Richard Osman’s House of Games

Monday

BBC Two, 6.00pm

The bespectacled half of Pointless and The Rest is Entertainment returns to put celebrities through their paces in the latest series of the game show.

This week, Ahir Shah (Live at the Apollo), Michaela Strachan (Springwatch), Xand van Tulleken (Horizon) and Vogue Williams (Dancing with the Stars) step up to the plate. They’ll be appearing on the show every day from Monday to Friday, before a winner is crowned. The week after, a new crop of celebrities enter the Osman pantheon.

Nobody Wants This

Thursday

Netflix

Kristen Bell (The Good Place) plays Joanna, an agnostic sex and relationships podcaster who meets Noah (Adam Brody, Thank You for Smoking), a recently single rabbi. Sparks fly, but the course of true love never did run smooth. Noah’s family are less than impressed with Joanna, and decide to meddle their way into the relationship and destroy it from within.

The Great British Bake Off

Thursday

Channel 4, 8.00pm

You survived Brat summer. You pivoted effortlessly to being demure. Even if you didn’t manage to get Chappell Roan tickets, you’ve firmly established yourself as cool. But come on. Isn’t there a part of you that wants to wrap up in a cardigan three sizes too big and embrace comfort?

Helping to shepherd in the Autumn is the latest series of Bake Off. Settle in as a new batch of contestants vie for a perfect crust, rise, puff and/or presentation, not to mention a handshake or two.

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK

Thursday

BBC Three, 8.00pm

Start your engines!

Drag Race makes its way across the pond for a sixth time, and the competition this series is as tight as ever. 12 Queens will be vying for victory, including the immaculately named Charra Tea and Rileasa Slaves.

Michelle Visage (Strictly Come Dancing), Alan Carr (8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown) and Graham Norton (The Graham Norton Show) return as judges, to provide helpful feedback and less helpful quips. Mabel and Simon Le Bon will also be popping in as guest judges.

Joan

Sunday

ITV1, 9.00pm

Five years after Game of Thrones came to an end, Sophie Turner returns to the silver screen, playing a real-life diamond thief. Joan Hannington’s rise to power in London’s criminal underworld would eventually earn her the nickname ‘the Godmother’.

Renowned for using her looks and penchant for disguise to evade detection, Hannington isn’t in it for the kicks. Okay, not just the kicks. She also has a young daughter, for whom she’ll do anything to provide.