Russell T Davies<\/a>. It then rewinds a few weeks to tell the lively story of how the main characters \u2013 Canal Street bar owner Leo (Alan Cumming) and electrician Clive (David Morrissey) \u2013 ended up in such an awful situation. With the executive producer and director of It\u2019s a Sin working with Davies again, the team have created a powerful, nuanced and urgent look at the modern state of culture wars in LGBTQ+ communities. As one of Leo\u2019s friends from the gay club puts it: \u201cI used to walk into a room and go: \u2018Ta-da!\u2019 Now I tiptoe, just in case \u2026\u201d Hollie Richardson<\/p>\nThe Mother of All Cons<\/p>\n
9pm, BBC Two
\u201cIt is the wildest, most bizarre story \u2026\u201d The bewildering subject of 2023\u2019s hit investigative podcast Believe in Magic is unpicked in this documentary. In 2016, a teenager with a brain tumour and her mum were at the heart of a charity backed by One Direction. But as the charity continued to raise more awareness and money, people started asking questions about what was going on behind the scenes. HR<\/p>\n
Death Valley<\/p>\n
8.15pm, BBC One
When runner Ben Williams dies from a morphine-laced curry on the set of a fantasy TV series, suspicion falls on leading actor Olivia and Ash, a disgraced on-set medic with access to opioids (\u201cIf you want something stronger than an aspirin, he\u2019s your man\u201d). DI Janie and John Chapel investigate a case of bad korma as this cosy crimer continues. Ali Catterall<\/p>\n
Dear England<\/p>\n
9pm, BBC One
An evocative flashback to Euromania 1996 this week, with a younger Gareth Southgate having a post-penalties changing room chat with John Major. Back in 2021, Southgate (Joseph Fiennes) is dealing with the racism levelled at the England squad, before preparing for the moral quagmire of the Qatar World Cup. HR<\/p>\n
The Assembly Unseen<\/p>\n
10pm, ITV1<\/p>\n
Lenny Henry meets The Assembly. Photograph: ITV<\/p>\n
This gift of a series continues to give: episodes in the season just gone had enough questions left over for an extra episode. Groups of autistic, neurodivergent and\/or learning disabled people fearlessly ask impertinent questions of Stephen Fry, Nicola Sturgeon, Lenny Henry, Aitch, Anna Maxwell Martin and Rylan Clark. Jack Seale<\/p>\n
The Twelve: Cape Rock Killer<\/p>\n
10.45pm, ITV1
Silver fox Sam Neill returns as defence barrister Brett Colby for another season of the Aussie courtroom drama that suggests jurors have as much to hide as the accused. This double bill sees Colby reluctantly take on a murder trial with links to a notorious cold case: the unsolved slaying of two teens in 1968. Graeme Virtue<\/p>\n
Film choice<\/p>\n
The Nice Guys, 10.30pm, BBC One<\/p>\n
Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe in The Nice Guys. Photograph: Daniel McFadden\/AP<\/p>\n
This roisterous 2016 caper fits neatly into the sunny, starry, sleazy world of California crime fiction that gave us LA Confidential \u2013 and in lead Russell Crowe has a pleasing link to that film. But being a Shane Black movie, it\u2019s also much funnier, with Crowe\u2019s world-weary heavy-for-hire Jackson and Ryan Gosling\u2019s bumbling private eye\/single dad Holland a comic double act to cherish. The plot involves the death of a porn star and the search for a missing young woman (Margaret Qualley) in a wonderfully evoked 1970s Los Angeles of power, corruption and lies. Simon Wardell<\/p>\n
Live sport<\/p>\n
Athletics: Diamond League, 7pm, BBC Two Action from Rabat, Morocco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tip Toe 9pm, Channel 4A harrowing scene on a regular residential street in Manchester ropes you into this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-453727","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\/453727","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=453727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}