What's on? Top 10 TV and streaming tips for Monday

November 25, 2024
What's on? Top 10 TV and streaming tips for Monday

Upfront with Katie Hannon looks at immigration, Irresistible: Why We Can't Stop Eating tackles today's food choices, cop drama Crá continues, while Panorama explores binge-drinking amongst women . . .

Pick of the Day

As the countdown to Friday's general election continues, tonight’s episode of Upfront is an immigration special.

Katie Hannon puts questions on this emotive subject to a panel of General Election candidates and they answer the audience's questions on the issue.

New or Returning Shows

Irresistible: Why We Can't Stop Eating, 9.00pm, BBC Two

Doctor and academic Chris van Tulleken (below) examines why ultra-processed foods have come to dominate food culture, with former food industry insiders talking about the way in which popular foods are designed to be irresistible.

They reveal companies go to extraordinary lengths to ensure their products connect with consumers, from using brain scans to assess the deliciousness of ice-cream to carefully engineering the sound of a crunch.

Angela Merkel: The Woman Who Ran Europe, 7.00pm, BBC Two

The retired German politician Angela Merkel (below) speaks to the BBC's Europe editor Katya Adler in a rare interview after she stepped down as chancellor of Germany nearly three years ago.

Rory Peck Awards, 7.55pm, Channel 4

Vladimir Sevrinovsky, the first of four film-makers in the running for this year's awards that celebrate efforts to bring the world's stories to the screen.

Sevrinovsky risked his own safety to tell stories of the Russian families whose sons and husbands have vanished in Putin's war, including a woman burying a dead stranger who shares her husband's name to claim her war widow's pension.

Don’t Miss

Crá, 9.30pm, TG4

While the official investigation puts Conall firmly in the frame for his mother's murder, Conall follows a lead involving his college friends who were present the night Sabine was killed.

Meanwhile, the filming of a crime scene reconstruction unsettles the parish.

MasterChef: The Professionals, 9.00pm, BBC One

The 12 best chefs from the heats return for knockout week, which begins with an invention test.

Each of the judges will pick a favourite to go through to the next round, while the others face a further test - to come up with an accompanying dish using whatever ingredients are left from the first round.

At the end of the episode, two of the contenders will be eliminated.

Panorama, 8.30pm, BBC One

An episode subtitled Binge Drinking and Me looks at the sharp rise in alcohol-related deaths from liver disease among women under 40 over the last decade - and asks why?

BBC journalist Hazel Martin, who is 32, goes on a personal journey to find the answer as one of a growing number of young women who have experienced alcohol-related liver damage, despite not regarding herself as being dependent on alcohol.

Talking to doctors, patients and experts on the drinks industry, Hazel discovers that a key cause is Britain's binge-drinking culture and explores what can be done about it.

New to Stream

Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey, Netflix

On December 26, 1996, John and Patsy Ramsey woke up the morning after a loving family Christmas to discover their youngest child, six-year-old JonBenét, was missing, a chilling ransom note left downstairs.

Later that day, John Ramsey discovered his daughter's body in the basement, revealing the shocking truth that JonBenét had not been kidnapped, but was instead sexually assaulted and brutally murdered in their own home.

The Boulder, Colorado police, who had little practical experience in homicide investigations, quickly cast suspicion on JonBenét's family as the most likely suspects, fanning the flames of media scrutiny and largely one-sided reporting, turning the case into a national obsession.

Twenty-eight years later, that obsession - and finger-pointing - hasn’t gone away, and the murder of JonBenét Ramsey remains unsolved.

From Emmy-winning and Academy Award nominated director Joe Berlinger, this three-part docuseries investigates the mishandling of the case by law enforcement and the media.

Terrifier 3, Sky Store Premiere & NOW

After surviving Art the Clown's Halloween massacre, Sienna and her brother are struggling to rebuild their shattered lives.

As the Christmas holiday season approaches, they try to embrace the Christmas spirit and leave the horrors of the past behind.

But just when they think they're safe, Art the Clown returns, determined to turn their holiday cheer into a new nightmare.

The festive season quickly unravels as Art unleashes his twisted brand of terror, proving that no holiday is safe.

Tsunami: Race Against Time, Disney+

This promises to be the definitive story of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the deadliest in history.

It follows the wave coast to coast as it spreads, with unseen archive video and stories of survival and courage in the face of impossible odds.

The documentary also features scientists who raced to understand the unfolding disaster and warn the world, journalists who broke the news, and rescuers who risked everything to save others.

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