Two Weeks in August<\/p>\n
9pm, BBC One<\/p>\n
Group holidays are rarely a success. But spare a thought for people-pleaser Zoe (Jessica Raine) and down-on-his-luck Dan (Damien Malony), skint and recovering from a taboo family trauma, as they set off for a pricey week in Greece with their old uni friends. But what better way to put everyone at ease on the first night than a dodgy fish supper followed by some hallucinogenic mushrooms? Leila Farzad, Dolly Wells and Hugh Skinner also star in this twisty, trippy, sun-soaked drama. Hollie Richardson<\/p>\n
Bullseye for Soccer Aid<\/p>\n
5.55pm, ITV1<\/p>\n
Expect a lot of Soccer Aid content in the run-up to the charity football game\u2019s 20th year, starting with this starry edition of the classic darts gameshow. Freddie Flintoff is back as host, with Kym Marsh and her sister-in-law Claire, Jon Richardson and Angela Barnes, and Olly Murs and Mark Wright taking their shots under score-keeper Richard Ashdown\u2019s judging eye. HR<\/p>\n
World\u2019s Most Secret Hotels<\/p>\n
8pm, Channel 4<\/p>\n
A final roundup of global hotels in this Julie Walters-narrated series. In East Lothian, Scotland, the Bus Stop is a glamping spot with a twist: guests can sleep in the nine luxury buses. Over in Arizona, Castle Hot Springs can be found 11km down a dirt road near the Bradshaw Mountains thermal waters. HR<\/p>\n
Cher at the BBC<\/p>\n
9pm, BBC Two<\/p>\n
Happy 80th birthday, Cher! To celebrate, the BBC is turning back time with clips of fabulous performances and chatshow moments. She is the only artist to have US Billboard No 1s in every decade between the 1960s and 2010s, with hits such as I Got You Babe, Walking in Memphis, Strong Enough and Believe. HR<\/p>\n
Nobody\u2019s Fool<\/p>\n
9pm, ITV1<\/p>\n
Rivals \u2026 Danny Dyer and Emily Atack in Nobody\u2019s Fool on ITV1. Photograph: Matt Frost\/ITV<\/p>\n
First impressions are everything in this new quiz presented by Danny Dyer and Emily Atack, where 10 contestants arrive at a manor and compete to see which of them can appear to be the most intelligent \u2013 with a \u00a3100,000 prize up for grabs. As a social experiment it\u2019s a good yardstick for bluster and unconscious bias; as a competition show, it\u2019s Destination X meets The Traitors. Priya Elan<\/p>\n
Monsieur Spade<\/p>\n
9pm, U& Drama<\/p>\n
Clive Owen hits the perfect note of rumpled melancholy as Dashiell Hammett\u2019s dogged gumshoe Sam Spade, now nominally retired but still stirring up all kinds of trouble in the south of France in 1963. As Spade\u2019s investigation into the murder of six nuns continues, he finds himself embroiled in some jurisdictional friction with the Vatican. Graeme Virtue<\/p>\n
Film choice<\/p>\n
Is This Thing On?, out now, Disney<\/p>\n
Standup therapy \u2026 Is This Thing On on Disney. Photograph: Searchlight Pictures\/PA<\/p>\n
Inspired by the true story of how John Bishop came to be a comedian, Bradley Cooper\u2019s new film is a biting, witty drama of marriage and midlife crisis. Will Arnett plays New York financier Alex, separated from wife Tess (Laura Dern) and feeling lost and lonely. One evening, he signs up for a bar\u2019s open-mic night to avoid the entrance fee \u2013 and is unexpectedly energised after going on stage to vent about his life. His joie de vivre as he pursues standup-as-therapy rubs off on ex-volleyball star Tess, who has lost her own drive after becoming a mother. As a dissection of a relationship, it\u2019s satisfyingly messy and nuanced, while a host of real-life acts make the comedy club scenes zing. Simon Wardell<\/p>\n
Tom Clancy\u2019s Jack Ryan: Ghost War, out now, Prime Video<\/p>\n
The John Krasinski-led espionage thriller will always be stuck in the shadow of Mission: Impossible, but there is an endless appetite for tales of spycraft that this fun feature-length outing caters for pretty well. Krasinski\u2019s CIA analyst Jack Ryan offers an interesting contrast to the haunted Cruise: a more relaxed spook, he has a sturdy moral compass and a nice line in rather British understatement. Here, Ryan teams up with Sienna Miller\u2019s MI6 agent to pursue Max Beesley\u2019s rogue black ops operative \u2013 Ethan Hunt if he\u2019d gone to the dark side \u2013 from London to Dubai. SW<\/p>\n
My Favourite Cake, 9pm, BBC Four<\/p>\n
A slice of joy \u2026 My Favourite Cake on BBC Four. Photograph: Hamid Janipour<\/p>\n
Maryam Moghadam and Behtash Sanaeeha, the directors of this glorious, surprising film, were given 14-month suspended sentences last year for obscene content and propaganda against the Iranian state. On the surface, the bittersweet story of a 70-year-old Tehran widow (Lili Farhadpour) and her encounter with an elderly taxi driver (Esmaeel Mehrabi) seems inoffensive. But it proved subversive in a country where women\u2019s lives are severely circumscribed \u2013 and where the simple pleasures of a man and a woman talking, dancing and eating together become radical acts. SW<\/p>\n
Sleep, 11.40pm, Film4<\/p>\n
In the spooky tradition of far east horror movies, but with a nod to The Exorcist, Jason Yu\u2019s 2023 Korean film is an insomnia-inducing treat. Soo-jin (Jung Yu-mi) is expecting a baby any time now, but her actor husband, Hyun-soo (Lee Sun-kyun), has developed REM sleep behaviour disorder. This involves scratching his face, eating raw meat \u2013 and much, much worse. It\u2019s a case of scientific rationality v supernatural faith, as Soo-jin becomes convinced he is possessed by a malevolent ghost. But are the psychological stresses of new motherhood at the root of her fears? SW<\/p>\n
Live sport<\/p>\n
Cycling: Giro d\u2019Italia, 11.45am, TNT Sports 1 Stage 14, from Aosta to Pila.<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s Super League Football: Charlton v Leicester, 12.15pm, BBC Two Relegation play-off at the Valley.<\/p>\n
Champions Cup Rugby Union: Leinster v Bordeaux B\u00e8gles, 1.45pm, ITV4 The final at Bilbao, Spain.<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s T20 Cricket: England v New Zealand, 2pm, Channel 5 From Canterbury. The final T20 is on Mon at 2pm on Sky Sports Cricket.<\/p>\n
Championship Football: Hull v Middlesbrough, 3pm, Sky Sports Main Event The play-off final. Teams and date may change.<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s Champions League: Barcelona v Lyon, 4.30pm, BBC Two The final from Oslo, Norway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Weeks in August 9pm, BBC One Group holidays are rarely a success. But spare a thought for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-441232","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\/441232","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=441232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}