Half Man<\/p>\n
10.40pm, BBC One
Richard Gadd\u2019s follow-up to Baby Reindeer comes to regular telly, having premiered on iPlayer last week. Mitchell Robertson and Stuart Campbell are both superb as weak Niall and violent Ruben, a duo of 1980s schoolboys. We flash forward to glimpse Jamie Bell and Gadd himself playing them as adults \u2013 who are about to form a toxic lifelong bond. Jack Seale<\/p>\n
Michael Portillo in Stockholm<\/p>\n
7pm, Channel 5
Meatballs, schnapps, saunas \u2026 if this Swedish travelogue feels rather overfamiliar, it might be because it has been thriftily recycled from Portillo\u2019s previous Euro-hopping Long Weekends series. In any case, the inquisitive Tory grandee is reliably chummy company and sports items from a startling yellow wardrobe. Graeme Virtue<\/p>\n
Interior Design Masters With Alan Carr<\/p>\n
8pm, BBC One
Romantic weekend in a medieval castle, anyone? Alan\u2019s second task for his designers is to make love nests at Peckforton Castle in Cheshire. Nobody\u2019s imagination runs too wild \u2013 which is a good job, because guest judge Linda Boronkay has classy taste. Hollie Richardson<\/p>\n
Our Welsh Chapel Dream<\/p>\n
8pm, Channel 4
The transformation of the courtyard and guest bedroom is complete. Now, Keith Brymer Jones and Marj Hogarth prepare to turn the chapel\u2019s Sunday school hall into a pottery studio. Meanwhile, Keith has a significant birthday coming up, and the celebrations include Welsh gin, a 50-strong male voice choir \u2013 and a unique cover of a Talking Heads song. AC<\/p>\n
MasterChef<\/p>\n
9pm, BBC One<\/p>\n
Cooking up a storm \u2026 judges Anna Haugh and Grace Dent. Photograph: BBC\/Shine TV<\/p>\n
The heats continue with an eager new bunch. Yuvi has undentable confidence and prepares duck three ways, but factory worker Tony\u2019s ways with pork are sixfold. The apron cook-off (fishfinger sandwiches) is glorious carnage, and the Grace Dent lyricism is plentiful, the highlight being her description of a solitary boiled egg as a \u201cvisiting dignitary\u201d. Lucinda Everett<\/p>\n
Better Date Than Never<\/p>\n
9pm, BBC Three
A double bill of the gentle Aussie documentary about first-time daters from the makers of Love on the Spectrum. Charles struggles with small talk, and Olivia is instantly taken with a fellow Taylor Swift fan. Elsewhere, Liv is already planning her wedding \u2013 though she is yet to find the groom. Hannah J Davies<\/p>\n
Film choice<\/p>\n
Small Things Like These (Tim Mielants, 2024), Netflix<\/p>\n
Haunted \u2026 Zara Devin as Sarah Raymond and Cillian Murphy as Bill Furlong. Photograph: Lionsgate\/PA<\/p>\n
Adapted by Enda Walsh from Claire Keegan\u2019s novel, Tim Mielants\u2019s heart-rending drama comes at Ireland\u2019s Magdalene laundries scandal from a more domestic angle to other campaigning films, but is no less devastating. Cillian Murphy uses that haunted visage of his to great effect as 1980s coal merchant Bill Furlong, the son of an unmarried mother and the father of five daughters. The brutal treatment of girls at a convent where he makes deliveries ignites his compassion, but he butts up against the community\u2019s omert\u00e0 in the face of the church\u2019s power. Simon Wardell<\/p>\n
Live sport<\/p>\n
Champions League football: PSG v Bayern Munich, 7pm, Prime Video The semi-final first-leg tie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Half Man 10.40pm, BBC OneRichard Gadd\u2019s follow-up to Baby Reindeer comes to regular telly, having premiered on iPlayer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-401114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}