TV tonight: can Claudia Winkleman become our new chatshow queen?

Claudia Winkleman takes her place as chatshow host on BBC One at 10.40pm. It shares a producer with The Graham Norton Show, offering a similar vibe with a bit more fake tan and eyeliner. First guests include Jeff Goldblum, Vanessa Williams, Jennifer Saunders and Tom Allen, and she has promised to involve both the studio and home audiences.

Gardeners’ World on BBC Two at 8pm sees Monty Don tackling spring tasks such as planting raspberries and potting dahlias. Adam Frost is settling into a new garden after moving house, while Arit Anderson visits the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Death in Paradise on BBC One at 9pm features Gary Wilmot as flamboyant Saint Marie journalist Anton, with DI Mervin and the squad investigating the poisoning of a newspaper agony aunt.

BBC Two’s Big Cats 24/7 at 9pm follows the Xudum pride as females and cubs scatter across the Okavango delta after a fight revealed a rival pride and a promiscuous male called Big Toe.

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