On TV tonight, Steeltown Murders concludes, Channel 5 thriller For Her Sins kicks off, Love Island is back for another series and Vicky McClure's at the heart of a moving new documentary. 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
Steeltown Murders, 9 pm, BBC One
Many crime dramas are guilty of reducing their female victims to unseen plot devices, but Steeltown Murders could never be accused of such an offence. The brutal crimes of Joseph Kappen have been thrown into powerful relief by glimpses of the lust for life shared by two of his victims, Pauline Floyd and Geraldine Hughes, with tonight’s episode their tribute.
So while DCI Bethell (Philip Glenister) exhumes Kappen’s body to prove his guilt in the 2000s, in the 1970s, we’re taken back to the night the girls died as their friend Sita Anwar reflects on memories that will never fade.
★★★★★ SMA
For Her Sins, 9 pm, Channel 5
At first glance, Laura Conroy (Jo Joyner) has an ideal life: a successful career as a lawyer, a beautiful home, a happy marriage and two children. But Laura has found it hard to adjust to the unpredictability of parenthood, and is struggling with daughter Eliza (Romi Hyland-Rylands).
When kindly Emily (All Creatures Great and Small’s Rachel Shenton) saves Laura from one of Eliza’s tantrums at the school gates, Laura’s thrilled to make a new friend who seems to have mastered motherhood – but their meeting was no accident, and scheming Emily is plotting to loosen Laura’s already fragile grip on her sanity. Continues until Thursday.
★★★★ SP
Love Island 2023, 9 pm, ITV2
Get ready for more sun-kissed shenanigans and shouts of ‘I’ve got a text’ as Love Island is back! It doesn’t seem like five minutes ago that Kai Fagan and Sanam Harrinanan were crowned winners of the 2023 winter series, but the firepit is now being stoked to welcome the Islanders for this 10th outing of the summer version of the popular dating show.
Once again, Maya Jama will host, sashaying into the Mallorcan villa for this launch show, as the first batch of sexy singletons ‘couple up’. But, as we know, all’s fair in love and war and, with bombshells waiting just around the corner, it won’t be long before there’s trouble in paradise. And we cannot wait!
★★★★ VW
Vicky McClure: My Grandad's War, 9 pm, ITV1
This moving doco follows Line of Duty actor Vicky McClure and her 97-year-old grandfather Ralph McClure, as they take an emotional journey to revisit his experiences in the Navy during World War Two, which included taking part in the D-Day landings.
The trip takes in the one surviving landing craft from the war at the D-Day Story museum, the fascinating map room at D-Day HQ in Southwick House near Portsmouth, and the Normandy beaches and British Normandy Memorial in France. Military history buffs will be familiar with the detail, but the family connection is what gives this documentary its power, and the gentle, loving bond between Ralph and Vicky is very touching indeed.
★★★★ IM
Best box set on TV tonight
Poker Face, Sky Max/NOW (box set)
Rian Johnson’s anthology series has a pleasing retro feel about it from the titles onwards. Imagine, if you can, Mr Benn in the hands of Quentin Tarantino, as drifting ‘Poker Face’ Charlie (Natasha Lyonne) sets out to solve a different mystery in each episode.
★★★★ JP
Best film on TV tonight
Pride, 9:45 pm, BBC Three
Gay rights activists gather in London for a pride march in 1984, and decide they have a common cause with the miners' strike. When their fundraising activities are rejected by the miners' union, they travel to a Welsh pit village to show their support in person. Fact-based drama, starring Ben Schnetzer, Bill Nighy, Andrew Scott and Imelda Staunton.
Soaps
- EastEnders, 7.30 pm, BBC One
- Emmerdale, 7.30 pm, ITV1
- Coronation Street, 8 pm, ITV1
- Hollyoaks, 6.30 pm, Channel 4
- Home and Away, 6 pm, 5Star
Live Sport
- Bundesliga: Hamburg SV v VfB Stuttgart (Kick-off 7.45pm), Sky Sports Main Event
If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…
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