Satellite choice
THEATRE ON DEMAND One Man, Two Guvnors, from 7pm, YouTube
THE National Theatre is making a show a week available online for free, and the first is the brilliant One Man, Two Guvnors, starring James Corden. You can find it on the National Theatre At Home YouTube channel for a week from tonight.
DIY SHOES How To Make: The Trainer, 8pm, BBC4
ZOE LAUGHLIN (pictured) loves to study the things we take for granted and, in this new series, shee pulls them apart and builds her own version from scratch. The first item to receive her enthusiastic attention is the trainer, and the shoes she ultimately builds bring her a lot of joy.
SPY FICTION Mark Kermode: Secrets Of Cinema, 9pm, BBC4
THE critic’s series ends with spy films. He takes us through the work of Alfred Hitchcock, who was drawn to the psychological side of espionage, and on to the glamour of Bond, which launched a genre boom akin to the superhero films of the 21st century.
PLANE PROJECT Warbird Workshop, 9pm, Yesterday
TONIGHT, a Piper Cub spotter plane is being rebuilt by the Lincoln Aero Club, hopefully in time for the 75th anniversary D-Day celebrations. The lightweight craft took part in the Monte Cassino raid and, as the group pull it apart, they find all kinds of clues to its colourful history.
SPORTING LIFE Sunderland Til I Die, Netflix
IIT’S June 2018 as this insightful and finely made documentary about life at Sunderland AFC returns, and a new owner means that the League One club is finally debt free. Stewart DonaldD is determined to deliver ffor ffans, and relishes the challenge: ‘It’ll put me in an early grave, but I’ll have a lot of fun doing it.’
NEW SITCOM Maxxx, 9.30pm, E4
O-T FAGBENLE (pictured with Jourdan Dunn) both writes and stars in this new comedy about disgraced ex-boy band star Maxxx, who wakes up crying every day, but acts like his comeback is just around the corner. When he comes up against reality — like being mistaken for Craig David — he lashes out, and that gives this opener some dark laughs.
FREEVIEW THRILLER
Limitless, 10pm, 5Star WITH a visual style perfectly in sync with the plot — about a drug that vastly increases brain capacity — this frantic, gripping thriller stars Bradley Cooper as the lazy writer who goes from zero to hero with one gulp of a pill. He’s not the only one in thrall to its medicinal benefits.
COMEDY COUPLE Meet The Richardsons, 10pm, Dave
JON and Lucy’s differing approaches to TV work come to a head in the finale of their curious comedy. Lucy wants to make a sitcom (which is what they’re doing here, of course), and Jon wants to make a show about his hero, singer Jake Thackray, who ‘lived my dream and became a reclusive alcoholic’.
PARENTING WOES
Breeders, 10pm, Sky One STRAP in, because tonight’s new episode of the parenting comedy is all about death, and it doesn’t pull its punches. A rollercoaster emotional e journey for Ally and Paul (Daisy Haggard and Martin Freeman) begins when Sprout, the family’s pet gerbil, is found unmoving u in his cage.
IINDIE ROMCOM A Simple Wedding, 10.15pm, Sky Premiere
BUCKING convention in her traditional Persian family, Nousha (Tara Grammy) falls for bisexual artist Alex (Christopher O’Shea). Good-natured romantic comedy.