South Africa with Gregg Wallace (STV, 7.30pm)
GREGG Wallace sets off to explore South Africa’s most famous and best loved landscapes and experiences. Along the way his love of food unlocks its culture, landscapes and people. Over the next six weeks, the MasterChef judge will explore the country’s bucket-list destinations – Cape Town, The Whale Coast, Soweto, a Zulu village in the Garden Province and the magnificent Augrabies Waterfalls in the Kalahari Desert. However, he begins tonight by going on safari at the Amakhala Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape.
How To Lose Weight Well (Channel 4, 8pm)
DR Helen Lawal and Dr Javid Abdelmoneim ask people to try the most hyped-up diets on the market. Sisters Lesley and Debra, from Essex, road-test two routines followed by celebs Adele and Rebel Wilson – a Sirtfood diet and the Mayr Method. Friends Temi and Bose want to shed a few pounds for Temi’s 30th birthday drinks and drinking pals Maurice and Mick want to lose weight before attempting the Three Peaks walk in Yorkshire.
Cheetah Family & Me (BBC2, 9pm)
HAVING spent time with groups of black bears, grizzly bears, polar bears, snow wolves, gorillas, elephants, reindeer and snow cats, among others, Gordon Buchanan is now focusing on a family of cheetahs. The Scottish wildlife filmmaker heads to South Africa’s stunning Tswalu Kalahari Reserve to learn more about the threats that the world’s fastest land animal faces, both from nature and humans. Gordon meets cheetah expert and guide Richard Satekge, and together they track a mother cheetah and four of her six-month-old cubs.
Ben Fogle: New Lives In The Wild (Channel 5, 9pm)
BEN Fogle returns with a new run of the show in which he meets people who have given up the ways of western civilisation to embrace the wild and live offbeat lives. Covid-19 may have curbed his travels, but Ben has still managed to find some eccentric characters in the UK. He begins the new series by moving in with a couple who gave up their careers as vets to live on the side of a mountain in Pembrokeshire with their two children.
Why are you making commenting on The National only available to subscribers?
We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
Unfortunately, though, these important debates are being spoiled by a vocal minority of trolls who aren’t really interested in the issues, try to derail the conversations, register under fake names, and post vile abuse.
So that’s why we’ve decided to make the ability to comment only available to our paying subscribers. That way, all the trolls who post abuse on our website will have to pay if they want to join the debate – and risk a permanent ban from the account that they subscribe with.
The conversation will go back to what it should be about – people who care passionately about the issues, but disagree constructively on what we should do about them. Let’s get that debate started!
Callum Baird, Editor of The National
Comments: Our rules
We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused.
Please report any comments that break our rules.
Read the rules here