Jamie Oliver, Silent Witness and 24 Hours in Police Custody are all on tv tonight, Monday 13 January 2025.
We’ve scoured the TV guide and here’s the best tv on tonight, across the channels…
Jamie’s £1 Wonders & Money Saving Meals, 8pm, Channel 4
In this brand-new series, Jamie Oliver brings us great budget-beating recipes and tips to get us all eating delicious food at surprisingly low prices. Through inspiration and practical tips, Jamie shows us how to cook meals on a lower budget that deliver great value, less waste and most importantly, tasty food, delivering big on value without compromising on flavour, from quick mid-week dinners and gorgeous meals for get-togethers, to inspiring vegetarian dishes and delicious ways to make leftovers go further.
Tonight, using thrifty veg and making clever swaps, Jamie shares a delicious £1 wonder inspired by Italian grandmothers – spaghetti frittata – a really fun way to be frugal with leftovers. He rustles up low-cost pork pies in the air fryer, using great value mince, homemade tasty flaky pastry and a brilliant tip using a jar of piccalilli – a total winner for your wallet. He also cooks a budget-busting batch of butternut squash dal, with low-cost lentils and an optional hack for making your own cheese; a dish that’s perfect for freezing and using for multiple meals. Using clever cuts of meat, and a time-saving spice blend, Jamie creates a DIY takeaway chicken shish kebab at a fraction of the cost of one you’d order in. He then shows us how we can save some money by making our own sweet treats, with deliciously thrifty mint choc chip whoopie pies, a belter for your budget.
Silent Witness, 9pm, BBC One and iPlayer.
Series 28 continues with the first in a two-part story. When a man is found bludgeoned by a hammer, the Lyell are drawn deep into a conspiracy involving local government.
In the new series, Maggie Steed (Paddington 2, Rivals) plays Harriet Maven – the new Head of The Lyell Centre – while Francesca Mills (The Witcher: Blood Origin, Worzel Gummidge) will play Kit Brooks, a Crime Analyst who works with Jack.
On joining the cast, Steed says “I was delighted to be asked to join Silent Witness. I’ve enjoyed it many times over the years and it’s always been the most intriguing and entertaining series going, so it’s been a thrill to join.”
Francesca Mills says: “I’m thrilled to be joining such a long running, much loved series as Silent Witness and I really look forward to being a part of the stellar cast. This will be the 28th Series, and it is still going from strength to strength.”
24 Hours in Police Custody: The Norfolk Narco Hotel, 9pm, Channel 4.
This episode of the UK’s biggest and most successful true crime documentary series gives viewers the inside track on a major police operation that leads to the seizure of drugs worth over £1.5 million. Cameras follow the Eastern Region Special Operations Unit, which specialises in tacking serious and organised crime, as they begin a covert operation against a Latin American cartel, which they believe imports huge quantities of drugs into the UK. Detective Chief Inspector Mike Birch admits ‘It’s a huge concern to see the cartel trying to infiltrate our region.
The cartels are so prolific, all they want is to be able to flood the market here with their commodity.’ After finding drugs hidden in secret compartments in equipment being shipped into the UK, detectives realise they may be able to break an international crime gang by exploiting their discovery. They decide to replace them with dummy drugs and allow the fake cargo to be delivered to their final destination. Surveillance teams watch as the consignment is delivered to a luxury property in Norwich and the order is given to move in to make arrests. They find a Mexican national living in the apartment, who’s taken into custody, and a search reveals a large quantity of a substance which resembles shards of glass with a strong chemical smell. Forensic analysis establishes that the substance is 11.8 kilos of methyl-amphetamine, otherwise known as crystal meth: a highly addictive drug that can be manufactured synthetically in large quantities.
Every twist and turn of the detectives’ hunt for the Mexican’s co-conspirators in the crystal meth importation is captured, as it’s revealed that a dangerous drug that was previously rarely found in the UK has now entered the retail drugs market, with potentially devastating consequences. This is high-octane real-life crime drama where the facts are more revealing than the best crime fiction.
Love Island All Stars (Season 2), 9pm ITV2 and ITVX
Love Island returns to South Africa for the first series of Love Island: All Stars as familiar faces venture back into TV’s most talked about Villa for a second chance at finding love.
Love Island: All Stars will make its on screen debut in 2024 with famed former Islanders given another shot at finding the one. Produced by Lifted Entertainment, part of ITV Studios, and GroupM Motion Entertainment, Love Island: All Stars will launch across ITV2, STV and ITVX.
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