TV tonight: the final season of Guz Khan's hit comedy Man Like Mobeen
8pm, U&DramaA second season for this borderline ludicrous but happily escapist drama, with Emilia Fox playing British spy turned detective Sylvia Fox, who is trying to start a new life in Italy – where trouble has followed her and she has fallen for a dishy local. The three-parter kicks off with Sylvia getting involved with the alleged murder of a pillar of the community. HR
9pm, BBC TwoAs their numbers shrink every year, the chance to receive first-hand testimony from those who witnessed the second world war grows more precious. Here, Rachel Burden hears from child evacuees and women who worked for the war effort at home, as well as Jamaican volunteers and servicemen involved in the liberation of Belsen. Jack Seale
9pm, Channel 5
Trust Channel 5 to get straight to the first documentary about Holly Willoughby's stalker, Gavin Plumb, who last year was convicted of soliciting the kidnap, rape and murder of the former This Morning host and given a life sentence. The details of his plan are set out, with experts in criminal psychology and stalking behaviour giving insight. HR
9pm, Channel 4
As ever, it's great to have Taskmaster back with another cohort of comics ready to be humiliated and weirdly glorified by the experience. Fatiha El-Ghorri, Mathew Baynton, Rosie Ramsey, Stevie Martin and, perhaps most excitingly, Jason Mantzoukas are the latest volunteers. In the opener, expect fun with vinegar, raisins and peas. Phil Harrison
9pm, Sky AtlanticBish bash bosh, with the emphasis on bash: season three of the propulsive, bone-snapping crime saga reaches its penultimate episode. Dapper racketeer Ed Dumani (Conclave's Lucian Msamati) is doubling down on his ambitious power play, but can he convince the rest of the shifty stakeholders that Elliot (Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù) is their enemy? Graeme Virtue
Another Simple Favor (Paul Feig, 2025), Prime VideoSeven years after A Simple Favor, Paul Feig has resurrected its two antagonistic moms for another zippy, quippy comic mystery. Anna Kendrick is back as amateur sleuth turned true-crime writer Stephanie, while Blake Lively's murderous Emily – inexplicably released from jail – is about to get married to an Italian mobster on the sunny island of Capri. Seemingly taking its cues from Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the film is a smorgasbord of twists and turns in pretty settings, with Lively's amoral schemer in designer threads again getting the best lines. Simon Wardell
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- Scottish Sun
The UK's ‘poshest train' journey with champagne and lavish seven-course lunch set to arrive in Scotland
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Edinburgh Reporter
31 minutes ago
- Edinburgh Reporter
Fringe 2025: Second Class Queer ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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The men he meets include Michael, who's convinced Krishna was the waiter at the curry house he visited last night and wants to know why he doesn't 'look like Buddha', Deiter, a German who thinks white privilege doesn't exist and racism is all in the mind ('I don't see colour'), and a Muslim who wants a long term partner but thinks he won't get one because he's too fat and hairy 'and looks like a terrorist', but says it must be easier for Krishna because he's thin and hot. Then there's Ganash aka Laurent, who's been on a 'spiritual journey', 'knows India' and invites Krishna to chant, and Francis, a black nurse. Some patients won't allow him to treat them; they spit in his face. Every conversation Krishna has with a white man exudes racism, intentional or not, and there's plenty of cultural appropriation too. Dieter may be the overt racist, but the others simply don't seem to realise – or care – what they are saying. Curries, Buddha, hairy legs, mysticism; that's what India's about, isn't it? And no matter how many times Krishna tells them he's a Tamil Malaysian, back they go to the same old stereotypes. Meanwhile, every person of colour has their own story, and it's mostly not about spirituality; it's about the cold hard facts of everyday racism. A speed dating event is the ideal setting for a character – especially a solo actor – to tell us his back story. Through the information Krishna shares with each man, we learn about his grandparents, who came from a low caste and were moved from India to Malaysia as 'coolies' by British colonialists, and his own life as a necessarily closeted gay man in a conservative country where, 'Same-sex intimacy is prohibited under the Federal Penal Code 1936, which criminalises acts of 'carnal knowledge against the order of nature' (sodomy) and 'outrages on decency' (gross indecency).' December 2024. Krishna's mother has recently died. 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- Wales Online
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