The top TV to watch this week chosen by our experts – from BBC’s Return to Paradise to GBBO final

OUR experts person chosen immoderate of the champion programmes to ticker connected TV this week, and it's proving to beryllium afloat of indispensable ticker TV!

It's a engaged week for TV with BBC bringing Return To Paradise to screens, a reboot of 80s law play Matlock coming backmost to surface with Sky and and comic sitcom Smoggie Queens connected BBC3.

Sunday

Fletchers’ Family Farm, 11.30am, ITV1

It’s each spell astatine Kelvin and Liz Fletcher’s workplace successful the Peak District. Spring has sprung and lambing play is successful afloat swing. And to adhd to their immense array of livestock they’re astir to invited immoderate caller arrivals successful the signifier of 2 Lincoln Red cows, 1 of which has the cutest small calf successful tow.

Kelvin’s smitten, but determination are much urgent things to woody with erstwhile 1 of the sheep goes into a hard labour. Kelvin comes to rescue and helium and Liz prevention the ewe’s lamb.

It’s each successful a day’s enactment for the pair, who are present celebrating their 3rd twelvemonth connected the farm. It’s the gentlest amusement connected TV, a transverse betwixt Countryfile and All Creatures Great And Small, and what could beryllium much soothing than that?

Monday

24 Hours successful Police Custody: The Murder Messages, 9pm,  Channel 4

Now billed arsenic a existent crime show, this long-running bid returns, with a communicative of a mates who person online maltreatment which turns into decease threats that past accuses them of murder.

It escalates that police are past called to assorted ‘crime scenes’, lone to find thing - and the mates person nary thought who’s down it all.

But could the culprit prevarication adjacent to home? DC Emily Richardson investigates a lawsuit wherever thing is arsenic it appears. 

Irresistible: Why We Can’t Stop Eating, 9pm, BBC Two

By the clip you’ve finished watching Dr Chris Van Tulleken’s documentary you mightiness deliberation doubly earlier reaching for that biscuit oregon container of crisps.

He’s been examining the dangers of Ultra-Processed Foods for a fewer years, penning a bestseller connected the subject.

Yet successful making this caller programme, exploring subjects similar the chemic ingredients that lure america into buying processed food, helium learned scary facts astir products astir of america bargain play that are beauteous hard to stomach.

And portion outgo mightiness marque them appealing, the information is mediocre fare is Britain’s biggest killer. A fascinating acquisition for america all.

Tuesday

The Great British Bake Off final, 8pm, Channel 4

t’s clip to toast the caller champion, arsenic this year’s conflict of brioches and battenbergs ends. As ever we’ve enjoyed heartwarming camaraderie betwixt contestants, immoderate of whom volition spell down successful Bake Off history.

2024 volition beryllium remembered for wacky Slovak Nelly, who surely deserves her ain show. And who’ll hide the bantz betwixt joker Andy and Paul Hollywood? But tonight’s each astir finalists Christiaan, Dylan and Georgie.

First up they’re making saccharine and savoury scones. Will daring flavour combos springiness anyone the edge?

Next Paul and Prue privation day beverage and soggy cucumber sandwiches won’t chopped it!

And they’ll request dependable hands for the Showstopper, which calls for a hanging, tiered solemnisation barroom if you please. There’s nary clip to beryllium flaky with a situation similar that!

Matlock, Sky Witness 

“It’s not your grandad’s Matlock, that’s for sure,” says Kathy Bates, prima of this gender-flipping reboot of the archetypal 1980s US bid that coaxed her retired of retirement.

She plays Madeline ‘Matty’ Matlock, a erstwhile hotshot lawyer who, successful her seventies, rejoins the workforce successful a prestigious instrumentality firm.

She is assigned to elder lawyer Olympia (Skye P Marshall) and impresses Julian (Jason Ritter), the lad of the caput of the firm, by utilizing her kindly charm, humanity and contented to triumph cases possibly beyond her younger colleagues' capabilities. But why does Matty privation to enactment into her twilight years? 

Thursday

Smoggie Queens, BBC Three

Welcome to Middlesbrough, wherever beingness has a wont of kicking the flamboyant, if volatile, Dickie (Phil Dunning) erstwhile he’s down.

And he’s decidedly down erstwhile we archetypal conscionable him, having been dumped by his handsome boyfriend.

Thankfully, his adjacent knit pack of friends – kindly resistance queen Mam (Mark Benton), glamorous Lucinda (Alexandra Mardell), unimpressed Sal (Patsy Lowe) and the recently retired Stewart (Elijah Young) – are connected manus to assistance him get implicit it.

Trouble is, Dickie doesn’t privation to get implicit it, helium wants to amusement his ex what he’s missing - cue a hopeless dash to Whitby to clang a date.

Filled with quotable one-liners and loveable characters, Smoggie Queens is simply a sitcom that celebrates relationship and pride successful one’s hometown, making it a wonderfully heart-warming watch.

Friday

Return to Paradise, BBC One

Death successful Paradise’s Aussie based spin-off continues successful style, arsenic DI Mackenzie Clarke (Anna Samson) is fixed nary remainder erstwhile yet different decease rocks the residents of Dolphin Cove.

The town’s fittingness lovers are engaged moving successful a 10k amusive run, including wellness influencers, Jade and fellow Curtis.

But erstwhile the brace transverse the finishing line, Curtis clutches his thorax –  and collapses.

People fishy he’s had a bosom attack, but past Mackenzie reveals she received a mysterious telephone telephone from Curtis begging for her help, conscionable an hr earlier helium died.

“What are the reasons a acceptable feline similar Curtis would conscionable driblet dormant aft a race?” asks Mackenzie, arsenic she attempts to get to the bottommost of the foul play – with plentifulness of the franchise’s trademark twists, turns and humour...