{"id":504044,"date":"2026-07-01T06:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/504044\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T06:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:19:13","slug":"tv-tonight-the-season-finale-of-a-gloomily-gripping-welsh-drama-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/504044\/","title":{"rendered":"TV tonight: the season finale of a gloomily gripping Welsh drama | Television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Light in the Hall: Still Waters<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">9pm, Channel 4<br \/>As the second season of this gloomily gripping Welsh drama concludes, the tone is more elegy than explosion as the events around the controversial reservoir expansion continue to unfold. Budding journalist Caryl Huws (Si\u00e2n Reese-Williams) is probing Ll\u0177r\u2019s demise but this puts her on a collision course with Robert (Robert Glenister), who wants the past to remain undisturbed. It has been a bleak study in small town ennui. Phil Harrison<\/p>\n<p>Location, Location, Location<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">8pm, Channel 4<br \/>More revisits for Kirstie and Phil, who return to Leeds to see how Dan and Max have got on in the five years since they helped them find a home. Then to west London, where Cat and Ed have doubled their money since 2009. Hard to regard this as a triumph for anyone other than them, of course. PH<\/p>\n<p>Doc<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">10pm, Sky Witness<br \/>The season two finale of the ambitious series following an amnesiac doctor getting her life back in order shows the titular doc, Amy (Molly Parker), tackling the arrival of a rare, deadly virus in the hospital. But when Amy gets infected, her colleagues must perform immediate surgery to save her life, leading to a tragic departure for someone. Nicole Vassell<\/p>\n<p>Mysteries Unearthed with Danny Trejo<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">10pm, Sky History<br \/>More entertaining finds with the characterful actor, who this time probes a handful of particularly big and bad mysteries. They take him to a diamond heist with roots in a ditch, a burning crater called \u201cGateway to Hell\u201d and an island of deadly vipers. Hollie Richardson<\/p>\n<p>In Our Blood<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">10.15pm, Sky Atlantic<br \/>With comparisons to It\u2019s A Sin, this musical drama tells the Australian Aids story and how gay communities and the government made an unprecedented collaboration. In the first episode of a concluding double-bill, infections are rising along with the violent hatred towards gay people. HR<\/p>\n<p>From<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">2am, Sky One<br \/>Tinfoil hat on: we are careering towards the season four climax as Boyd attempts to lead the residents of the nightmarish Fromville back home. Tabitha and Jade are collecting children\u2019s bones before the bottle tree is pulled out and they can all escape. But Jade is hiding a high-stakes secret that could change everything. Priya Elan<\/p>\n<p>Film choice<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Enola Holmes 3 (Philip Barantini, 2026), Netflix<\/p>\n<p>From left, Louis Partridge as Tewkesbury, Millie Bobby Brown as Enola Holmes and Himesh Patel as Dr Watson return in Enola Holmes 3. Photograph: John Wilson\/Netflix \u00a92026<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The Victorian-era teen mystery reunites ingenious screenwriter Jack Thorne with his Watson director Philip Barantini. Barantini may be new to Enola Holmes but he\u2019s not to Thorne, the two having collaborated on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2025\/mar\/13\/adolescence-review-the-closest-thing-to-tv-perfection-in-decades\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix mega-hit Adolescence<\/a>. That bodes well for this third movie, which sees the nepo-detective (Millie Bobby Brown) distracted from her destination wedding to the dreamy-but-drippy Lord Tewkesbury (Louis Partridge) by an unforeseen calamity. Dr Watson (Himesh Patel) arrives in Malta to tell Enola that her brother, the famed sleuth Sherlock Holmes (Henry Cavill), has been kidnapped \u2013 and she is the only one Mother Holmes (Helena Bonham Carter) trusts to come to his rescue. Ellen E Jones<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom, 2005), 9pm, BBC Three<br \/>This is a madcap, sort-of adaptation of Laurence Sterne\u2019s 18th-century work of metafiction, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (in at No 19 on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/ng-interactive\/2026\/may\/12\/the-100-best-novels-of-all-time#19\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian\u2019s 100 best novels of all time<\/a>), in which a British film crew try to adapt the book for the screen. But it\u2019s also the first time Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan co-starred as heightened versions of themselves, under the direction of Michael Winterbottom. That means we have this film to thank for four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2017\/may\/12\/the-trip-to-spain-rob-brydon-steve-coogan-ageing-comedy\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">glorious series of The Trip<\/a>. What a legacy. EEJ<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The Last Tree (Shola Amoo, 2019), 1.25am, Film4<\/p>\n<p>Sam Adewunmi plays Femi in this affecting coming-of-age tale. Photograph: British Film Institute\/Allstar<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">You can\u2019t call yourself a connoisseur of British cinema if you haven\u2019t seen this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2019\/sep\/29\/the-last-tree-review-shola-amoo\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hypnotic coming-of-age tale<\/a>. Sam Adewunmi is Femi, a British Nigerian who moves from Lincolnshire to London to Lagos in search of a more stable sense of self, while comedian Gbemisola Ikumelo is startlingly good as Femi\u2019s birth mother. The visuals betray the influence of Terrence Malick, but the tender emotional insights are all writer-director Shola Amoo\u2019s own, establishing him as a major talent. EEJ<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story (Jyllian Gunther and Stephanie Schwam, 2026), HBO Max<br \/>The story of Robin Byrd is a true New York story about sex and the city, so it\u2019s fitting that Carrie Bradshaw, AKA Sarah Jessica Parker, would be on board as producer on this callback to a more open-minded era. Byrd began broadcasting her weekly sex show on public access television in 1977, and soon became not only a local celebrity (Cheri Oteri played her on SNL) but an LGBTQ+ activist. That meant fighting decades-long legal battles with Time Warner Cable, now Warner Bros Discovery, ie the parent company of HBO Max, this documentary\u2019s broadcaster. Only in New York! 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