What's on TV 18-Feb-23

NEW Beyond Paradise Friday, 8pm, BBC1 Drama Kris Marshall reprises his role as the bumbling but brilliant DI Humphrey Goodman in this six-part Death in Paradise spin-off. Having decamped from London, the detective and his fiancée Martha Lloyd (Sally Bretton) build a new life in her fictional West Country home town of Shipton Abbott. As Martha pursues her dream of running her own restaurant, Humphrey joins the local police force and quickly makes an impression on his colleagues, DS Esther Williams (Zahra Ahmadi), PC Kelby Hartford (Dylan Llewellyn) and Margo Martins (Felicity Montagu). Each week will see the team investigate a host of baffling cases. P11 The Masked Singer Saturday, 7pm, ITV1 Entertainment IT’S THE FINAL! It’s time to get your guesses locked in as the three remaining masked celebs – Rhino, Fawn and Phoenix – perform one…

NEW THE CHALLENGE UK Mon-Wed, 11.05pm, & Thu, 11.05pm & 12.05am, Channel 5 Entertainment Q What can you tell us about the show? A We have 16 celebs, including AJ Pritchard from Strictly Come Dancing, Tristan Phipps from Made in Chelsea, Commonwealth judo champion Ashley McKenzie and TOWIE star Ella Rae Wise, all competing in pairs in a series of gruelling challenges. It’s based on a US show and I’d describe it as a cross between I’m a Celebrity…, Big Brother, Love Island and SAS: Who Dares Wins! Q What can you tell us about the challenges? A There are lots of mind games, and puzzles that require a lot of brain power – it wasn’t all about physical strength. But in the first episode, they have to wrestle and knock their opponents off a platform…

Fantastic finale! The last episode of the third series of BBC1’s Happy Valley, starring Sarah Lancashire (right), aired on 5 February to an audience of 7.5m. In it, police officer Catherine Cawood faced off with Tommy Lee Royce. It beat ITV1’s Vera, which pulled in 3.2m. Taking a dip The second episode of Channel 5’s The Catch on 1 Feb dipped slightly, drawing in 1.2m, down from 1.7m the previous week. The thriller, starring Jason Watkins (pictured) as a fisherman haunted by tragedy, lost out to Sort Your Life Out on BBC1 (2m).…

Best known for… Child star Lisa was just six when she played pigtailed Wednesday Addams (right) in the 1960s US comedy The Addams Family. The famous horror character was recently revived by Jenna Ortega for hit Netflix series Wednesday. Other achievements… She went on to have roles in TV shows Dr Kildare, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., Fantasy Island and the US soap As the World Turns, plus appearances in 1980s horror movies Blood Frenzy, Iced and Savage Harbor. Family life… Lisa died in hospital on 28 January, aged 64, following a stroke. She’s survived by her two grown-up daughters, Marianne and Vanessa.…

THE GOLD Sunday, 9pm, BBC1 Drama The hunt for the bullion from the Brink’s-Mat robbery steps up a gear in The Gold as the police uncover a lead. While the robbers’ fence Kenneth Noye (Jack Lowden) races to disguise and sell the gold, DCI Brian Boyce (Hugh Bonneville) wants to nab the loot and remaining thieves before they disappear for good. DI Tony Brightwell (Emun Elliott) and DI Nicki Jennings (Charlotte Spencer) visit the customs office to investigate recent suspicious activity involving gold and a tip-off leads to a tense chase. As a link to Kent emerges, they talk to a cop who once worked in the county. When Nicki, against orders, shares a list of suspects with him, he suggests Noye is involved… ‘Nicki just gets on with it,’ explains Charlotte. ‘It’s like a western!’…

NEW THE EQUALIZER Tuesday, 9pm, Sky Witness Drama Intrepid vigilante Robyn McCall has got countless people out of tight spots in The Equalizer, but as the thriller returns for a third run, it’s Robyn herself who needs help. The last series ended with Robyn, played by Queen Latifah, being kidnapped in front of daughter Delilah and Aunt Vi. Robyn’s nemesis, the terrorist Mason Quinn (Chris Vance), is the prime suspect. Delilah and Vi, along with Robyn’s friends, Mel and Harry, and Det Marcus Dante, race to get to the truth. But can Robyn be found in time? ‘This season is about family – how they hurt you, how they help you,’ teases executive producer Joseph C Wilson. ‘This group is a family – they all care about Robyn.’ Queen Latifah adds: ‘Telling these stories is important…