On TV tonight, RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022 blooms into action on BBC One, big is beautiful in new series Big Brits Go Large! on Channel 5, drama Gentleman Jack continues on BBC One, as does nature series Eden: Untamed Planet on BBC Two. Finally, it's the last episode of the throughly enjoyable drama Grace on ITV. Here’s what you shouldn’t miss on TV tonight.
- Our hand selected recommendations for what's on TV tonight include five TV shows, a film 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
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022, 6pm, BBC One
Chelsea returns in its full glory following its pandemic-prompted move to autumn last year and the scaled-down event of 2020. With displays for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and a whopping number of show gardens, it promises to be blooming amazing. Tonight, Sophie Raworth and Joe Swift give us a sneak peek of the grounds before the show opens on Tuesday. With coverage on the BBC throughout the week by green-fingered favourites including Monty Don, Arit Anderson, Carol Klein and Adam Frost, there will be celebrity guests including Mary Berry, expert tips and cutting-edge designs built to wow.
★★★★ TL
Big Brits Go Large! 9pm, Channel 5
Over the past 25 years, Britons have doubled in size and more of us are plus-sized than ever before. This new series shows how it’s possible to live your best life, no matter what your dress size. In this first episode, we meet People Just Do Nothing actor George Keywood, who’s planning the perfect wedding with his fiancée, Sienna. Then there’s Trina, a London dance teacher providing body-positive lessons for all shapes and sizes, and Manchester friends Nat and Jo, who own a plus-sized clothing business, Topsy Curvy, and are planning a bikini beach photoshoot for larger ladies. All of these characters are proving that big can be beautiful.
★★★★ NH
Gentleman Jack, season 2, 9pm, BBC One
Tensions over the division of the Walker estate show no signs of easing in the penultimate episode. Passive-aggressive letters aplenty are sent back and forth between Ann Walker – dictated by Anne Lister (Suranne Jones) – and Ann’s unpleasant and increasingly tetchy brother-in-law Captain Sutherland, who still seems to be delaying proceedings while claiming he’s not! We pity lawyers Mr Parker and Mr Grey who are caught in the middle. Meanwhile, Ann’s wonderfully righteous cousins William and Eliza are in high dudgeon, too, when they hear that Ann wants them to vacate the premises where they run a school.
★★★★ CC
Eden: Untamed Planet, 7.10pm, BBC Two
Every year the Luangwa River in Zambia bursts its banks, turning the surrounding valley into a lush, fertile habitat where wildlife thrives. Species that are critically endangered elsewhere, such as painted wolves and black rhino, are prospering here, and its predators and prey are perfectly balanced. We see a leopard taking advantage of the camouflage the dry season provides, while the wet season leads a baboon to risk a crocodile attack for the pleasure of eating water lilies. A reminder of how nature should be without human interference.
★★★★ NH
Grace, season 2, 8pm, ITV
DS Grace signs off with another grim trip into Brighton’s underbelly, when he tracks a group of criminals who murder immigrants and harvest their organs. It’s poignant stuff, especially when a mother who’s desperate to find a new liver for her sick daughter gets drawn in. DS Branson (Richie Campbell) is also struggling after being shot. Luckily, he has Grace, and their relationship is the perfect antidote to the show’s dark material.
★★★★ SMA
Best box set to watch on TV tonight
Derry Girls, seasons 1–3, All 4
The riotous third series has just finished on C4, but if anyone has missed this absolute gem of a comedy, then all three seasons are now available on All4. The series follows teenagers Erin (Saoirse-Monica Jackson), Orla (Louisa Harland), Clare (Nicola Coughlan), Michelle (Jamie-Lee O’Donnell), and James (Dylan Maguire), or 'the wee English fella' as everyone calls him, as they navigate life in Derry, Northern Ireland, in the early 1990s. The gang attend Our Lady Immaculate College run by the indomitable Sister Michael, played brilliantly by Siobhán McSweeney, who has seen all their madcap antics before and couldn’t care less. One of the best comedies on the box.
Best film to watch on TV today
Fighting with My Family, 9pm, Film4
Director Stephen Merchant pins us to the mat with a big-hearted comedy about wrestling star Paige and her extraordinary grappling-mad Norwich family. Florence Pugh is a knockout as the self-doubting heroine, as are Nick Frost and Lena Headey as her eccentric parents. Dwayne Johnson cameos as himself, adding another splash of larger-than-life colour to a rowdy tale of scrappy underdog triumph.
Live Sport
- Premier League, Manchester City v Aston Villa, 2.30pm (k-o 4.00pm), Sky Sports Main Event/NOW
- Formula 1, The Spanish Grand Prix, 12.30 (start time 3pm), Sky Sports Main Event/NOW
- French Open Tennis, from 9.30am, Eurosport 1
If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…
Don't miss RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022 on TV tonight – it's great to see the gardens in bloom once again.
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Happy viewing!
