What’s on TV tonight: Comic Relief, WeCrashed, Top Boy, and more

HiddenBBC Four, 9pmThe third and final series of this cracking Welsh crime thriller (previously shown on S4C as Craith) begins and judging by the number of murders…

What’s on TV tonight: Joanna Lumley’s Great Cities of the World, Phoenix Rising and more

Thursday 17 March Joanna Lumley’s Great Cities of the WorldITV, 9pmIt would be wholly understandable if the heart sank a little at another celebrity travelling to three…

What’s on TV tonight: Kate & Koji Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives, and more

Joanna Lumley’s Great Cities of the WorldITV, 9pmIt would be wholly understandable if the heart sank a little at another celebrity travelling to three of the indubitably…

What’s on TV tonight: The Killing of PC Harper: a Widow’s Fight for Justice, and more

Tuesday 15 March The Killing of PC Harper: a Widow’s Fight for JusticeITV, 9pmWhile trial by jury and the concept of “beyond reasonable doubt” make the British…

What’s on TV tonight: The Killing of PC Harper: a Widow’s Fight for Justice, and more

Tuesday 15 March The Killing of PC Harper: a Widow’s Fight for JusticeITV, 9pmWhile trial by jury and the concept of “beyond reasonable doubt” make the British…

What’s on TV tonight: Holding, Tom Daley’s Hell of a Homecoming, and more

The Killing of PC Harper: a Widow’s Fight for JusticeITV, 9pmWhile trial by jury and the concept of “beyond reasonable doubt” make the British legal system one…

What’s on TV tonight: Jeremy Kyle, Crufts, the Bafta Film Awards and more

Sunday 13 March Jeremy Kyle: Death on DaytimeChannel 4, 9pmHaving touched upon it in Dispatches: TV on Trial around the time the news broke in 2019, Channel…

What’s on TV tonight: Queens of Mystery, Six Nations: England v Ireland, and more

Jeremy Kyle: Death on DaytimeChannel 4, 9pmHaving touched upon it in Dispatches: TV on Trial around the time the news broke in 2019, Channel 4 returns to…

What’s on TV tonight: Grantchester, F1: Drive to Survive, and more

Jeremy Kyle: Death on DaytimeChannel 4, 9pmHaving touched upon it in Dispatches: TV on Trial around the time the news broke in 2019, Channel 4 returns to…

What’s on TV tonight: Grantchester, F1: Drive to Survive, and more

Jeremy Kyle: Death on DaytimeChannel 4, 9pmHaving touched upon it in Dispatches: TV on Trial around the time the news broke in 2019, Channel 4 returns to…

Time to take a tip from the Italians and switch on My Brilliant Friend

Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels are celebrated bestsellers in Italy. And they are celebrated bestsellers in the UK. HBO and RAI’s television adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels,…

What’s on TV tonight: My Brilliant Friend, Secrets of the Spies, and more

GrantchesterITV, 9pmThe seventh series of the whodunit begins in the hot summer of 1959, with the sultry temperatures driving Reverend Will Davenport (Tom Brittney) into throes of…

What’s on TV tonight: Writing with Fire: Storyville, The Last Kingdom, and more

GrantchesterITV, 9pmThe seventh series of the whodunit begins in the hot summer of 1959, with the sultry temperatures driving Reverend Will Davenport (Tom Brittney) into throes of…

What’s on TV tonight: The Witchfinder, Cricket: England v West Indies, and more

Tuesday 8 March The WitchfinderBBC Two, 10pmThis terrific six-part comedy drama is set in 1645, in the middle of the English Civil War and at the height…

What’s on TV tonight: The Witchfinder, Cricket: England v West Indies, and more

Tuesday 8 March The WitchfinderBBC Two, 10pmThis terrific six-part comedy drama is set in 1645, in the middle of the English Civil War and at the height…

What’s on TV tonight: Our House The Real Peaky Blinders, and more

The WitchfinderBBC Two, 10pmThis terrific six-part comedy drama is set in 1645, in the middle of the English Civil War and at the height of fears about…

What’s on TV tonight: The Ipcress File, Outlander, Peaky Blinders, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and more

The WitchfinderBBC Two, 10pmThis terrific six-part comedy drama is set in 1645, in the middle of the English Civil War and at the height of fears about…

What’s on TV tonight: Last of the Summer Wine, Killing Eve, Mariah Carey, and more

Saturday 5 March Last of the Summer Wine: 30 Years of LaughsChannel 5, 8.30pmRoy Clarke’s gentle comedy about the hi-jinks of eternal children Compo, Clegg and an…

What’s on TV tonight: The Dropout, Ian McKellen, Billy Connolly, and more

Last of the Summer Wine: 30 Years of LaughsChannel 5, 8.30pmRoy Clarke’s gentle comedy about the hi-jinks of eternal children Compo, Clegg and an array of accomplices…

Joe vs Carole, review: just when you thought you were safe from Tiger King – here comes the drama

There are, it is a relief to report, no talking penises in Joe vs Carole (Sky/NOW). When it was announced that comedian Kate McKinnon was shepherding to…

What’s on TV tonight: Your Body Uncovered with Kate Garraway, West Side Story and more

Joe vs CarolePeacockOne of the very oddest of lockdown obsessions, self-proclaimed Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel – made famous by the Tiger King documentary series – receives what seems…

What’s on TV tonight: The Holiday, Murder in Provence, and more

Joe vs CarolePeacockOne of the very oddest of lockdown obsessions, self-proclaimed Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel – made famous by the Tiger King documentary series – receives what seems…

What’s on TV tonight: Killing Eve, Chernobyl: the Lost Tapes and more

Joe vs CarolePeacockOne of the very oddest of lockdown obsessions, self-proclaimed Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel – made famous by the Tiger King documentary series – receives what seems…

What’s on TV tonight: Peaky Blinders, Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy and more

Sunday 27 February Peaky BlindersBBC One, 9pmIt’s been a while; not since September 2019 have we heard from Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) and his gang of ultra-violent…

What’s on TV tonight: The Promise, Rugby Union: England v Wales, and more

Saturday 26 February The PromiseBBC Four, 9pm and 9.55pmCreated by Spiral writers Gaëlle Bellan and Anne Landois, this equally gripping French police procedural drew one-third of France’s…