Brassic<\/p>\n
10pm, Sky Max
Danny Brocklehurst is calling time on his roguish comedy after this seventh season. It remains cheerful, lairy fun to the end \u2013 the little posse led by Joseph Gilgun\u2019s Vinnie are too good-natured to stray into really serious criminality \u2013 but several members are pondering their brushes with danger and deciding that they might be getting too old for this nonsense. However, there\u2019s a younger gang in town and a decision must be made: hang on to territory or join forces? Phil Harrison<\/p>\n
Saving Lives at Sea<\/p>\n
8pm, BBC Two
\u201cDiving for shipwrecks is great fun.\u201d Right up until the moment a diver loses consciousness off the Plymouth coast \u2013 another life-or-death scenario for the RNLI\u2019s volunteer army, who must drop everything when their pagers bleat. Elsewhere, a missing jet-skiing couple must be found before darkness fully descends. Ali Catterall<\/p>\n
The Newsreader<\/p>\n
9pm, BBC Two
It\u2019s August 1989, and as the final season of the solid but soapy Aussie drama continues, Helen and Dale are in crisis. But while Dale reaches for booze and drugs, his former co-anchor channels her demons into a powerful report for Public Eye. Hannah J Davies<\/p>\n
Long Lost Family<\/p>\n
9pm, ITV1
The parent\/child reunion series turns up another couple of heartbreaking stories. Paula felt obliged to give up her baby in 1979 rather than struggle on as a single mother; Justus, an immigrant from St Lucia in the 1960s, was similarly stopped from raising his daughter. Can the now-adult offspring be found? Jack Seale<\/p>\n
TaskmasterCreative chaos \u2026 Sanjeev Bhaskar and friends in Taskmaster. Photograph: Channel 4<\/p>\n
9pm, Channel 4
For all of the familiarity, it\u2019s always a pleasure to have this daft competition show in the schedules. As the new gang get their feet under the table, there\u2019s a tricky lab-based task, more creative chaos from Sanjeev Bhaskar and a flash of anger from Reece Shearsmith as he\u2019s faced with a large yellow cube. PH<\/p>\n
All Creatures Great and Small<\/p>\n
9pm, Channel 5
This revival of the beloved veterinary drama has succeeded by staying as close as possible to the rural, idealised tone of the original. That said, the war has brought change in Skeldale House and, as this new series begins, Tristan and James are finding Siegfried difficult to handle. PH<\/p>\n
Film choice<\/p>\n
Novocaine (Dan Berk and Robert Olsen, 2025), 9.20am, 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere, and Paramount+<\/p>\n
Lethal weapon \u2026 Nate (Jack Quaid) in Novocaine. Photograph: Marcos Cruz\/Paramount Pictures<\/p>\n
Jack Quaid has experience of being put through the wringer in The Boys, but Dan Berk and Robert Olsen\u2019s comedic but astoundingly grisly thriller must be his most extreme role yet. His assistant credit union manager Nate has a congenital insensitivity to pain, which makes him wary of human contact \u2013 until the fellow employee he has fallen for, Sherry (Amber Midthunder), is taken hostage by bank robbers, transforming him into a have-a-go hero. Like Home Alone if the Wet Bandits couldn\u2019t feel the blows, it\u2019s a riot of slapstick violence. Simon Wardell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brassic 10pm, Sky MaxDanny Brocklehurst is calling time on his roguish comedy after this seventh season. It remains…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-167699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}