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Hannah J Davies, Mark Gibbings-Jones, Hannah Verdier, Ben Arnold, David Stubbs, Jack Seale and Paul Howlett

Monday’s best TV: Peter Kay’s Car Share – The Finale; King Lear

Peter Kay and Sian Gibson in  Car Share: The Finale.
Bafta winners … Peter Kay and Sian Gibson in Car Share: The Finale. Photograph: BBC/Goodnight Vienna Productions/PA

Peter Kay’s Car Share: The Finale

10pm, BBC One

Although Peter Kay has spent 2018 out of the spotlight due to what the comic has described as “unforeseen family circumstances”, he has still managed to put out the final two episodes of his beloved Bafta-winning sitcom. The first, Car Share: Unscripted, was a hit-and-miss improvised episode that included a joke some viewers considered transphobic. Will this overall finale be a more decisive hit? And will John (Kay) and Kayleigh (Sian Gibson) drive off into the sunset? Hannah J Davies

Britain’s Got Talent

7.30pm, ITV

Declan Donnelly hosts the first of five live shows across the week. With just 10 final spots available, the pressure is on, and going by Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s performance at the royal wedding, the big time beckons. That said, Sarah Llewellyn’s cake-scoffing opera last week might not be transferable to similar occasions. Mark Gibbings-Jones

Springwatch 2018

8pm, BBC Two

Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan, a presenting pair so enthusiastic they can make a dung pile sound like an action movie, return with the ’Watch. There’ll be plenty of wildlife drama as the team bed in at Sherborne Park, Gloucestershire. And new girl Gillian Burke is on the road, spotting killer whales off Shetland. Hannah Verdier

24 Hours in Police Custody

9pm, Channel 4

The Eastern Region Special Ops Unit has its plate full this week, arranging 10 simultaneous armed dawn raids on an organised crime syndicate involved in supplying drugs. With each arrest, a new suspect is grilled by officers using the newly unearthed evidence. Ben Arnold

Return to Turin: Italia 90

9pm, History

Italia 90 was a key World Cup in English football history, helping rehabilitate a game that had been in the doldrums. This documentary relives Italia 90’s best moments and launches a week of World Cup-themed programming on History that also includes many of the official Fifa tournament films. David Stubbs

Which big name nails their part the best? King Lear.
Which big name nails their part the best? King Lear. Photograph: Ed Miller/BBC/Playground Entertainment/Ed Miller

King Lear

9.30pm, BBC Two

At 114 minutes, Richard Eyre’s film is a greatest-hits Lear, at times brutally compressed. The sport is in judging which big name nails their part the best: Emily Watson’s ruffled Regan and Christopher Eccleston’s tart Oswald stand out in a very starry ensemble that eclipses Anthony Hopkins as the childish king. Jack Seale

TV film

This Is England (11.10pm, Film4)

This first of Shane Meadows’s brilliant social drama series is set in a bleak Midlands town in 1983, where Shaun (Thomas Turgoose), missing his father who has died in the Falklands, is adopted by a group of warm-hearted, multiracial skinheads – but is then drawn into violent NF company. Grim and touching. Paul Howlett

Live sport

Tennis: The French Open (10am, Eurosport 2)

The first round continues at Roland-Garros.

Test Cricket: England v Pakistan (10.30am, Sky Sports Cricket)

The final day of the Lord’s Test.

League Two Football: Coventry City v Exeter City (2.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event)

The battle for promotion from League Two culminates in a trip to Wembley.

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