On TV tonight, The National Television Awards celebrate the best in British TV, All Creatures Great and Small continues on Channel 5, and Robert Popper's new comedy I Hate You kicks off on Channel 4. 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, 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
National Television Awards 2022, 8pm, ITV
The annual event was postponed from 15 September and rescheduled for tonight. Joel Dommett is back as MC and he’s sure to have a few exciting surprises and special guests when the lights go down at Wembley Arena. From Bake Off to Bridgerton, it’s been another wonderful year of on-screen entertainment and the stars are out in force for television’s biggest night of the year. Shows such as Call the Midwife, The Split and Strictly have been tipped to do well in the public vote, but could Joel’s own show, The Masked Singer, spring a surprise?
★★★★★ SMA
All Creatures Great and Small, 9pm, Channel 5
With the unconditional love she displays for her charges, her sensible advice and her wry sense of humour, we love every scene featuring stalwart housekeeper Mrs Hall (Anna Madeley). This week, she steps firmly into the spotlight when she receives a letter from someone from her past, but as she heads to Keighley Station to reunite with them, a heart-to-heart takes an emotional turn. Meanwhile, back at Skeldale House, Tristan (Callum Woodhouse) is holding the fort on the housekeeping front – is this wise?! – but he and Siegfried (Samuel West) are given pause for thought about their fractious relationship when a young boy arrives at the surgery for work experience.
★★★★ CC
I Hate You, 10pm, C4
From Friday Night Dinner creator Robert Popper, this sitcom centres on bickering besties and flatmates Charlie (Sex Education’s Tanya Reynolds) and Becca (Melissa Saint). The comedic chemistry between the two leads is excellent, and the quick-fire dialogue inventive and funny, although the more surreal elements (such as Jonny Sweet’s character, narcoleptic autograph dealer Bob Oxygen) may not be to everyone’s taste. As with Friday Night Dinner, it won’t be long before Charlie and Becca’s catchphrases start worming their way into your vocabulary.
★★★★ IM
Unbreakable, 8pm, BBC One
What a curious piece of TV this is — physical challenges meet therapy sessions as five celebrities and their partners set out to prove they have the most enduring relationship. In episode two, the couples test their communication skills in a maze, before one half of each pair is tasked with answering questions on their partner’s specialist subject – Girls Aloud, EastEnders and, um, plumbing among them. Simon Weston’s military training and Shanaze Reade’s competitive streak come in particularly useful.
★★★ NT
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
Belle, 9pm, BBC Four
Loosely inspired by the true story of a mixed-race woman who mingled with the aristocracy of 18th-century England, this intelligent costume drama follows the fortunes of Dido Elizabeth Belle (Loki’s Gugu Mbatha-Raw), the illegitimate daughter of a Royal Navy captain and a slave. Courted by a fortune-hunting snob, Belle falls instead for an idealistic lawyer (The Newsreader’s Sam Reid) and encourages her great-uncle, Lord Mansfield, to make a landmark legal ruling against the slave trade.
Director Amma Asante treats the real Dido’s biography fancifully, but the charismatic Mbatha-Raw brings the fictional story’s heroine vividly to life. Asante’s follow-up film, A United Kingdom, is at 10.40pm. ★★★★ JB
Live Sport
- Manchester United v Omonia Nicosia, 7:15 pm (k-o 8pm), BT Sport 1
Soaps on TV tonight
- EastEnders, 7.30 pm, BBC One
- Emmerdale, 7pm, ITV
- Hollyoaks, 6.30 pm, C4
- Home and Away, 6 pm & 6.30 pm, 5Star
If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…
Don't miss The National Television Awards on ITV to see which TV shows and stars are being celebrated this year.
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Happy viewing!
