Celebrating The Carpenters ITV1, 7.30pm

"AN EVENING of Carpenters music is my idea of heaven," says Amanda Holden, dispelling once and for all the myth that she's into death metal.

"I've been a fan of theirs for as long as I can remember and to hear some of my favourite current bands perform their greatest hits was amazing."

Amanda is bigging up Celebrating The Carpenters which, 40 years since the release of sibling duo Richard and Karen Carpenter's debut LP, celebrates their music with some of the best-known pop stars of today – Dionne Warwick, Beverley Knight, Lemmy.

Hosted by Holden and Ronan Keating, pictured below, and made in collaboration with Richard Carpenter, the programme sees such stars take to the stage to perform their own versions of some of the Carpenters' most-loved songs.

Richard, meanwhile, reveals some of the secrets of their success, and the stories behind the tunes.

Remarkably, the Carpenters' album and single sales total more than 100 million. But their celebrated career reached a tragic end when Karen, who had long suffered with an eating disorder, died in 1983 from a cardiac arrest due to complications associated with anorexia nervosa.

By way of a tribute, look out tonight for Chrissie Hynde performing Superstar, The Feeling singing Solitaire, Noisettes performing Goodbye To Love, and Ronan Keating delivering I Won't Last A Day Without You.