The Good Cook | The Only Gay On The Estate? | Futurama | The Rob Brydon Show | Camp Orange | Ozzy Osbourne: Thirty Years After The Blizzard
The Good Cook
7.25pm, BBC1
Cooking “restaurant-standard food from the comfort of your own home” might sound appealing to anyone whose idea of a good time is human-high stacks of washing up and a belief that Carluccio’s can definitely do it better than you. But for those drunk on their own culinary hubris, the producer’s chummy sell will leave you feeling short-changed. Thankfully, Simon Hopkinson’s approach is much more appealing: flat patter, five no-nonsense recipes in 30 minutes (tonight’s dishes include roasted peppers, steak and chips and grilled aubergines), and lots of real food love. Nosheen Iqbal
The Only Gay On The Estate?
7.30pm, Channel 4
A personal meditation on smalltown sexual frustration, Michael Ogden’s bold documentary is only let down by Channel 4’s penchant for an attention-grabbing title. Michael returns to the Manchester suburb of his childhood, where he struggled to come to terms with his sexuality. Reuniting with friends and family, he explores what motivated him to turn on his camp best friend David. Recognising that the prejudices that prompted him to hide his homosexuality were largely imagined, Michael finally comes out to his parents and apologises to David. Gwilym Mumford
Futurama
8pm, Sky1
Good news, everyone – Futurama is back with a new season! Actually, this isn’t the new, new season that’s currently airing in the US; this is the old new season, which saw the show back on regular weekly television following cancellation and a few movie-length specials. They start in the best way possible, by killing everyone off only to revive them as clones, a smart and blatant way to reset the show after past events. Tonight’s second episode is a little less impressive, with its marooning of Leela and Zap Brannigan on a distant planet, but it more than makes up for it with gags as Zap relentlessly makes his moves on the only woman on this world. Phelim O’Neill
The Rob Brydon Show
10pm, BBC2
A few surprises: the petite lady with a tattoo in the audience front row is not, as host Rob Brydon guesses, a beautician. Meanwhile, according to occasional Hollywood-botherer Matt Lucas, Tom Cruise is even shorter than we think. But how short? “One foot.” U2 suppport act the Script and ventriloquist/monkey-wrangler Nina Conti complete the guestlist for this welcome second series. It doesn’t get any cuddlier. Ali Catterall
Camp Orange
5pm, Nickleodeon
What would be left if you took the celebrities out of I’m A Celebrity …Get Me Out Of Here? Essentially, something a bit like Camp Orange, in which teams of British kids aged 11 to 13 compete in the titular Australian camp, undergoing grim insect-filled tests of endurance and initiative. Tonight’s opening double episode introduces the concept and lifts the lid on the selection process. Denise Lewis is on hand to provide “It’s not about winning, it’s about taking part”-style advice. Still, best avoided if you’re made uncomfortable by the thought of precocious tweens rapping about going to Australia. John Robinson
Ozzy Osbourne: Thirty Years After The Blizzard
9.40pm, BBC4
In the days before everyone knew how much he loves dogs and The History Channel, Ozzy Osbourne was one of the proper wildmen of heavy rock. It’s this side that’s the focus here, tracing his post-Sabbath solo renaissance with the late Randy Rhoads and manager/wife Sharon. Richard Vine
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