{"id":524988,"date":"2026-04-11T10:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/524988\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T10:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:26:07","slug":"what-to-watch-on-tv-tonight-mccartney-the-hunt-for-the-lost-bass-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/524988\/","title":{"rendered":"What to watch on TV tonight: McCartney: The Hunt for the Lost Bass, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Classic<br \/>MGM+<br \/>Kevin Kline and <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/theatre\/what-to-see\/laura-linney-lucy-barton-stage-fright-becoming-mother-49\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Linney<\/a> are the big-name draws in this comedy about a stage star, Richard Bean (Kline), whose career is in a death spiral following a public meltdown. Taking refuge with his smalltown family proves no less stressful, largely because an unextinguished old flame (Linney) is now not only the town mayor, but also his brother\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n<p>Live Women\u2019s Six Nations Rugby: England v Ireland &amp; Wales v Scotland<br \/>BBC One, 1.30pm &amp; BBC Two, 4.25pm<br \/>Reigning champions England will not be expecting Ireland to stand too much in the way of a first victory in tonight\u2019s opening match at Twickenham. Wales and Scotland are more evenly matched, though Scotland are well fancied for an away win.<\/p>\n<p>ITV Racing: Grand National Festival<br \/>ITV1\/ITVX, 3.15pm<br \/>To Aintree for the biggest event of the racing calendar, the final day of the Grand National, which doesn\u2019t get underway until 4pm, but ITV starts early with ITV Racing: The Opening Show at 9.30am, and also covers the day\u2019s other races in ITV Racing: Grand National Festival from 12.45pm.<\/p>\n<p>Death of a Prince: The Tragedy of William of Gloucester<br \/>Channel 5, 9pm<br \/>The death of the late Queen\u2019s cousin, aged 30 and ninth in line to the throne, filled the headlines in 1972 but is now largely forgotten. Archive and talking heads recapture how the plane the prince was piloting hit a tree and burst into flames at an airshow near Wolverhampton.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday Night Live UK<br \/>Sky One\/NOW, 10pm<br \/>Sky\u2019s English version of the classic US sketch show has been getting a <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/tv\/0\/saturday-night-live-uk-sky-one-review\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">surprisingly warm reception<\/a>. Even Jamie Dornan avoided a roasting when he hosted. Tonight, it\u2019s the turn of comedian and actor Jack Whitehall, with music from singer-songwriter Jorja Smith. GO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American ClassicMGM+Kevin Kline and Laura Linney are the big-name draws in this comedy about a stage star, Richard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524989,"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":["post-524988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bbc","tag-better-life","tag-better-life-staying-in","tag-channel-4","tag-channel-5","tag-culture","tag-entertainment","tag-itv","tag-netflix","tag-sky","tag-special-exclusion","tag-standard","tag-television","tag-television-editors-choice","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524988","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=524988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}