{"id":768254,"date":"2026-06-29T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/768254\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T06:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:00:15","slug":"tv-tonight-warm-up-for-wimbledon-with-this-lively-look-at-tennis-legends-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/768254\/","title":{"rendered":"TV tonight: warm up for Wimbledon with this lively look at tennis legends | Television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aces of Tennis: The ATP No 1 Club<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">10pm, Channel 5<br \/>Just in time to get you in the mood for Wimbledon, this four-part series explores the careers of the only 29 male players who have made it to No 1 in the ATP rankings. It begins in the 1970s (arguably the liveliest era in tennis history) with the controversial but charismatic figure of Ilie N\u0103stase, a Romanian with a sweet backhand and a bad boy reputation. Phil Harrison<\/p>\n<p>Dover 24\/7: Britain\u2019s Busiest Port<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">8pm, Channel 4<br \/>From a car spotted without an appropriate seat for a small child to detaining a man who escaped a France-bound lorry, it\u2019s all systems go during an overnight shift at the Dover port. Later on in the upbeat docuseries, there\u2019s excitement as the Gale\u00f3n Andaluc\u00eda, a stunning replica 17th-century ship, docks at the major English border crossing for the first time. Nicole Vassell<\/p>\n<p>The Brokenwood Mysteries<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">8pm, U&amp;Drama<\/p>\n<p>Christina Ionda as Gina Kadinsky in The Brokenwood Mysteries. Photograph: Matt Klitscher\/U&amp;Drama<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">That\u2019s not Neapolitan sauce on Ray Neilson\u2019s apron, when he opens up Romano Ray\u2019s Porky Piccione restaurant one morning. Trudy is dazed and covered in claret \u2013 and fellow patron Betty Reynold is lying dead in the next booth. Mike, Kristin and co soon discover that quite a few people wanted the latter out of the picture. Ali Catterall<\/p>\n<p>24 Hours in A&amp;E<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">9pm, Channel 4<br \/>More medical mishaps from Nottingham in this formulaic but reliably cheering series. This time, painter and decorator Philip finds himself in A&amp;E after plummeting from a ladder on to some concrete. There\u2019s also young Jonah who has sustained a pulled elbow while playing with his mum. Ouch. PH<\/p>\n<p>House of the Dragon<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">9pm, Sky Atlantic<br \/>In the aftermath of last week\u2019s brutally explosive season opener, the fallout from the Dance of the Dragons continues. Setting the tone for a highly emotive third season, Queen Alicent Hightower is inconsolable while her son Aegon is going all Little Caesar, throwing things and screaming at everyone in earshot. Priya Elan<\/p>\n<p>Secrets of the Celebrity Sex Tapes<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">11.05pm, Channel 4<br \/>This series has its cake and eats it: analysing the phenomenon of celebrity sex tapes while guiltily relishing them. This time round it\u2019s Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee: how did their tape become public, how did they try to stop it spreading, and what did the lionisation of Lee say about the gender politics of the 90s? PH<\/p>\n<p>Film choice<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A Foreign Affair (Billy Wilder, 1948), 12.55pm, Film4<\/p>\n<p>Life is a cabaret \u2026 Marlene Dietrich in A Foreign Affair. Photograph: RGR Collection\/Alamy<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The great Hollywood director Billy Wilder famously stretched love-is-blind tolerance to absurdity with the \u201cNobody\u2019s perfect!\u201d closing line of the 1959 classic Some Like It Hot. But, there\u2019s overlooking a few foibles in the name of true love, and then there\u2019s an American GI taking up with a Nazi cabaret singer (Marlene Dietrich) in postwar Berlin. That\u2019s how Captain Pringle (John Lund) carries on in this satirical screwball comedy from the early cold war period. And, all the while, an adorable Iowa congresswoman (Jean Arthur) looks on in heartbroken dismay. Ellen E Jones<\/p>\n<p>Live sport<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Tennis, Wimbledon 10.30am, BBC Two. Great Britain\u2019s Emma Raducanu is seeded 30 as the tournament gets under way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aces of Tennis: The ATP No 1 Club 10pm, Channel 5Just in time to get you in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-768254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}