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Brassic
10pm, Sky Max
Danny Brocklehurst is calling time on his roguish comedy after this seventh season. It remains cheerful, lairy fun to the end – the little posse led by Joseph Gilgun’s Vinnie are too good-natured to stray into really serious criminality – but several members are pondering their brushes with danger and deciding that they might be getting too old for this nonsense. However, there’s a younger gang in town and a decision must be made: hang on to territory or join forces? Phil Harrison
Saving Lives at Sea
8pm, BBC Two
“Diving for shipwrecks is great fun.” Right up until the moment a diver loses consciousness off the Plymouth coast – another life-or-death scenario for the RNLI’s volunteer army, who must drop everything when their pagers bleat. Elsewhere, a missing jet-skiing couple must be found before darkness fully descends. Ali Catterall
The Newsreader
9pm, BBC Two
It’s August 1989, and as the final season of the solid but soapy Aussie drama continues, Helen and Dale are in crisis. But while Dale reaches for booze and drugs, his former co-anchor channels her demons into a powerful report for Public Eye. Hannah J Davies
Long Lost Family
9pm, ITV1
The parent/child reunion series turns up another couple of heartbreaking stories. Paula felt obliged to give up her baby in 1979 rather than struggle on as a single mother; Justus, an immigrant from St Lucia in the 1960s, was similarly stopped from raising his daughter. Can the now-adult offspring be found? Jack Seale
Taskmaster
9pm, Channel 4
For all of the familiarity, it’s always a pleasure to have this daft competition show in the schedules. As the new gang get their feet under the table, there’s a tricky lab-based task, more creative chaos from Sanjeev Bhaskar and a flash of anger from Reece Shearsmith as he’s faced with a large yellow cube. PH
All Creatures Great and Small
9pm, Channel 5
This revival of the beloved veterinary drama has succeeded by staying as close as possible to the rural, idealised tone of the original. That said, the war has brought change in Skeldale House and, as this new series begins, Tristan and James are finding Siegfried difficult to handle. PH
Film choice
Novocaine (Dan Berk and Robert Olsen, 2025), 9.20am, 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere, and Paramount+
Jack Quaid has experience of being put through the wringer in The Boys, but Dan Berk and Robert Olsen’s comedic but astoundingly grisly thriller must be his most extreme role yet. His assistant credit union manager Nate has a congenital insensitivity to pain, which makes him wary of human contact – until the fellow employee he has fallen for, Sherry (Amber Midthunder), is taken hostage by bank robbers, transforming him into a have-a-go hero. Like Home Alone if the Wet Bandits couldn’t feel the blows, it’s a riot of slapstick violence. Simon Wardell
