What's on TV 7-May-2022

NEW The Games Monday-Friday, 9pm, ITV Entertainment Hosted by Freddie Flintoff and Holly Willoughby, 12 celebrities go head-to-head in a series of live sporting challenges running across the week, from diving to the 100m sprint. With top coaches training them, those limbering up to compete include former Strictly pro Kevin Clifton, pop star Max George, Corrie’s Colson Smith and Ryan Thomas, Love Island’s Wes Nelson, newsreader Lucrezia Millarini and Emmerdale’s Rebecca Sarker, while Alex Scott and Chris Kamara report on the action from the sidelines. P11 Casualty Saturday, 8.50pm, BBC1 Drama David Hide is at a loss when his teenage son Ollie is arrested! David worries that Ollie’s acting out because Rosa – David’s wife and Ollie’s stepmum – abruptly left to take care of her mother in Venezuela. In reality, Ollie’s being relentlessly bullied at school…

NEW DIY SOS: THE BIG BUILD Tuesday, 8pm, BBC1 Factual Q What can you tell us about this week’s first Big Build? A In the summer of 2021, ex-military man Shaun and wife Lindsey began renovating their home but, just months after starting the build, Shaun was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer and tragically died last November. With their house a building site, Lindsey and their four children had to move in with her mum. So they’re going through a bereavement but they can’t grieve properly because they don’t have anywhere to live. So DIY SOS came to finish the job. We wanted to give the family a home. Q Does this episode get very emotional? A Oh, it’s hugely emotional. Lindsey’s story was particularly heartfelt for Gaby, our designer on the project – she bravely…

Best known for … Robert played Bertram Cooper in the popular series Mad Men from 2007 to 2015. Businessman Bertram was the senior partner of the Sterling Cooper advertising agency. Other achievements… He was the star of both the film and stage show of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, for which he won a Tony Award. Robert starred in the movies The Loved One (1966), A Guide for the Married Man (1967) and played Truman Capote in anthology series American Playhouse in 1992. Family life…. Robert died at his Los Angeles home, aged 90, on 20 April after a short illness. The actor had five children.…

GRACE Sunday, 8pm, ITV Drama Det Supt Roy Grace finds his mind clouded with dark memories when a woman’s remains are found in a storm drain. Convinced the bones are those of his wife, Sandy, who vanished from their home six years ago, Grace wonders if he’s finally about to discover the truth of what happened to her. He and his team are determined to find out who the woman is and how she died, yet the case soon takes its toll on Grace’s new girlfriend, mortuary technician Cleo Morey (Zoë Tapper). ‘Roy’s convinced he’s found Sandy,’ says John Simm, who plays the Brighton detective. ‘That thought consumes him and puts pressure on his new relationship.’ This week’s tale also sees Grace’s former rival, DS Cassian Pewe (James D’Arcy), arrive in Brighton, with ACC Vosper suggesting…

GENTLEMAN JACK Sunday, 9pm, BBC1 Drama Political uproar is troubling Anne Lister in Gentleman Jack, but could love finally be on the cards for her sister Marian? Marian is thrilled when her one-time suitor Mr Abbott (John Hollingworth) calls on her. Anne (Suranne Jones), however, is preoccupied with the upcoming election. But Marian has high hopes about Mr Abbott… ‘There are things in life that seemed to elude her and are perhaps now possible,’ reveals Gemma Whelan, who plays Marian. ‘You see who she really wants to be.’ When Marian tells Anne she wants to marry Mr Abbott, Anne is horrified, believing he’s beneath the Listers on the social ladder. ‘She and Anne love each other but it’s messy and they don’t communicate well,’ says Gemma. ‘Marian gets emotional and she may stand up to Anne…’…

★ Marc Warren returns as the maverick Dutch detective for a second series of the international crime drama Van der Valk on ITV. Alongside his partner Lucienne Hassell (Maimie McCoy), Van der Valk will be solving more murders in Amsterdam. ★ Coming-of-age drama Tell Me Everything on ITV2 follows 16-year-old Jonny (Eden H Davies), who struggles with undiagnosed depression and is trying to stumble his way through life when he’s faced with a tragedy… ★ Stephen Merchant again writes and stars in comedy drama The Outlaws, which returns to BBC1 for a second series. The misfits from Bristol continue their community service while trying to avoid both the police and the criminals on their tails. ★ Scarlett Moffatt has failed her driving test 13 times, but in Scarlett’s Driving School on BBC1, she…