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The Guardian
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
TV tonight: a heart-racing series following RNLI rescue missions
8pm, BBC TwoStorm Eunice is about to hit the south coast – not the best day for a windsurfer to be caught out there, especially as he needs diabetes medication. But the Portsmouth rescue team aren't even sure whether they can get to him. Will they make it there in time? More tense scenes in this heart-racing series that highlights the great work of the RNLI. Hollie Richardson 8pm, Channel 4It's the penultimate episode in this not-at-all riveting series about life at sea on cruise ships. There's excitement as some of the higher-up staff take a break on a private beach in the Bahamas (not so exciting for everyone else – or us at home), while back on board the MS Nieuw Statendam, the chefs give passengers a cooking lesson. HR 8.30pm, ITV1The popular chef drives through Cuenca, a mountain town in north-eastern Spain, then Murcia, a university city in the south-east, in this week's foodie tour. In Cuenca, he gets on a tractor and farms intense garlic. Over in Murcia, he investigates the story behind the area's reputation as 'the fruit basket of Spain'. HR 9pm, BBC TwoWe're nearing the end of this patient New Zealand-set thriller and a look at Mervin's farm suggests a man with an unhealthy interest in the business of serial killing. Elsewhere, Aileen (Carolyn Bracken) has a spiritual awakening and reconciles with Richter (Richard Flood) as a result. But with a prison break imminent, it seems any happy endings will be hard won. Phil Harrison 9pm, Channel 5 In a new exploration series, Ben Fogle heads to Africa where he meets the Norwegian model Aleks, who has made a home in the deserts of Botswana. He helps her to build bush fences to keep out wild lions and meets her local community, while finding out how she ended up moving there. HR 10pm, Sky MaxNegan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) may be the last gang leader standing in the ruins of New York, but his young ward is in a bad way. A mercy dash to Bellevue hospital for medical supplies is required. Meanwhile, Maggie (Lauren Cohan) considers whether to enter into a risky alliance to track down her erratic son Hershel, last spotted trying to poison the water supply. Graeme Virtue Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding, 1932), 7pm, BBC Four'I want to be alone!' Greta Garbo is at her most diva-ish in this 1932 Oscar winner, a seductive pre-Code melodrama set exclusively in an opulent Berlin hotel. She is a depressed ballerina given a new lease of life after falling for John Barrymore's Baron Felix von Geigern. Sadly, he has plans to steal her jewels to pay off his debts – but he's also in love with her so it's not a simple proposition. Lionel Barrymore's terminally ill bookkeeper, a young Joan Crawford as a flirtatious stenographer, and Wallace Beery's bumptious factory owner are other guests adding to the social whirl. Simon Wardell
The Guardian
30-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
TV tonight: Rob Brydon's confusing but addictive new travel competition
9pm, BBC One'Where the X am I?' That's what the contestants are going to need to work out at each stage of this discombobulating new competition, which turns Europe into a board game. Rob Brydon is the man in charge, sending the gang across the continent in windowless coaches. By the end of each episode, they need to guess where they are on a map, after being fed clues (some of them fake) at stops along the way. Whoever's guess is the furthest away is eliminated and out of the chance of winning the £100,000 prize at the final destination. Hollie Richardson 8pm, Sky WitnessThe new series of the action drama starts with a crash-bang, when a helicopter goes down. The ensuing chaos provides ex-con Bode (Max Thieriot) with an opportunity to prove that firefighting really is 'the only healthy addiction I've ever had', while bride Gabriela (Stephanie Arcila) can explain her hesitancy at the altar. Ellen E Jones 9pm, BBC TwoIt might feel there's absolutely no need for another documentary on Ian Brady, Myra Hindley and their atrocious crimes. This two-parter, though, promises to use newly discovered documents and recordings to find missed opportunities – and new evidence that could lead to finding the body of the final missing victim, Keith Bennett. HR 9pm, ITV1One of this week's weepy stories started in a 2022 episode, when two estranged sisters who had been left in toilets as babies were reunited. Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell revisit Natasha and Lee-Ann, who are still looking for their parents. HR 9pm, BBC FourIt's BBC One's The Repair Shop meets Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru, as an expert antiques restorer and his apprentice son travel Japan, bringing new life to exceptional works of art. In this first episode of three, Koji 'The God Hand' Mayuyama is in Osaka, taking a look at an 800-year-old vase and a 16th-century tea bowl. EEJ 8pm, U&Alibi The final double bill of Mark Gatiss's arch and unashamedly queer whodunnit, set in 1940s London. When an army captain is poisoned at a hotel bar, exiled royalty and disgruntled staff are in the frame for murder. But will you spot the red herrings before bibliophile-turned-detective Gabriel Book (Gatiss)? Hannah J Davies Threads (Mick Jackson, 1984), 11.15pm, BBC Four For anyone who loves spending their summers being bummed out,Mick Jackson's real-world nuclear horror show is a must. A startling, ferocious depiction of the aftermath of a nuclear attack on Sheffield, the film's impact cannot be overstated. The terror doesn't just come from the initial firestorm, but the illnesses and societal breakdown that follow. Threads put the fear of God into people right when it needed to the most and, quite frankly, the upcoming remake can't get here soon enough. Stuart Heritage Golf: Women's Open Noon, Sky Sports Golf. The first day of the major championship from Royal Porthcawl in Mid Glamorgan.
The Guardian
27-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
TV tonight: the astonishing mobile phone network for gangs
9pm, Channel 4 EncroChat was a mobile phone network – or 'the dark web in your pocket' – used by organised crime gangs across the world. But in 2020, international authorities managed to hack these phones and read messages for 74 days, many of which revealed imminent threats to life, before the criminals realised. This astonishing four-part documentary speaks to insiders about how they did it and what happened next. Hollie Richardson 8pm, ITV1 The youthful detective who specialises in cold cases tries to solve the 40-year-old kidnapping of an oil heiress and her baby. Despite diving further into the victim's life and meeting the baby's dad, she hits a brick wall and gets threatened with having her case closed down. Can she prove her theory? Alexi Duggins 8pm, BBC Four This Prom should be a real crowd-pleaser: New York jazz singer Samara Joy is only 25 but has already won five Grammys with her faithful renderings of beloved old songs. Andi Oliver introduces a performance by Joy and her octet that celebrates the legacies of Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus and Oscar Peterson. Jack Seale 9.15pm, BBC One The atmospheric epic about an Australian war hero reconciling with his past continues. In the present, Dorrigo (Ciarán Hinds) is having an affair – but his mind is taken back to another illicit yet poignant entanglement he had in the 40s (with Jacob Elordi playing his younger self). We also see the full horrors that he endured while building the Burma railway. HR 10pm, Channel 4 It stars Elisabeth Moss and was created by Steven Knight but this spy thriller unfortunately doesn't live up to its pedigree. MI6 agent Imogen (Moss) and terror suspect Adilah (Yumna Marwan) keep on with their uneasy journey – but with the CIA close to a breakthrough and Imogen suspicious of Adilah's motives, something has to give. Phil Harrison Women's International Football: Euro 2025 Final, 3.30pm, ITV1/4pm, BBC One England defend their title at St Jakob-Park in Basel, Switzerland.
The Guardian
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
TV tonight: on the trail of the man accused of murder by mail
9pm, Channel 4 On New Year's Day 2023, 25-year-old Imogen 'Immy' Nunn's body was found in her Brighton home, after she had consumed a poison bought online via a suicide forum. This unsettling two-part documentary shows that Immy was one of many who had used the sites. It looks at the devastating conversations in the forum and meets the families of other victims, with one father reading his son's last posts and the replies from users who cheered him on as he was dying. It then follows the Times journalist James Beal's efforts to find a man accused of shipping this lethal poison globally, which culminates in Beal going undercover and meeting him face to face. (The man is now awaiting trial in Canada over similar allegations.) Hollie Richardson 7.20pm, PBS America Bruno Lohse was a Nazi art dealer who was in charge of looting masterpieces from Jewish people for Hermann Göring. He spent a brief spell in jail, but was released to continue his career in the art trade. Prof Jonathan Petropoulos investigates his story. HR 8pm, Channel 4 The endless booby traps embedded within the UK housing market continue to give rise to new TV variants. In this series, the sibling property developers Stuart and Scarlette Douglas help homeowners sell seemingly unsellable properties. They are in West Sussex confronting challenging market conditions and equally problematic interior-decoration issues. Phil Harrison 8pm, U&W Unusually, this business reality show seems more interested in mentorship than manufactured conflict. The angel investors Ashley Graham and Emma Grede offer useful advice and timely cash injections to their female-led startups. But even amid this supportive vibe, things don't always work out – as one hustler is about to discover. Graeme Virtue 9pm, BBC Three The silly supernatural sitcom feels more like background TV than its British cousin, but it's still plenty of fun. In this triple bill, a belated wedding gift (a children's dinosaur bed, no less) brings the exes Isaac and Nigel back together, before Jay's disapproving folks descend on Woodstone Manor for Christmas. Hannah J Davies 10pm, BBC Four It's a decade since a topless Aidan Turner scythed crops on the Cornish coast – and fans' weak knees have just about recovered. Before revisiting the opening episode, the screenwriter and executive producer Debbie Horsfield discusses how the drama won hearts. HR Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973), midnight, BBC Two BBC Two's week of trying to creep everyone out before bed continues with the scariest film ever made. Nicolas Roeg's 1973 Daphne du Maurier adaptation is a disorientating swirl of creeping dread. Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie play a grief-stricken couple who travel to Venice and find themselves plagued by malevolent clairvoyants and terrifying sightings. The final sequence, in which Sutherland follows a figure through the city, is as nightmarish as anything you will ever see. Stuart Heritage Women's Euro 2025 football: England v Netherlands, 4.15pm, BBC One The second Group D match, in which Leah Williamson will be hoping for a repeat of England's victory the last time the sides met, in 2023. Followed by France v Wales at 7pm on ITV1.
The Guardian
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
TV tonight: the new series of First Dates starts with a twist
10pm, Channel 4 Fresh from getting married himself, TV's most romantic man Fred Sirieix resumes playing Cupid as he once more opens the doors to the First Dates restaurant. In what is surely a first for the show, Sophie's husband sits at the bar as she goes on a date with a woman for the first time. Elsewhere in the room, Mike is a widowed dad looking for someone who understands his grief. And Derek and June are old romantics looking for a classic love story. Hollie Richardson 6.05pm, Channel 4 Even post-Brexit, Spain remains a favourite destination for Brits. This time, Sharon and Steve Garner are hunting for a property for Tracy and Graham in Almería. But the couple aren't on the same page. Can they both be satisfied within a relatively modest budget? For Graham, it will depend on the quality of nearby golf courses. Phil Harrison 7.30pm, BBC Two More mellow plant inspiration from the Beechgrove team, who are full of useful tips for wherever you garden (if you're not already tickling your tomatoes, you really should be …) As July begins, Calum harvests his potatoes and shallots, while Brian offers a guide to grass. Hannah J Davies 8pm, BBC Two Hedgehogs, chillies and homegrown dahlias all have their moment in the glorious sunshine this week, as Gardeners' World visits the RHS Hampton Court garden festival. We learn about how even small, urban gardens can support one of the UK's most endangered mammals and what kind of heat would motivate an Aberdeen couple to move south. Ellen E Jones 9pm, BBC One It's the night of the first of Oasis's reunion gigs and – along with most of us – ticketless Lee has Fomo (that's Fear of Missing Oasis). Instead of happily getting a takeaway and watching an old concert on YouTube, he blames Lucy for missing out and bitterly recalls the day spent in the cursed online ticket queue. HR 10.40pm, BBC One From sitcom writer Justin Spitzer (Scrubs, The Office, Superstore), this hospital mockumentary continues to deliver light laughs. The double bill starts with two prison inmates rushed in with injuries they gave to each other. Then, Joyce decides she wants to know more work gossip and find out who's dating who. HR White House Down, Friday, 9pm, E4 If you couldn't get enough of Heads of State on Amazon Prime, here's a film that must have at least partly inspired it. Although it suffered at the time from comparisons to Olympus Has Fallen – Gerard Butler's dour action film about a terrorist attack on the presidential residence – White House Down is a far lighter affair. Sure, the same things happen, but this has Channing Tatum instead of Butler, and he's intent on delivering all his lines with the biggest wink imaginable. This is an impossibly silly film and, if you're drunk enough, it forms a perfect double bill with Heads of State. Stuart Heritage
