Unacceptable<\/p>\n
9pm, TLC<\/p>\n
\u201cWe should pay the royals more,\u201d Romesh Ranganathan puts to the audience in this edgy new panel show, where two teams battle it out for the most votes in favour of their outrageous opinions. Is he saying it just to get an OBE? \u201cThe last thing my name needs is more letters.\u201d With Ed Gamble hosting and Richard Ayoade and Joanne McNally as team captains, the results are very funny \u2013 and always close to making you wince. Hollie Richardson<\/p>\n
Countryfile<\/p>\n
6pm, BBC Two<\/p>\n
Anita Rani embarks on a four-part English east coast trip, starting on the remote Northey Island in Essex\u2019s Blackwater Estuary. It\u2019s a refuge for lapwings, curlews and ringed plovers, but rising sea levels are threatening their habitats. Could retired Thames barges help? Rani meets the volunteers. HR<\/p>\n
Border Force: America\u2019s Gatekeepers<\/p>\n
7pm, U&Dave<\/p>\n
This documentary drama was first broadcast on Channel 4 in 2025, but it hits differently now. It certainly makes for on-the-nose viewing \u2013 as US border control has been explicitly racialised by the Maga administration, viewers today might question whose side they\u2019re on: the officers in Texas and Mexico or the accused. Priya Elan<\/p>\n
Grand Ole Opry: Opry Live<\/p>\n
7pm, Sky Arts<\/p>\n
To Nashville, where the most famous stage in country music has been celebrating 100 years of live shows. Over an hour of highlights, enjoy music from the genre\u2019s top performers including Jelly Roll, Lanie Gardner and Marcus King. HR<\/p>\n
The Rite of Spring: Inside Classical<\/p>\n
8pm, BBC Four<\/p>\n
Causing a stir \u2026 The Rite of Spring: Inside Classical on BBC Four. Photograph: BBC Studios\/Shirlaine Forrest<\/p>\n
In 1913, Igor Stravinsky sent heads spinning with the debut of his audacious The Rite of Spring. The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra perform the piece at Manchester Aviva Studios, hoping to again stir the audience \u2013 just maybe not as aggressively. Calm follows in the form of Grammy award-winning composer Jessie Montgomery\u2019s Chemiluminescence. HR<\/p>\n
Iris Prize Best British Shorts<\/p>\n
3.25am, Channel 4<\/p>\n
Luke Wintour\u2019s punchy period piece Sweetheart is set in a London molly house in 1723, where queer men sought companionship and sexual freedom. This 18-minute short was nominated for LGBTQ+ film award the Iris prize in 2025 and \u2013 if you\u2019re not up at 3am \u2013 is, of course, streaming on Channel 4\u2019s website. HJD<\/p>\n
Film choice<\/p>\n
Tombstone, 9pm, Film4<\/p>\n
This tough-talking 1990s western is one of several movies to retell events surrounding the legendary Gunfight at the OK Corral, when Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) and his deputised lawmen attempted to disarm a gang of cattle rustlers in the saloon town of Tombstone, Arizona. But what sets this version apart from all the others is a scene-stealing turn from Val Kilmer as sickly souse Doc Holliday, a brief-but-brilliant voiceover narration from the great Robert Mitchum, and several of the most tremendous \u2019taches this side of the Rio Grande. Ellen E Jones<\/p>\n
Blade Runner, 10pm, BBC Two<\/p>\n
Iconic \u2026 Blade Runner on BBC Two. Photograph: Collection Christophel\/Alamy<\/p>\n
Los Angeles, 2019. The permanent neo-noir night. It\u2019s the job of cop turned bounty hunter Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) to track down and \u201cretire\u201d rogue replicants. But what if Rick can\u2019t tell the humans from their bioengineered counterparts? Ridley Scott\u2019s 1982 film was a relative flop on first release, but is now widely considered among the greatest sci-fi films of all time. This 2007-issued \u201cfinal cut\u201d blends influences as disparate as German expressionism, Italian futurism and \u201cHong Kong on a very bad day\u201d into a visually iconic whole. EEJ<\/p>\n
Live sport<\/p>\n
Formula One Racing: British Grand Prix, 2.30pm, Channel 4 George Russell aims to follow up his Austrian GP win with victory at Silverstone.<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s World T20 Cricket, 5pm, Sky Sports Main Event The final at Lord\u2019s in London.<\/p>\n
World Cup Football: Mexico v England, midnight, BBC One The fourth round-of-16 match, which takes place at Mexico City Stadium. Kick-off at 1am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unacceptable 9pm, TLC \u201cWe should pay the royals more,\u201d Romesh Ranganathan puts to the audience in this edgy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-510529","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\/510529","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=510529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}