On TV tonight, everyone might need good neighbours, but it's time to say goodbye to the residents of Ramsay Street as Channel 5 celebrates the ending of the long-running soap with a special Neighbours Night. New time-travelling drama Paper Girls begins on Prime Video and new thriller Surface arrives on Apple TV Plus. Finally, Carol adds more colour to her beautiful garden in Carol Klein's Summer Gardening on Channel 5. Here’s what you shouldn’t miss on TV tonight.
- Our hand selected recommendations for what's on TV tonight include four TV shows, a film, live sport and the latest trending need-to-binge-on-now box set
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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
Neighbours Night, from 6pm, Channel 5
Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Guy Pearce all return, as the long-running Aussie soap comes to end. Channel 5 are sending the series out in style with an evening of programmes celebrating 37 years of Down Under drama! The penultimate episode is followed by the hour-long Neighbours: The Finale (9pm). Then, the documentary Neighbours Made Me a Star (10.10pm) looks back at former cast members who went on to launch international careers. Finally, if you fancy a late-night singalong, don’t miss Neighbours: All the Pop Hits & More (11.35pm), featuring classic tracks from Natalie Imbruglia, Delta Goodrem and, of course, Kylie and Jason.
★★★★★ ST
Paper Girls, Prime Video
Whether it’s classic films such as The Goonies or current favourite Stranger Things, young male coming-of-age stories peppered with sci-fi are a mainstay of popular culture. That all changes this week, as four young newspaper delivery girls go on an epic time-travel adventure. Paper Girls follows 12-year-old pals, Erin (Riley Lai Nelet), Tiffany (Camryn Jones), KJ (Fina Strazza) and Mac (Sofia Rosinsky), who, while out delivering papers after Halloween in 1988, are caught in the crossfire between warring groups of time-travellers and are transported into the future, meeting their older selves – with hilarious consequences! Based on the best-selling comic books by Brian K Vaughan, this eight-parter really brings those pages to life.
★★★ VW
Surface, Apple TV Plus
"Who do you trust when you can't trust yourself?" Asks this thrilling eight-part psychological thriller starring The Morning Show’s Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Sophie, a woman with memory loss after falling from a boat. She's told that she tried to commit suicide, but also that she lived a perfect life, so why on earth would she want to end it all? Desperate to understand who she is, Sophie embarks on a mission to uncover the truth about the night she fell, or was pushed, off the boat and piece together her true history. But the more questions she asks, the more confused she becomes about who she can trust and why some people want to keep her past hidden?
★★★★ JL
Carol Klein's Summer Gardening, 7pm, Channel 5
Some gardeners like to be the boss, making sure order is enforced in every raised bed and container. Not Carol. She embraces the unexpected plant popping up where it shouldn’t, and this series is all the better for its laid-back host reminding us that gardening is about having fun. This week, she’s planting irises in every spare bit of ground she can find, even the shed roof. She’s also supporting rambling cucumber plants and planting up an old copper bath with a fiery summer display.
★★★ JL
Best box set to watch on TV tonight
Sanditon season 2, ITV Hub
This adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel ended its first season on a major cliffhanger when heroine Charlotte (Rose Williams) left Sanditon heartbroken after true love Sidney (Theo James) married another woman to save his brother from financial ruin. As season two begins, Sidney is no longer around and a tragedy brings Charlotte back to Sanditon along with her sister Alison (Rosie Graham). Though Charlotte has sworn off romance, there’s no shortage of eligible men hoping to court her, like dashing war veteran Colonel Lennox (Tom Weston-Jones). As before, it’s a delicious Regency treat with a refreshingly modern (sense and) sensibility.
Best film to watch on TV tonight
Scream, Paramount Plus
The fifth film in the Scream horror franchise picks up 25 years after the original killings in the sleepy town of Woodsboro when teenager Tara Carpenter (Jenna Ortega) is brutally attacked by a masked intruder. Tara’s estranged sister, Sam (Melissa Barrera), turns up demanding answers, prompting veteran cop Dewey Riley
(David Arquette) to warn now happily married mum-of-three Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) that ‘Ghostface’ is back. As the bodies pile up, Sidney joins forces with Sam and Tara’s friends to unmask the murderer. Courteney Cox reprises her role as reporter Gale Weathers, and Jack Quaid plays Sam’s boyfriend, Richie.
Live Sport
- Commonwealth Games 2022, from 9.15am, BBC One/Two
- EFL, Huddersfield Town vs Burnley, 7pm (k-o 8pm), Sky Sports Main Event/NOW
Soaps on TV tonight
- Emmerdale, 7.30pm, ITV
- Coronation Street, 8pm, ITV
- Hollyoaks, 6.30pm, C4
- Neighbours, 6pm & 9pm, Channel 5
- Home and Away, 6pm & 6.30pm, 5Star
If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…
Don't miss Neighbours Night on TV tonight — a fitting send-off to the long-running Aussie soap.
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Happy viewing!
