TV Tonight: Our highlights for Monday, October 17
London Kills is just one of the gems on TV tonight.

On TV tonight, London Kills season 3 arrives, The Walk-In continues, and The House Across the Street airs its penultimate episode. So if you're looking to get your TV crime fix, you've come to the right place.
- Our hand selected recommendations for what's on TV tonight include TV shows, a film, live sport and the latest trending need-to-binge-on-now box set
- Keep up to date with the latest soap spoiler storylines on TV tonight with our daily soap synopsis
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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
London Kills, 2:15pm, BBC One
If detective dramas have taught us anything, it’s that nothing stinks like a bent copper. And there’s a strong stench of corruption when this solid procedural returns with five new episodes.
Picking up ten months after the murder of police witness Grace Harper, DC Rob Brady (Bailey Patrick) has lost his stomach for the job. DI David Bradford (Hugo Speer) and DS Vivienne Cole (Sharon Small) are concerned, while trainee constable Billie Fitzgerald (Tori Allen-Martin) suspects something fishy is going on. In today’s opener, a stabbing leads back to Grace… unleashing the dark side of the force. With Holby City’s John Michie. Continues until Friday. ★★★ ER
The Walk-In, 9pm, ITV
The life of National Action member-turned-whistleblower Robbie Mullen (Andrew Ellis) is at risk, as this true story about the battle to foil the plot to kill MP Rosie Cooper continues.
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When reformed racist and journalist Matthew Collins (Stephen Graham) informs the police about Robbie’s murder plot tip-off, extremist Jack Renshaw ends up arrested. But it doesn’t take long before the remaining far-right National Action members work out they have a rat in their ranks, and it becomes up to Matthew to save his mole from deadly reprisals… ★★★★ HD
The House Across the Street, 9pm, Channel 5
This four-part thriller, which continues tomorrow, stars Shirley Henderson as lonely single mum and cancer survivor Claudia, whose life changes when she becomes embroiled in the case of a missing local girl and is obsessively drawn to the devastated parents.
Desperate for connection, being at the heart of the search for young Emily gives Claudia a newfound purpose. But when it turns into a murder investigation, the case soon leaves Claudia questioning the innocence of everyone around her. Line of Duty’s Craig Parkinson also stars. ★★★★ HD
Our Dementia Choir Sings Again with Vicky McClure, 9pm, BBC One
As the group continues to support and motivate each other in the fight against dementia, in this second and final episode the choir face their biggest challenge yet (and a 20,000- strong crowd) as they take to the stage at Nottingham’s Splendour Festival with pop star Tom Grennan.
Vicky also chats to the newest member of the choir, Steve, as he comes to terms with his diagnosis and catches up with Julie, the choir’s youngest singer, who was told she had dementia at just 51. ★★★★★ JL
Best box set to watch on TV tonight
Shameless US star Jeremy Allen White stars as young chef Carmen ‘Carmy’ Berzatto in this critically acclaimed comedy-drama. Carmy has made a success of himself in the world of fine dining, but after the tragic suicide of his brother, he returns home to Chicago to run his family’s sandwich shop, The Original Beef of Chicagoland. It’s a different world for Carmy, who must try to get the uncooperative staff on board, cope with family rifts and navigate the tricky challenges of small business, all the while facing his own grief.
Best film to watch on TV tonight
Poltergeist, 11.15pm, BBC Two
Would classic horror Poltergeist be made now? Unless the terrifying premise was about waiting for your energy bill after accidentally leaving the TV on all night? Forty years ago in 1982, this was a box-office hit scaring cinemagoers silly with its tale of a family beset by ghostly goings-on as their youngest daughter starts conversing with the TV and household objects begin to move on their own. Steven Spielberg wrote the screenplay, while horrormeister Tobe Hooper directed. ★★★★ JP
Live Sport
- Saracens v London Irish (Kick-off 7.45pm), BT Sport 1
Soaps on TV tonight
EastEnders, 7.30 pm, BBC One
Emmerdale, 7:30 pm, ITV
Coronation Street, 8 pm, ITV
Hollyoaks, 6.30 pm, C4
If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…
Don't miss Our Dementia Choir Sings Again with Vicky McClure where the choir is about to take on its toughest challenge yet.
Not found anything you want to watch on TV tonight? Check out our TV Guide.
Happy viewing!

Lucy joined the WhatToWatch.com team in 2021, where she writes series guides for must-watch programmes, reviews and the latest TV news. Now she works for our sister site TechRadar in the same role. Originally from Northumberland, she graduated from Oxford Brookes University with a degree in Film Studies and moved to London to begin a career writing about entertainment.
She is a Rotten Tomatoes approved film critic and has a huge passion for cinema. She especially loves horror, thriller and anything crime-related. Her favourite TV programmes include Inside No 9, American Horror Story, Stranger Things and Black Mirror but she is also partial to a quiz show or a bit of Say Yes to the Dress!