On TV tonight, no hiding behind a cushion as the first small screen adaptation of the best-selling video game Resident Evil arrives on Netflix, The Undeclared War continues on C4, Alex Polizzi is in Bath to cast judgement on a failing B&B in The Hotel Inspector on Channel 5 and Super Telescope: Mission to the Edge of the Universe is on BBC Two. Here’s what you shouldn’t miss on TV tonight.
- Our hand selected recommendations for what's on TV tonight include four 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
Resident Evil, Netflix
The Resident Evil series of best-selling video games is no stranger to dramatic adaptations, having already chalked up seven films (the latest, Welcome to Raccoon City, is on Sky Cinema Premiere) and an animated miniseries. Now, Netflix is getting in on the game (as it were) with this latest eight-part spin-off. The series follows Albert Wesker (The Wire’s Lance Reddick) as he takes an executive job at the shady Umbrella Corporation, and moves to the company’s planned community of New Raccoon City with his daughters Jade and Billie. Meanwhile, in the year 2036, a mutant virus has caused an apocalypse and Jade (Charlie’s Angels’ Ella Balinska) is fighting to take down those responsible for it…
★★★ SP
The Undeclared War, 9pm, C4
It takes a lot of nerve to present an episode in the middle of a series that barely features the main characters and is almost entirely in a foreign language. But tonight’s The Undeclared War ratchets up the tension by flashing back 15 months to St Petersburg to show the events of the drama so far from the perspective of Vadim (German Segal), a talented Russian hacker and classmate of Saara, who gets coerced into taking a job with the FSB – Russia’s intelligence service. Reluctantly tasked with building the malware to be used against the UK, Vadim is horrified when he learns about the true scope of the project…
★★★★ SP
The Hotel Inspector, 9pm, Channel 5
Alex Polizzi needs all of her hotel know-how to turn around an eight-room B&B in Bath. When she arrives at the Lamp Post Villa, it’s rated the worst B&B in the city on Tripadvisor, so at least that means the only way is up? It’s owned by single dad Carmine, who took on the lease to try to secure a stable future for his family, but after years of neglect, he’s in the dark about how to turn it around and start making a profit before all of his savings disappear down the plughole. An elegant Victorian townhouse, in a great city centre spot, the property has lots of potential, but will Carmine see the light and follow Alex’s illuminating advice?
★★★★ JL
Super Telescope: Mission to the Edge of the Universe, 8pm, BBC Two
The remarkable inside story of the James Webb Space Telescope told by the engineers who constructed it and the astronomers who have analysed its first images, as NASA releases them. The instrument is 100 times more powerful than its predecessor, Hubble; is the first telescope designed to unfold in space; and is able to look back to a time between 100 million and 250 million years after the Big Bang, allowing us to go deeper into space than ever before.
★★★★★ NT
Best box set to watch on TV tonight
The Baby, Sky Box Sets/NOW
When is motherhood not a joy? When your baby is a murdering monster! In this clever comedy-horror The Duchess’s Michelle de Swarte stars as proudly non-maternal Natasha. The gobby chef rents a creepy cabin near a cliff from mysterious chain-smoking Mrs Eaves (Amira Ghazalla), only to find herself landed with a baby – literally – when one plummets into her arms (it’s a boy!). But this isn’t any baby; this is The Baby, an unnatural born killer who’s chosen Natasha as his new mum. And any attempts to offload the problem child results in murder and mayhem. A welcome new addition to the genre.
Best film to watch on TV tonight
Florence Foster Jenkins, 11.35pm, BBC Four
New York socialite Florence Foster Jenkins (Meryl Streep) is famous for being the worst opera singer ever. Director Stephen Frears’ hilarious and touching biopic tenderly reveals why she wanted to sing, culminating in a performance at Carnegie Hall in 1944. Streep is pure joy and she gets pitch-perfect support from Hugh Grant as her husband and Simon Helberg as her piano accompanist. A Talking Pictures profile of Streep is earlier (11.05pm).
Live Sport
- Women's Euro 2022, Italy vs Iceland, 4.45pm (k-o 5pm), BBC Two
- Women's Euro 2022, France vs Belgium, 7.30pm (k-o 8pm), BBC One
- Golf: The Open, from 6.30am, Sky Sports Main Event/NOW
Soaps on TV tonight
- EastEnders, 7.30pm, BBC Two
- Emmerdale, 7.30pm, 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 Resident Evil on TV tonight — horror/sci-fi/action fans are in for a treat but be ready for zombies, giant mutated monsters and massive spiders!
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Happy viewing!
