Today's TV: tuck into Bake Off, get wild with Bear and Jonny, and go a few rounds with Shane MacGowan

MATT LUCAS welcomes award-winning X-Men actor James McAvoy, popstar and The Voice UK judge Anne-Marie, comedian and writer David Baddiel and double Olympic gold medal-winning athlete Olympian Dame Kelly Holmes into the nation’s favourite tent. As usual, judges Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood have three challenges in store for the celebrity competitors. First up, the bakers are asked to make Signature decorative tarts. They then have to create a savoury Technical, before rendering their spirit animals in cake form for the Showstopper. But which of the four celebs will pull out all the stops to claim the winner’s apron?

Bear & Jonny Wilkinson’s Wild Adventure

Bear & Jonny Wilkinson’s Wild Adventure (ITV, 8pm)

He spent the noughties getting soaking wet and covered in mud on rugby pitches. Now former England legend Jonny Wilkinson has gone back to roughing it – after joining forces with Bear Grylls to face the gruelling and harsh terrain of Dartmoor. “I’m terrible with heights, and I’m actually really bad with claustrophobia,” Jonny admits, just before Bear tells him about a “super cool little place… cliff and crags and caves and rivers, forests… lots of ups and down”. Later, Jonny tackles a hideous looking damp ‘chimney climb’, before opening up about his obsessive nature, his childhood and his career. Then, over a lunch of frogs’ legs, Bear takes Jonny back to that pivotal moment when he scored the winning drop goal to help his country win the 2003 Rugby World Cup.

2020: The Story of Us

2020: The Story of Us (ITV, 9pm)

During 2020, Covid-19 turned our world upside down, with so many suffering loss and hardship, and our freedoms being curtailed. Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald’s feature-length documentary tells the story of Coronavirus in Britain through the experience of people immersed in its impact, both personally and professionally. Using testimony from staff in hospitals – consultants, doctors and nurses – as well as weaving in the experience of patients, this documentary paints a vivid portrait of the working lives of ICU staff and those they treat.

Roman Kemp: Our Silent Emergency

Roman Kemp: Our Silent Emergency (BBC1, 9pm)

Roman Kemp seems to have led a blessed life. He’s handsome, has a blossoming media career and is the apple of the eye of his parents, Martin and Shirlie Kemp. But last year, his world was turned on its head by the sudden and unexpected death of his best friend, radio producer Joe Lyons. Kemp is dedicating this documentary to Lyons’ memory, and it will see him explore the urgent issue of mental health among young men. One of the questions he asks involves why so many of those struggling end up taking their own lives. He hopes that by shining a light on a difficult subject, it will help others to speak about their feelings rather than struggling in silence.

The Circle

The Circle (C4, 9.15pm)

Following the Stand Up To Cancer celebrity special which concluded last night, the regular show returns for a new run. Emma Willis is back to host with comedian Sophie Willan resuming her role as the inimitable voiceover. Tonight, the block of flats welcomes its latest set of residents and a £100,000 prize is at stake in an unpredictable game of popularity. The players will be metres apart, but they can’t see or hear each other. Instead they communicate via a voice-activated platform called the Circle. But on the Circle, not everyone is who they seem.

Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan

Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan (BBC Four, 10pm)

Filmmaker Julien Temple dives deep into the life of Shane MacGowan, the tortured lead singer and songwriter of the Pogues, who famously combined traditional Irish music with the visceral energy of punk rock. The film covers MacGowan’s early years in Tipperary, his schooldays in Tunbridge Wells and the Barbican, his formative time in the late 1970s punk circuit, international fame in the 1980s and 1990s, controversies, and how he defied the odds after years of drug and alcohol abuse. It features unseen archival footage.