The Gold
9pm, BBC One
The Bafta-nominated 80s crime drama based on the wild true story of the Brink’s-Mat robbery returns. The police hunt for the other half of the stolen £26m gold bullion is the longest and most expensive investigation in the Met’s history. This second series is inspired by theories of what happened to it, starting in Tenerife, where John Palmer (Tom Cullen) has started a timeshare business. The top cast is back, including Stephen Campbell Moore and Hugh Bonneville, and look out for Jack Lowden in a later episode. Hollie Richardson
Vienna Philharmonic: Spring in Paris
7.30pm, BBC Four
A fittingly opulent concert to mark the 150th birthday of the Palais Garnier opera house in Paris. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts classical greats including music from Carmen and La Traviata, featuring the big-name voices of bass-baritone Bryn Terfel and soprano Sonya Yoncheva. HR
Death Valley
8.20pm, BBC One
Kiell Smith-Bynoe guest stars as an unbearable groom who is using his wedding day as a “digital marketing super event” (guests are from LinkedIn, not Lincoln). When his best man’s body is found outside the church, real detective Janie (Gwyneth Keyworth) once again calls on TV detective John (Timothy Spall) for help. HR
Our Guy in Vietnam
9pm, Channel 4
Grimsby’s tea-loving speed demon wraps up his latest travelogue by heading south to the Mekong delta. There, he cheerfully mucks in selling mangoes from a floating stall and irrigating rice on a sustainable farm. This being Guy Martin, he also sniffs out a race, joining a 50-strong squad of Buddhist rowers on a dragon boat. Graeme Virtue
I Kissed a Boy
9pm, BBC Three
The penultimate episode of the Dannii Minogue-hosted dating show is when emotions hit their peak. In the wake of the Daisy Duke party the night before, and with the final Kiss-Off looming, there are big decisions to be made. Plus, the bubble of the Italian masseria is broken by the arrival of the contestants’ loved ones. Jack Seale
The Handmaid’s Tale
10pm, Channel 4
A pivotal episode in the hard-hitting dystopian drama’s final season, as loyalties shift and characters face the show’s central dilemma: keep working to defeat totalitarianism, or preserve whatever personal happiness you can salvage? June and Nick have choices to make about their future, but big secrets are about to spill. JS
Film choice
Ocean With David Attenborough (Keith Scholey, Toby Nowlan, Colin Butfield, 2025), 8pm, National Geographic/Disney+
As David Attenborough passes his 99th birthday, here’s another landmark documentary to add to his collection – and one that’s more polemical than usual. His lucid message here is “If we save the sea we save our world”, as he talks us through what humanity has done to the Earth’s oceans and how we can protect them. Awe and anger intermingle – there are glorious images of aquatic life, such as the remote submarine seamounts that are “pitstops” for migrating fish or the kelp forests in coastal waters that capture carbon. But it’s the underwater footage of indiscriminate dredging by trawlers that has the most emotional impact – a picture of devastation that’s also a call to arms. Simon Wardell
Julius Caesar (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1953), 2pm, BBC Two
There aren’t many Shakespeare plays with more quotable lines than his Roman power play, from “It was Greek to me” to “Let slip the dogs of war”. And in Joseph L Mankiewicz’s slick take it’s Marlon Brando as Mark Antony who gets the best: his “I came to bury Caesar not to praise him” speech is a masterclass in rhetorical rabble-rousing. And Brando has to raise his game, what with seasoned stage stars James Mason (Brutus), Louis Calhern (Caesar) and, particularly, John Gielgud (Cassius) immersing us eloquently in portents and plots, murder and mayhem. SW
Live sport
- Men’s International T20 Cricket: England v West Indies, 2pm, Channel 5 The second match from Bristol.
- Men’s International Football: FA Nations League Final, 7.30pm, ITV1 Portugal take on Spain at Allianz Arena, Munich.
Source: The Guardian.
