On TV tonight,Rian Johnson's mystery series Poker Face lands in the UK, Dom and Kay's mission takes them to an old people's home in Black Ops, Susan Calman heads to the Isle of Man for her next Grand Day Out and the Sister Boniface Mysteries look into the disappearance of Baron Battenberg. 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
Poker Face, 9 pm, 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. In tonight’s double bill, she finds work at a family-run Texas barbecue spot, then goes on tour with a heavy metal band.
★★★★ JP
Susan Calman's Grand Day Out season 5, 8 pm, Channel 5
Susan dons a cagoule and bobble hat as she and her camper van Helen Mirren begin a trip round a misty Isle of Man. At Peel, she joins the crew of a Viking longboat (she doesn’t do any actual rowing, just quite a bit of shouty encouragement), then bravely eats a kipper bap while seagulls circle overhead. Once she gets over her delight at discovering that she can post a kipper, Susan visits a Victorian waterwheel at Laxey and takes a trip on the Manx Electric Railway. Next stop is the Tynwald (the Isle of Man’s parliament), then it’s the impressive motor museum at Jurby. Susan can’t resist a spin in the Peel P50, the smallest production car in the world, which is ‘more slow and steady than fast and furious’.
★★★★ JP
Black Ops, 9.30 pm, BBC One/iPlayer (box set)
If you thought PCSOs Dom (Gbemisola Ikumelo) and Kay (Hammed Animashaun) were out of place running drugs for a gang, even they wouldn’t have suspected their undercover mission would take them to an old people’s home. But that’s what happens tonight at Riverford Residential Home, when their suspicions about a resident (Zoë Wanamaker) make them think it may be a front for the gang. With Dom making an unlikely elderly ally, and karaoke hour yielding a shock discovery for Kay, this penultimate episode is every bit as funny as you’d hope and paves the way for a fantastic finale.
★★★★ VW
Sister Boniface Mysteries, 9 pm, UKTV Play (box set)
The Father Brown spin-off continues with a bizarre investigation into the supposed disappearance of Baron Battenberg. When Sam (Max Brown) and Ruth (Miranda Raison) go undercover at a couples-only spiritual retreat to investigate, things get even more mysterious when the body of a journalist is found in the woods and Sister Boniface ends up spun out on a psychedelic substance! Look out for former Doctors star Sarah Moyle (aka receptionist Valerie) who plays the retreat’s hapless cook Connie.
★★★ HD
Best box set on TV tonight
FUBAR is an action-comedy series focusing on Arnold Schwarzenegger's Luke Brunner, a veteran CIA operative who ends up postponing his retirement so he can tackle a newly-unearthed secret.
He's forced to go back into the field for one last job, and the series tackles universal family dynamics set against a global backdrop of spies, action, and humor.
Best film on TV tonight
Goodfellas, 10 pm, BBC Three
Martin Scorsese’s tour-de-force has Ray Liotta as Henry, a man involved with the Mafia since his early teens, and proof positive that crime pays very well. But as the sums of money become bigger, so do the risks. While it’s Henry’s story, it’s hard to take your eyes off actors of the calibre of Robert De Niro, Paul Sorvino, Lorraine Bracco and Joe Pesci (who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar) when they’re on screen. It may be bloody and brutal, but Goodfellas exudes so much raw passion, as well as intelligence in its bleak outlook of society’s avarice, it’s a film with bulging muscle.
★★★★★ NP
Soaps
- Emmerdale, 7.30 pm, ITV1
- Coronation Street, 8 pm, ITV1
- Hollyoaks, 6.30 pm, Channel 4
- Home and Away, 6 pm, 5Star
Live Sport
- Test Cricket: England v Ireland, from 10.15 am, Sky Sports Main Event / coverage in Cricket: Today at the Test 7 pm - 8 pm on BBC Two
If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…
Don't miss Poker Face on TV tonight.
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