{"id":600387,"date":"2026-08-30T07:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T07:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/600387\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T07:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T07:30:09","slug":"tv-tonight-hamza-yassins-delightful-birding-odyssey-in-africa-television-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/600387\/","title":{"rendered":"TV tonight: Hamza Yassin\u2019s delightful birding odyssey in Africa | Television &#038; radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hamza: African Birds of Prey<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">7pm, BBC One<br \/>\u201cI\u2019m like a kid who\u2019s just been shown their Christmas present!\u201d It\u2019s always a delight to see Hamza Yassin in the wild. He starts this new series about incredible but endangered birds in Kenya, where the martial eagle \u2013 huge yellow eyes, terrifying talons, thighs of steel \u2013 blows him away. Then, he makes a case for why we should love vultures more, and somehow pulls it off. Hollie Richardson<\/p>\n<p>Modern Classics at the Proms<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">8pm, BBC Four<br \/>Curated by Guardian columnist Tom Service, here is an exciting collection of new music at this year\u2019s Proms to make note of. As well as three world premieres, expect a captivating bassoon concerto, and chats with the big names of tomorrow, plus composers Thomas Ad\u00e8s and Gabriela Ortiz. HR<\/p>\n<p>Vigil<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">9pm, BBC One<\/p>\n<p>Cold as ice \u2026 Longacre (Rose Leslie) and Silva (Suranne Jones) head north in Vigil on BBC One. Photograph: CREDIT LINE:BBC\/World Productions\/Mark Mainz<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">DCI Amy Silva (Suranne Jones) is off the hook for now, as this twisty cop drama returns. She\u2019s now shacked up with DI Kirsten Longacre (Rose Leslie) and, to everyone\u2019s slight surprise, it\u2019s Longacre who has been selected to investigate a diplomatically sensitive murder in the Arctic. However, as events spiral, Silva might be forced to abandon her supervisory role and get involved. Phil Harrison<\/p>\n<p>Trigger Point<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">9pm, ITV1<br \/>The magnificent Vicky McClure returns as flinty explosives officer Lana \u201cWash\u201d Washington for a fourth series of this slick bomb disposal thriller. Judging by Wash\u2019s fraught therapy sessions, her high-stress job is taking its toll. But when a C4-laden truck starts rolling toward central London, she dives into peril without hesitation. Graeme Virtue<\/p>\n<p>The Terror: Devil in Silver<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">9pm, Sky Atlantic<\/p>\n<p>True horror \u2026 Dan Stevens and Chinaza Uche in The Terror: Devil in Silver on Sky Atlantic. Photograph: Emily V Aragones\/AMC\/2025 AMC Film Holdings LLC. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The horror of this drama lies in the knowledge that, while the dysfunction of the mental institution is real, so is the distress and confusion of the inmates. The paranoia experienced by Pepper and Coffee is manifesting in ever more outlandish theories \u2013 another excuse for the fiendish Dr Walter to intervene again. PH<\/p>\n<p>Love Cheats<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">10.15pm, Channel 4<br \/>The fallout from Australian EDM DJ Olivia Nervo\u2019s relationship with businessman Matthew Pringle travelled as far as the Houses of Parliament as it was seen as a possible example of reproductive coercion. The second series of this documentary about romantic fraud and manipulation explores the case in all of its grimness. PH<\/p>\n<p>Live sport<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Premier League Football: Chelsea v Brighton, 1pm, Sky Sports Main Event Man United v Ipswich is at 4.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Tennis: US Open,11pm, Sky Sports Main Event Day one from Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamza: African Birds of Prey 7pm, BBC One\u201cI\u2019m like a kid who\u2019s just been shown their Christmas present!\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-600387","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\/600387","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=600387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}