On TV tonight, an adaptation of Dolly Alderton's best-selling memoir Everything I Know About Love begins on BBC One, new police drama We Own This City, starts on Sky Atlantic and a new series of Cooking with the Stars simmers into action on ITV. Lucy Worsley Investigates continues on BBC Two, new documentary series Elephant Hospital begins on Channel 5 and reality show The Bridge: Race to a Fortune returns to C4. Here’s what you shouldn’t miss on TV tonight.
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What's on TV tonight
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Best TV shows on TV tonight
Everything I Know About Love, 10.40pm, BBC One
Writer Dolly Alderton has adapted her best-selling memoir into this seven-part drama, centred on best friends Maggie (Emma Appleton), Birdy (Bel Powley), Nell (Marli Siu) and Amara (Aliyah Odoffin) as they move into a London houseshare in 2012. On her way there, Maggie encounters handsome musician Street (Connor Finch) on the train but decides not to give him her number, leaving fate to determine whether they’ll meet again. With a keen understanding of millennial anxieties and the idiosyncrasies of childhood friendships, as well as a talented cast, this is sure to delight fans of the book and newcomers alike.
★★★★ SP
We Own This City, 9pm, Sky Atlantic/NOW
David Simon changed TV with his groundbreaking crime show The Wire and the acclaimed screenwriter returns once more to the mean streets of Baltimore. His new six-part series, which dramatises the real-life story of Sgt Wayne Jenkins and his corrupt Gun Trace Task Force, is another tour de force of compelling yet painfully authentic drama. Jon Bernthal shines as the law-breaking BPD cop.
★★★★ SMA
Cooking with the Stars, season 2, 8pm, ITV
Olympian Kelly Holmes, The Chase’s Anne Hegerty and medic and TV presenter Dr Ranj Singh are among the eight celebrities being mentored by top chefs and battling it out in the kitchen, as the cookery show hosted by Emma Willis and Tom Allen returns for a second helping. The first pair going head-to-head are comedian Joe Wilkinson, mentored by chef and restaurateur Judy Joo, and Strictly judge Anton Du Beke, whose teacher is Rosemary Shrager. Will Joe’s fish and chips with a kimchi tartar sauce impress more than Anton’s pork chops? It’s down to the pros to decide who stays and who will be facing the dreaded blind-tasting round.
★★★★ TL
Princes in the Tower: Lucy Worsley Investigates, 9pm, BBC Two
Lucy tackles the most enduring unsolved murder mystery in British history – the Princes in the Tower. Popular belief is that Edward, 12, and Richard, nine, were murdered in the Tower of London on the command of their uncle, Richard III. But is this true or did they actually survive his reign? Here, Lucy meets historians with very different views about Richard’s guilt and uncovers compelling evidence to support both sides of the debate. Will we ever find out what happened to the two young innocents who were used as political pawns during one of Britain’s bloodiest eras?
★★★★ NH
Elephant Hospital, 9pm, Channel 5
Dislocated shoulders, cancer check-ups and aggressive herds are some of the vets’ mammoth tasks in the returning series. If you’re squeamish, look away now, as first through the doors of the forest hospital in Thailand is a seven-year-old bull with a chronic case of diarrhoea! The team fear he could have the deadly elephant herpes virus, but as they wait for his results, they must also treat several other jumbo patients, including a 37-year-old female cancer survivor who needs to be checked to see if her tumour has returned.
★★★ HD
The Bridge: Race to a Fortune, 10pm, C4
The show that fuses Shipwrecked and Survivor returns for its second series. There’s double the money up for grabs, and two teams battle it out for £200,000 by building a 1,000ft bridge across the South China Sea. They’ve got just 12 days to do it! CEO Frankie is every inch the leader, but student Crystal isn’t afraid to ruffle feathers, so the building might not be the biggest challenge…
★★★ VW
Best box set to watch on TV tonight
The Midwich Cuckoos, season 1, Sky Box Sets/NOW
The man behind BBC One’s espionage hit The Night Manager turns his hand to sci-fi as he brings John Wyndham’s iconic 1957 sci-fi novel to the small screen. Writer David Farr has brought the tale, which sees all the women of childbearing age in a small town fall pregnant by aliens, into the modern age. The setting is now an affluent commuter town just outside of London, rather than a rural village as in the original novel and Keeley Hawes drives the story forward as Dr Susannah Zellaby, a character reimagined as a woman, which is an excellent way to tell this sinister and uniquely female horror story. Also watch out for Max Beesley as DCI Paul Kirby and Aisling Loftus as expectant mum Zoe Moran.
Best film to watch on TV today
Only the Brave, 6.25pm, Film4
A suitably gruff and gritty Josh Brolin heads an elite team of Arizona firefighters who tackle wildfires with dogged bravado in this stirring real-life tale. The drama is a little hamstrung by its fidelity to actual events, but the men’s rowdy camaraderie comes across vividly and the excellent special effects mean the blazes look terrifyingly real. Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Connelly and Andie MacDowell lend sterling support.
Live Sport
- Nations League, Germany vs England, 7pm (k-o 7.45pm), C4
Soaps on TV tonight
- EastEnders, 7.30pm, BBC One
- Emmerdale, 7.30pm, ITV
- Neighbours, 6pm, Channel 5
- Home and Away, 6pm & 6.30pm, 5Star
If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…
Don't miss Everything I Know About Love on TV tonight – a great new drama based on the best-selling memoir by Dolly Alderton.
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Happy viewing!
