On your marks... get set... BAAAAAKE!
This week's best telly includes the return of TV's biggest baking competition, The Great British Bake Off, TV's toughest competion, Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins and TV's favourite dancing competition, Strictly Come Dancing which goes live for the first time this year!
Elsewhere, David Mitchell leads BBC One's new comedy drama Ludwig about an accidental detective and Michelle Keegan, Joe Gilgum and the rest of the Brassic gang are back on Sky Max for a sixth series.
Here are 7 TV shows you can't miss this week...
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FIRST LIVE SHOW
STRICTLY COME DANCING
Saturday 21st September at 7pm on BBC One
Last weekend we finally found out which of this year's professional dancers Strictly Come Dancing's Class of '24 would be paired up with and this week is when the real hard work starts as all 15 couples prepare to take to the famous dance floor for the very first time... live to millions on BBC One!
The show will open with a fabulously fiery group number from the Strictly professionals before Tess and Claudia invite this year' 15 brand new couples to perform their opening routines of the competition.
Whilst there is no public vote this week, there is plenty of paddle action from judges Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Anton Du Beke and Shirley Ballas. With no-one going home this time, the judges' scores will be carried over to next week, when viewers will have their first chance to vote for their favourites.
13 EPISODES CONTINUES WEEKLY
STREAM ON BBC IPLAYER
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RETURNING REALITY TV
CELEBRITY SAS:
WHO DARES WINS
Sunday 22nd and Monday 23rd September at 9pm on Channel 4
Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins is back as 15 new celebrities, who think they have what it takes to pass the SAS selection, are pushed to their limit, and beyond, by an elite team of ex-special forces operators.
Fifteen recruits from the worlds of entertainment, sport and journalism have signed up to take part in the hardest course yet, as Chief Instructor Billy and his team take them halfway across the world for winter warfare training on New Zealand's South Island.
Taking part this series, are actor John Barrowman, journalist Rachel Johnson, TV Presenter Cherry Healey, former England Rugby Captain Chris Robshaw, former Olympic Gymnast Ellie Downie, ex- Professional Boxer Anthony Ogogo, World Heavyweight Champion Boxer Lani Daniels, Love Island favourites, basketball player Ovie Soko and campaigner Georgia Harrison, comedians Shazia Mirza and Tez Ilyas and reality TV favourites Bianca Gascoigne, Bobby Norris, Marnie Simpson and returning recruit, Pete Wicks, who had to withdraw during series 4 on medical grounds.
For their first task, the celebs must traverse the Trainasium: parallel metal bars suspended 335 feet in the air. After that, the recruits' mindsets will be tested under extreme pressure when they must stage an intense hostage rescue mission. It's all too much for one contender.
8 EPISODES CONTINUES SUNDAYS AND MONDAYS
STREAM ON CHANNEL 4
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RETURNING TALENT SHOW
THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF
Tuesday 24th September at 8pm on Channel 4
This week sees The Great British Bake Off return to our screens for its 15th series as once again, the nation's most famous tent is pitched in the iconic grounds of Welford Park. Alison Hammond and Noel Fielding are back to guide the latest batch of bakers through 30 brand-new challenges set by judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith who also return.
This year's series kicks off with Cake Week, giving the new bakers their first opportunity to impress Paul and Prue. In the Signature challenge, the bakers must elevate a loaf cake to new heights. Next under the fabled gingham cloth are the ingredients for the first Technical challenge, but with a twist.
And in the Showstopper challenge, the bakers must confuse and bamboozle the judges by creating the perfect hyper-realistic illusion cake. Whose cake fakery will earn them the first Star Baker award? And who'll be the first to leave the tent?
10 EPISODES CONTINUES WEEKLY
STREAM ON CHANNEL 4
4
BRAND NEW COMEDY DRAMA
LUDWIG
Wednesday 25th September at 9pm on BBC One
David Mitchell leads BBC One new comedy drama Ludwig as puzzle setter John ‘Ludwig’ Taylor whose life of solitude is upended when his identical twin, DCI James Taylor, disappears.
Drafted in by his sister-in-law Lucy, played by Anna Maxwell Martin, John reluctantly assumes his brother's identity as a Detective in the Cambridge Police Authority in order to find clues to his brother’s whereabouts.
John is tasked with infiltrating the Major Investigations Team, gathering information and solving a completely unconnected murder all whilst remaining in character as his brother. A difficult ask for anyone, let alone a reclusive puzzle settling genius who rarely leaves the house. Can this master of all things cryptic crack his biggest puzzle yet?
6 EPISODES CONTINUES WEEKLY
STREAM ON BBC IPLAYER ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE
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RETURNING COMEDY
BRASSIC
Thursday 26th September at 9pm on Sky Max
Series 6 of Brassic could not have come at a better time. Having spent the last few weeks inside the Top 10 on Netflix, who recently added the first four series, Brassic has won over a new legion of fans and even existing fans (like myself) have chosen to rewatch in preperation for the new series.
After an epic end to the last series, the gang are back with as much wild adventure andhilarity as ever. Reeling from the explosive encounter with Manolito, they set about gettingtheir lives back in order.
Only now the landscape is changing, people are getting older and the question of growing up looms in the air. But what does 'growing up' mean to a bunch like this?
In the first episode, Vinnie meets a seasoned criminal with something interesting stashed in his attic - the original FA Cup from 1895.
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