What to watch and review on Sunday. Tonight's TV tips
What to watch and review on Sunday, October 2.
Victoria and Albert
SUNDAY
Strictly Come Dancing: Results Show (BBC1, 7.15pm) The opening results show as the judges and the voting public decide which minor celeb will suffer the shame of being the dreaded first out.
The X Factor (ITV, 7.30pm) Another marathon helping of judges’ pretend houses as we finally find out which wailing wannabes we’re going to have to put up with all the way to Christmas. Make it stop.
Poldark (BBC1, 9pm) And this week’s ogle-Ross’s-body moment unfolds as our hunky hero reclines splendidly in the bath while Demelza sponges him down. Meanwhile, there’s trouble at ‘t’ mine as the tin remains conspicuous by its absence.
Victoria (ITV, 9pm) Her diminutive Majesty flees a musical recital feeling mightily sick. Guess what… she’s pregnant. Albert is thrilled but Vic worries that she might die in childbirth. If she does, who will rule the country? In other news… Albert embraces the coming of the railway age and goes for a ride on a new-fangled train.
Celebrity Island With Bear Grylls (Channel 4, 9pm) After the dethroning of self-styled leader Dom Jolly unheard-of Mark Jenkins takes over the reins and sends everyone on a turkey hunt. But watch out Mark (whoever you are)… selfie queen Karen Danczuk (whoever she is) has ambitions to rule.
Louis Theroux – Savile (BBC2, 9pm) Sixteen years after he filmed When Louis Met Jimmy, the documentary maker returns to the fray with this searing examination of the paedophile DJ’s reign of sexual terror. Recalling her ordeal as an underage victim, one woman says: “I never said ‘don’t’ because I knew he could.” Following their first encounter, Theroux became friends with Savile and admits: “I feel a bit ashamed now, knowing what I know.” This is genuine must-see TV. Powerful and deeply disturbing.