Landscape Artist of the Year opens at Derwentwater with Stephen Mangan

Landscape Artist of the Year returns to the Lake District, starting at Derwentwater, with Stephen Mangan back as host and artists working on paintings as they wait for sunlight to hit the water.

Derwentwater is described as the “queen of the Lakes” and is home to the world’s biggest colouring pencil at the Derwent Pencil Museum in Keswick, which provides the setting for this year’s competition. The episode sees the first artist chosen for the semi-finals, alongside a wildcard painter, and the piece notes that viewers may question the judges’ decisions.

Other evening highlights mentioned include How to Keep Your Brain Young (7pm, Channel 5), in which Dr Amir Khan follows three volunteers through two-week challenges and speaks to experts about early onset dementia and treating addiction and depression; The Traitors (8pm, BBC One) reaching week three; and Digging for Britain (9pm, BBC Two), which features what presenter Prof Alice Roberts calls “a once-in-a-lifetime find” near Thetford.

Also scheduled are Matlock (9pm, Sky Witness), continuing its second season with further clashes between Kathy Bates’s Matty and Skye P Marshall’s Olympia, and the new sitcom Can You Keep a Secret? (9.30pm, BBC One), in which Dawn French plays a widow whose revelation about her husband’s faked death threatens family secrets.

Key Topics

Culture, Derwentwater, Stephen Mangan, Derwent Pencil Museum, Keswick, Lake District