Love You to Death<\/p>\n
9pm, Channel 4
\u201cHe seemed to be allergic to the 21st century,\u201d said journalist Paul Levie of Matthew Hayden-Johnson, a child from Torbay who, his mother, Lisa, claimed, was unable to walk, eat or breathe without medical assistance. However, as this jawdropping documentary series shows, Matthew\u2019s litany of disability was a fantasy maintained by Lisa. With testimony from Matthew and Lisa themselves, it tracks a toxic fantasy as it took root, then fell apart. Phil Harrison<\/p>\n
Voices of the Valleys<\/p>\n
8pm, Sky Arts
This uplifting series about a sometimes overlooked but enduring Welsh folk tradition concludes. The big day has arrived for our three male voice choirs as they head to the Llangollen International Eisteddfod. As the competition looms, it\u2019s a surprisingly intense and serious business. PH<\/p>\n
Professor T<\/p>\n
9pm, ITV1
Ben Miller returns for the fourth season of Professor T, which doesn\u2019t find him in a good place. He\u2019s doing everything to avoid getting involved in police work after Lisa\u2019s death, but when a young woman disappears on a boat, the whole team spring into action. Hannah Verdier<\/p>\n
Guy Montgomery\u2019s Guy Mont Spelling Bee<\/p>\n
9.45pm, BBC Three
The fun fake 70s vibe of this gameshow (check out Ray\u2019s massive kipper tie!) is eye-catching, but nostalgia takes a back seat to the genuinely laugh out loud one-liners delivered by the host and the banter with his guests, who this week include off-the-wall comic Ray Badran and flirty Josh Thomas. Priya Elan<\/p>\n
Outback Murder Highway<\/p>\n
10pm, Channel 4<\/p>\n
Creepy goings-on \u2026 criminologist Louise Steding Photograph: Ryan McCurdy\/Channel 4<\/p>\n
Anyone who has seen the 2005 film Wolf Creek knows the drill: outback Australia, isolation, mystery and horror. This creepy series travels the desolate Flinders Highway along which 11 people have gone missing since 1970. First, two nurses who planned to hitchhike across Australia with fatal results. Criminologist Louise Steding explores their disappearance. PH<\/p>\n
Couples Therapy<\/p>\n
10pm, BBC Two
More couples explore their relationship pinch-points in the soothing company of Dr Orna Guralnik. First up, a man who has been paying women for \u201ccuddling sessions\u201d says himself to his remarkably tolerant better half, and a man with autism struggles to control the meltdowns he experiences when challenged by his partner. PH<\/p>\n
Film choice<\/p>\n
The Beast, (Bertrand Bonello, 2022) 11.40pm, Film4<\/p>\n
Back in the future \u2026 George MacKay and L\u00e9a Seydoux in The Beast. Photograph: Carole Bethuel<\/p>\n
Inspired by a Henry James novella, Bertrand Bonello\u2019s anguished sci-fi romance crosses space and time to explore the loneliness, fear and desire that are all part of what makes us human. In 2044, Gabrielle (L\u00e9a Seydoux) is persuaded by the AI that controls the world to undergo a past-life regression to \u201cpurify\u201d her DNA and rid herself of unacceptably complicated emotions. But, in each existence she discovers a deep connection with George MacKay\u2019s Louis. In 1910, she\u2019s a bourgeois Parisian wife with an existential dread of disaster (\u201cthe beast\u201d) attracted to his English gentleman. In 2014 Los Angeles, she\u2019s an actor menaced by his incel stalker. Back in the future, could he be her soulmate? Simon Wardell<\/p>\n
Monkey Man (Dev Patel, 2022) 11.30pm, BBC One
You wouldn\u2019t necessarily expect Dev Patel\u2019s directorial debut to be an extremely violent action thriller. But this was a passion project for the actor, and he throws himself wholeheartedly into the tale of an Indian underground fighter who wears a monkey mask and is paid to take a beating. Then he sees the police chief (Sikandar Kher) who murdered his mother when he was a kid and vows revenge. Mixing social and political commentary in with the close-quarter fisticuffs, it\u2019s an impressive first effort. SW<\/p>\n
Live sport<\/p>\n
Test cricket, England v Pakistan 10am, Sky Sports Main Event.
Joe Root returns to captain England on the opening day of the first Test at Headingley.<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s cycling, Tour of Britain 10:45am, TNT Sports 1.
Stage one, a 158.9km route that starts and ends in Cockermouth.<\/p>\n
Champions League Football, Celtic v LASK 7.30pm, TNT Sports 1.
A play-off round first-leg match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Love You to Death 9pm, Channel 4\u201cHe seemed to be allergic to the 21st century,\u201d said journalist Paul…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-589233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}