On TV tonight, Humphrey Goodman is on the hunt for a missing painting in Beyond Paradise, Nick Knowles sets off for on his new travelogue, Amazing Railway Adventures, there's one last case for Father Brown to tackle, and new high school mystery series School Spirits arrives on Paramount Plus. 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
Beyond Paradise, 8 pm, BBC One
Humphrey (Kris Marshall) and the team are having a right ’mare this week – The Solo Mare, to be precise. That’s a 17th-century painting steeped in Shipton Abbott history, which vanishes from the country house of Lady Louise Fitzallan (Ralph & Katie’s Pooky Quesnel) when PC Kelby Hartford (Derry Girls' Dylan Llewellyn) is meant to be keeping watch overnight. The investigation churns up centuries’ worth of local ill-feeling over the disputed authorship of the painting, and while Kelby attempts to redeem himself by tracing the man he saw fleeing the grounds around the time of the theft, things get complicated when it turns out there was more than one art heist being plotted… ★★★★★ SP
Amazing Railway Adventures with Nick Knowles, 9 pm, Channel 5
Nick takes a ride on Mexico’s Copper Canyon railway, known as El Chepe, in the first episode of a six-part series. He journeys 220 miles from Los Mochis to Creel on the train, which climbs 8,000ft above sea level and makes 180-degree turns inside a mountain. Along the way, he joins a traditional norteño band, tries out lassoing as a vaquero and shares a meal inside the cave home of an indigenous Rarámuri tribe elder. He also enjoys a surreal puppet show and meets an ancient farming community of Mennonites who have made Mexico their home. ★★★★ NH
School Spirits, Paramount Plus
Fresh from her role in Netflix’s hugely popular Cobra Kai, Peyton List gets up to all sorts of mischief in this supernatural thriller as Maddie, a deceased young woman who gets stuck in the afterlife as she investigates how she mysteriously disappeared from Split River High School. Teaming up with other ‘dead’ students, Maddie embarks on a crime-solving journey – but the closer she gets to the truth, the more secrets and lies she uncovers. It’s fast, furious and full of fabulous special effects –you’re sure to get into the spirit. ★★★★ VW
Father Brown, 1.45 pm, BBC One/iPlayer (box set)
Chief Inspector Sullivan (Tom Chambers) is set to leave Kembleford behind and return to London – until he’s discovered to be in possession of stolen goods and thrown in jail! Father Brown (Mark Williams) knows that Sullivan has been framed, but just who is behind it? The notorious thief George Kavanagh (Jay Taylor), who Sullivan has been trying to apprehend? Or the Chief Inspector’s corrupt boss back in London who he’s due to testify against? Mrs Devine (Claudie Blakley) brushes off her Adelaide from Guys and Dolls to go undercover and gather evidence to prove his innocence, but ends up in mortal danger when she’s kidnapped… ★★★★ SP
Best box set on TV tonight
Daisy Jones & The Six, Prime Video
Daisy and The Six frontman Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin), have a complex relationship with fame and drugs, as well as trying to resist their growing and undeniable connection to each other.
The book is told in a clever documentary style, switching back and forward in time with the band members (in the present) giving first-person accounts of their perspectives on the story of the band's rise and fall. Band members Graham (Will Harrison), Eddie (Josh Whitehouse), Karen (Suki Waterhouse) and Warren (Sebastian Chacon) discuss their time in the band and reveal what happened away from the ever-present cameras. The first three episodes are available now, and the rest of the season will drop on Fridays over the coming weeks.
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Best film on TV tonight
Luther: The Fallen Sun, Netflix
No TV detective has plumbed the depths of our nightmares like DCI John Luther and the grizzled former cop is on the trail of another serial killer in this spectacular feature film. The psycho in question is tech billionaire David Robey (played by Andy Serkis, of Gollum fame) and his method of manipulating his victims is particularly unpleasant. After five seasons of emotional torture, Idris Elba’s Luther is a man with nothing to lose and he throws himself into another twisting pursuit, amid the roar of big set-pieces that come with a Netflix budget.
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Soaps
- Emmerdale, 7.30 pm, ITV1
- Coronation Street, 8 pm, ITV1
- Hollyoaks, 6.30 pm, Channel 4
- Home and Away, 6 pm, 5Star
Live Sport
- PGA: Players Championship Live, from 11.30 am, Sky Sports Main Event
- Rugby Union: Northampton Saints v Bath Rugby, 7 pm (k-o 7.45 pm), BT Sport 1
If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…
Don't miss Beyond Paradise on TV tonight.
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