It’s Showtime!
9pm, ITV1
“Principally, what occurred is: we obtained pissed, we obtained relentless and we ended up shopping for a horse.” That is the delightfully not-so-daft story of a gaggle of odd blokes from Darlington who clubbed collectively to purchase Showtime Mahomes for £8,000 – and the darkish horse, fairly remarkably, went on to beat the favourites to win at York races in 2022. Can he do it once more? Attending to know the lads as they put together to search out out is an actual pleasure. Hollie Richardson
For the Love of Canines With Alison Hammond
8pm, ITV1
Paul O’Grady has left some massive footwear to fill, however Alison Hammond – the rising queen of TV – is a assured alternative to offer it a attempt. In her first episode, she bottle-feeds a three-day-old pet and falls for Nelly, a spaniel with a uncommon eye situation (as O’Grady in all probability would have performed). HR
Altering Ends
8.30pm, ITV1
This double entendre-laden comedy, telling the story of comic Alan Carr’s formative years in Northampton, was on ITVX final yr however now makes it on to terrestrial. Because the son of a Fourth Division soccer supervisor, it was all the time more likely to be a fraught journey – however younger Alan (Oliver Savell) is brilliantly unapologetic and his mother and father are charmingly supportive. Phil Harrison
Michael Palin in Nigeria
9pm, Channel 5
Tireless adventurer Palin begins his new three-parter in Nigeria’s largest and most bustling metropolis: Lagos. There he delights faculty youngsters with a geography lesson earlier than sombrely reckoning with the UK’s legacy of colonialism and slavery. Then it’s a flight north to Kano, the place the 80-year-old former-Python meets a child crocodile. Graeme Advantage
Danny Dyer: Learn how to Be a Man
10pm, Channel 4
“Is there a battle on masculinity?” asks Danny Dyer. “Fuck is aware of!” The actor is open and curious as he travels the UK to search out out, on this nuanced two-part documentary – though, at one level, he says there will probably be individuals “screaming on the telly”. First, he reserves judgment when he meets a misogynist TikTok influencer. HR
Think about … Pet Store Boys: Then and Now
10.40pm, BBC One
The UK’s most profitable pop duo have been making music for 40 years. As a brand new album emerges, nearly 4 a long time since West Finish Ladies went to No 1, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe let cameras peek on the recording course of, and the appreciable logistics behind the accompanying world tour. The pair’s tart wit and left-field creativeness abide. Jack Seale
Movie alternative
Soiled God (Sacha Polak, 2019), 11.15pm, BBC Two
Silver Haze director Sacha Polak and actor Vicky Knight’s first collaboration was this transferring 2019 movie. Knight performs single mom, Jade, who has intensive scarring after an acid assault by an ex-boyfriend. She tries to renew a traditional life along with her younger daughter, mum Lisa (Katherine Kelly) and greatest buddy Shami (Rebecca Stone) however struggles to regulate to her new bodily actuality, which leads her down some darkish paths. A drama of brutal candour by which newcomer Knight provides her all. Simon Wardell
