{"id":733122,"date":"2026-08-10T04:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733122\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T04:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:02:08","slug":"what-to-watch-on-tv-tonight-richard-e-grants-very-modern-odyssey-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733122\/","title":{"rendered":"What to watch on TV tonight: Richard E Grant\u2019s Very Modern Odyssey, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House of the Dragon<br \/>Sky Atlantic, 2am\/9pm<br \/>Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D\u2019Arcy) may have seized King\u2019s Landing, but she has had a miserable time holding it. The balance of power could tip again in tonight\u2019s finale, which sees Rhaenyra\u2019s forces close in on James Norton\u2019s cunning Ormund Hightower. Unknown to Rhaenyra, however, one of her dragonriders has switched sides.<\/p>\n<p>Martin and Roman\u2019s Irish Road Trip<br \/>Channel 4, 8pm<br \/>Likeable father-and-son duo Martin and Roman Kemp set forth on a three-part road trip across Ireland, with a focus on the country\u2019s myths and legends. Tonight they travel to Cork to hear tales of Cl\u00edodhna, Queen of the Banshees, and visit Spike Island, an ex-prison known as \u201cIreland\u2019s Alcatraz\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace<br \/>ITV1, 9pm<br \/>How could a mother abandon their baby? It is a question that Michael, discovered as a newborn in a box, wrestles with tonight. Yet 77-year-old Christine, who was found in a Waterloo train carriage, has more sympathy than most, having given up a child herself to adoption as a teenager.<\/p>\n<p>The Sky at Night<br \/>BBC Four, 10pm<br \/>The James Webb Space Telescope has transformed scientists\u2019 understanding of black holes and the evolution of the universe. Tonight, Professor Brian Cox joins the team to discuss some of the telescope\u2019s most exciting revelations.<\/p>\n<p>Warren\u2019s Vortex<br \/>Sky Comedy, 10.10pm\/10.40pm<br \/>The team behind Wellington Paranormal returns with another delightfully offbeat Kiwi comedy \u2013 a surreal sci-fi set around ordinary dad Warren (Maaka Pohatu) and the interdimensional vortex lurking in his shed. Tonight\u2019s two-part premiere opens with a parallel universe in which Dalek-style sentient fridges have taken over the world. Refrigerate! SK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"House of the DragonSky Atlantic, 2am\/9pmRhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D\u2019Arcy) may have seized King\u2019s Landing, but she has had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733123,"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-733122","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\/733122","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=733122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}