Whats on TV tonight: Clare Balding presents Crufts 2022 – iNews

Pick of the day: Crufts 2022

3pm and 8pm, Channel 4

The worlds biggest dog show returns after a two-year break, but one thing that wont have gone away during its absence is the surrounding controversy. Critics claim that the search for pedigree perfection promotes exaggerated breeding, health issues and even, according to a banner unfurled during the prize-giving in 2018, canine eugenics.

The Kennel Club organisers deny such claims. Be that as it may, Clare Balding hosts from the NEC in Birmingham, the first day including the dog sport of flyball. Theres also freestyle heelwork to music, in which canines and their owners perform creative choreographed tricks set to music.

8.30pm, ITV

For its many thousands of victims, most of them women, stalking can be a terrifying ordeal sometimes violent and deadly. TV presenter Louise Minchin, who was subjected to a campaign of harassment online which resulted in the perpetrator being jailed, asks if enough is being done to tackle the crime.

9pm, BBC One

Oh dear. The candidates are now asked to create and brand a new baby food, before pitching and selling to leading retailers. When one teams recipe is classed as hard to stomach, its members seem destined for the chopping block, while those overseeing the branding also place themselves in the firing line after devising a less than tasteful logo. Needless to say, the extent of the errors leads to very problematic pitches.

9pm, BBC Two

The BBCs media editor is a deceptively incisive interviewer and Nile Rodgers is an accomplished songwriter and music producer, but you slightly wonder at the relevance of bringing them together right now. Unavailable for preview, so we will have to wait and see as Rodgers, who has worked on worldwide hits including David Bowies Lets Dance and Madonnas Like A Virgin discusses his childhood in 60s New York, setting up Chic with Bernard Edwards, and the racism that still troubles America.

9pm, Sky Atlantic

Based on Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay the third novel in Elena Ferrantes Neapolitan series the Italian drama series continues the story of feisty, rebellious Lina (Gaia Girace) and her lifelong friend, the bookish Elena (Margherita Mazzucco) into the 1970s. Lina is now separated from her husband and living with her young son in a new neighbourhood in Naples, while Elena has left the city, earned a degree from an elite university, and had her first book published. Can their friendship survive the new turbulent decade?

10pm, Dave

Comic relief is a much-needed commodity right now, and is currently most reliably provided by Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumonts meta-comedy. In this weeks visit to a (very) heightened version of the couples new life in Leeds they are invited to a birthday party for their neighbours five-year-old. The expression on Richardsons face alone is worth watching for as Beaumont tells him to at least try to look as if youre enjoying yourself.

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