On TV tonight, season 2 of Jane Austen's Sanditon arrives on ITV, as Rafe Spall returns in season 3 of Trying on Apple TV Plus. Catch up with the first free-to-air showing of comedy Trollied starring Jane Horrocks on Pick and make the most of the sunny season with Carol Klein's Summer Gardening on Channel 5. Here’s what you shouldn’t miss on TV tonight.
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What's on TV tonight
Our expert TV journalists have picked the best things on TV tonight...
Best TV shows on TV tonight
Jane Austen's Sanditon, season 2, 9pm, ITV
ITV is so keen for you to see series two of Sanditon that the final three episodes of series one haven’t yet aired in its Friday-night repeat run. (They’re available on ITV Hub and BritBox, but if you haven’t seen them, don’t read on if you want to avoid spoilers.) The adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel ended the first series on a cliffhanger involving Charlotte (Rose Williams) and as the second series (available earlier on BritBox) begins tonight, a tragedy brings her back to Sanditon along with her sister Alison (Rosie Graham). As before, it’s a delicious Regency treat with a refreshingly modern (sense and) sensibility.
★★★★ SP
Trying, season 3, Apple TV Plus
This much-loved comedy-drama following a couple navigating the world of parenthood and adoption returns for a third series, picking up with Jason (Rafe Spall) and Nikki (Esther Smith) finding themselves parents for the first time. After being told by social worker Penny they could foster Princess and take her home, Jason and Nikki were shocked to find Princess’s younger brother Tyler hiding in the boot of their car. As the couple get a taste of family life as a foursome, will they make a case for Tyler to stay?
★★★★ RM
Trollied, 10pm, Pick
A first free-to-air showing for this popular comedy, which ran on Sky for seven series between 2011 and 2018. Set in fictional northern supermarket Valco, it features a cracking cast including Jason Watkins as store manager Gavin and Jane Horrocks as deputy manager Julie – who’s not-so-secretly in love with Gavin – along with Mark Addy as butcher Andy and Chanel Cresswell as checkout assistant Katie. Stephanie Beacham joined the cast later in the run of the series.In the first of tonight’s four episodes, Margaret (former Coronation Street actor Rita May) joins the staff as part of a senior citizens scheme – could Julie’s rather dismissive attitude towards her be anything to do with the fact that she herself is a whole year older today?
★★★ JP
Carol Klein's Summer Gardening, 7pm, Channel 5
Surely any gardener’s dream is to have a garden as verdant as Carol’s at Glebe Cottage? So we’re all ears as she takes us through – in her precise yet friendly manner – the importance of light and shade and how plants adapt to one or the other. There is also a focus on caring for summer’s star, the rose – we can almost smell through the screen – and its fruity relation, the apple.
★★★ NT
Best box set to watch on TV tonight
Superman & Lois, season 2, BBC iPlayer
The first series of this action-packed drama ended with the Kent family trying to get their heads around John’s daughter Natalie (Tayler Buck) arriving from another dimension and thinking Lois (Elizabeth Tulloch) is her mum. She isn't, sadly, in this dimension anyway, but it adds an interesting dynamic between the two characters as season 2 drops in full on iPlayer. As always, what we love best about this series is how it combines real-life family drama with huge action sequences and end of the world jeopardy – and there’s plenty of both in this new season. As teenage twins Jonathan and Jordan have girl trouble, Lois is struggling to reconcile some dark feelings from her past and Superman (Tyler Hoechlin) is flying around the globe stopping disasters in their tracks, whilst also trying to be a good dad and husband. There’s also a new threat introduced in the shape of Lieutenant Anderson (Ian Bohen), who reveals his not-so-cunning plan to make more Supermen, which is just never going to end well!
Best film to watch on TV tonight
Signs, 9pm, GREAT! Movies
Widowed ex-pastor Mel Gibson has lost his faith, but when huge crop circles mysteriously appear near his house, it’s the start of a bizarre adventure in which his cynicism has to take second place to protecting his kids (Rory Culkin and Abigail Breslin), along with his younger brother Joaquin Phoenix. A triumph of intimate suspense, writer-director M Night Shyamalan’s movie makes every word, gesture and unnerving moment count.
Live Sport
- Women's Euro 2022, the third quarter final, Sweden vs Belgium, 7.30pm (k-o 8pm), BBC One
Soaps on TV tonight
- Emmerdale, 7.30pm, ITV
- Coronation Street, 8pm, ITV
- Hollyoaks, 6.30pm, C4
- Neighbours, 6pm, Channel 5
- Home and Away, 6pm & 6.30pm, 5Star
If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…
Don't miss Jane Austen's Sanditon on TV tonight — a gorgeous Regency treat.
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Happy viewing!
