Today’s TV offers a festive food cook off in Celebrity MasterChef, an epic cruise around the east coast of North America with Susan Calman and some monkeying around with a macaque on BBC One.
Macaques: Monkeys in the Mountains – a Dynasties Special
BBC One, 7.30pm
This special episode of Dynasties takes us to Morocco’s Atlas Mountains, where a macaque called Mac has just become alpha male.
Narrated by David Attenborough, the episode follows Mac as he battles for his place to stay on top and to protect his family, taking on rival monkeys and asserting his authority over food and mating.
Cruising with Susan Calman
Channel 5, 8pm
Comedian Susan Calman returns for another series of cruising, this time travelling across the east coast of North America.
Calman starts her journey in New York before cruising to Newport, Rhode Island, and onto Boston and Nova Scotia before ending her trip in Quebec.
Mixing an adrenaline-pumping helicopter ride over New York with a trolleybus tour of Boston, Calman delivers her usual childlike excitement at all of the cruise’s delights.
Celebrity MasterChef Festive Extravaganza
BBC One, 9pm
RuPaul’s Drag Race star Kitty Scott-Claus was a no brainer for this festive edition of MasterChef, but will her festive name take her all the way in the competition?
Scott-Claus will be joined in the kitchen by three former MasterChef contestants, reality star turned country singer Megan McKenna, dancer AJ Pritchard and actor Chizzy Akudolu, with John Torode and Gregg Wallace returning to the judging panel.
The celebrities will be tasked with two tough cooking challenges, including turning Christmas leftovers into a delicious meal.
Last year Judi Love beat Joe Swash and Oti Mabuse to the crown with her Caribbean-themed Christmas dinner and Jamaican Christmas cake.
