Here are the picks of tonight's TV...
Landscape Artist of the Year 2022 (Sky Arts, 8pm)
NOW in its seventh season, the hit show follows another batch of gifted artists as they compete to create works of art from some of the UK’s most spectacular vistas. In each episode the contestants have just four hours to complete their landscapes, which range from the classical grandeur of Britain’s historic houses to idyllic rural scenes and modern cityscapes. Tonight, Stephen Mangan and Joan Bakewell introduce the first group who paint a scene of the biomes at the Eden Project in Cornwall.
The Repair Shop (BBC1, 8pm)
UPHOLSTERER Sonnaz Nooranvary welcomes a royal visitor to the workshop. It’s actually a chair made for King George VI’s coronation, which owner Andy’s grandfather attended as an usher in 1936 – and it’s fair to say it’s seen better days. Other items in desperate need of TLC from the team are a leather writing case that belonged to a Bletchley Park code breaker, a broken down turntable and a mechanical toy clown.
The Bay (STV, 9pm)
IT came as a blow when Morven Christie decided to quit her role as DS Lisa Armstrong in this rather wonderful crime drama. But the series’s makers have found somebody else to take her place – Marsha Thomason. She’s been working mostly in the US in recent years, but returns to her native north west to take on the role of Morecambe’s new family liaison officer DS Jenn Townsend. On her first day at work, a body is found in the bay, and she finds it difficult to prove her worth to her new colleagues – the grieving family aren’t willing to let her into their world.
Inside the Factory (BBC2, 9pm)
ERCOL has been making stylish furniture for more than a century; some of its earlier pieces are now hugely collectible. The company, which moved to a new, purpose-built facility in Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, in 2002, is still going strong, and currently makes around 10,000 chairs every year. Gregg Wallace witnesses the creation of a handful of them during an eye-opening visit. Plus, Cherry Healey reveals why sitting too much could be bad for you and learns about sustainable woodlands at the Rushmore Estate in Wiltshire.
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