TV preview, Nadiya's British Food Adventure (BBC 1, Monday 8.30pm): how to bake a TV star from scratch

Plus: Is Love Racist? The Dating Game (Channel 4 Monday 10pm), Game of Thrones (Sky Atlantic, Monday 2am, 9pm), Normal for Norfolk (BBC2, Monday 10pm), The Windsors (Channel 4, Wednesday 10pm), Love Island (ITV2, every night 9pm)

Nadiya Hussain sits at the more prosaic, less raunchy end of the celeb spectrum (BBC)

A star in the making here. If you would like to see the making of a modern-day TV celeb in real time, like seeing a cake being made, then Nadiya's British Food Adventure makes for intriguing viewing on more than one level.

As well as learning more about how to prepare asparagus, cheese tart and trout, you may observe the BBC engaged in moulding its very own follow-up to The Great British Bake Off, sort of television's answer to cloning. Clever, eh?

Obviously, Nadiya Hussain sits at the more prosaic, less raunchy end of the celeb spectrum, as she won Bake Off rather than coming to national prominence via Towie, Big Brother or Love Island, say, but the process has parallels: win what is basically a talent contest, get a light monstering in the media, embark on own series and then, if you manage to gain some success, suffer intolerable abuse and tabloid invasion of privacy, the sort of thing that makes some of us journalists become self-loathing.

So far Nadiya has survived pretty well, and this new series shows her and some our favourite dishes in a warm, wholesome light. Almost enough to persuade me to take on the arduous task of cooking asparagus. Good luck to her, anyway.

Maybe Channel 4 is losing its touch for easy publicity, but I am surprised that the provocatively titled Is Love Racist? The Dating Game hasn’t brewed up the usual media storm. The show purports to investigate whether dating apps have the effect of discouraging people from finding partners across cultural divides. There are so many controversies so easily sparked by such a premise that you’d think it would be the most talked-about show in the country by now. Anyway, it makes for interesting, if not necessarily convincing, viewing.

What is being talked about is more obvious: Game of Thrones embarks on its seventh season, now liberated from the storylines in the original novels by George RR Martin. You don’t need me to tell you it has lots of beautiful people doing silly things, much like that other current media phenomenon Love Island. The rules for television success these days seems to “no one over 30 allowed in”, which seems a shame. And I thought we were an ageing society.

Normal for Norfolk does have some older farming folk in it, including yeoman Desmond McCarthy’s 101-year-old mum. Tweed suits and colossal debts are the themes in this odd little documentary series, which deserves cult status if nothing else.

So far as heartfelt recommendations go, I have to commend The Windsors once again. The writing has reached a pitch-perfect level of satirical wit, and the grossly unfair caricatures of our hard-working royal family mercilessly hilarious. I have no idea whether Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie are as bone idle as they are portrayed, or Princess Anne as stonily cold, or Camilla as scheming or Fergie as desperate or Harry as illiterately thick, either, but the show has the potential to establish such cartoons as near truths.

The Windsors isn’t going to bring down the monarchy, given that the real ones haven’t yet managed it, but if I were a royal or a right royal spin doctor I’d be a bit concerned that the idea of Kate Middleton boasting Romany heritage, including a taste for spit-roast hedgehog, will soon become urban myth. Best thing on telly, anyhow, and this episode featuring a long imprisoned identical twin of the Prince of Wales is especially joyous.