What’s on TV tonight: Queen Consort joins Paul O’Grady at Battersea Dog and Cat Shelter

Pick of the Day: Paul O’Grady: “For the Love of Dogs – Royal Edition”

Battersea Dogs and Cats Home is increasingly accepting dogs that are difficult to accept due to age, behavior, or health conditions. In this special edition of his always touching series, Paul O’Grady was joined by Camilla, Queen Consort, Duchess of Cornwall during filming to help these dogs in a variety of ways, including teaching the blind mongrel inside. world to bathe dogs found abandoned in the street. O’Grady also takes the dogs to a garden party at Clarence House, hoping to have them home by Christmas.

Mary Berry’s Ultimate Christmas

While Dame Mary follows a largely traditional route with her Christmas dinner, albeit with a few twists (mini stilton and sage flatbreads), Angela Hartnett and Monica Galetti have also joined. Angela cooks pumpkin ricotta tortelli, a seasonal tradition of her Italian family, while Monica cooks Samoan palusas with smoked haddock.

Christmas university challenge

This is the time of year when teams of distinguished alumni compete on behalf of their former universities, with SOAS University London hosting the first round opening match.
Balliol College, Oxford.

Strike: Restless Blood

In the last part of the current story, the detectives track down Steve Doubthwaite, discovering that he is using famous singers as an alias. They enter the boarding house he now runs with his wife in Skegness and appear genuinely afraid that his new identity will be revealed. Meanwhile, Strike (Tom Burke) discovers that Margot’s killer is responsible for many other murders that have gone undetected over the years…

Highclere: behind the scenes

The house that also served downton abbey Celebrates the centenary of the expedition that discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb, led by the great-grandfather of the current Lord Carnarvon. Lady Carnarvon is writing a book about her husband’s ancestors, and housekeepers Sheena and Jason are cleaning the Egyptian Museum in the basement.

The informal science of home loneliness

James Acaster, Goose Khan and Alex Brooker are clearly obsessed with classic 1990s comedy. Alone at home since they were children. Of particular interest here are the death traps set by Macaulay Culkin’s character Kevin McCallister to keep burglars from breaking into his house. With the help of an engineer, Acaster and Khan build their own versions of the booby traps, while Brooker travels to the United States to meet the actors and stuntmen involved in the film.

wolf hall

Director Peter Kosminsky presents this iteration of his masterful 2015 film adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s novel, with Mark Rylance as quietly mesmerizing as Thomas Cromwell and Damian Lewis as King Henry VIII.
and Claire Foy as Anne Boleyn.