7.30pm, BBC One
Bill Bailey tasks former England keeper David James with creating a portrait of ex-footballer Gill Sayell, who competed for England in the 1971 Women’s World Cup in Mexico. Gill was 14 years old when she was picked to represent England at Copa ’71 – where the women’s teams competed in televised matches and attracted huge crowds. But the team returned home to a ban by the Football Association, which had forbidden women from playing on professional pitches. Many of her teammates never played again, but Gill went on to become a founder of Arsenal Women’s and inspire a new generation of players.
8pm, Channel 4
Claudia Winkleman’s ability to relax the contestants with wit instead of smarm is the chief asset of this cleverly formatted if occasionally ponderous quiz show. The first contestants aiming to take home £100,000 are Colette and Patricia, best friends for the past 40 years after bonding over Duran Duran. The opening question (“What is a hat?”) concerns Harry Styles, however.
8.30pm, BBC One
Amanda Holden revamps the second guest bedroom, while Alan Carr gets handed the short straw – the windowless bathroom. As usual, it’s not all work and no play as Alan ropes in Amanda for a trip to one of Granada’s famous hammam spas and a spot of karaoke in Malaga.
9pm, BBC One
“It’s dirt cheap here if nothing else,” says Mervin, Don Gilet’s newbie detective continuing to charm the locals (not) after Naomi discovers him installing air conditioning and a satellite dish at his beachside hut so that he can watch football in comfort. “So, this is how you intend spending the next couple of months – shut up here and not enjoying the island,” she asks. He’ll come around eventually (they all do), but in the meantime, there’s been a mass poisoning at a rum distillery to investigate.
10pm, BBC Three
A gas leak means that Callum (Ryan Dylan) has to vacate his home for five days, and is forced to move in with Lorcan, who is “playing mummies and daddies” with Callum’s ex-girlfriend Gemma. Rather more immediately distressing is the presence of Lorcan’s dad Sammy – “the biggest bastard in Ballymacnoose” and who tells the meek and overly-obliging Callum “We’ll make a bastard of you yet”.
10.40pm, BBC One
The host is joined by Ewan McGregor, who is returning to the London stage in new play My Master Builder. Kate Hudson talks about her new album Glorious, while Naomie Harris promotes her part in the Steven Soderbergh thriller Black Bag. All that and Self Esteem performing her new single “Focus Is Power”.
11.25pm, BBC One
Eddie Kadi and Indiyah Polack host the ceremony honouring achievements in music of black origin, which this year was held at Utilita Arena in Newcastle upon Tyne. Categories include Best Newcomer, Song of the Year, Best International Act, Best Male Act, Best Female Act and Album of the Year. Jorja Smith, Sampha, Bashy, Ghetts, Cleo Sol, Central Cee and Odeal lead the way with three nominations apiece.
9.15pm, BBC One
This new drama about how women came to run Soho’s nightclubs in the aftermath of the First World War has been described by the BBC as “the spiritual successor to Peaky Blinders”. The stylistic similarities – including jaunty captions and an anachronistic musical soundtrack (this one more avant-garde) – are undeniable, but this promises to be very much its own beast. Playwright Polly Stenham’s script – based on Marek Kohn’s book, subtitled The Birth of the British Drug Underground – is adroit and the acting first rate. Julianne Nicholson, Eliza Scanlen and Umi Myers play three women thrown together in the London of 1918 and forced to make their way in a man’s world.
1.15pm, BBC One/4pm, ITV1
The third round of matches begins at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff (kick-off 2.15pm), where Wales host reigning champions Ireland in a top-versus-bottom clash which will also see Wales’ interim coach Matt Sherratt promote a more adventurous approach than his predecessor Warren Gatland. And then it’s over to Twickenham for England vs Scotland (kick-off 4.45pm), where the visitors will be looking to extend their winning streak against their old rivals to five matches and retain the Calcutta Cup.
9.25pm, BBC Two
Christine McVie, with her very English blues voice and considerable songwriting talent (“Don’t Stop” was one of hers), was a fixture in the ever-evolving Fleetwood Mac from 1970 through to the late 90s, when she retired to the Kent countryside before rejoining the band in 2014. In this engrossing 2019 documentary, part of an evening dedicated to Fleetwood Mac, McVie tells how jealousy at Stevie Nicks’s arrival turned into mutual admiration – or, as she says here, “I could no more do twirls in chiffon than Stevie could do blues on the piano”.
9.30pm, ITV1
Gordon Ramsay is among the guests this week and one topic of conversation is likely to be reports that he is no longer on speaking terms with Gino D’Acampo after raising concerns about his fellow chef’s behaviour. Joining him are Danny Dyer, actor Vanessa Williams, 2024 Sports Personality of the Year Keely Hodgkinson and Nicole Kidman’s co-star in Babygirl, Harris Dickinson. The great Joan Armatrading provides the music.
9.30pm, Channel 5
This documentary looks back at the life of the late Queen’s youngest son, who grew up vilified by the press (from quitting the Royal Marines and dabbling in musical theatre to the ill-advised It’s a Royal Knockout) but has since become a cornerstone of the modern monarchy.
9pm, Sky Documentaries
The broadcaster Sir David Frost had a keen eye for history in the making in the 60s and 70s and his interviews with such epochal figures as Muhammad Ali and Richard Nixon are part of this fascinating new series curated by Frost’s son, Wilfred. It begins with The Beatles, starting with his 1964 interview with Paul McCartney where Frost famously asked Macca whether he thought his career would last. Frost also gave John Lennon and Yoko Ono a sympathetic hearing at a time when Yoko was facing an otherwise hostile press, while the television premiere of “Hey Jude” was on his ITV show Frost on Sunday in 1968. Sir Elton John and Beatles biographer Hunter Davies are among those offering their contributions.
7.45pm, Channel 4
Siobhán McSweeney has found a good outlet for her dry demeanour in Amandaland. McSweeney is her more friendly self here as she hosts the five remaining potters gathering for the quarter-final. The first task is to make double-gourd vases to be fired in brick kilns that the potters have to build themselves. Judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller’s surprise second challenge is to throw and alter an old-fashioned posset pot.
9pm, ITV1
The penultimate episode of Chris Lang’s cold-case crime drama finds more lies being uncovered as both Mel and Asif (MyAnna Buring and Elham Ehsas) are brought in for questioning. A possible witness to the body’s disposal is found, and Jess plans a conversation with husband Steve. “I know everything,” she tells him – by which she means, of course, that Steve shared more than a kiss with her sister.
9.05pm, BBC One
It has taken a while for this handsome adaptation of Gill Hornby’s speculative fiction to produce anything nearing the emotional heft of Jane Austen’s novels, but we are getting there in this final visit to the twin timelines of 1795 and 1830. While the young Cassandra (Synnøve Karlsen) struggles to keep the family together after the Austens find themselves in dire financial straits, the older Cassie (Keeley Hawes) must try to unite Isabella (Rose Leslie) with Mr Lidderdale (Alfred Enoch).
10pm, Channel 4
A hugely poignant conclusion to Jack Rooke’s lovely semi-autobiographical comedy-drama that will resonate with any graduates with bittersweet memories of their final days at university. Danny (Jon Pointing) has already left, having broken up with Corinne (Izuka Hoyle), returning to Margate to see his nan. A somewhat bereft Jack (Dylan Llewellyn) swipes his way through hook-up app Grindr in his hometown – linking him with a surprise face.
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