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The Gold
9pm, BBC One
The net is beginning to close around the Brink’s-Mat villains in this penultimate episode of the enjoyable crime drama. John Palmer has a galloping cocaine habit and dozens of angry pensioners to deal with in Tenerife. Charlie Miller is finding that exile in Costa Rica doesn’t offer total protection. And Kenneth Noye has attracted the attention of the police for a brutal and brand new crime. The story is labyrinthine and the cast, led by Hugh Bonneville, Jack Lowden and Charlotte Spencer, is excellent. Phil Harrison
Capital’s Summertime Ball 2025
5.30pm, ITV1
A week after the event, here are highlights from Capital’s big Wembley pop gig, and the lineup is impressively starry. As well as Jade, Lola Young and Renee Rapp are veteran chart-toppers including Jessie J, Will Smith and the regal headline act, Mariah Carey. Jack Seale
Death Valley
8.15pm, BBC One
Nothing about this cosy crime drama is groundbreaking and the premise of this episode feels strikingly familiar: a murder mystery event that turns into a real-life crime scene. Surely a situation in which Timothy Spall’s crime-fighting thesp John Chapel will be in his element? If only he wasn’t distracted by the prospect of romance. PH
This Cultural Life: Sheku Kanneh-Mason
9pm, BBC Four
Ahead of a repeated Proms performance from siblings Sheku and Braimah Kanneh-Mason, this documentary finds Sheku talking to John Wilson about his influences. These include his paternal grandfather, the cellist Jacqueline du Pré and reggae superstar Bob Marley. PH
Later … With Jools Holland
10pm, BBC Two
The final episode of this perennial music series sees Jools welcoming Self Esteem, AKA Rebecca Lucy Taylor, to the Alexandra Palace theatre for a chat and a couple of tunes from her new album. Supporting turns include Tom Odell, Emma-Jean Thackray, Ezra Furman and Greentea Peng. Plus Guy Garvey pops in for a chat. PH
The Handmaid’s Tale
10.25pm, Channel 4
It’s go-time for June (Elisabeth Moss) and Moira (Samira Wiley) as the moment to execute their deadly plan arrives. Elsewhere in the final series of the haunting dystopian drama, Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) is shocked by a betrayal on her big day and makes a major decision for her and her son Noah. Nicole Vassell
Film choice
In a Lonely Place, 2pm, Talking Pictures TV
An unusual romantic lead at the best of times, Humphrey Bogart really pushed the boat out in terms of audience sympathy in this 1950 Nicholas Ray film. His Hollywood screenwriter Dixon Steele is sardonic and bitter, with a history of getting into fights. And when he is suspected of the murder of a hat-check girl, his blithe indifference raises the hackles of the cops. That doesn’t stop new neighbour Laurel (a superb Gloria Grahame) falling for him, but as she gets to know Dixon better her suspicions rise. An edgy mystery, with Bogart an opaque, menacing presence. Simon Wardell
Stagecoach, 12.45pm, 5Action
Celebrated for making stars of John Wayne and its chief location, Monument Valley, John Ford’s 1939 film also showed that the western could allow for moral complexity in between shootouts. With renegade Apache Geronimo on the warpath, an assortment of ill-matched passengers find themselves on a dangerous journey. These include Wayne’s escaped convict, a sex worker, a drunken doctor, a cavalry officer’s wife and a thieving bank manager. Naturally, the rough and ready types prove more reliable than their social betters when push comes to shove. SW
Happy Gilmore, 9pm, Comedy Central
Just in case the upcoming Netflix sequel doesn’t quite live up to expectations, here’s Adam Sandler’s 1996 slapstick comedy to prove where most of its best jokes originated. Sandler’s Happy is a dreadful ice-hockey player with a hair-trigger temper but he possesses a stupendously hard shot, which when adapted to the game of golf proves an unlikely boon. The disconnect between the etiquettes of the two sports is fertile ground for laughs, as is Sandler’s man-child shtick. SW
Saltburn, 10.30pm, BBC One
Writer-director Emerald Fennell has her gateau and eats it in this dark comedy thriller, satirising the British aristocracy while revelling in their massive houses and insouciant confidence. Barry Keoghan is the cuckoo in the gilded nest, Oxford undergrad Oliver, who is befriended by the genial, upper-class Felix (Jacob Elordi) and taken home to the country pile to meet his folks, Lady Elspeth (Rosamund Pike) and Sir James (Richard E Grant). The subsequent intrigue and flagrant rug-pulling as Oliver struggles to fit in make for a vivacious, vicious experience. SW
