{"id":134734,"date":"2025-09-11T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/134734\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T08:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T08:00:07","slug":"tv-tonight-stop-press-journalists-bicker-in-a-terrific-1980s-set-drama-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/134734\/","title":{"rendered":"TV tonight: stop press! Journalists bicker in a terrific 1980s-set drama | Television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Newsreader<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">9pm, BBC Two<br \/>The sharp Australian newsroom drama with terrific attention to detail returns. It\u2019s now 1989 and, after reporting on the Lockerbie bombing, Helen (Anna Torv) reconnects with Dale (Sam Reid) over an awkward meal. Their updates: Helen has a new current affairs show and Dale is up for a Gold Logie award. Kylie and Jason are at the ceremony! But their presence won\u2019t stop a night of bickering and a revelation that shakes Helen\u2019s big plans. Hollie Richardson<\/p>\n<p>Saving Lives at Sea<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">8pm, BBC Two<br \/>More white-knuckle ride-alongs with RNLI volunteers stationed around the UK, including a race to rescue six stranded teens in north Cornwall and a challenging late-night search off the coast of West Sussex. The bodycam footage means viewers get to feel every stomach-lurching swell. Graeme Virtue<\/p>\n<p>The Dog House<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">8pm, Channel 4<\/p>\n<p>Will Alfie find his forever people? \u2026 The Dog House.   Photograph: Channel 4<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Nancy and Beryl are 88-year-old twins who want a dog to go down the pub with \u2013 might little Alfie be their new four-legged companion? Elsewhere in the heartwarming doggy\/owner matchmaking show, Bear the labrador needs to be on his best behaviour to impress. HR<\/p>\n<p>I Fought the Law: The Ann Ming Story<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">9pm, ITV1<br \/>\u201cYou\u2019ve got no justice for your daughter and a man bragging in the pub that he killed her.\u201d Ann Ming helped produce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2025\/aug\/31\/i-fought-the-law-review-sheridan-smith-itv\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the current hit drama<\/a> based on her fight to change an 800-year-old \u201cdouble jeopardy\u201d law to retry and jail the man who murdered her daughter, Julie. She tells her remarkable but harrowing story here, along with Julie\u2019s now grownup son Kevin. Sheridan Smith, who plays Ming in the drama, narrates. HR<\/p>\n<p>Taskmaster<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">9pm, Channel 4<br \/>It\u2019s that time already: a new cohort of comedians battling it out to win the Taskmaster trophy. Ania Magliano, Maisie Adam, Phil Ellis, Reece Shearsmith and Sanjeev Bhaskar get to work on the first round of tasks set by Greg Davies and his assistant, Alex Horne. Who will we be cheering on as they try to score with gym balls and gross noises? HR<\/p>\n<p>Atomic<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">9pm, Sky Atlantic<br \/>The reluctant mercenaries, Max (Alfie Allen) and JJ (Shazad Latif), walk into certain death in Marrakech delivering uranium to bad guys, backed unreliably by the CIA. The thriller\u2019s penultimate episode has a couple of big twists that almost compensate for some dangerously stilted expositional dialogue. Jack Seale<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Newsreader 9pm, BBC TwoThe sharp Australian newsroom drama with terrific attention to detail returns. 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