What's on TV tonight? Monday 11th May 2026 is the first proper weekday evening after the bank holiday stretch, and the broadcasters have not treated it as a soft landing. BBC One closes a series and ITV1 continues one of the year's most important dramas at exactly the same time. BBC Two offers 90 minutes of Blitz survivors speaking on camera -- some of the last people alive to give this testimony. The schedule has reset to weekday rhythm, and it is moving at full pace. Check tonight's highlights for live updates, see what's on right now, or browse the full channels list.
What's On TV Tonight: Quick Picks
- Mint SERIES FINALE ⭐ -- BBC One, 9pm + 9.30pm -- Charlotte Regan; eps 7/8 + 8/8; Dylan shows Shannon his past; Shannon must charm Sam to protect her family; Scotland gets both eps with a news break; full series on iPlayer
- Believe Me ⭐ -- ITV1, 9pm -- S1 Ep 2/4; Laila Mahmood drugged and assaulted by Worboys; CCTV dismissed; disturbing pattern slowly spotted; Jeff Pope; Daniel Mays
- Children of the Blitz -- BBC Two, 9pm -- 90 minutes; last survivors of the Blitz speak; Coventry, Sheffield, Croydon, Liverpool; on iPlayer
- "Classic EastEnders: 20 Years of Denise" -- BBC Three, from 8pm -- Diane Parish tribute block; 2009, 2012, 2022 Keanu murder, 2024; followed by "EastEnders Investigates: The Manosphere" at 11pm
- Rooster LAST IN SERIES -- Sky One, 10pm -- Steve Carell; end of the Ludlow College professorship; daughter Katie; second series confirmed
- Sisu -- Film4, 9.30pm -- 4 stars; 2022 Finnish thriller; Jorma Tommila vs a column of Nazis
See what's on right now for live updates.
TV Guide: Morning and Afternoon
Froglets -- CBeebies, 9.25am (NEW)
Ziff, Pipp, and Button convert leftover barbecue straws and snacks into agility games in "The Race." The episode was crafted by Holger Auffenberg, winner of the Game of Wool award. Runs ten minutes on CBeebies at 9.25am -- a preschool opener designed with more imagination than the slot usually demands.
IPL Cricket: Punjab Kings v Delhi Capitals -- Sky Sports Cricket, 2.50pm
Live IPL coverage as Punjab Kings take on Delhi Capitals at Dharamsala. Sky Sports Cricket carries the match from 2.50pm; Sky Sports Main Event joins at 3pm. Coverage runs until approximately 6.30pm, when the channel shifts to Monday Night Football build-up. England Women's Cricket ODI highlights against New Zealand air on Sky Sports Cricket from 8pm if you want the full cricket evening.
Tour of Azerbaijan Stage 2 -- TNT Sports 1, from 8am
Stage 2 of the Baku-Khankendi Azerbaijan Cycling Race goes live from 8am on TNT Sports 1 -- a 193km route passing through the historic city of Shamakhi before finishing in the mountain region of Ismayilli. The RT brief had this at 9am; the EPG confirms the live stage starts at 8am. Stage 1 replay (Baku Sea Breeze to Sumgayit) runs from 7am if you want context. MotoGP French Grand Prix highlights from Sunday's Le Mans racing follow on TNT Sports 3 from 5.30pm.
TV Guide: Early Evening (6pm -- 8pm)
Great Central Asian Railway Journeys -- BBC Two, 6.30pm (NEW SERIES)
Episode 1 of 5, and a clear distinction worth making: this is not Great Korean Railway Journeys, which concluded on BBC Two last Friday after its run from Bank Holiday Monday. Great Central Asian Railway Journeys is a brand new series -- Michael Portillo setting off along the Silk Road through Uzbekistan, the most populous country in Central Asia. Tonight he begins in Tashkent, explores a bazaar with a quip about market forces, visits a Soviet-era 1970s hotel, and descends into a metro system decorated with cotton flowers and cosmonauts. More than half of Uzbekistan's population is under 30, and Portillo is good at making that demographic fact legible rather than abstract. Five episodes. Available on BBC iPlayer. Full BBC Two schedule for tonight.
University Challenge -- BBC Four, 7pm
Series 21, episode 5 of 37. Cranfield University take on Royal Holloway in a first-round match. BBC Four at 7pm on a Monday is reliably good television, and the first-round stage of University Challenge -- before the later rounds produce the grinding specialist-knowledge sessions -- tends to keep moving. Only Connect follows at 7.30pm, episode 3 of 15, Victoria Coren Mitchell hosting. Both on BBC iPlayer.
EastEnders -- BBC One, 7.30pm
Ian makes a worrying discovery. Nicola takes matters into her own hands. Grant helps a friend. Ross Kemp's Grant Mitchell is involved in current storylines, and the show has been using him well across this run. On BBC One at 7.30pm, available on BBC iPlayer.
Spurs v Leeds -- Sky Sports, 6.30pm (k/o 8pm)
Monday Night Football. Tottenham Hotspur host Leeds United at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in a Premier League fixture with relegation implications for the visitors. Leeds need the points; Spurs need a result for their own European calculations. Coverage starts at 6.30pm on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League; kick-off at 8pm. This is a proper MNF fixture rather than a mid-table drift, and the stakes are going to be visible from the first whistle. See the Sky Sports Main Event schedule for full coverage details.
The One Show -- BBC One, 7pm
Alex Jones and Roman Kemp with a Monday edition that will catch up on whatever the post-bank-holiday week is generating. A reliable buffer between the early evening news and the main drama programmes.
TV Tonight: Prime Time (8pm onwards)
MasterChef -- BBC One, 8pm
Series 21, episode 10 of 21 -- and the last round of heats. A new batch of amateur cooks enters the kitchen hoping to win aprons; Grace Dent and Anna Haugh judge. The bank holiday week's heats have been accumulating, and tonight closes that stage of the competition. The research notes one contestant attempts a dish inspired by Mount Vesuvius, prompting Grace Dent to say she is frightened -- which is a reaction that generally means either something has gone badly wrong or something has gone spectacularly right, and the episode will tell you which. On BBC One at 8pm, available on BBC iPlayer.
Emmerdale -- ITV1, 8pm
The Monday Emmerdale. The Dales continuing its various storylines into the second week of May. On ITV1 at 8pm, available on ITVX.
"Classic EastEnders: 20 Years of Denise" -- BBC Three, 8pm
BBC Three opens a three-hour block at 8pm honouring 20 years of Denise Fox, played by Diane Parish. The curation is thoughtful: a 2009 episode covering the Trueman/Fox grief arc; a 2012 episode in which Ian and Denise spend the night together while the hunt for Lola and Lexi continues; the 2022 episode in which a Walford male meets his fate in The Vic -- this is the Keanu Taylor murder, with Denise among the six women involved; and two episodes from 2024, the second of which touches on the manosphere plotline that led to the Joel storyline.
The block closes at 11pm with EastEnders Investigates: The Manosphere, in which the cast discuss what the Joel misogyny story was about and why the show chose to tell it. For anyone who follows EastEnders closely, this is a curated history of one of the soap's best-written characters across two decades. For anyone who doesn't, the 2022 Keanu Taylor murder episode holds up as standalone drama -- six women, one act, one night in The Vic.
Coronation Street -- ITV1, 8.30pm
The murder mystery launched on Tuesday 5 May is now into its second week, and Coronation Street in its second week of a murder arc tends to be where the suspicion starts landing on the wrong people in compelling ways. On ITV1 at 8.30pm.
Bibaa & Nicole: Murder in the Park -- Sky Documentaries, 8pm (TRIPLE BILL PREMIERE)
Sky Documentaries premieres all three episodes of this Sky Original tonight, running from 8pm to 11pm. The case: Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman, sisters, were murdered at Fryent Country Park in north-west London in June 2020. The story has two distinct layers -- the murder investigation itself, and the separate Metropolitan Police misconduct inquiry that followed the discovery that serving officers had taken selfies with the victims' bodies at the crime scene.
Episode 1 (8pm) covers the 36 hours from disappearance to discovery, and the slow police response to the initial missing persons report. Episode 2 (9pm) follows the hunt for the murderer and the moment the selfie photographs emerge. Episode 3 (10pm) runs both investigations in parallel: who killed Bibaa and Nicole, and what happens to the officers who treated the crime scene as a photo opportunity. Three hours, one sitting -- this is the triple-bill premiere format Sky has used before for significant true crime documentaries, and the material here is serious enough to justify it. Available on Sky and NOW.
The Elon Musk Show -- BBC Two, 8pm
Episode 2 of 3. Last Sunday's opener dealt with 1990s Silicon Valley and the early business sales. Tonight: Tesla, Mars, and the global financial crisis. Elon Musk is working to revolutionise the car market simultaneously with working out how to get to Mars, and a financial crisis intervenes between the two ambitions. The BBC's three-part documentary has been careful not to settle on easy conclusions, and episode 2 is where the second-decade story -- more contested, more legible in real time -- begins. On BBC Two at 8pm, available on BBC iPlayer.
TV Tonight: The 9pm War -- Mint v Believe Me
Two dramas land at exactly 9pm. If you have been following both, this is the choice the Monday schedule has made for you: record one, watch the other. Both run until 10pm.
Mint SERIES FINALE ⭐ -- BBC One, 9pm + 9.30pm
Episodes 7 and 8 of 8. Charlotte Regan's eight-part drama -- crime family, south London, Shannon and Dylan at its centre -- ends tonight in a back-to-back hour on BBC One.
Episode 7 (9pm): Dylan gives Shannon a glimpse into his past, while two old rivals find common ground. The EPG adds "contains very strong language," which has been true of most of the series, but the note here carries more weight -- this is the episode where the backstory the show has been shading in since episode one becomes specific.
Episode 8 (9.30pm): Shannon realises she must charm Sam to protect her family. The question is what that charming costs her -- which is, in a compressed form, the same question the whole series has been asking. Regan's writing has always been more interested in the price of loyalty than in the mechanics of crime, and the finale honours that priority.
The Radio Times called it "more swansong than ever after," which is either high praise for a series finale or a note of slight reservation about whether the ending earns the emotion it reaches for. Both readings are fair. Lindsay Duncan has been slightly underused across the run; whether episode 8 rectifies that is something to watch.
Scottish viewers get a split bill: episode 7 at 9.30pm, then a news break, then episode 8 at 10.40pm. Full series is on BBC iPlayer for anyone arriving late or catching up from the beginning.
Believe Me ⭐ -- ITV1, 9pm
Episode 2 of 4. Sunday night's first episode followed Sarah Adams (Aimee-Ffion Edwards), whose case against Worboys was dropped by the Metropolitan Police despite her certainty about what had happened. Tonight follows Laila Mahmood -- a student with identical evidence and an identical outcome: drugged, assaulted, dismissed.
The CCTV footage is in this episode. It is dismissed.
Jeff Pope's four-part series is accumulating what the Metropolitan Police should have noticed years before 2009. The structure -- one new victim per episode, the pattern building until the institution can no longer ignore it -- is effective precisely because it is not dramatic in the conventional sense. There is no investigation that goes wrong. There are individual officers making individual decisions that collectively amount to a system failure. Episode 2 is where the viewer starts doing the arithmetic that the police were not doing.
Daniel Mays plays Worboys with the particular menace of someone who appears utterly ordinary. Episode 3 follows on ITV1 tomorrow, Tuesday 12 May. Full series on ITVX.
Children of the Blitz -- BBC Two, 9pm
A 90-minute documentary -- 9pm to 10.30pm on BBC Two -- in which some of the last surviving children of the Blitz speak on camera. These are people who were not evacuated, who stayed in the cities, and who watched what the bombing did to their families and communities. The EPG says simply "children who weren't evacuated tell their story." The Radio Times gives it more: Gill from Coventry on the intensity of the raids; Jean from Sheffield who lost her mother; Monica from Croydon whose two best friends were killed; Ernie from Liverpool: "It was the end of our community."
The documentary is significant for reasons beyond its subject. These are very old people now. The testimony this film contains exists in very few other places. Available on BBC iPlayer.
Our Tiny Islands -- More4, 9pm
Series 2, episode 2. More4 at 9pm. Tonight: Station Island in County Donegal, which draws 10,000 pilgrims every year for a gruelling three-day fast -- no food, no shoes, one meal per day at most, and a pilgrimage circuit around the island's sacred stones that most participants describe in physical terms rather than spiritual ones. Also: a new seaweed farmer on North Uist in the Outer Hebrides, which is one of those career pivots that requires the right kind of calm. Available on Channel 4 streaming.
Sisu -- Film4, 9.30pm ⭐
Four stars. Jalmari Helander's 2022 Finnish thriller is one of the better action films to have arrived without the marketing budget it deserved. Jorma Tommila plays Aatami -- a former Finnish commando, now a gold prospector in the Lapland wilderness in the final weeks of World War Two, who discovers a substantial gold deposit and then runs directly into a column of retreating Nazis who want it.
The title means "sisu" -- a Finnish concept translated roughly as white-knuckled, teeth-gritted refusal to stop. The film takes this seriously while also being extremely aware of what it is doing. Helander stages the violence with invention rather than just excess. The "White Death" Finnish sniper legend sits in the background of Aatami as a character, and the film borrows from that mythology without leaning on it. Preceded on Film4 by The Monuments Men (George Clooney, 2014) from 7.15pm. Terminator: Dark Fate follows at 11.20pm.
Major Crimes Unit -- Channel 5, 9pm (NEW SERIES)
Episode 1 of a new series following the West Midlands Police Major Crimes Unit with what the EPG calls "unprecedented access" -- investigators tracking suspects, uncovering evidence, and delivering results for victims and families. Channel 5 documentary crime series tend to be at their best when they find specific cases rather than running overview footage, and 90 minutes for a first episode gives this one room to settle on something concrete. Runs until 10.30pm. Available on My5.
Euphoria S3 Ep5 -- Sky Atlantic, 9pm
Series 3, episode 5. The childhood friends continue to work through faith, redemption, and the problem of evil -- which, by episode 5, is becoming more specific in its application to the individual characters. Strong language, violence, sexual scenes. Heated Rivalry Series 1 Episode 3 follows at 10.15pm on Sky Atlantic. Available on Sky and NOW.
Knut: The Viking Emperor -- Sky History, 9pm
Series 1, episode 2 -- "The Revenge of a Landless King." Knut returns to reclaim England, and the clash with Edmund Ironside is the centrepiece. Episode 1 on Bank Holiday Monday 4 May established the scale and the AI-enhanced battle sequences; episode 2 picks up with the conflict that defined Knut's path to empire. Four-episode series continuing weekly. Viking Dead follows at 10.10pm on Sky History.
TV Guide UK: Late Night
Children of the Blitz -- BBC Two, 9pm to 10.30pm
Covered above at length, but worth noting again: at 90 minutes, this is not a background proposition. The testimony it contains is from people in their late eighties and nineties. The programme ends at 10.30pm, followed by Newsnight at 10.30pm and A Bigger Splash (2015) at 11pm on BBC Two.
Rooster LAST IN SERIES ⭐ -- Sky One, 10pm
Series 1, episode 10 -- the finale. Steve Carell as Greg "Rooster" Russo has spent ten episodes navigating a guest professorship at Ludlow College that he took primarily to prevent his daughter Katie from losing her job there. The full college experience has unfolded around him: romantic flings, drunken nights, traditional steeple-stealing pranks, and the discovery that he is a significant novelist in a place where that fact carries actual social weight. Tonight the professorship ends, the Katie situation resolves, and the question of what Rooster is after this is answered -- or at least positioned for the second series that has already been confirmed.
Carell has been operating in a lower register than his American Office work throughout this -- quieter, more reactive, with moments of genuine tenderness that the comedy earns rather than demands. The finale does what Rooster has done consistently: it finds the emotion without announcing it in advance. On Sky One at 10pm, available on Sky and NOW.
Jean-Michel Jarre Live in Sevilla -- Sky Arts, 10pm
One important correction to flag: some listings have this at 9pm. The EPG confirms the start time as 10pm BST (Sky stores its data in UTC; the 21:00 UTC listing equals 22:00 BST). The two-hour concert at the Plaza de España in Sevilla runs from 10pm to midnight on Sky Arts. Jarre performs new work alongside classics with AI-driven visuals that the venue -- one of the great outdoor performance spaces in Europe -- amplifies rather than competes with. Andre Rieu: On The Road precedes it from 8pm.
The Sky at Night -- BBC Four, 10pm
Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock and the team examine Jodrell Bank Observatory and its Lovell Telescope -- nearly 70 years of listening to the cosmos, and still the anchor of the e-MERLIN telescope network that stretches 135 miles across the UK. The Lovell Telescope tracked Sputnik, intercepted Cold War communications, and is now monitoring near-Earth threats. Thirty minutes on BBC Four at 10pm, available on BBC iPlayer.
"EastEnders Investigates: The Manosphere" -- BBC Three, 11pm
Following the Classic EastEnders block, the cast of EastEnders discuss the Joel misogyny storyline that generated significant audience response during its run. This is the programme that gives the evening's BBC Three programming its frame: the Denise Fox retrospective shows what the soap has done with female characters over 20 years; EastEnders Investigates shows what the writing team believes those stories are for. Contains scenes which some viewers may find upsetting. At 11pm on BBC Three.
Have I Got News for You -- BBC One, 10.40pm
Series 70, episode 6. Steph McGovern hosts with guest panellists Jon Richardson and Sheila Hancock joining Paul Merton and Ian Hislop. McGovern's hosting style is more grounded than Ayoade's slightly baffled persona and less combative than some of the rotating hosts from recent series -- Richardson and Hancock are a good combination for a post-bank-holiday Monday, where the news has been accumulating for a week and a half without anyone processing it properly. Note the later time: 10.40pm, after the BBC News at 10pm and London News at 10.30pm. On BBC One, available on BBC iPlayer.
BBC Four: The Monday Quiz Block
University Challenge at 7pm, Only Connect at 7.30pm -- both new episodes, both on BBC Four, both available on BBC iPlayer. University Challenge is Series 21, episode 5: Cranfield v Royal Holloway. Only Connect is episode 3 of 15, Victoria Coren Mitchell hosting. These deserve more attention than they generally get on a night when every other channel has put something major in the 9pm slot. Lost Cities of the Ancients (the Hittite Empire, capital Hattusha) follows at 8pm; Art of Scandinavia (Andrew Graham-Dixon, Edvard Munch) at 9pm; The Sky at Night at 10pm.
BBC Scotland: The Harbour
BBC Scotland has its own new series tonight: The Harbour, a documentary about Aberdeen Harbour. Episodes 1 and 2 run back to back (8pm and 8.30pm), featuring Val Morrison and diver Terry Dearlove. Episode 2 covers a rare harbour closure due to high winds. A proper local documentary series, available on BBC iPlayer for Scottish viewers. Two Doors Down Series 4 Episode 1 follows at 10.30pm -- the sitcom returning with Ian and Gordon throwing a surprise party.
Sport
Spurs v Leeds -- Sky Sports, 6.30pm (k/o 8pm)
The full story is in the early evening section above. Coverage from 6.30pm on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League; kick-off 8pm. A relegation battle with genuine stakes for Leeds.
IPL Cricket: Punjab Kings v Delhi Capitals -- Sky Sports Cricket, 2.50pm
Live from Dharamsala. Sky Sports Cricket from 2.50pm; Sky Sports Main Event from 3pm. Highlights from 8pm on Sky Sports Cricket.
Tour of Azerbaijan Stage 2 -- TNT Sports 1, 8am
Live Stage 2 on TNT Sports 1 from 8am -- 193km via Shamakhi to Ismayilli. MotoGP French GP highlights on TNT Sports 3 from 5.30pm.
Tonight's TV Listings: Full Monday Schedule
| Time | Channel | Programme |
|---|---|---|
| 7am | TNT Sports 1 | Tour of Azerbaijan Stage 1 replay (Baku to Sumgayit, 158km) |
| 8am | TNT Sports 1 | LIVE Tour of Azerbaijan Stage 2 (193km via Shamakhi to Ismayilli) |
| 9.25am | CBeebies | Froglets NEW ("The Race" -- Ziff, Pipp, Button; barbecue agility games) |
| 2.50pm | Sky Sports Cricket | LIVE IPL: Punjab Kings v Delhi Capitals (Dharamsala) |
| 3pm | Sky Sports Main Event | LIVE IPL: Punjab Kings v Delhi Capitals |
| 5.30pm | TNT Sports 3 | MotoGP Grand Prix of France highlights (Sunday races replay) |
| 6.30pm | Sky Sports Main Event/PL | LIVE Spurs v Leeds United (MNF -- build-up, k/o 8pm) |
| 6.30pm | BBC Two | Great Central Asian Railway Journeys NEW S1 Ep1/5 (Portillo; Uzbekistan; Silk Road; Tashkent) |
| 7pm | BBC One | The One Show (Alex Jones + Roman Kemp) |
| 7pm | BBC Four | University Challenge S21 Ep5/37 (Cranfield v Royal Holloway) |
| 7.15pm | Film4 | The Monuments Men (2014 -- Clooney + Damon; WWII art rescue) |
| 7.30pm | BBC Four | Only Connect Ep3/15 (Victoria Coren Mitchell) |
| 7.30pm | BBC One | EastEnders (Ian's worrying discovery; Nicola acts; Grant helps friend) |
| 8pm | BBC One | MasterChef S21 Ep10/21 -- Heat 5 FINAL HEAT (Grace Dent + Anna Haugh; Vesuvius dish) |
| 8pm | BBC Two | The Elon Musk Show Ep2/3 NEW (Tesla + Mars; global financial crisis) |
| 8pm | BBC Three | "Classic EastEnders: 20 Years of Denise" (2009 eps -- Trueman/Fox grief arc) |
| 8pm | BBC Scotland | The Harbour S1 Ep1/6 NEW (Aberdeen Harbour; Val Morrison; Terry Dearlove) |
| 8pm | ITV2 | Wheel of Fortune S1 Ep2 (Graham Norton; Chris, Laura, Samantha; £50,000) |
| 8pm | Sky Documentaries | "Bibaa & Nicole: Murder in the Park" Ep1/3 NEW & EXCLUSIVE (disappearance; slow police response) |
| 8pm | Sky Arts | Andre Rieu: On The Road (Radetzky March; global tour) |
| 8.30pm | BBC Scotland | The Harbour S1 Ep2/6 NEW (high winds; rare harbour closure) |
| 8.30pm | ITV1 | Coronation Street (murder mystery arc, week 2) |
| 8.30pm | BBC Three | "Classic EastEnders: 20 Years of Denise" (2012 ep -- Lola + Lexi; Ian + Denise) |
| 9pm | BBC One | Mint Ep 7/8 (Dylan shows Shannon his past; rivals find common ground; VERY STRONG LANGUAGE) ⭐ |
| 9pm | ITV1 | Believe Me S1 Ep2/4 NEW (Laila -- drugged + assaulted; CCTV dismissed; pattern spotted) ⭐ |
| 9pm | BBC Two | Children of the Blitz (90 min; last Blitz child survivors; Gill, Jean, Monica, Ernie) ⭐ |
| 9pm | Channel 5 | Major Crimes Unit Ep1 NEW SERIES (West Midlands Police elite unit; unprecedented access; 90 min) |
| 9pm | More4 | Our Tiny Islands S2 Ep2 NEW (Station Island pilgrimage; North Uist seaweed farmer) |
| 9pm | Sky Atlantic | Euphoria S3 Ep5 NEW (faith; redemption; problem of evil) |
| 9pm | Sky History | "Knut: The Viking Emperor" S1 Ep2 NEW (Revenge of a Landless King; Knut vs Edmund Ironside) |
| 9pm | Sky Documentaries | "Bibaa & Nicole: Murder in the Park" Ep2/3 NEW (police hunt; selfie photograph discovery) |
| 9.30pm | BBC One | Mint Ep 8/8 SERIES FINALE (Shannon charms Sam; family protection; at what cost?) ⭐ |
| 9.30pm | Film4 | Sisu (2022 -- Jorma Tommila; Jalmari Helander; Finnish/Nazi thriller; 4 stars) ⭐ |
| 9.30pm | BBC One Scotland | Mint Ep 7/8 (Scotland timing -- 30 min delayed) |
| 10pm | BBC Two | Newsnight + Weather (Victoria Derbyshire) |
| 10pm | BBC Four | The Sky at Night (Jodrell Bank; Lovell Telescope; e-MERLIN; Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock) |
| 10pm | Sky One | Rooster S1 Ep10 LAST IN SERIES (Steve Carell; end of Ludlow College; daughter Katie) ⭐ |
| 10pm | Sky Documentaries | "Bibaa & Nicole: Murder in the Park" Ep3/3 NEW (two investigations: murder + police misconduct) |
| 10pm | Sky Arts | Jean-Michel Jarre Live in Sevilla NEW (2 hrs; Plaza de España; AI visuals -- NOTE: 10pm not 9pm) |
| 9pm | BBC Scotland | Surgeons: At the Edge of Life S8 Ep1 NEW (rare surgery; contains upsetting content) |
| 10.10pm | Sky History | Viking Dead S1 Ep4 (Oseberg ship; two skeletons) |
| 10.15pm | Sky Atlantic | Heated Rivalry S1 Ep3 NEW & EXCLUSIVE (NY Admirals captain) |
| 10.30pm | BBC Scotland | Two Doors Down S4 Ep1 NEW (Ian + Gordon; surprise party) |
| 10.40pm | BBC One | Have I Got News for You S70 Ep6 (Steph McGovern host; Jon Richardson; Sheila Hancock) |
| 10.40pm | BBC One Scotland | Mint Ep 8/8 SERIES FINALE (Scotland -- after news break) |
| 11pm | BBC Three | "EastEnders Investigates: The Manosphere" (cast discuss Joel's misogyny storyline) |
| 11pm | BBC Two | A Bigger Splash (2015 film; strong language + sex; runs to 1am) |
| 11.20pm | Film4 | Terminator: Dark Fate (2019; Linda Hamilton + Schwarzenegger; runs to 1.50am) |
Freeview TV Guide: What's On Streaming
Can't watch live? Here is where everything is on Monday 11 May 2026:
BBC iPlayer: Mint (full eight-episode series), EastEnders, MasterChef, Children of the Blitz, Classic EastEnders 20 Years of Denise, EastEnders Investigates The Manosphere, The Elon Musk Show, Great Central Asian Railway Journeys, This Farming Life, University Challenge, Only Connect, The Sky at Night, The Harbour (BBC Scotland), Have I Got News for You
ITVX: Believe Me (all four episodes as they broadcast), Emmerdale, Coronation Street
Channel 4 streaming: Sisu (Film4, from broadcast), Our Tiny Islands Series 2, 24 Hours in A&E, Major Crimes Unit (My5)
Sky Go / NOW TV: Euphoria Series 3, Heated Rivalry, Rooster (full series), Andor, Bibaa & Nicole: Murder in the Park (all three episodes), Knut: The Viking Emperor, Jean-Michel Jarre Live in Sevilla (all require Sky or NOW Entertainment Membership)
Sky Sports / TNT Sports: Spurs v Leeds MNF, IPL Punjab v Delhi (highlights on Sky Sports Cricket from 8pm), Tour of Azerbaijan cycling, MotoGP France highlights (subscriptions required)
What's On TV Tonight: Frequently Asked Questions
What's on TV tonight, Monday 11th May 2026?
The major events are: Mint series finale double bill on BBC One (9pm and 9.30pm, eps 7 and 8 of 8); Believe Me episode 2 on ITV1 at 9pm (Laila Mahmood's story, CCTV dismissed); Children of the Blitz on BBC Two at 9pm (90 minutes, last Blitz survivors); Classic EastEnders: 20 Years of Denise on BBC Three from 8pm; Rooster last in series on Sky One at 10pm; Sisu (four stars) on Film4 at 9.30pm. Monday Night Football: Spurs v Leeds on Sky Sports, coverage 6.30pm, kick-off 8pm.
What time is the Mint series finale on BBC One tonight?
The Mint series finale is a double bill on BBC One tonight. Episode 7 (the penultimate) is at 9pm; episode 8 (the finale) follows at 9.30pm. Both run 30 minutes. Charlotte Regan wrote and directed the full series. Episode 7: Dylan gives Shannon a glimpse into his past. Episode 8: Shannon must charm Sam to protect her family -- but at what cost? Scottish viewers get both episodes with a news break (ep 7 at 9.30pm, ep 8 at 10.40pm). The full series is available on BBC iPlayer.
What time is Believe Me on ITV1 tonight?
Believe Me episode 2 of 4 is on ITV1 at 9pm tonight, Monday 11 May 2026. Tonight follows Laila Mahmood, a student who is drugged and assaulted by Worboys. Despite CCTV footage supporting her account, her case is dismissed by the Metropolitan Police. Eventually, officers begin to spot a disturbing pattern across cases. Jeff Pope wrote the series; Daniel Mays plays John Worboys. Episode 1 (Sarah Adams) aired on ITV1 on Sunday 10 May. Episode 3 follows on Tuesday 12 May. Full series on ITVX.
What time is Children of the Blitz on BBC Two tonight?
Children of the Blitz is on BBC Two at 9pm tonight -- a 90-minute documentary running until 10.30pm. Some of the last surviving children of the Blitz speak about what they witnessed: Gill from Coventry, Jean from Sheffield (whose mother was killed in a raid), Monica from Croydon (two best friends killed in the bombing), and Ernie from Liverpool, who describes it as "the end of our community." Available on BBC iPlayer.
What time is Rooster on Sky One tonight?
Rooster is on Sky One at 10pm tonight -- series 1, episode 10, the last in the series. Steve Carell plays Greg "Rooster" Russo, whose guest professorship at Ludlow College is coming to an end. The storyline with his daughter Katie reaches a resolution. A second series has been announced by Sky. Available on Sky and NOW.
Is EastEnders on tonight, Monday 11th May 2026?
Yes, EastEnders is on BBC One tonight at 7.30pm. Ian makes a worrying discovery. Nicola takes matters into her own hands. Grant helps a friend. Available on BBC iPlayer.
What time is Spurs v Leeds on Sky Sports tonight?
Spurs v Leeds United is live on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League tonight. Coverage starts at 6.30pm; kick-off is 8pm at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. It is a relegation-threatened fixture for Leeds. Sky Sports or NOW subscription required.
What time is Jean-Michel Jarre Live in Sevilla on Sky Arts tonight?
Jean-Michel Jarre Live in Sevilla is on Sky Arts at 10pm tonight -- not 9pm as some listings suggest. The EPG confirms a 10pm BST start (Sky data is stored in UTC; some guide sources listed the UTC time as BST). The two-hour concert at the Plaza de España in Sevilla runs until midnight. Available on Sky and NOW.
What time is University Challenge on tonight?
University Challenge is on BBC Four at 7pm tonight -- Series 21, episode 5. Cranfield University face Royal Holloway in a first-round match. Only Connect follows at 7.30pm on BBC Four, episode 3 of 15, Victoria Coren Mitchell hosting. Both available on BBC iPlayer.
What's the best thing to watch on TV tonight?
If you have been watching Mint from the start, the series finale double bill on BBC One from 9pm is the television event of the evening. Believe Me episode 2 on ITV1 at the same time is the more pressing watch if you care about fact-based drama with serious things to say -- the CCTV sequence in particular. Children of the Blitz on BBC Two at 9pm is 90 minutes with no equivalent elsewhere on tonight's schedule. The Rooster finale on Sky One at 10pm is for those who have been following a quietly excellent comedy import all season. Sisu on Film4 at 9.30pm is the late-night pick if action cinema is what you want.
TV Guide UK: Final Verdict
The first non-bank-holiday Monday since the long weekend lands with more weight than post-holiday Mondays usually carry. BBC One closes a series and opens its 9pm slot to what amounts to a proper drama event. ITV1 continues one of the year's most significant new commissions. BBC Two offers testimony from people who were children during the Blitz -- there is a narrowing window in which this film could be made, and the schedule has given it 90 minutes in a good slot.
The Rooster series finale at 10pm on Sky One is the under-noticed event of the night: Steve Carell has been doing something precise and unhurried across ten episodes, and the finale closes it on those terms. Jean-Michel Jarre at the Plaza de España is two hours of properly impressive concert television starting at 10pm on Sky Arts -- the correct time, regardless of what some listings say.
University Challenge and Only Connect on BBC Four at 7pm and 7.30pm are the calm before the 9pm hour. The Bibaa and Nicole triple-bill on Sky Documentaries from 8pm is three hours of serious documentary work from Sky's best commissioners. The Classic EastEnders block on BBC Three does what anniversary programming should do -- it shows why a character lasted 20 years, rather than merely asserting it.
Browse the full channels list, check what's on right now, or see tonight's highlights. Tomorrow brings Believe Me episode 3, the Mint aftermath, and the Coronation Street murder mystery moving into its second week.