Gogglebox is back with a bang, Jamie Dornan sets pulses racing on The Jonathon Ross Show and Jaden Smith learns karate: Your TV guide this week
From a gritty new drama series to pastry week on GBBO, we’ve got your week of TV sorted
CANCEL all your social plans because we've got endless TV treats in store for you this week.
Robbie Coltrane and Julie Walters star in the incredible new drama on Channel 4, National Treasure, while Jonathan Ross plays host to Jamie Dornan and the Stranger Things cast.
Plus, it’s pastry week on Bake Off and Gogglebox is back.
MONDAY
First Dates
Kick off your week with a bit of First Dates, our favourite dating show!
A bobsledder for the British Olympic team enjoys life as a bachelor and is uncertain about starting a relationship, but a date with a fellow Olympian may just change his mind.
Get ready for awkward chat, blushing cheeks and a bit of footsy under the table.
C4, 10pm
TUESDAY
National Treasure
This gripping new series stars British acting legends Robbie Coltrane and Julie Walters, and it’s got five stars from us.
Coltrane stars as Paul Finchley, one half of a much-loved comedy double act, whose life is turned upside down when he is arrested after an accusation of rape that dates back to the 1990s.
Paul denies having even met the woman, and his loyal wife (Walters) must decide whether or not to stand by her disgraced husband.
C4, 9pm
WEDNESDAY
The Great British Bake Off
It’s pastry week in the tent of joy!
The contestants are tasked with creating a bite-size showstopper using a fine pastry that is notoriously difficult to make, and even trickier to bake.
Will Selasi keep his cool? Will Val survive for another week? And will Benjamini win Star Baker again?
8pm, BBC1
THURSDAY
Paranoid
Another new series from ITV, Paranoid follows the brutal murder of a local GP in a children’s playground.
The killer is identified on CCTV, but it quickly turns out there is more to the grim murder than meets the eye.
It’ll have you on the edge of your seat!
ITV, 9pm
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FRIDAY
Gogglebox
It’s back for an eighth series! Yippee!
As the nation tunes in to Bake Off, Poldark and Cold Feet, the sofa-dwelling critics give their hilarious take on the shows.
We still can’t believe a programme that involves watching normal people watch telly exists, but we can’t get enough of it.
C4, 9pm
SATURDAY
The Jonathan Ross Show
The host welcomes Hollywood star Jamie Dornan to the studio, following the debut of the first trailer for 50 Shades Darker (swoon).
Also appearing are Millie Bobby Brown, Caleb McLaughlin and Gaten Matarazzo, the teenage stars of Netflix’s acclaimed mini-series Stranger Things.
ITV, 10pm
SUNDAY
The Karate Kid
Settle down with some popcorn for our Sunday night film starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan in the re-make of the 1984 classic.
An American youngster goes to live in China with his mother, where he becomes an easy target for the local bullies.
But after meeting the school caretaker – who turns out to be a kung fu master – he begins to learn martial arts and challenges the bullies in a fighting tournament.
E4, 8pm