What To Watch Next Week

A definitive guide to the best telly on air next week!

Monday 1st February

C4, 5pm – Mend It For Money

We Brits are sitting on a potential goldmine of unused items in dire need of a new lease of life - from clapped out classic cars to battered icons of a bygone era. In the Mend It for Money workshop, owners have the opportunity to unlock their items' true value. In this new series, a team of Britain's best makers and menders go head-to-head, pitching for the job of bringing these dilapidated relics back to life in return for a share of the item's sale price. But which of the restorers will offer the best deal and possess the skills and market nous to turn them both a tidy profit? In this first episode, former screen painter Julie brings in a vintage F.H. Ayres rocking horse. Over 100 years old, this champion steed is just one of eight she has in her collection - but now it's looking for a new home. Competing for the job are woodworking experts Bruce Kenneth and Paul Commander. Which one will Julie choose to breathe new life into this old charger, and get it ready for the races? Self-employed bike restorer Kyle brings in a rare find - a 1930s Post Office bicycle. Its colour suggests it would have been owned by a postmaster, making it highly collectable. But can our restorers bring it back to its original condition and realise its true value? Finally, retired couple Monica and Tony bring in a rather unusual item - a chair that's also a toilet. It's time for furniture restorers Steve Popple and JoJo Wood to fight for the right to potty...

Mend it for Money

 

C4, 9pm – 999: What’s Your Emergency?

Continuing the new run of the series that reveals first-hand what it takes to maintain law and order in Britain today. Filmed with South Yorkshire Police, this episode returns to the moment that the coronavirus first hit - with everyone propelled headlong into a strange new world, struggling to keep pace with the dramatic impact on everyday life. The crisis has affected every aspect of policing, from the first point of contact in the call handling centre to the rapid adaptation of front-line protocols. In February 2020, call handlers suddenly see a sharp influx of anxious calls, with a corresponding increase in erratic behaviour from the public. 'It was crazy,' says PC Chris Shepherd, 'I was having to put public order vans out because people were fighting over toilet roll.' Across South Yorkshire more than 85,000 pensioners live alone. On the outskirts of Rotherham Sgt Edward Darby and PC Steve Ingliss check on a worried pensioner who appears to have fallen prey to a bogus NHS official. 'Times have changed, we've all changed, and unfortunately crime has, too.' As the government issues the first national guidelines to combat the spread of the virus, the police come under even more pressure. 'The phones blew up', says call handler Megan Parker, 'people went mental. You didn't know what to say to people, the guidelines were so vague. You just felt you were as clueless as the people who were ringing up.' When the first total lockdown is declared, call handlers experience a surge in calls - from increased domestic violence and substance abuse to people suffering mental health trauma and multiple reports of guideline breaches. Police responding to reports of potential damage and abuse are inhibited by the prospective danger of physical contact with alleged attackers who may pass on the virus. Since the start of the pandemic, it's estimated that nearly a million people have lost jobs; with millions more facing financial hardship. A year on from the start of the crisis, police are seeing more crimes committed by people with no previous convictions, and remain under immense pressure to keep essential services going as well as continuing to adapt to the ongoing national emergency.

999

 

Tuesday 2nd February

C4, 8pm – Secret Safari: Into The Wild

Kenya's breathtaking conservancy Ol Pejeta is one of the last remaining untamed places on Earth and one of the most important wildlife conservancies. A vast open wilderness that protects any animal within its 90,000 acres, Ol Pejeta is home to a wide range of species, from elephants, rhinos, hippos and lions to hyenas, ostriches and cocktail ants. Ol Pejeta is the setting for this new series, taking viewers on an intimate journey into the lives of an incredible cast of 13,000 wild animals. The animals' stories are told by the people who know them best - a team of dedicated rangers who live and work side by side with the creatures that they help to protect. With unprecedented access, this series reveals on an epic scale the huge emotional investment and the genuine physical danger that staff experience working to protect some of the world's rarest and most beautiful creatures. Narrated by actor Andrew Scott, each episode explores stories of birth, life and death. In this episode, hyena cub and runt of the litter Neville is always last in the dinner queue. But then he spots a dead antelope. In the protected area, zebra foal Theo is threatened by a leopard who has stolen into the herd's enclosure. And 'teenage' rhino Vumbi, who's reluctant to leave his mother, is encouraged by rangers to strike out on his own to find a mate.

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M4, 9pm – Chatsworth House: A Great British Year

Filmed throughout 2020, this new series offers a unique insight into one of Britain's best loved stately homes, with unprecedented access during extraordinary times. Chatsworth House is the historic Derbyshire Treasure House that provided the inspiration and iconic backdrop for Pride and Prejudice and has been seat to the Cavendish family since 1549. The 12th Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, Stoker and Amanda Cavendish, and their community of 800 staff take us on a fascinating - and often emotional - journey through one of the most challenging years in the stately home's five-century history. With a host of characters, humour, enchanting history, the beautiful Derbyshire countryside and access to the aristocracy, this series reveals how a unique British institution, now a modern phenomenon, navigates through a year like no other. As winter approaches and 2020 draws to a close, the Chatsworth House team look to the future. In the library, the Duke and Duchess review the newly restored Sixth Duke's Handbook - a guide to Chatsworth written by their ancestor - and mull over writing their own version for future generations. The Sixth Duke's legacy is felt elsewhere too, as seamstress Marie battles to restore and rehang the vast and heavy curtains he chose for the library. October brings the deer rut, when Chatsworth's stags lock horns to win the attention of their hinds, while the farmers secure the future of the flock by making sure their 2000 ewes are pregnant. And the foresters are kept busy with a 'flock' of their own - planting 24,000 new trees across the estate, ready to be harvested in 80 years' time.

Chatsworth

 

Wednesday 3rd February

E4, 7.30pm – Married At First Sight Australia

It's near the end of the grooms' homestays and the wives are taking every opportunity to immerse themselves in their husbands' worlds, leaving some couples stronger than ever - while others are pushed to breaking point.

MAFSA

 

C4, 9pm – Grand Designs

Kevin McCloud follows more of Britain's most ambitious self-building projects, as intrepid individuals attempt to design and construct the home of their dreams. In Cornwall, former skydivers Leigh and Richard fall head over heels in love with a listed but derelict 17th-century flour mill. It's been empty for 60 years, and is full of rotten timbers, riddled with structural cracks and strewn with rusty machinery and millstones, but the risk takers decide that this is the unlikely place they want to make home. Taking a huge leap of faith, they put their business on hold and sell their house to move 250 miles to live in a caravan on site. With no experience of building or restoration, and £250k to play with, Richard and Leigh's highly ambitious plan is to faithfully restore the outside and retain as much of the history and magic inside as possible - while also creating a warm, contemporary, four-floor, three-bedroom home. It's an almighty balancing act to pull off, especially in the 12 months they've given themselves. They faithfully employ traditional craftsmen to start work on restoring the exterior, but it's not long before the true scale of the damage to the walls, structure and roof is revealed. As money pours out, Richard and Leigh are forced to do more and more work themselves - including almost all the interiors. Exhausted, alone and with a pandemic to contend with, as the months go by the battle to finish the mill becomes all-consuming.

Grand Designs

 

Thursday 4th February

 

M4, 9pm – Location, Location, Location: 20 Years And Counting

To mark the 20th anniversary of Location, Location, Location, this new series sees Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer look back on their 20 years of house-hunting, from chocolate box cottages and future-proof pads, to tackling tough markets and the most memorable offers made. In this episode, Kirstie and Phil reminisce on 20 years of helping house-hunters who were desperate to buy make that all-important decision... is it the right time to buy or is waiting a better option? Jo and Lee were hit hard by the 2008 credit crunch, and it's making their move to Devon difficult. Andrew's scared that a housing market crash is coming, but wife Lia's desperate for a home of their own. Richard and John have spent their deposit so are looking to buy with a 100% mortgage. And Chris and fiancée Isobel have accommodation with their jobs, so staying put and saving may be the sensible option, but they want to live together - now.

Location

 

C4, 10pm – Back

The second series of Simon Blackwell's comedy starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb continues. Stephen (Mitchell) is on a health kick, cycling everywhere and making Ellen (Penny Downie) happy that he's become 'normal' again. Cass (Louise Brealey) moves into a shared student house with dreams of living the full student experience, even though she's only doing a part-time A level course. And Geoff (Geoff McGivern) has a dramatic change in his relationship status. But things soon start to unravel: Stephen's health kick is shown to be not that healthy, Cass's student house has no students in it, and Andrew (Webb) suspects the motives of Geoff's new partner. Andrew asks Alison (Olivia Poulet) to help him investigate and, while she does so, Andrew becomes friendlier with Alison's mum, Wendy (Penny Ryder).

Back

Friday 5th February

 

E4, 9pm – Celebs Go Dating: Extra Mansion

The Celebrity Dating Agency is back with a swanky new home. For the very first time, the celebs and their potential matches all bed down together in one very plush mansion, under the ever-watchful eyes of dating experts Paul C Brunson and Anna Williamson. It's been another packed week at the Celebs Go Dating mansion for our seven single celebrities looking for love. From pie-ings aplenty, relationships on the rocks and others going from strength to snogging strength, we look back on an all the drama from the week in this special round-up show. Plus, there's exclusive unseen action from the mansion, a sneaky peek at the new singles set to move in and the agents spill the tea in their revealing staff meeting...

Celebs go dating

 

C4, 11.05pm – Ramy

Emmy-nominated US comedy drama. Ramy is a first-generation Egyptian American who is on a spiritual journey in his politically divided New Jersey neighbourhood. He brings a new perspective to the challenges of what it's like being caught between a Muslim community that thinks life is a moral test, and a millennial generation that thinks life has no consequences. In the first episode, Ramy is challenged over his sloppy approach to toe-washing before prayer.

Ramy

 

Saturday 6th February

 

M4, 8pm – Yorkshire Dales And The Lakes

Filmed over a calendar year, the new series continues following a range of remarkable characters who live and work in England's biggest expanse of protected countryside. This four-part series celebrates life in the Lake District and the picturesque Yorkshire Dales National Parks across the four seasons, meeting real and engaging Yorkshire and Cumbrian folk. In the Yorkshire Dales and the Lakes, autumn brings with it a technicolour spectacle. The trees redefine the landscape with hues of amber and orange. It's a time to reflect, to remember and to get the last tricky jobs done before winter sets in. In the Lakes, shepherds Peter and Robert Bland head to market with their older draft ewes. The sale is their biggest pay-packet of the year, so everything depends on a good trade. In the parish of Cracoe, Barbara Slater and her daughter Cathy remember Barbara's father who fell in World War II. She never met him, but his legacy lives on and he is remembered on a memorial like no other - high up on Cracoe Fell. When the rains come in autumn, most might stay indoors. But for kayakers Sam Ellis and Simon Jackson, these conditions are perfect. They head out to the top of the River Swale - a stretch of rapids and waterfalls that only the most experienced can conquer. And in Windermere, local lads Angus Hosking and Declan Turner are using their skills as free divers to keep the lakebed clean, since tourists flocking to the largest lake over the summer months has left an unsightly reminder - litter.

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C4, 9pm –  Instant Family

R Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne star as a middle-aged couple who decide to look into fostering, and quickly find three kids and all the chaos and mess that comes with them disrupting their immaculate home and orderly lives in writer/director Sean Anders' (Daddy's Home) adoption comedy. Ellie (Byrne) and Pete (Wahlberg) are renovating a large five-bedroom house when a neighbour asks what they're going to do with all the space, given that they're clearly not going to have kids. Uh-oh. Ellie makes a look. It's not a look, says Ellie. That's definitely a look, says Pete. 'Enjoy your fight', says the neighbour, leaving his innocent, or not so innocent, comment to set off a chain events that completely transforms Ellie and Pete's life.Before they know it, they are at a foster agency. Then they're at the Foster Fair where all the kids without parents roam a field hoping to find a home. Then Ellie and Pete meet Lizzie (Isabela Moner), a teenager! They like her. They ask about her. Lizzie, it turns out, comes with two siblings Juan (Gustavo Quiroz) and Lita (Julianna Gamiz). So now they have three kids. Luckily, they have that five-bedroom house! Having the room to put up three kids is one thing, but have they got the chops to be parents from a standing leap, as it were? The film is based on Anders' personal experience of adopting three children out of the foster care system with his wife, Beth.

Instant family

 

Sunday 7th February

 

C4, 8pm – The Great Pottery Throwdown

The battle of the clay continues, as Britain's best home potters compete to become champion. Hosted by Siobhán McSweeney. It's Music Week in the pottery, as the remaining potters face a tough challenge to sculpt a life-like bust of a music legend, kick starting with a surprise special message from an iconic artist. The potters then face a fiddly second challenge to make a mini musical instrument, before judges Rich Miller and Keith Brymer Jones decide who will be named potter of the week and who will be heading home.

Great pottery throw down

 

E4, 10pm – Temptation Island

Island life in Hawaii continues as four couples at a crossroads in their relationship put their love to the ultimate test. In this episode, as connections are being formed, some couples are starting to question their relationships.

Temptation Island

 

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