TV tonight: Charlotte Crosby’s surprisingly soothing reality show

A new documentary series visits the former Geordie Shore star at home. Plus: Sort Your Life Out With Stacey Solomon. Here’s what to watch this evening

Charlotte in Sunderland

10pm, BBC Three

The point of Charlotte Crosby’s 10-part reality series is unclear, yet this week’s opener is a surprisingly calming, even therapeutic, watch. Perhaps that is because – as Crosby is filmed living a quieter pace of life in Sunderland and getting to work on a fashion line – her relationships with her partner and her mum (who is also her manager) are genuinely sweet, especially when she shares news of her pregnancy. Plus, there is that reliable northern humour. Hollie Richardson

Emergency: First Time Medics

8pm, W

“The overwhelming fear is getting something wrong.” Clinical Lead Omar takes us on a life-or-death voyage beyond the doors of the Royal Berkshire hospital in Reading. As a 10-year-old in unbearable pain accidentally overdoses, a high-risk heart patient rapidly deteriorates. We also meet Alex, a junior doctor wearily juggling parenthood and shift work. Danielle De Wolfe

Sort Your Life Out With Stacey Solomon

9pm, BBC One

To Rotherhithe in south-east London this week, where Solomon takes her pragmatic approach to a family whose father lives with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and many unfinished DIY projects. Things get emotional as she helps them to make change happen in their home. HR

Hold the Front Page

9pm, Sky Max

It might be a “two comedians go on holiday” show in disguise, but Josh Widdicombe and Nish Kumar’s bash at being local reporters has more laughs than most shows in the genre. This week, the Northamptonshire Telegraph sends them to investigate bees, fireworks, dry-slope skiing and James Acaster. Jack Seale

Our Flag Means Death

10pm, BBC Two

This comedy is beginning to hit its stride. Blackbeard (Taika Waititi) decides to become more aristocratic, and Stede (Rhys Darby) offers to teach him how to tell his melon spoon from his snail fork. When he comes across an invitation to a “fancy party for hoity-toity people”, he causes a stir in society. Hannah Verdier

Building Britain’s Superhomes

10pm, Channel 4

Clients go to the property developer Guy Phoenix because, in his own words, “they know it’s going to be a big, fuck-off house and look great”. His ad-hoc approach and inability to finish a sentence without swearing certainly separates this – another tone-deaf do-it-up series – from the rest. HR

Film choice

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Ryan Coogler, 2022), Disney+
The death of Chadwick Boseman could have put paid to this sequel, but Ryan Coogler has made grief the driving force of a film that sidles between sadness and splendour. It brings out the best from Angela Bassett, as the late T’Challa’s mother, Ramonda, and Letitia Wright, as his troubled sister, Shuri, but it’s the baddies who give the tale vim. The Talokanil are a superhuman Maya race who live underwater and also have vibranium – the metal that gives Wakanda its superiority – and a history of resisting oppression. Their aquatic realm is sumptuously realised, its Mesoamerican designs complementing the African imagery that makes this corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe so distinctive. Simon Wardell

Contributors

Hollie Richardson, Danielle De Wolfe, Jack Seale, Hannah Verdier and Simon Wardell

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