, Waldemar Januszczak sets out to uncover the secret meanings and mysteries hidden in famous paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and Seurat. We begin with Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait With Bandaged Ear and a steamy tale of geishas, brothels, bullfights, broken love and artistic jealousy is revealed.
Penance (Channel 5, 9pm)
SHOWING across three nights, this new drama stars Julie Graham as Rosalie Douglas, whose family implodes after her son Rob is found dead. Rosalie struggles to accept that Rob’s death was nothing more than a terrible accident, while her husband, Luke (Neil Morrissey), moves out and their teenage daughter Maddie (Tallulah Greive) seems to be going off the rails. But then, new hope arrives in form of Jed (Nico Mirallegro), a charismatic young man the family meets at bereavement counselling.
The Split (BBC1, 9pm)
HANNAH reveals to Ruth that Nathan has left her, while Fi is furious when Richie fails to show up to take the children to school as agreed. After Nina encourages Zander to sort things out with Tyler, telling them what he’s done is not irredeemable, the two of them agree to go ahead with their plan of having their stag night that evening. The second season of the drama, written by Abi Morgan, comes to its conclusion. Starring Nicola Walker, Stephen Mangan, Deborah Findlay and Annabel Scholey.
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