TV tonight: Rose Matafeo’s whip-smart romcom returns

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Jessie is up to her old tricks in the brilliant Notting Hill-style comedy. Plus: Sheridan Smith plays a mother fighting for her son. Here’s what to watch this evening Phil Harrison, Alexi Duggins, Henry Wong, Hannah Verdier and Stuart Heritage Mon 7 Feb 2022 06.00 GMT Starstruck 10pm, BBC Three Rose Matafeo’s whip-smart, gender-swapped Notting Hill-style romantic comedy returns. As we rejoin the almost-couple Jessie and Tom, there are hints of commitment but they’re generally spiked by Jessie’s insecurity and Tom’s diffidence. The writing has a good handle on the sense of stasis that can attach itself to rootless twentysomethings adrift among the excitement and impossibilities of London. And the couple’s attraction and confusion always plays out in plausibly human and relatable ways. Phil Harrison No Return 9pm, ITV Kathy (Sheridan Smith) sees her family holiday become a nightmare when her son Noah (Louis Ashbourne Serkis) is arrested for sexual assault. As golden-hued footage of swimming pools gives way to the tense sound of fizzing electronica, this tense drama leaves you guessing. Is Noah guilty, or has he been framed? Alexi Duggins 60 Days with the Gypsies 9pm, Channel 4 Host Ed Stafford buys a caravan and spends 60 days trying to live on various Traveller sites to understand their lives. Should he side with Travellers whose lifestyle might be criminalised by an forthcoming act of parliament? Or will he sympathise with the locals who rail against the antisocial behaviour he finds? The answer lies somewhere in the middle. AD Boobs 10pm, Channel 4 “How can we take back ownership of our breasts?” In this thoughtful documentary, Summer Camp singer Elizabeth Sankey sets out to battle the male-influenced way breasts are discussed. It’s full of revealing interviews with women, plus the kind of disturbingly misogynistic 80s film/TV portrayals of boobs that beckon your palm to your forehead. An insightful, wry take on the topic. AD Euphoria 10.05pm, Sky Atlantic Zendaya and Dominic Fike in Euphoria. Tragic and exasperating … Zendaya and Dominic Fike in Euphoria. Photograph: HBO Advertisement After a disastrous intervention, Rue (Zendaya) is on the run from everyone: family, friends, the cops. Just as it becomes too much, the actor, both tragic and exasperating, manages to draw you back in. It’s a credit to Euphoria’s young cast that the show can get away with this much melodrama. Henry Wong Imagine … Marian Keyes: My (Not So) Perfect Life 10.35pm, BBC One Alan Yentob meets Marian Keyes, the queen of “chick lit” – not that the throwaway term does her justice. Keyes is as warm and engaging as her darkly funny books while she talks about what she’s learned in life, from working as a waitress to becoming one of the finest storytellers around. Hannah Verdier Film choice Sharni Vinson in You’re Next. Endless wit and wild invention … Sharni Vinson in You’re Next. Photograph: PictureLux/The Hollywood Archive/Alamy You’re Next (Adam Wingard, 2011), 9pm, Horror Channel Thanks to the commercial success of last year’s Godzilla vs Kong, Adam Wingard now firmly has his feet under the Hollywood table. But whatever he chooses to do next, it’s unlikely to better the panache of his 2011 breakout hit You’re Next. The joy of this cheap, grimy slasher movie is in how lightly it wears its premise. In any other hands, a story like this – about intruders in animal masks systematically offing a group of semi-likable victims – would be a gruesome sludge of a thing. Wingard, though, fills the movie with endless wit, black humour and wild invention. Beautiful. Stuart Heritage

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