{"id":512388,"date":"2026-04-04T10:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/512388\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T10:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:48:08","slug":"what-to-watch-on-tv-tonight-the-boat-race-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/512388\/","title":{"rendered":"What to watch on TV tonight: The Boat Race, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big Mistakes
Netflix
Dan Levy<\/a> has co-created (alongside rising star Rachel Sennott) and stars (alongside comedian Taylor Ortega) in this comic caper, one of Netflix\u2019s splashy, noisy, slightly shallow ones saved by the leads\u2019 ill-tempered chemistry. The pair play siblings \u2013 he, a Christian pastor and she his sister, whose rash moment of light-fingered madness brings them into the orbit of organised crime, where they prove unexpectedly valuable.<\/p>\n

ITV Racing: Grand National Festival
ITV1\/ITVX, 1.30pm
The long weekend at Aintree gets underway with the Aintree Bowl at 2.55pm and the Aintree Hurdle at 4.05pm, with ITV\u2019s substantial on-site team including AP McCoy, Ruby Walsh and Richard Hoiles.<\/p>\n

Paul Merton: Driving Amazing Trains
Channel 4, 8pm
Paul Merton inherited a passion for locomotives from a dad who drove trains for London Underground, and spends this amiable six-part series in drivers\u2019 cabs along some glorious railway lines ranging from north Wales to Colditz, learning about local history as he goes. He begins on the Isle of Wight, where he helps a cow to calve and learns about the island\u2019s role in D-Day.<\/p>\n

Inside Barlinnie
BBC Two, 9pm; already available on iPlayer
A welcome second series for this bleakly insightful documentary at Scotland\u2019s largest prison, where 1,400 inmates are squeezed into five halls. There are tales of addiction, violence and depression where cycles prove hard to break, but also the occasional ray of hope and moments of clarity.<\/p>\n

Taskmaster
Channel 4, 9pm
The 21st competition boasts an appropriately stellar line-up, as Armando Iannucci<\/a>, Joanna Page<\/a>, Joel Dommett<\/a>, Amy Gledhill<\/a> and actor Kumail Nanjiani<\/a> (Silicon Valley, The Big Sick) are set deeply silly challenges by Greg Davies and Alex Horne. Tonight: hunting small creatures, catching a T-shirt and serving up fruit and veg. GT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big MistakesNetflixDan Levy has co-created (alongside rising star Rachel Sennott) and stars (alongside comedian Taylor Ortega) in this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[243,167227,167225,1633,21407,5343,96,347,392,7355,169376,5438,3133,167224,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-512388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-better-life","10":"tag-better-life-staying-in","11":"tag-channel-4","12":"tag-channel-5","13":"tag-culture","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-itv","16":"tag-netflix","17":"tag-sky","18":"tag-special-exclusion","19":"tag-standard","20":"tag-television","21":"tag-television-editors-choice","22":"tag-tv","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}