This Time Next Year, STV, 8PM
HANKIES at the ready? Good, because you might need them after this helping of life-changing stories. Over the past few weeks we’ve been touched by a collection of moving tales, including a woman determined to have a wedding party, five years after her big day, and a young autistic man hoping to secure his first paid job. Now, in the last of the series, Davina McCall meets a grandfather who wants this to be the year he finally learns to read and write. Also taking centre stage is a girl with big ambitions for starting school.
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer, C4, 8pm
COMEDIAN James Acaster, actor Russell Tovey, TV presenter Rylan Clark-Neal and actress Michelle Keegan take on three challenges as the contest continues. They face three tough tasks set by judges Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood. They must make topped flapjacks for the signature challenge, face a tricky technical, then they are asked to create their “happy places” out of meringue for the showstopper challenge. Who will flap at the first hurdle, and who will be crowned star baker?
Shetland, BBC1, 9pm
PEREZ interviews Andrea Doyle. Initially petulant, she becomes scared when he explains the charges against her and reluctantly agrees to show him the safe house. The detectives are horrified to discover Nikki’s body dumped in the garden, wrapped in bin liners. A distraught Olivia comes dangerously close to driving herself and Jamie Hayes over the edge of a cliff and a hungover Duncan makes a shocking discovery when he wakes up on the beach.
Home, C4, 9.45pm
THIS is a golden time for Rufus Jones. After a scene-stealing turn as Bernard Delfont in comedy drama Stan and Ollie, he’s earning kudos for this self-penned sitcom about Sami (Youssef Kerkour), a Syrian refugee who is taken under the wing of a bickering middle-class family. In the second episode, Sami is an official asylum seeker. Katy (Rebekah Staton) is determined their “guest” should stay for as long as he needs to, despite what Peter (Jones) thinks.
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