British Telly

Nicole Kidman executive produces highly bingeable series The Last Anniversary. Plus: Liza Minelli tells her wild life story. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, BBC One

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Our national treasure has more adventures down the Danube. Plus: Alison Hammond spends the weekend with Jimmy Carr. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, ITV1Joanna Lumley’s travelogues don’t tend to be heavy on sociopolitical analysis but she’s good company all the same. In this new series, she is travelling down the Danube River. It begins with a beer-brewing nun and an enjoyable trip to the Wachau wine valley, before she meets up with 2014 Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst for a tour of Vienna. Phil Harrison

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Horne’s endearingly eccentric comedy is music to most ears. Plus: the extraordinary secrets of bees. Here’s what to watch this evening

10pm, Channel 4The second series of Alex Horne’s comedy musical show remains a mildly puzzling affair. It’s undeniably slight and the self-conscious whimsy can grate a little. However, it slips down easily, mainly thanks to the music – which is deceptively complex and cleverly assembled. The result is also borderline creepy at times, particularly in this opener during an odd little song paying tribute to the ever-expanding Horne family. Phil Harrison

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A timely look at the aftermath on both sides of the Atlantic, five years after it happened. Plus: it’s the halfway point in Race Across the World. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, BBC TwoA visceral, involving documentary recalling the global turmoil triggered by the murder of George Floyd in May 2020. It explores the events themselves, the protests and counter-protests that followed. But it manages a degree of intimacy, too, hearing from Khady Gueye, a Black woman who grew up in rural Gloucestershire who recalls the casually racialised discourse that was a constant backdrop to her childhood. Phil Harrison

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Channel 5 revives the series with a luxury estate agent who becomes a northern market trader. Plus: one of the worst disasters in NHS history. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, Channel 5The first run of this reality show in the early 00s was underpinned by a sense that the participants were learning not just a new trade but a new outlook. There’s less emphasis on that aspect in this revival, but it’s fun anyway. We begin with Rex, a luxury estate agent from Surrey who is going to Bolton (“It’s a town up north somewhere” apparently) to become a market trader. Given his floppy hair, dainty shoes and adoption of the least convincing northern accent since Daphne in Frasier, he has his work cut out. Phil Harrison

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It’s a personal project for Packham, whose stepdaughter has dyslexia. Plus: the penultimate episode of The Last of Us. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, BBC Two“Like a slippery fish you’re trying to grab hold of. And you can’t.” This is how Suiki describes her dyslexia as Chris Packham’s two-part series concludes. He has a particular connection to this form of neurodivergence as his stepdaughter, Megan, has dyslexia. But what becomes clear is that the experience of dyslexia affects people in different ways. Packham is engaging and empathetic, helping Suiki explain her dyslexia to her brothers, and making builder Lee the star of his own musical. Phil Harrison

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The full horror of what happened is realised in this moving series. Plus: a gripping crime story with Rose Ayling-Ellis. Here’s what to watch this evening

Sunday, 9pm, BBC One

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He hosts the Interstellar Song Contest, which promises top tunes in the Tardis. Then it’s over to Switzerland for the big bonanza! Here’s what to watch this evening

7.10pm, BBC One

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29773119

For those outside the UK here is the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoiYvGrbN7Y

Let us discuss tasks and contestants

Fatiha El-Ghorri
Jason Mantzoukas
Mathew Baynton
Rosie Ramsey
Stevie Martin

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The Brummie is brilliant as she spends weekends with celebrities, starting with Perrie Edwards. Plus: Martin Clunes straps into a drysuit. Here’s what to watch today

8.30pm, BBC OneAlison Hammond is a pro at getting laughs out of celebrities, but this new series – in which she spends a weekend at a star’s house – proves she’s a brilliant interviewer too. Who else could get away with asking Little Mix’s Perrie Edwards if she needs to take a pregnancy test? The laughs are always there, but there’s depth too when Edwards talks about anxiety and panic attacks. Hollie Richardson

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A juicy period drama about the French queen ups the ante with scheming and backstabbing. Plus: the last-ever double bill of Man Like Mobeen. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, BBC TwoThe second season of this period drama continues to deliver palace gossip, backstabbing, political scheming, a rumbling revolt … and magnificent costumes. It’s spring 1784 and the “affair of the necklace” scandal is being hatched to try to bring down Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. Meanwhile, people are using the queen’s melancholy against her and the court is putting on a comic play – with serious consequences. Hollie Richardson

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Behind the scenes of the groundbreaking, career-making, post-Watergate interview. Plus: Melvyn’s suitcase is tested in Race Across the World. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, Sky DocumentariesOf all David Frost’s TV interviews, his 28 hours with disgraced former president Richard Nixon after the Watergate scandal was his most watched and most important. The inside story is told here, opening a series that revisits Frost’s work (later subjects are Elton John and the Middle East). Contributors include his son Wilfred, Nixon insiders Frank Gannon and Ken Khachigian, and Ron Howard and Michael Sheen (the director and star of the 2008 film Frost/Nixon). Hollie Richardson

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Emma and Matt Willis meet people who want to make a change in their lives. Plus: warm up with the Eurovision semi-finals. Here’s what to watch this evening

11pm, BBC OneIt is a potentially nauseating concept: a celebrity couple pushing the benefits of having therapy. But Matt and Emma Willis’s insightful series, which follows clients before, during and after therapy sessions, is a fascinating watch – and it might just leave you having an “Aha!” moment or two when applying it to your own thought patterns. First up, a woman keeps having panic attacks, while a man who experienced a stroke feels inadequate. Hollie Richardson

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The autistic presenter discovers it’s another diagnosis missed more often in women. Plus: 12 adult virgins head to a luxury resort in the Med. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, BBC Two

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A documentary exposing the police misconduct which compounded a double murder in 2020. Plus, a harrowing but ultimately uplifting commemoration of the Bradford City fire and the 2025 TV Baftas. Here’s what to watch this evening

As the nation enjoyed the eased lockdown in June 2020, Bibaa Henry celebrated her birthday with friends and family in Fryent Park, London. But by the next day, nobody could get in touch with Bibaa and her sister Nicole “Nikki” Smallman. After 36 hours, and continual mistakes by the police, Nikki’s boyfriend found the sisters dead in the park. Police failures didn’t stop there – horrifically, officers at the crime scene took photos of the bodies and shared them. In this powerful three-part documentary, the siblings are remembered and their mother Mina Smallman explains what happened as the murder investigation launched – alongside her campaign against police misconduct*. Hollie Richardson*

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As water levels rise, the state of Denmark is officially annulled. Plus, there’s a fun look back at the pop highlights of 1988. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Expanding the roster might be just the balm a host of troubled couples need. Plus: Alan Carr oversees a Twickenham stadium makeover. Here’s what to watch this evening

10pm, Channel 4The eye-popping reality show, in which couples attempt to open their relationships, returns for a third romp. Mark and Tanith wonder if having sex with other people can help build trust – especially after one of them cheated. Then there are childhood sweethearts Chloe and Paul, who have never had sex with anyone else … Hollie Richardson

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The human lie-detector is on the run across America – and using her skills to catch people out. Plus: VE Day celebrations with musical performances and a Dad’s Army revival

9pm, Sky Max

Natasha Lyonne’s cool crime caper was one of 2023’s most entertaining shows, following Vegas casino worker Charlie (Lyonne) whose ability to instantly detect when people are lying gets her in big trouble with bad people and sets her on the run. As season two starts, she is still being chased across America – but stopping to use her skill to solve a different “howcatchem” in every star-studded episode. Cynthia Erivo is a hoot as she plays quintuplets (or is that sextuplets?) after their wealthy mother dies and leaves everything to only one child. This week’s triple bill opener also features Katie Holmes and Giancarlo Esposito as funeral directors, with Charlie all the while dodging bullets. Hollie Richardson

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Experts piece together what happened in the 2015 disaster. Plus: Race Across the World contestants reach Shangri-La. Here’s what to watch tonight

9pm, Sky DocumentariesIt has been 10 years since the awful incident of the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash in the French Alps, in which all 150 passengers and crew were killed. The French public prosecutor’s office determined that the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, who had been treated for severe depression, deliberately crashed the plane. But this is still questioned. In this documentary, experts and journalists piece together what happened. Hollie Richardson

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Who Do You Think You Are? turns the spotlight on EastEnders’ prodigal son. Plus: a Dad’s Army dance-off to commemorate VE Day. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, BBC OneIn Ross Kemp’s family, the legend goes that Pop, his great-grandfather, was shipwrecked during his time in the merchant navy. As he follows his family tree, Kemp sifts fact from fiction. The actor also wants to know why his great-uncle Albert was known by the family as a “bad man” who was blacklisted from pubs – and learns the sad explanation. Then, he discovers the four-time great-grandfather who served in the Napoleonic wars. Hollie Richardson

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The audience needs to stay completely silent in this tricky competition. Plus: it’s 80 years since Richard Dimbleby reported from Belsen. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, U&Dave

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A doctor’s day ends in tragedy – but is he to blame? Plus, tissues at the ready for tearjerking performances in The Piano. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, ITV1

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Elisabeth Moss returns in the chillingly familiar dystopian series. Plus: Oscar winner Thomas Vinterberg’s climate thriller. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, Channel 4

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29030098

For those outside the UK here is the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE3uOVVjB98

Let us discuss tasks and contestants

Fatiha El-Ghorri
Jason Mantzoukas
Mathew Baynton
Rosie Ramsey
Stevie Martin

Expect spoilers in the comments.

Special report from al-Hawl refugee camp on the humanitarian crisis a decade on. Plus: Martin Clunes is island-hopping again. Here’s what to watch today

8pm, Sky Documentaries“Al-Hawl [refugee camp] is probably one of the scariest places in the world right now,” says Sky News special correspondent Alex Crawford. “It is packed full of Isis sympathisers or people who are connected to Isis.” She is in Iraq reporting on the humanitarian crisis that still reverberates today after the systematic slaughter of the Yazidi people in Sinjar in 2014 and the mass abductions of women and children. Bringing the Yazidi community’s fight for justice, she speaks with Kovan, who was abducted when she was 14. Hollie Richardson

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