Strictly: The Best, BBC1, 7.10pm
AFTER being paired with their professional partners in last week’s launch show, Strictly’s class of 2018 will be topping up their spray tans and learning to tell their fleckerls from their cucarachas. But if they want any further tips on how to make an impact on the dance floor, this one-off show should provide some handy hints. It finds some of the best-loved dancers from the past 15 series looking back on their Strictly experience and sharing their memories of their time in the ballroom. They’ll be reflecting on a few of the most iconic routines the show has ever produced, but also reminding us of the meltdowns and mishaps that come with learning to dance on live, primetime TV.
The Plague, BBC4, 9pm
THE Spanish historical drama set in 16th-century Seville reaches a conclusion with a double bill. Mateo and Valerio exhume German’s corpse and corroborate that he was also murdered by Ledesma. Meanwhile, Zuniga takes advantage of the plague, famine and popular uprisings to negotiate with the Assistant. He persuades him to open the city’s harbour, to allow the fleet from America to unload the shipments. Then, as the epidemic starts to decline, Inquisitor General Celso de Guevara hands Mateo the bull – granting his freedom – but the former soldier soon finds the case is far from over.
Killing Eve, BBC1, 9.15pm
IT has already picked up plaudits in America (including Emmy nominations for actress Sandra Oh and writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who also brought us the critically adored Fleabag), now British audiences can find out what the fuss is about as Killing Eve comes to BBC1. Based on the Codename Villanelle novellas by Luke Jennings, it stars Oh as the eponymous Eve, a whip-smart MI5 security officer whose deskbound job has so far failed to live up to her fantasies of being a spy. However, her life is about to get a lot more exciting as she’s given the task of protecting the only witness to the murder of a Russian politician – an assignment that puts her on a collisions course with the beautiful, mercurial assassin Villanelle (Doctor Foster’s Jodie Comer).
The Jonathan Ross Show, STV, 9.40pm
THE host is joined by actor Martin Clunes, who stars as Sir Pitt Crawley in ITV’s lavish period drama Vanity Fair. British sprinter Dina Asher-Smith, who won three gold medals at the recent European Athletics Championships, also drops by, along with singer-songwriter Josh Groban and comedian Leigh Francis, in character as the unpredictable Celebrity Juice presenter Keith Lemon. There is also music by Irish singer Hozier, who is performing on British TV for the first time since 2015.
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