TV Tonight: Our highlights for Sunday, March 12
Endeavour is just one of the gems on TV Tonight.

On TV tonight, Endeavour concludes, Dancing on Ice crowns its winner, things escalate in The Gold, and it's the final of The Great Pottery Throwdown. Here's what you shouldn't miss on TV Tonight.
- 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
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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
Endeavour, 8 pm, ITV1
After nine series of sublime whodunnits, it’s time for super-sleuths DS Morse (Shaun Evans) and DCI Thursday (Roger Allam) to clock off for good. As they investigate a spate of perplexing deaths and the stabbing of a biker, will they heed the increasingly dire warnings to let sleeping dogs lie concerning Blenheim Vale?
Meanwhile, poor Endeavour, who is already in silent turmoil about the wedding of Joan (Sara Vickers) and DS Strange (Sean Rigby), makes a life-changing discovery… With a humdinger of a climax and some beautiful nods forward to Inspector Morse, this is the perfect send-off. One-off documentary Morse and the Last Endeavour follows (10.20pm).
★★★★★ CC
Dancing on Ice, 6:30 pm, ITV1
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We’ve reached the grand final, and the remaining three couples each perform a spectacular ‘showcase’, followed by their favourite skate of the series, under the watchful eyes of the Ice Panel – Diversity star Ashley Banjo, Strictly favourite Oti Mabuse and ice-dancing legends Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean. The top two couples, as voted for by viewers, will then skate the legendary Boléro routine for their final shot at scooping the trophy, won last year by dancer Regan Gascoigne.
★★★★ NC
The Gold, 9pm, BBC One
Chickens are coming home to roost for those embroiled in the Brink’s-Mat robbery. While gold smelter John Palmer (Tom Cullen) takes a risk after landing in bother in Tenerife, single-minded copper Brian Boyce (Hugh Bonneville) and his team want to identify who is controlling the Swiss bank account through which the money has been laundered, and they also investigate the suspicious property deals that have been made. But when ex-solicitor Edwyn Cooper (Dominic Cooper) appears on their radar, will he play ball? Look out for a lovely turn from Ann Mitchell (EastEnders, Call the Midwife) as enigmatic Sadie, who suddenly comes into a lot of cash…
★★★★ CC
The Great Pottery Throwdown, 9 pm, Channel 4
Across 10 weeks 12 enthusiastic and talented home potters have been whittled down to a final three, and the title is now within claggy, chalky touching distance… Judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller set two of their toughest challenges yet – to create a stacking pyramid vase centrepiece and a tricky sgraffito globe. It’s all to play for tonight. Who will self-confessed super-fan Brad Pitt be routing for, we wonder?
★★★ MC
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.
GM
Best film on TV tonight
Matilda, 5 pm, ITV2
A gifted youngster is packed off by her selfish parents to the prison-like Crunchem Hall School. Once there, she befriends a sweet-natured teacher who convinces her that not all grown-ups are bad - and urges her to use her special powers to turn the tables on the nasty headmistress. Fantasy comedy, adapted from the children's book by Roald Dahl, with Mara Wilson, Pam Ferris, Embeth Davidtz, Rhea Perlman and Danny DeVito, who also directed.
Live Sport
- Six Nations: Scotland v Ireland, 2:15 pm (Kick-off 3 pm), BBC One
- Super Sunday: Fulham v Arsenal (Kick-off 2 pm), Sky Sports Main Event
- Super Sunday: Newcastle United v Wolverhampton Wanderers, 4 pm (Kick-off 4: 30pm), Sky Sports Main Event
If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…
Don't miss the finale of Endeavour on TV Tonight.
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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!