A bumper week of TV ahead: your one-stop guide

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A bumper week of TV ahead: your one-stop guide

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We’ve got a bumper week of TV viewing ahead. Here’s YouTheCritic’s one-stop guide to the shows you can’t afford to miss. Love or loathe these programmes? We want your reviews!

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We’ve got a bumper week of TV viewing ahead. Here’s YouTheCritic’s one-stop guide to the shows you can’t afford to miss. Love or loathe these programmes? We want your reviews!

The Great British Bake Off (Wednesday, BBC1, 8pm)

The seventh season of the GBBO which sees 12 new amateur chefs bake delicious cakes to impress judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood. Last year’s series was the most watched British programme of 2015. More than 15 million viewers tuned in to see Nadiya Hussain take home the winning trophy.

The X Factor (Saturday and Sunday, ITV, 8pm)

The old gang return for the 100th series – Sharon Osbourne, Louis Walsh, Nicole Scherzinger and Simon Cowell. Also Dermot O’Leary is back and Alesha Dixon joins the judges’ houses. There’s even a surprise wildcard twist that’s caused fireworks amongst the judges. Love it or hate it, this show’s never going away.

500 Questions (Monday, ITV, 9pm)

Based on the hit US version with Giles Coren as the host, ITV is taking a big gamble putting out a primetime game show with clever-clogs rules. The basic premise is contestants competing against each other for cash answering questions in different subjects. If they get three wrong they’re out. Do we really need another quiz which is described as the toughest on TV? Has Coren got the stuff? You decide.

Ripper Street (Monday, BBC2, 9pm)

The Victorian crime drama returns with the first of a two part story. Three years have passed since Reid left Whitechapel for a quiet life by the sea with his daughter, but he finds himself drawn back to East London when he learns that Isaac Bloom, a Jewish mathematician, who helped him on other Whitechapel investigations is set to hang. Matthew Macfadyen and Jerome Flynn star.

One of Us (Tuesday, BBC1, 9pm)

From the same writers as The Missing (Harry and Jack Williams) this new thriller begins with the brutal murder of a young couple who have married after growing up in the same neighbourhood as childhood sweethearts. Adam and Grace have just returned from honeymoon and the horror of their crime can barely be comprehended. A drug-addled burglar seems to be the culprit, but the plot takes a massive twist when he drives to their family home in Scotland. Starring Juliet Stevenson, Adrian Edmonson and Laura Fraser.

The Chronicles of Nadiya (Wednesday, BBC1, 9pm)

Nadiya has been extremely busy since winning last year’s Bake Off – as well as making the Queen’s birthday cake, she’s whipped up this two-part documentary. It follows the Luton-born baker travel back to her family’s roots in Bangladesh where she shares some of her favourite recipes.

Class Of 92: Still Out Of Their League (Thursday, BBC1, 9pm)

Life in lower-league football as Manchester United legends Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville, Phil Neville, Paul Scholes and Nicky  Butt continue to own Salford FC, a team whose manager fits celings for his day job. Funny and moving, even if like me, you don’t like the beautiful game.

Celebrity Big Brother Live Final (Friday, Channel 5, 9pm)

Emma Willis declares the winner of this explosive and highly entertaining series. Who will be the last barely housetrained unknown celeb to walk down the stairs? Will it be the revolting Stephen Bear? Tell me it ‘ain’t so!

And finally Sunday night sees the first in the series of Victoria starring Jenna Collins. If you’re still missing Downton Abbey, this might fit the bill as your costume drama replacement. The eight-episode series follows the early life of Queen Victoria from her accession to the throne at the age of 18 through to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert. (Sunday, ITV, 9pm)