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Entertainment
Hollie Richardson, Hannah Verdier, Graeme Virtue, Ellen E Jones and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: unbearable pressure in new kitchen drama Boiling Point

Boiling Point on BBC One.
Boiling Point on BBC One. Photograph: James Stack/BBC/Boiling Point TV Limited

Boiling Point

Sunday, 9pm, BBC One

The pressure is unbearably palpable in this four-part sequel series to the 2021 film of the same name about a chaotic restaurant kitchen (which is hard not to compare to the recent hit The Bear – both a compliment and a shame). It picks up with Carly (Vinette Robinson) now running a restaurant with the old team, while Andy (Stephen Graham) is sitting at home depressed. Carly needs to impress investors, but she’s also got her mum to look after, and service goes into disarray when she has to race home for a family emergency. Each episode is shot in long, lingering takes and sizzles with tension. After this week’s opener, you will never order hollandaise sauce again. Hollie Richardson

Strictly Come Dancing: The Results

7.15pm, BBC One

A Tina Turner-tastic group number starring Beverley Knight, Laura Mvula and Fleur East is the main attraction in this week’s results show. But the hoofers won’t be able to concentrate as one couple must go home after a tense dance-off. Who’ll be left with tears running down their spray-tanned faces and who will live to twirl another week? Hannah Verdier

Jamie Cooks the Mediterranean

8pm, Channel 4

After mouthwatering research trips to Greece, Tunisia and Spain, Jamie Oliver wraps up his latest book tie-in with a visit to the south of France. In Marseille, he samples fusion street food and a croissant that broke TikTok, before setting sail in the company of local chefs to cook up a fishy feast on the Mediterranean itself. Graeme Virtue

Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing

9pm, BBC Two

Sadly, it’s the penultimate episode of the joyful angling series. The comedians head out to Burgh Island off the south coast of Devon – where wrasse use their strong gnashers to pull barnacles off rocks in the shallow waters. After a day out on the boat, they stay at a beach house in which Agatha Christie wrote her novels, and bump into a familiar face. HR

Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins

9pm, Channel 4

Having taken the British public for a load of chumps on I’m a Celebrity, ex-health secretary Matt Hancock is back for more reality TV redemption. At least this time he’s really working for it. As torrential rain pounds down, the soft-bellied celebs are tasked with searching a series of CS gas-filled rooms. Ellen E Jones

Fresh Cuts

10.40pm, ITV1

This Morning’s well-liked TV doctor Zoe Williams kicks off this new series marking Black History Month with a documentary that also celebrates 75 years of the NHS. She recalls the history of Black doctors in the health service, and meets four of them who are shaking up the world of medicine. HR

Film choice

Local Hero, 4pm, Film4

Bill Forsyth’s sweet-natured drama comes across as a homage to Powell and Pressburger’s I Know Where I’m Going, in which a slightly eccentric rural community befuddles then bewitches a metropolitan incomer. Here, the visitor is Peter Riegert’s Mac, a Texas oil firm minion sent to buy a Scottish coastal village for a prospective refinery. Forsyth tempers the romanticism – some of the villagers actually want to sell up – but it’s hard not to join Mac as he falls for the place, the slow pace of life and, inevitably, Jenny Seagrove’s marine scientist. Simon Wardell


Ali & Ava, 10.30pm, BBC Two

Ali & Ava on BBC Two.
Ali & Ava on BBC Two. Photograph: TCD/Prod.DB/Alamy

Clio Barnard’s understanding of the ebbs and flows of working-class life is given full rein in her exceptional, Bradford-set romantic drama. “Rough and ready” Ali (Adeel Akhtar) is a landlord, separated from but still living with his wife; Ava (Claire Rushbrook) is a selfless teaching assistant, widowed with four kids – one of whom, Callum (Shaun Thomas), has a new baby. Their tentative courtship plays out through music – he’s into hardcore dance; she likes a bit of country – and stolen moments in a strong community that transcends the sinkhole estate cliches. SW

Live sport

Women’s Super League Football: Aston Villa v Man United, 12.15pm, BBC Two The opening match of the season, with England star Rachel Daly up front for Villa.

Rugby Union World Cup: South Africa v Tonga, 7.15pm, ITV1 The Pool B match from Marseille.

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