Two Weeks in August<\/p>\n
9.15pm, BBC One<\/p>\n
The middle-class holiday from hell presses on and the ramifications of Dan and Jess\u2019s indiscretion become clear. Zoe (the superb Jessica Raine) feels liberated and determined to let her hair down; a Gods and Monsters fancy dress party at the home of appalling expats Flick and James looks like a perfect opportunity. But things get out of hand in all sorts of entertaining and terrible ways. Great fun. Phil Harrison<\/p>\n
The 1966 World Cup Final: In Colour<\/p>\n
4.45pm, Channel 4<\/p>\n
Zero years of hurt \u2026 The 1966 World Cup Final: In Colour on Channel 4. Photograph: Keystone\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
An evocative rewind back to exactly zero years of hurt to get us in the mood for the World Cup. The game has been meticulously colourised in order to be revisited in full, complete with its VAR-defying Russian linesman. Spoiler alert: everything went pretty well for once. PH<\/p>\n
Celebrity Bridge of Lies<\/p>\n
5.35pm, BBC One<\/p>\n
An Olympian turns the competitiveness up a notch on Ross Kemp\u2019s rocky truth-or-lie bridge this week. Former track and field athlete and London 2012 gold medallist Greg Rutherford attempts to cross with children\u2019s telly legend Janet Ellis, Scottish actor and comedian Sanjeev Kohli and former EastEnders star Louisa Lytton. Hollie Richardson<\/p>\n
Blankety Blank<\/p>\n
6.20pm, BBC One<\/p>\n
Chris McCausland was side-splitting throughout his last appearance on the wordy quizshow, especially after getting the \u201cguide dog\u201d answer wrong. He returns for another shot, along with fellow celebrities Emmett J Scanlan, Melvin Odoom, Sue Perkins, Grace Dent and Vanessa Williams. HR<\/p>\n
Casualty<\/p>\n
8.25pm, BBC One<\/p>\n
Clinical lead Flynn is convinced that young soldiers are being violently hazed by the same cruel colonel he clashed with during his days as an army medic. But can he convince a traumatised recruit to blow the whistle? Elsewhere, an agitated woman trashes an ambulance in desperate search of pain relief. Graeme Virtue<\/p>\n
Monsieur Spade<\/p>\n
9pm, U&Drama<\/p>\n
This tense, violent gumshoe thriller which stars Clive Owen as grumpy, retired but still embattled Sam Spade concludes with a double bill. We flashback to France\u2019s entanglement in Algeria for some context as MI6 get in touch with Spade about the activities of child codebreaker Zayd. PH<\/p>\n
Film choice<\/p>\n
Hoppers, out now, Disney+<\/p>\n
Cute propaganda \u2026 Hoppers on Disney+. Photograph: \u00a9 2025 Disney\/Pixar<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re all in this together.\u201d It may seem an obvious eco message to be pushing at the kids who will flock to watch the latest Pixar animation. But when it\u2019s done as charmingly as in Daniel Chong\u2019s sci-fi comedy adventure, you\u2019d be hard-pressed not to cheer along with the film\u2019s endangered animals. Mabel (voiced by Piper Curda) is our teenage human guide to a biodiverse nook of woods and water near Beaverton. But when a proposed freeway causes the wildlife to scatter, she \u201chops\u201d her mind into a robotic beaver (invented by her biology teacher) so she can track them down and save their glade. Crammed with neat gags, relatable villains and a shark assassin named Diane, it\u2019s cute propaganda. Simon Wardell<\/p>\n
The Curse of Frankenstein, 9.05pm, Talking Pictures TV<\/p>\n
The first in what would be a distinguished line of colourful \u201cHammer horrors\u201d, Terence Fisher\u2019s 1957 adaptation of Mary Shelley\u2019s novel still packs a punch. Unable to copy the pathos-tinged Boris Karloff look, the film-makers fashioned a creature with a grey, clammy pallor and irredeembly violent tendencies. He doesn\u2019t even turn up until halfway, but luckily Peter Cushing \u2013 in his first movie starring role \u2013 commands the screen as the hubristic Baron Frankenstein, a monomaniac diving gleefully off the ethical deep end. SW<\/p>\n
Vermiglio, 9.20pm, BBC Four<\/p>\n
The simple, traditional life of an Italian mountain community butts up against the frictions exposed by the second world war in Maura Delpero\u2019s sensitive, beautiful drama. Tommaso Ragno wields his forbidding white moustache well as local teacher, and father of eight, Cesare. He is harbouring two army deserters: his nephew and the lad\u2019s Sicilian friend Pietro (Giuseppe De Domenico). But then his eldest daughter Lucia (Martina Scrinzi) falls for Pietro, disturbing the family\u2019s balance of power and stress-testing parental and gender norms to the brink of collapse. SW<\/p>\n
Live sport<\/p>\n
Test Cricket: England v New Zealand, 10.15am, Sky Sports Main Event Day three of the first Test at Lord\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Prem Rugby Union: Exeter v Saracens, 2.45pm, TNT Sports 2 The final day of the regular season.<\/p>\n
Super League Rugby: Wakefield v Hull KR, 4.15pm, BBC Two At DIY Kitchens Stadium.<\/p>\n
Men\u2019s International Football: England v New Zealand, 8.15pm, ITV1 Scotland v Bolivia is at 8.30pm on BBC Two. France v Northern Ireland on Mon at 7.30pm on BBC Three. England also play Costa Rica on Wed at 8.30pm on ITV1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Weeks in August 9.15pm, BBC One The middle-class holiday from hell presses on and the ramifications of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-463573","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\/463573","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=463573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}