Twenty Twenty Six<\/p>\n
10pm, BBC Two
Is the mood music around this summer\u2019s World Cup compatible with a sitcom? After all, the main host nation is threatening to turn the event into an apocalyptic drama. Enter bumbling Ian Fletcher (Hugh Bonneville) in his new role as director of integrity for a (redacted) sporting body, whose relationship with the concept is already a punchline. While the tone is subtly different from that of W1A and Twenty Twelve \u2013 in those shows, no one really said anything; here, everyone shouts at once \u2013 the satirical intent is similar. David Tennant\u2019s narration adds a satisfying extra layer of snark as issues of staging and environmental impact are tossed into the corporate meat grinder. Phil Harrison<\/p>\n
Michael Jackson: An American Tragedy<\/p>\n
9pm, BBC Two
How did the lavishly gifted child star become the troubled, troubling figure of his later years? It\u2019s a familiar but still intriguing story told in this new three-part series. Childhood friends and family members feature as Michael Jackson\u2019s difficult youth is exhumed. Telling diversions include a look at the star\u2019s spell as a door-knocking Jehovah\u2019s Witness, a period he treasured because, as he puts it, \u201cI was totally deprived of seeing people.\u201d PH<\/p>\n
Help! I Bought It at Auction With Sarah Beeny<\/p>\n
8pm, Channel 4
Three couples take on houses at auctions and try to fix them up in the face of significant risks. This episode\u2019s challenges include the renovation of a cottage in the South Downs and a couple in Somerset who want to add an outdoor kitchen to their home. Micha Frazer-Carroll<\/p>\n
Ambulance<\/p>\n
9pm, BBC One
The challenges of working in rural areas of Yorkshire are the focus of this episode. Sam and Sophie have been sent to help a woman who has had a seizure in a forest. But finding her isn\u2019t easy. PH<\/p>\n
The Copenhagen Test<\/p>\n
9pm, Channel 4<\/p>\n
Cloak and dagger \u2026 Simu Liu in The Copenhagen Test. Photograph: Peacock\/Christos Kalohoridis<\/p>\n
With its benighted Washington DC setting and hunky leading man, this new US import will appeal to fans of Netflix\u2019s cloak-and-dagger hit The Night Agent. Simu Liu is an intelligence analyst caught up in a hall-of-mirrors conspiracy, all predicated on some unsettling (or just plain silly) biohacking surveillance tech. Graeme Virtue<\/p>\n
The Assembly<\/p>\n
10.05pm, ITV1
The first season of this show in which celebrities are grilled by neurodivergent people was a revelatory delight. The questions ranged from the offbeat to the devastatingly acute and brought the best out of everyone. ITV\u2019s second run begins with Stephen Fry being asked about drugs, identity and sexual orientation. PH<\/p>\n
Film choice<\/p>\n
Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer, 2001), 10.45pm, Film4<\/p>\n
The heat is on \u2026 Ray Winstone in Sexy Beast. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc\/Alamy<\/p>\n
With hindsight, it\u2019s obvious that a gangster thriller from Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin, The Zone of Interest) would not be cut from the usual cloth. So, for his tense debut feature, we get a heist movie where the act itself is almost an afterthought. The main thrust of the piece is watching retired criminal Gal (a star-making turn from Ray Winstone) receive a visit at his Costa del Crime villa from Ben Kingsley\u2019s supremely chilling Don, who wants him for a job and most definitely won\u2019t take no for an answer. An exquisitely sweaty tale with an eye for a surreal image. Simon Wardell<\/p>\n
Sport<\/p>\n
Champions League football: Paris Saint-Germain v Liverpool 7pm, TNT Sports 1. The quarter-final, first-leg tie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twenty Twenty Six 10pm, BBC TwoIs the mood music around this summer\u2019s World Cup compatible with a sitcom?…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-519078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519078","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=519078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}