The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer (C4, 8pm)
NO offence to any other celebrity challenge show, but Bake Off has a particularly impressive track record when it comes to attracting big names – and for this latest run of specials, it has really outdone itself. Future episodes will feature James McAvoy, Jade Thirlwall and Dizzee Rascal, but we begin with Star Wars actor Daisy Ridley, comedian Rob Beckett, pop star Alexandra Burke and comedian Tom Allen.
Caroline Aherne at the BBC (BBC1, 9pm)
HER last role before her untimely death in 2016 was as the narrator of Channel 4’s Gogglebox, but Caroline Aherne will nevertheless always be associated with the BBC. After starting out on radio and making a handful of brief TV appearances, she first made her mark as a mock chat show host in The Mrs Merton Show. Aherne was a member of The Fast Show cast before she and Cash scored their biggest hit with The Royle Family. In this celebration of her career, her old pal John Thomson introduces clips from them all.
DNA Family Secrets (BBC2, 9pm)
THIS fascinating series continues as Stacey Dooley invites more people with some big questions to try to find the answers via DNA test. This week, she meets Duri, who fears she may carry a potentially fatal genetic mutation and the presenter also hears the story of a woman who was adopted when she was just six months old. She’s hoping that the latest DNA technology could help her to learn more about her biological family’s background.
The Painter and the Thief (Sky Arts, 9pm)
THIS Norwegian documentary, directed by Benjamin Ree, begins with a brazen daylight robbery, as two men are caught by security cameras, breaking into a gallery and stealing two paintings by Barbora Kysilkova. One of the men, Karl Bertil-Nordland, is caught and tried. At the hearing, Barbora works up the courage to ask if they can talk, and quickly thereafter asking if she can paint him. Bertil claims to not remember a thing about the day of the robbery. Over the years, we get to see how the relationship between the artist and her muse developed.
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