On TV tonight, season 4 of Westworld arrives on Sky Atlantic, while Sherwood continues on BBC One. Powerful documentary AIDS: The Unheard Tapes is on BBC Two, Long Lost Family continues on ITV and there's a new series Come Dine With Me: The Professionals on C4. Finally, Food Unwrapped's Breakfast Buffet is on C4 and grab and bowl of strawberries as Wimbledon also begins today on BBC One/Two. Here’s what you shouldn’t miss on TV tonight.
- Our hand selected recommendations for what's on TV tonight include six 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
WestWorld, season 4, 9pm, Sky Atlantic/NOW
The sci-fi Western series is back for a fourth season, and, as usual, nothing is quite what it seems. For despite the tragic death of Dolores in season 3, actor Evan Rachel Wood is back, playing a new character, Christina, an aspiring writer who leads a quiet life. And James Marsden, whose character Teddy was killed off in season 2, also makes a surprise return as a man who takes her out on a date. Some of the other hosts are making lives of their own in the outside world, with Maeve (Thandiwe Newton) a member of the revolution, working alongside human war veteran Caleb (Aaron Paul), and AI creator Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) trying to make sense of it all.
★★★★ NH
Sherwood, 9pm, BBC One
The truth about the night that changed the lives of DCS St Clair and DI Salisbury (David Morrissey and Robert Glenister) comes out in this week’s double bill, but it’s their hunt for the spy cop that has us gripped. The thought of a neighbour hiding their identity for nearly 40 years is chilling indeed, but that mystery is balanced with some moving introspection during a town meeting at the ‘Clubby’. In a memorable scene, Lesley Manville and Kevin Doyle shine as the people of Ashfield struggle to rebuild their community. Concludes tomorrow.
★★★★★ SMA
AIDS: The Unheard Tapes, 9.30pm, BBC Two
When the AIDS epidemic hit the UK in the early 1980s, the vast majority of patients were gay men – but those most affected rarely had the chance to speak about their experiences on the record. In this hugely moving series, audio interviews with HIV-positive gay men, conducted by researchers in the 1980s and 90s and archived at the British Library, are broadcast for the first time, with actors lip-syncing to the original recordings. It might sound like a strange concept, but it works superbly, and the end result is an unmissable witness account of a crisis that devastated a community.
★★★★★ SP
Long Lost Family, 9pm, ITV
Having struggled through an awful childhood in Morocco and an abusive arranged marriage, a worse shock was to come for Sanae. At 30, she discovered the people she thought were her parents were actually her aunt and uncle and she’d been abducted from her British mother, Hazel, at 18 months old. Soon after learning the truth, Sanae moved to the UK and tried to find Hazel, but never succeeded. Can the show reunite Sanae, now 54, with the mother she’s so desperate to meet?
★★★★★ NH
Come Dine with Me: The Professionals, 5pm, C4
Three professional kitchens hope to impress their fellow chefs with three delicious courses. The week starts in Yorkshire with fun best friends Ben and Jo cooking up scallops, steak and jam roly-poly from their Huddersfield eatery. But it’s not really the food that steals the show, but chef Brian, from a Halifax-based bistro, who drops into conversation that he used to be Simon Cowell’s personal chef and he’s cooked for Princess Diana and the Queen! Does he still have the x-factor or are his guests about to be royally unimpressed?
★★★ JL
Food Unwrapped's Breakfast Buffet, 8pm, C4
This week, the team investigates breakfast food. On the back of media coverage that some supermarkets want to scrap ‘use-by’ dates on milk in a bid to reduce waste, Amanda Byram visits the UK’s largest dairy to get the low-down on the actual shelf life of milk. Elsewhere, Kate Quilton wants to know why some egg yolks are more yellow than others, and Matt Tebbutt visits a cereal factory to find out what gives them their crunch.
★★★ MC
Best box set to watch on TV tonight
Obi-Wan Kenobi, Disney Plus
Obi-Wan Kenobi has broken Disney Plus viewing records and now all six thrilling episodes are available to watch. The series has wowed critics since it debuted on our screens last month, but while fans have reacted positively to Ewan McGregor’s return, it’s a 10-year-old girl who’s stolen the show. Young Princess Leia, played by breakout star Vivien Lyra Blair, has captivated viewers while becoming the beating heart of this latest chapter in the space saga. With iconic figures such as Darth Vader also added to the mix, this is on course to be Disney’s most popular foray into the Star Wars universe and rumours of a second series are already swirling.
Best film to watch on TV tonight
Election, 9pm, BBC Three
A delightfully malicious black comedy in which Matthew Broderick plays a teacher whose loathing of chirpy, overachieving student Tracy Flick (a superb Reese Witherspoon) leads him to mount a campaign to wreck her chances of winning the election for student government president. Chris Klein plays the dim-witted footballer Broderick talks into running against Witherspoon.
Live Sport
- Wimbledon 2022, from 11am, BBC Two/One
Soaps on TV tonight
- EastEnders, 7.30pm, BBC One
- 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 Westworld on TV tonight — the fourth season of the sci-fi series begins.
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Happy viewing!
