PICK OF THE DAY

PEAKY BLINDERS

9PM, BBC1 ★★★★

Caps and razor blades at the ready, here’s the sixth and final series of one of our most successful TV shows – at home and abroad – of recent years. This first episode opens on an even more sombre tone than usual, with Tommy at a low ebb, and smoke filling the typically heavy atmosphere. Four years on, a sober Tommy has picked himself up, and headed for new opportunities in post-prohibition North America, with his wife, Lizzie (Natasha O’keeffe, right), and the children due to join him later. What – and who – awaits Tommy as the series unfolds?

EXTRAORDINARY PORTRAITS 6.30PM, BBC1

★★★★

For this new series, rapper Tinie brings together everyday heroes and modern British artists to create a series of portraits of inspirational Britons. Tonight, twins

Georgia and Melissa Laurie – aka the ‘crocodile sisters’, who survived a crocodile attack in Mexico last year – meet artist Roxana Halls.

FANTASTIC BEASTS: A NATURAL HISTORY 7PM, BBC1

★★★★

In this magical one-off special, Stephen Fry is our guide to the weird and wonderful creatures of myth and legend. Science and natural history collide with J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world as we learn the surprising and fascinating origins of our best-loved mythical beasts, including dragons and unicorns.

STANLEY TUCCI: SEARCHING FOR ITALY

7.20PM, BBC2 ★★★★

Actor Stanley Tucci is Italian on both sides, and is right at home in Naples and Campania, his first destination in his culinary travelogue. ‘Hot, fast and a feast for the senses’, Naples is the home of pizza, but Stanley finds all sorts of sweet and savoury delicacies throughout this rich and fertile region.