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Hollie Richardson, Jack Seale, Phil Harrison and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: Strictly’s Anton du Beke gets deep and meaningful with Kate Garraway

Anton du Beke is interviewed in Kate Garraway’s Life Stories.
Anton du Beke is interviewed in Kate Garraway’s Life Stories. Photograph: ITV/Callum McCarron/Shutterstock

Kate Garraway’s Life Stories

9pm, ITV1

Strictly Come Dancing stalwart Anton Du Beke is Garraway’s first guest in the return of this deep-and-meaningful conversation series. While he brings plenty of razzle dazzle, there are more vulnerable moments as Du Beke recalls his troubled relationship with his father while growing up and the IVF journey he took with his wife Hannah – which to their shock resulted in twins. Hollie Richardson

Celebrity MasterChef

9pm, BBC One

The celebrity version of the elite cookery contest – uniquely compelling on its own merits, not just a fun spin-off – returns. Radio 2 travel presenter Richie Anderson, Goggleboxer Mica Ven, actor James Buckley, comedian Marcus Brigstocke and reality star Dani Dyer face the cloche test. Jack Seale

Britain’s Most Expensive Houses

9pm, Channel 4

There’s a sports theme to this week’s episode of the eye-watering property series: a £7.25m house in Oxshott is close to Chelsea football club’s training ground, while an 18th-century chateau in the Loire Valley boasts its own private 18-hole championship-grade golf course, which is available to rent for £30,000 a night. Peanuts! HR

Rob & Romesh vs Crufts

9pm, Sky Max

Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan at Crufts.
Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan at Crufts. Photograph: Photographer: Stuart Wood

Both Rob and Romesh have become dog owners in the last year. So why not plunge straight in at the deep end and enter Crufts in the hope that their pets learn a thing or two about behaviour and general deportment? But have the Crufts virgins bitten off more than they can chew? Phil Harrison

Departure

9pm, Sky Witness

After being horribly underused in Hijack on Apple TV+, Archie Panjabi returns for season three of a so-so thriller that’s also concerned with transport catastrophe. Instead of a flight, it’s a packed ferry that gets mysteriously lost on its way to Newfoundland – why did it sink so quickly? JS

The Girl from Plainville

10pm, Channel 4

The disturbing drama based on the true story of a texting-suicide court case continues to unsettle, with assistant district attorney Katie Rayburn (Aya Cash) reluctantly agreeing to pursue possible charges against Michelle Carter (the brilliant Elle Fanning) for Conrad Roy III’s (Colton Ryan) death. HR

Film choice

The Death of Dick Long (Daniel Scheinert, 2019), 12.15am, Film4

The Death of Dick Long on Film4.
The Death of Dick Long on Film4. Photograph: Album/Alamy

Before he and Daniel Kwan won multiple Oscars with the multiverse weirdness of Everything Everywhere All at Once, Daniel Scheinert played with our expectations in a more naturalistic but still unsettling way in this 2019 black comedy. Alabama buddies Zeke (Michael Abbott Jr), Earl (Andre Hyland) and Dick (Scheinert) go on a bender one night, which ends in Dick being abandoned with a disturbing injury at A&E. His demise leads the surviving duo into a panicked, and extremely inept, attempt to cover their tracks. With a folksy female cop duo straight out of Fargo on their case, the film starts as farce – until the truth about Dick’s death tips it into the darkest of dramas. Simon Wardell

Live sport

The Hundred Cricket: London Spirit v Oval Invincibles, 6.15pm, Sky Sports Cricket A game from the men’s tournament at Lord’s.

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