On TV tonight, the brilliant Superman & Lois returns for a second season on BBC One, dust off your cowboy boots as Channel 5 is going country and celebrating one of the greats in Dolly Parton: The Queen of Country. Music quiz show The Hit List returns to BBC One, there's a feature-length episode of Casualty on BBC One, Alan Carr's Epic Gameshow continues on ITV, A Royal Guide to… Weddings is on C4 and new historical drama Passport to Freedom begins on DRAMA. Here’s what you shouldn’t miss on TV tonight.
- Our hand selected recommendations for what's on TV tonight include seven 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
Superman & Lois, season 2, 5.25pm, BBC One
Superman & Lois season 1 livened up Saturday nights with a fresh reimagining of the Superman story. Season two hits the ground running as the Kent family continue to do their best to juggle normal family life with saving the world. As teenage twins Jonathan and Jordan have girl trouble, Lois (Elizabeth Tulloch) is struggling to reconcile the arrival of Natalie, who was her daughter in another dimension, so, you know, it’s complicated. And then there’s Superman (Tyler Hoechlin), who’s fighting enemies from every angle, including one far too close to home. Watch as a double bill each week or binge the whole series on iPlayer (see box set of the week below).
★★★★ JL
Dolly Parton: The Queen of Country, 8pm, Channel 5
Tumble outta bed and stumble to the kitchen, pour yourself a cup of ambition (or just, you know, switch on the TV) as Channel 5 dedicates an evening to the queen of country music. Beginning with this film, charting Dolly’s rise to fame from growing up in poverty in Tennessee to becoming one of the world’s best-selling country music stars. It also reveals stories behind her biggest hits including I Will Always Love You and 9 to 5, looks at her success on the big screen and shows the charitable work, which helps millions of children living in poverty. Stay tuned for Country Music Queens: All the Hits and More (10.05pm) and Dolly, Kenny & Friends: Greatest Hits (12.05am).
★★★★ JL
Casualty, 8.45pm, BBC One
David’s on edge tonight as he moves into a new flat for his own safety and new neighbour, Lyra (Emmerdale’s Natalie Anderson), warns him that he’s being watched. Moments later an explosion rips through the building, causing carnage. After risking his life to rescue injured residents, David returns to the unstable building to retrieve a police evidence box of Ollie’s belongings, believing it may hold clues to his son’s horrific killing spree. Is this a fatal move? Elsewhere, Stevie’s spooked when Marcus calls her by her dead sister’s name. In bed. There’s too much to unpack here. Throw away the suitcase.
★★★★ ER
The Hit List, 7.10pm, BBC One
Rochelle and Marvin Humes are back with the fun music quiz – as in fun for us to watch at home while eating crisps on the sofa, but probably a bit more tense for the studio contestants trying to remember who sang Rock Me Amadeus. As usual, there’s a bit of something for everyone, from the 1970s to the 2000s. As this week’s three teams pick through the ‘wimowehs’ and ‘zig-a-zig-ahs’, who will get the chance to play for the £10,000 prize?
★★★ JP
A Royal Guide to… Weddings, 8pm, C4
As this series about the royal family continues, this week the focus is on their weddings. They’re just like us really: there’s a dress, a cake, a kiss on the Buckingham Palace balcony in front of millions – ah, perhaps not. What goes into planning a royal wedding? A former royal press secretary gives us the lowdown…
★★★ JP
Passport to Freedom, 9pm, DRAMA
An eight-part period drama based upon the real life Brazilian activist Aracy de Carvalho, who issued passports to Jews to allow them to flee Nazi Germany during WWII. As a clerk at the Brazilian consulate in Hamburg, Aracy (Sophie Charlotte) saved hundreds of lives as she used her position to secretly give people the documentation they needed to flee persecution. In this first episode it’s 1938 and Germany is about to forcibly remove hundreds of thousands of Polish Jews from the city. Violence is everywhere, but Aracy is fearless. A great story, well told.
★★★ JL
Alan Carr's Epic Gameshow, season 3, 7pm, ITV
Darts-themed quiz Bullseye gets a second outing in this latest series of revived ITV game shows. It’s a far cry from the days when Jim Bowen hosted the show from 1981 to 1995 because back then it had more of a pub feel (check out the re-runs on Challenge). Now it’s all flashing lights and pyrotechnics. Even the darts board lights up. In the Epic Endgame, where contestants can win some prizes totalling £20,000, they light up and spin around! Also, with Alan Carr hosting and bantering with the contestants, darts master Richard Ashdown and mascot Bully, it’s also a lot more fun now, too!
★★★★ MD
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 the 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
Ad Astra, 9pm, C4
A work of pure visual splendour, writer-director James Gray’s sci-fi epic sees Brad Pitt’s stoic spaceman deal with daddy issues. These come in the form of Tommy Lee Jones, who headed up a mission to the outer edges of our solar system to search for extraterrestrial life, but disappeared 16 years before. Pitt’s Major is sent off to discover whether his father is still alive and responsible for bombarding the Earth with death rays. From a base on the moon and then Mars, we follow Pitt’s journey as he slowly uncoils to reveal the pain of a lost parent. Profound and beautiful, with breathtaking action sequences and superb acting, this is a formidable piece of science fiction.
Live Sport
- Golf: The Open, 1pm, Sky Sports Main Event/NOW
- Women's Euro 2022, Finland vs Germany, 7.30pm (k-o 8pm), BBC Two
- Women's Euro 2022, Denmark vs Spain, 7.50pm (k-o 8pm), BBC Four
If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…
Don't miss Superman & Lois on TV tonight — this family friendly superhero series gets off to a great start as the Kent family face fresh challenges.
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Happy viewing!
