Tonight's TV tips: the MasterChef final, Corrie and EastEnders

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Tonight's TV tips: the MasterChef final, Corrie and EastEnders

May 12, 2017 - 11:48
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What to watch and review on Friday, May 12.

Meet Giovanna Ryan, Steve Kielty and Saliha Mahmood-Ahmed, the  MasterChef finalists

Coronation Street (7.30 & 8.30pm) Continuing the long and ignoble Weatherfield tradition of keeping morally unjustifiable secrets, tawdry Toyah tells Eva that she went ahead with IVF without telling Peter. What’s wrong with these people?

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EastEnders (BBC1, 8pm) The stupefying saga of daft dipstick Denise’s ongoing starvation carries on regardless. In TV terms, her ludicrously implausible ordeal is about as compelling as the test card. But at least she managed to flog her gaudy necklace for a fiver and bought herself a nourishing bag of pasta. As in pasta joke.

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MasterChef (BBC1, 8.30pm) After seven weeks of gastronomic pomposity TV’s most pretentious culinary contest reaches its grand finale. As series 347 shuts up shop, who will win? Giovanna, Steve or Saliha? Who cares? But for sheer consistency, it’ll probably be dull DJ Steve. Meanwhile, will someone please tell that gurning goon Gregg Wallace that people watch this rigidly formulaic food tosh despite him and definitely not because of him.

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