Bake Off: The Professionals – The Final (C4, 8pm)
LIAM Charles and Tom Allen host the final, featuring the best three teams to appear over the past nine weeks. The first-round challenge is to make edible chocolate hats that can be worn by models in a catwalk show, accompanied by a set of 48 filled chocolates. The final challenge of the series involves creating a historical banquet in just seven hours, to be served to family and friends. Benoit Blin and Cherish Finden will then choose the winners. Last in the series.
Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby (BBC2, 8pm)
MONICA Galetti and Giles Coren visit Schloss Elmau, located deep in the snowy Bavarian Alps. It is promoted as providing a cultural hideaway that allows guests the chance to restore their minds, bodies and souls. Monica joins in one of the meditation sessions held every day for the restaurant staff, and Giles recites poetry and travels to a mountain hut to serve dinner, while dressed in lederhosen. They join the hotel guests for an evening performance featuring world-renowned musicians playing for free.
Joanna Lumley’s Unseen Adventures (STV, 9pm)
THIS series kicks off with a look at Lumley’s journey from Japan to Siberia, beginning on the frozen Japanese sea of Okhotsk. She also travels across China and Mongolia before arriving at Lake Baikal in Siberia, where the former New Avengers star meets some amazing seals. As millions of us dream of jetting off to such places, ideally with the Absolutely Fabulous veteran herself, this is the next best thing to being there.
Our Baby: A Modern Miracle (C4, 10pm)
MANY new parents call their little darlings “miracles” when they arrive in the world but what’s it like for new parents when you’re both transgender? Cameras follow trans couple Hannah and Jake Graf as they seek to start a family. Jake is an award-winning director who appeared in film The Danish Girl, while Captain Hannah Graf (nee Winterbourne) is an officer in the British Army. Made over 12 months, the film examines the story from their first meeting with a surrogate, through to their race to reach the birth of their child in the midst of lockdown.
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