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The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Hollie Richardson, Graeme Virtue and Priya Elan

TV tonight: a stalker thriller with soft, soapy edges

A woman speaking into a mobile phone looking stressed
Panic mode … Jill Halfpenny in Number One Fan. Photograph: Jorge Salvador/Channel 5

Number One Fan

9pm, Channel 5
Jill Halfpenny and Sally Lindsay star in a silly but oh-so-watchable thriller, which runs through the week. Lucy Logan (Halfpenny) is the nation’s favourite daytime telly host with a seemingly perfect life. But when she is mugged, superfan Donna (Lindsay) comes to the rescue – and soon she keeps popping up everywhere Lucy turns. Soapy twists ensue. Hollie Richardson

Scam Interceptors

1.30pm, BBC One
Nick Stapleton and Rav Wilding return with their team of ethical hackers to expose the work of sophisticated scammers. The new series starts by tracking down a group who are contacting victims about cryptocurrency and using an “astonishing tactic” where they ask for an online meeting. HR

MasterChef

8pm, BBC One
Six more amateurs enter the kitchen hoping to impress Grace Dent and Anna Haugh. But only three will make it through to the next stage. Nerves are to be expected but one contestant wants to phone home for advice. Dent firmly lays down the law: “You’re not allowed to ring your mother on MasterChef.” Graeme Virtue

Mint

9pm, BBC One

A double bill of the visually inventive drama that just keeps getting deeper and stranger. A toot on her nan’s dodgy vape sends the traumatised Shannon (Emma Laird) into a reverie, while her father Dylan (Sam Riley) tries to adjust to his new domestic situation as a non-gangster. GV

Virgin Island

9pm, Channel 4
It’s dating phase week in the Bafta-nominated sex therapy series, which means the group need to break through their fears and practise on each other – and one pair are so successful that a real romance might be on the cards. But for an extremely anxious Ellen, it all becomes too much. HR

Rooster

10pm, Sky One
Archie is on a 36-hour race to meet his deadline, aided by a steady flow of caffeinated drinks: “It reminds me a bit of cocaine but not the dark, scary part.” Meanwhile, Katie’s funk is alleviated when she finds out she’s on a list of the hottest teachers on campus. Priya Elan

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