UK TV Guide — Freeview & Sky Listings for Tuesday 24 March
It's Red Nose Day 2026, and BBC One clears three hours of prime time from 7pm for Comic Relief: Funny for Money -- Catherine Tate as Nan, Alison Hammond, Romesh Ranganathan, new Traitors sketches and more. BBC Two offers a quieter parallel evening with the Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Series 6 finale at 8:30pm. ITV1 has Beat the Chasers with all six Chasers at 9pm, Channel 4 serves up Gogglebox and The Last Leg as usual, and the late-night film pick is the 4.5-star In Camera on BBC Two. A full Friday TV guide.
Sky One launches Saturday Night Live UK tonight -- the first ever British version of the legendary American sketch show, live from London at 10pm with a cast that includes Ania Magliano, Emma Sidi and Hammed Animashaun. BBC One serves up Casualty drama, The Walsh Sisters and a bumper early evening of Gladiators and Michael McIntyre's The Wheel, while Josh O'Connor's five-star Italian film La Chimera on BBC Four is the late-night discovery of the week. Plus Britain's Got Talent kicks off in Birmingham, and Match of the Day wraps up the Premier League action. The Carabao Cup Final is Sunday 22 March.
Channel 4 launches the new Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer tonight with six comedians in the tent -- including reigning champion Joe Wilkinson and the brilliantly unpredictable Jon Richardson -- plus guest judge Cherish Finden at 7:40pm. BBC One serves up a double bill of The Other Bennet Sister before The Capture turns up the spy thriller tension at 9pm, while ITV1 debuts the mystery drama Gone and Channel 4 drops its new survival reality series The Hunt: Prey vs Predator. Afternoon sport fans had the Carabao Cup Final to enjoy -- Arsenal v Manchester City live at Wembley -- and the Athletics World Indoor Championships wraps up its final day on BBC Two.
MasterChef: The Professionals reaches its final four tonight on BBC One at 9pm -- the last chefs standing cook for 27 of the UK and Ireland's top Michelin-starred names at the Goring Hotel. ITV1 delivers the series finale of Gone at 9pm as DS Annie Cassidy confronts David Morrissey's Michael for the last time, BBC Two debuts its timely two-part documentary Clash of the Superpowers: America vs China, and Channel 4 has new cooking show Batch from Scratch at 8pm plus the second episode of survival reality The Hunt: Prey vs Predator at 9pm.
Martin Clunes plays Huw Edwards against type in Channel 5's stark and unsettling Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards at 9pm -- nearly two hours that earns every minute. ITV1 counters with a chilling new true crime documentary on the murder of Stephanie Hansen, BBC One has MasterChef: The Professionals heading to South Tyrol for its semi-final, and BBC Two goes live for Arsenal v Chelsea in the UEFA Women's Champions League quarter-final first leg.
Thursday night has a proper spread: BBC Two goes deep on the Sea Empress oil disaster of 1996 in what sounds like the most sobering documentary of the week, The Apprentice sends its candidates on a chaotic Isle of Wight treasure hunt on BBC One, and Channel 4 continues A Woman of Substance with Brenda Blethyn's Emma edging closer to the wealth that will cost her dearly. ITV1 launches a new true crime series about a dating-app murder in Lancashire, and Alexander Armstrong wraps up his India series on Channel 5 with robots, Bangalore's tech boom, and a spider doing something that reminds him of Ibiza.
Wednesday night belongs to the finales: Hostage ends on BBC Two with the unresolved question of whether John Cantlie was a traitor or a survivor, We Might Regret This reaches its darkly comic conclusion on BBC Two at 10pm, and Ellis wraps its second series on Channel 5 with DCI Sharon D. Clarke closing in on whoever is panicking at Quinn Artisan Stone. Channel 4 launches A Woman of Substance, BBC One has Ambulance's most quietly devastating episode of the series, and The Marlow Murder Club returns to U&Drama with a new poisoning mystery and a very good reason to be suspicious of your tea.
Three series finales land simultaneously at 9pm tonight: The Summit wraps on ITV1 with Ben Shephard and a heart-rending sacrifice at altitude, Handcuffed: Last Pair Standing reaches its £100k finish line on Channel 4, and RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs the World crowns its winner on BBC Three. Europe on the Edge also ends on BBC Two, MasterChef: The Professionals crosses over with Great British Menu via Michelin-starred John Chantarasak, and BBC Four has a quietly devastating Norwegian documentary about fatherhood and loss that is the best thing on television tonight.
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