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Daniel Craig and Mark Strong in Our Friends in the North. Photograph: BBC<\/p>\nSaint-Pierre<\/p>\n
9pm, U&Alibi
While it remains an essentially generic crime drama, Saint-Pierre has sustained itself convincingly across its first season and deserves its recently commissioned second run. As it ends, the case-of-the-week format finally dovetails with the longer storyline regarding James Purefoy\u2019s crime boss Sean Gallagher. Arch and Fitz aren\u2019t the only people on the island who had beef with Gallagher \u2013 and a series of violent incidents put our detective duo on a collision course with their nemesis. Phil Harrison<\/p>\n
The Repair Shop<\/p>\n
8pm, BBC One
Is nowhere safe from World Cup fever? This one-off edition of the enduring heirloom glow-up sees a soft toy of England\u2019s 1966 mascot World Cup Willie arrive in the barn. Elsewhere \u2013 and further back in time still \u2013 skiffle is back as a battered old washboard is brought to life by Pete and Sonnaz. PH<\/p>\n
Location, Location, Location<\/p>\n
8pm, Channel 4
Kirstie and Phil catch up with another pair of couples they helped find homes for, to discover what kind of fist they\u2019ve made of them. In Solihull, Camilla and Liam\u2019s move from a rental to their own house led to marriage and a growing family. But what\u2019s become of Hayley and James\u2019s \u201cunicorn\u201d house in Wiltshire? AC<\/p>\n
Matlock<\/p>\n
9pm, Sky Witness
Two parallel storylines converge as the second season of this gripping legal drama concludes. The merger plans are continuing apace \u2013 but can the team bring Senior to justice for his role in the cover-up in time to get the case off the books? Inevitably, there are plenty of hitches along the way. PH<\/p>\n
Peter Flannery Remembers: Our Friends in the North<\/p>\n
10pm, BBC Four<\/p>\n
Daniel Craig and Mark Strong in Our Friends in the North. Photograph: BBC<\/p>\n
One of the jewels in the BBC\u2019s crown returns to the iPlayer. This 1996 drama launched the careers of actors including Gina McKee and Daniel Craig and told a gripping national story of hope and betrayal. Before the first episode, Peter Flannery recalls its creation. PH<\/p>\n
In Our Blood<\/p>\n
10.15pm, Sky Atlantic<\/p>\n
It was compared to It\u2019s a Sin and while it doesn\u2019t reach those heights, this drama is still a stirring representation of Australia\u2019s response to Aids. The opening double bill begins with the election of Bob Hawke as prime minister in 1983. Is change on the way? PH<\/p>\n
Film choice<\/p>\n
Avatar: Fire and Ash (James Cameron, 2025), Disney+<\/p>\n
\u2018Stupendous\u2019 \u2026 Avatar: Fire and Ash. Photograph: 20th Century Studios\/AP<\/p>\n
James Cameron\u2019s bold, blue-tinged fantasy epic returns for a third outing. This one has a similar feel to The Way of Water: regular bouts of stupendous aerial and aquatic action; plenty of dastardly human behaviour; and \u2013 underlying the whole enterprise \u2013 warnings about colonisation and the ignorant exploitation of the natural world. Sam Worthington, Zoe Salda\u00f1a and Sigourney Weaver are back as our favourite human-Na\u2019vi blended family, still defending their way of life. The new element is the Mangkwan, a clan living next to a volcano led by the ambitious Varang (a lip-curling Oona Chaplin), who sees a collaboration with the gun-toting Earth forces as a route to power. Simon Wardell<\/p>\n
The Welcome Table (Josh Fox, 2026) HBO Max
This incandescent climate crisis documentary from Josh Fox should probably have a trigger warning attached, such is the traumatic prognosis he gives for the planet. Through testimony from people affected by global warming-related fires, flooding and drought from Kenya to Brazil and the US, he shows the devastation now being caused, the colonial roots of much of it, and the mass migration that will follow. The only ray of hope comes from the survivors themselves \u2013 beacons of community and collaboration. SW<\/p>\n
Rob Roy (Michael Caton-Jones, 1995) Great! Action<\/p>\n
Liam Neeson as Rob Roy. Photograph: Cinetext\/United Artists\/Allstar<\/p>\n
It had the misfortune to be released in cinemas in the same year as Braveheart, but Michael Caton-Jones\u2019s rousing historical drama about Scotland\u2019s folk hero has the edge in terms of peaty authenticity. Liam Neeson is as Scottish as Mel Gibson but at least there\u2019s a Celtic tinge to his steely-eyed performance as the titular clan chief. Cheated by John Hurt\u2019s Marquess of Montrose, he\u2019s then harried by the lord\u2019s relative, the gleefully immoral \u201cbastard abroad\u201d Archibald Cunningham (a grandstanding Tim Roth). But the honourable Robert Roy MacGregor proves that nobility isn\u2019t a matter of birth. SW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saint-Pierre 9pm, U&AlibiWhile it remains an essentially generic crime drama, Saint-Pierre has sustained itself convincingly across its first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-655423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655423","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=655423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}