Ultimate Wedding Planner
9pm, BBC Two
This enjoyably catty new series applies the eliminative format (and the enforced but reluctant team dynamic) of The Apprentice to the world of event planning. The result is mildly stressful fun as the candidates snark, side-eye and squabble, all in the interests of facilitating some lucky couple’s special day. It opens with Sammy and Lewis, plane enthusiasts whose first date was at an airport and who want an “intimate” wedding. In a decommissioned Concorde hangar. Good luck with that. Phil Harrison
Bake Off: The Professionals
8pm, Channel 4
It’s the notoriously tricky Chocolate Week, which means presenters Ellie Taylor and Liam Charles are licking their lips while the pastry chefs begin to melt. The sweet, sticky stuff may be delicious, but it’s devilish to work with – especially since the safari-themed showpiece challenge requires the teams to include a moving part. Ellen E Jones
Cooking With the Stars
9pm, ITV
This slightly more melodramatic, shiny-floor version of MasterChef has been good, if generic fun. We reach the climax as the final three celebrities face their toughest challenge yet. As ever, Emma Willis and Tom Allen – not to mention the stagily intimidating chefs – gaze on and pass judgment. PH
Sky Coppers
9pm, Channel 4
A passenger fleeing the scene of a car accident gets the West Midlands police drone flying this week, before two potentially explosive football matches need monitoring. The weirdest assignment is in the middle of the night, above a park: are a gang of people really trying to bury a corpse? Jack Seale
From
9pm, Sci-Fi
The horror drama continues with Sheriff Boyd (Harold Perrineau) – recently infested with demon worms – experiencing visions. With the townsfolk up in arms over the return of Sara (Avery Konrad), the timing isn’t ideal. Graeme Virtue
What on Earth?
8pm, Sky History
Satellite imagery has produced fresh understanding of patterns on Earth – this intriguing returning series explores a few insights only graspable from above. This week, previously unexplained circles discovered in the New Mexico desert and a suggestion of possible extraterrestrial life in the Arctic. PH
Film choice
You Hurt My Feelings (Nicole Holofcener, 2023), Prime Video
Julia Louis-Dreyfus hasn’t always found it easy to locate big-screen roles that allow her sardonic comedy persona and subtly modulated vocal inflections to flourish. Thankfully, she has found the ideal collaborator in writer-director Nicole Holofcener, whose acutely observed character comedies have seen her hailed as the inheritor of the Woody Allen/Nora Ephron tradition of walking-and-talking cinema. This latest is about the middle-aged confrontation with failure – when you realise you are perhaps not as great a writer, or actor or interior designer as you might have supposed. Louis-Dreyfus creates a thoroughly believable central character assailed by doubts on all sides. Andrew Pulver
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019), 11.25pm, Film4
Quentin Tarantino honed his predilection for alternative/fictional history with this sprawling depiction of late-60s LA – like Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained, it’s an account of what we might like to have happened rather than what did. Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt are actor Rick Dalton and his stunt double Rick Booth; they inadvertently head off the real-life Tate/LaBianca murders by tangling with the Manson cult. Margot Robbie is an impressive Sharon Tate, but Tarantino undermines himself with a silly scene in which Dalton takes on Bruce Lee. AP
The Intruder (Roger Corman, 1962), 3am, Talking Pictures TV
Produced and directed by Roger Corman – with a nakedly political intent he swiftly abandoned – and starring a charismatic William Shatner, a seductive hard-right troublemaker stirs up a race war in a small southern town unhappy at the prospect of school integration. With his softly spoken persuasiveness – and his mantra “whose law?” – Shatner’s Adam Cramer is a portrait of cynical malice that is instantly identifiable in current US politics. Revelatory. AP
Live sport
EFL Cup Football: Wrexham v Wigan Athletic, 7pm, Sky Sports Main Event A first-round tie from the Racecourse Ground as Hollywood’s favourite football team enter the big time.
