Friday Night Dinner
10pm, Channel 4
Ah, the joy; the return of Robert Popper’s always very funny sitcom about a Jewish family’s ever-thwarted efforts to settle down for a customary Friday-night meal. Tonight, Mark Heap excels himself as oddball neighbour Jim, who has somehow managed to secure himself a date. He saddles the Goodmans with his enigmatic dog Wilson, about whose dietary habits we learn a little. All this eats into the quality time the parents, if not their sons, had hoped to spend in their new hot tub.
David Stubbs
Our Wildest Dreams
8pm, Channel 4
Channel 4’s obsession with tracking cosseted Brits as they venture out of their comfort zones continues. This week, Lyndon and Ruth (who, just to add extra jeopardy, is pregnant) give up their careers to open a safari lodge in Zambia. Not entirely unpredictably, trouble is waiting, like a famished lion, to pounce.
Phil Harrison
Portillo’s Hidden History of Britain
9pm, Channel 5
The former politico pokes around Shepton Mallet prison, a hulking 400-year-old clink that finally shut up shop in 2012. Former turnkeys and lags paint a stark picture of life on the inside, while Fred Dinenage pops up to discuss how the place shaped young Ronnie and Reggie Kray.
Graeme Virtue
Episodes
10pm, BBC Two
With Matt claiming designer credit for LeBlanc-branded waistcoats, it’s no surprise that he’s equally keen to snaffle co-creator credit on Sean and Beverly’s new show. The writing talent aren’t keen on sharing ownership with an actor who barely bothered reading their script. Evidently, it’s a hill each party is willing to die on.
Mark Gibbings-Jones
High & Dry
10.30pm, Channel 4
Even on an island paradise, hell is other people. Such is the neat premise of Marc Wootton’s new comedy about castaways who survive a plane crash. There are some good one-liners but, in this opener at least, Wootton’s garish sociopath, flight attendant Brett, rather overpowers the show.
Jonathan Wright
The Graham Norton Show
10.35pm, BBC One
Stephen Mangan is on Graham’s sofa this week, talking about his new TV show Hang Ups, with a musical interlude from Jess Glynne performing her new single I’ll Be There (presumably not a Jackson 5 cover). Plus, Amy Schumer tells us about her somewhat problematic new film I Feel Pretty.
Candice Carty-Williams
TV films
Dunkirk (12.45pm, 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere)
Christopher Nolan pitches straight into a blood, toil, tears and sweat-drenched recreation of the great retreat of 1940. Interweaving the adventures of Fionn Whitehead as Tommy, boat skipper Mark Rylance and Spitfire pilot Tom Hardy, he creates a brain-battering epic.
Paul Howlett
Live sport
Snooker: The World Championship (10am, BBC Two)
The opening semi-final.
Cycling: Giro d’Italia (11.30am, Eurosport 2)
The opening stage of the race.
Premier League Football: Brighton & Hove Albion v Manchester United (7.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event)
Brighton look to secure their top-flight status.
