On TV tonight, it sounds like a movie script but Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have really bought struggling footie club Wrexham FC. See how they get on in the Welsh town in Welcome to Wrexham on Disney Plus. The second season of All That Glitters: Britain's Next Jewellery Star begins on BBC Two, there's also a new series of the brilliant Saving Lives at Sea on BBC Two and A Farm Through Time continues on Channel 5. 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
Welcome to Wrexham, Disney Plus
What happened when Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney bought a non-league Welsh football club? This series follows them and Wrexham FC after the unlikely takeover (before which neither side had met face to face!). Sports fan Rob’s love of the game was sparked when he worked with a British football fan and, realising he needed "superhero and movie star money" to be able to take a non-league team to the top, he persuaded Deadpool star Ryan to invest. Episode one charts their steep learning curve as they pitch their bid to the club. But will this be a flash in the pan or the dawn of a new era?
★★★ SP
All That Glitters: Britain's Next Jewellery Star, 9 pm, BBC Two
Katherine Ryan welcomes eight more up-and-coming jewellers into the Birmingham workshop for a brand new series, where their wares will be scrutinised by returning judge Shaun Leane (who’s brought an even less forgiving loupe with him this time!) and sparky new judge Dinny Hall. To get things going, the jewellers must create a single statement earring for the Bestseller challenge, followed by a nameplate necklace in honour of a client’s charity work for the Bespoke round. The contestants are clearly a highly talented bunch, and many of their finished pieces are genuinely dazzling - but who’ll be the first to leave?
★★★★ SP
Saving Lives at Sea, season 7, 8 pm, BBC Two
As the series about RNLI volunteers returns, it’s worth remembering two things: first, that they are actually volunteers who are performing these heroic rescues, and second, that they have their own cameras, so they’re able to provide a unique viewpoint of their life-saving call-outs. This seventh series begins at Newhaven on the south coast, one of the first places in the UK to have a purpose-built lifeboat. It’s Christmas Eve and the crew are looking forward to getting home when they’re paged to help two people who have got into trouble while paragliding off the cliffs. They’ve been cut off by the tide and one of them is injured – but between them and the crew’s inflatable boat there’s an awful lot of dangerously jagged rocks…
★★★ JP
A Farm Through Time, 9 pm, Channel 5
As historian Ruth Goodman continues to take Channel 5’s resident farmers Rob and Dave Nicholson on a journey through time, in this episode they’re experiencing life during the Victorian era. At Chiltern Open Air Museum, Ruth shows them some of the Victorian machinery that saved time and labour on a massive scale – but which also put many farm workers out of a job and left them facing starvation. Elsewhere, Rob and Dave have a go at ploughing the Victorian way – with a team of shire horses.
★★★ JP
Best box set to watch on TV tonight
Marriage, BBC iPlayer
Fans of Stefan Golaszewski (Him & Her, Mum) are in for a treat, as the writer-director debuts his new series. TV heavyweights Sean Bean and Nicola Walker star as couple Ian and Emma, who are far from wedded bliss as they approach their 27th anniversary. Ian is in freefall after being made redundant, while Emma is quietly thrilled by the attentions of her boss, Jamie (an excellently obnoxious Henry Lloyd-Hughes). An intense look at the minutiae of married life, which for singles may feel like a blink-and-you-miss it backwater; for couples, it’s an eye-opening drive through the intricate landscape of long-term relationships. All four episodes are now available on BBC iPlayer.
Best film to watch on TV tonight
The Apartment, 9.50 pm, BBC Four
Billy Wilder won Oscars for writing and directing this 1960 movie starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray in a love triangle that’s a great deal more grown-up than your average rom-com. It has a lot to say about morality, double standards and hierarchies in American companies of the day, and can be summed up by the instruction given to Jack Lemmon by his neighbour, a world-weary doctor: ‘Be a mensch!’ (a person of integrity). Wilder also directed Witness for the Prosecution, showing earlier at 8pm.
Live Sport
- Test Cricket, England vs South Africa, 10 am, Sky Sports Main Event/NOW
- The Hundred, Southern Brave vs Trent Rockets, 6.45 pm, Sky Sports Main Event/NOW
Soaps on TV tonight
- EastEnders, 7.30 pm, BBC One
- Emmerdale, 7.30 pm, ITV
- Hollyoaks, 6.30 pm, C4
- Home and Away, 6 pm & 6.30 pm, 5Star
If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…
Don't miss Welcome to Wrexham on TV tonight — can the Hollywood stars also run a football club?
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Happy viewing!
