TV tonight: Paul Hollywood gobbles insects and bashes piñatas in Mexico

Paul Hollywood Eats Mexico

9pm, Channel 4

If watching Paul Hollywood choke on a chilli, wince at tequila and shove humongous bugs down his throat appears like an gratifying strategy to move an hour, right here’s a three-part sequence that includes the Bake Off choose consuming his manner round Mexico. First up, in Mexico Metropolis he finds the perfect tacos he’s ever had (the nation will get via 4bn of them a 12 months, based on Hollywood) and will get carried away bashing piñatas. Hollie Richardson

McDonald & Dodds

8pm, ITV

When a shady medium makes a grisly discovery close to Glastonbury Tor, the odd-couple cops are referred to as in to analyze. Useful clues are in every single place however there is only one downside: all of them appear to implicate DS Dodds (Jason Watkins). Does the owlish sleuth (and pickled onion connoisseur) have a darkish secret? Graeme Advantage

The Outlaws

9pm, BBC One

The ultimate episode opens with the gang in acquainted territory: a police interview room. How did getting ready to unveil the newly refurbished Group Centre land them there? A flashback to 3 days earlier supplies drama-packed solutions. HR

Wi-fi Pageant 2022

9pm, BBC Three

One other summer time evening, one other pageant. This time, it’s Finsbury Park’s celebration of rap and R&B. Tonight’s performances: Cardi B, Roddy Ricch, Giveon, ArrDee, Mahalia, Summer season Walker, Jack Harlow, HER and Lil Child. HR

Das Boot

9pm, Sky Atlantic

The drama wryly often called “Das Reboot” continues to do a lot with not very a lot – the claustrophobia of the underwater setting provides depth to the narratives reasonably than limiting them. Tonight, Swinburn’s destroyers are closing in on U-949. As he begins to expire of choices, Konstantin Gries’s Commander Buchner contemplates a dangerous manoeuvre. Phil Harrison

Roswell 75: The Last Proof

9pm, Sky Historical past

It’s 75 years since, based on UFO fanatics, aliens crash-landed in New Mexico, with their presence then lined up by the Man. This movie checks among the hottest theories, within the firm of two UFO consultants, a scientist and, err, a magician. May unseen testimony from an eyewitness blow the entire case broad open? Jack Seale

Movie alternative

Oliver Twist,2.40pm, Speaking Footage TV

John Howard Davies and Francis L. Sullivan in the 1948 adaptation of Oliver Twist.
John Howard Davies and Francis L. Sullivan within the 1948 adaptation of Oliver Twist.
Photograph: Cinetext Bildarchiv/Cineguild/Allstar

David Lean adopted his Nice Expectations with one other high-quality, unsentimental Dickens adaptation in 1948. In a splendidly realised London of harmful shadows and dirty brickwork, orphan Oliver (John Howard Davies) falls in with criminals Fagin (Alec Guinness) and Sikes (Robert Newton). Shot from a baby’s eye view, it's filled with peril and wit – and options one of many nice items of canine appearing from Sikes’s terrier Bullseye. If you happen to fancy the identical story on a lighter word, Lionel Bart’s musical Oliver! is on Sky Cinema Greats on Tuesday. Simon Wardell

North By Northwest, 12.55am, TCM Films

Saul Bass titles, Bernard Herrmann soundtrack, Cary Grant, a blond femme fatale (Eva Marie Saint on this case) – all the weather for a traditional Alfred Hitchcock movie are in place right here. And it’s a cracking thriller, with Grant’s New York promoting govt mistaken for a US agent by James Mason’s international spy, earlier than utilizing his wits and allure to evade the police and baddies in a cross-country pursuit. From a crop-dusting airplane assault to the Mount Rushmore climax, Hitchcock retains the viewer and Grant always – and entertainingly – on the run. SW

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