So what's on tv tonight? Monday's tv guide is an argument waiting to happen. At 9pm alone you have four programmes worth watching simultaneously on BBC One, BBC Two, Channel 4 and Channel 5, which means four programmes you cannot watch, and that is before Euphoria adds itself to the pile on Sky Atlantic. Check the full tv listings below, or browse the freeview tv guide and now-and-next listings to work out what you are sacrificing tonight.
What's On TV Tonight: Quick Picks
- Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me ⭐ – BBC Two, 9pm – ep 1/3; Florida retirement home; two years of wobbly phone footage; one entirely extraordinary woman
- Babies – BBC One, 9pm – S1 ep 5/6; penultimate episode; Stephen won't grieve; Amanda's bombshell; concludes tomorrow
- Missed Call – Channel 5, 9pm – NEW SERIES ep 1/5; Joanna Scanlan; missing daughter in France; Robert Lindsay; five-part thriller
- 24 Hours in Police Custody: The Cold Case Murder – Channel 4, 9pm – NEW two-part special; 2013 Cambridgeshire murder; cold case team; DNA evidence
- Euphoria – Sky Atlantic, 9pm – NEW S3 ep 1; Zendaya; Jacob Elordi; 75-minute premiere; long wait over
- Charmain and the Prophet – BBC Two, 10pm – NEW SERIES ep 1/3; Myles Bonnar; Scottish mother's death in Ghana; controlling preacher husband
- Have I Got News for You – BBC One, 10:40pm – S70 ep 2; Monty Don hosts; Chris McCausland and Helen Lewis
See what's on right now for live updates.
Sport
Manchester United v Leeds United – Sky Sports Main Event/Premier League, k/o 8pm
Monday Night Football returns to Old Trafford. Build-up from 6:30pm on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League. One of English football's oldest and most charged rivalries gets the prime-time slot, with United hosting their historic Yorkshire rivals in a fixture that has rarely been short of atmosphere.
Snooker World Championship -- TNT Sports 3, 7pm-10pm. Qualifying rounds from the English Institute of Sport, Sheffield.
Masters Final Round Highlights -- Sky Sports Golf, 5:30pm and 9pm. Sunday's Augusta drama replayed.
TV Guide: Early Evening (5pm – 8:30pm)
Pointless – BBC One, 5:15pm
Alexander Armstrong and Tom Allen at the helm. If you have never seen Tom Allen attempt to contain his delight when a contestant gives an answer of zero, you are missing one of the quieter joys of early-evening television.
Great Japanese Railway Journeys – BBC Two, 6:30pm
New series, episode 1 of 15. Michael Portillo boards the Shinkansen and heads into a Japan that most tourists never see -- starting in Osaka, then on to Nagoya for manga culture and a factory dedicated entirely to producing technologically advanced toilets. Portillo's enthusiasm for unusual destinations is what makes this franchise work, and Japan is an unusually rich canvas. Available on BBC iPlayer.
EastEnders – BBC One, 7:30pm
Vicki and Ross are heading into their respective stag dos tonight, which on Albert Square almost certainly means something will go wrong before the night is out. Jasmine is settling into life with the Slaters, and Bea is finally making a call on her love life. Available on BBC iPlayer.
How to Clean Up for Cash – ITV1, 7:30pm
New series, episode 1. Josie Gibson hosts what is essentially a decluttering show with a financial incentive, starting with Mel and her husband Paul's extensive Bruce Springsteen memorabilia collection. Whether Paul considers this a bonding exercise or a minor domestic crisis is left for viewers to determine. Available on ITVX.
Emmerdale – ITV1, 8pm
Cain works to bring Moira around. Fresh evidence complicates matters further. Sarah is there for Cain when he needs it. Available on ITVX.
Mastermind – BBC Two, 8pm
Series 22, episode 30 of 31. The last semi-final before next week's grand final. Tonight's specialist subjects are Amelia Earhart, Laurence Olivier, Burgundy red wines, and Noel Coward -- a spread that suggests at least one contestant has interesting taste.
The Dog House – Channel 4, 8pm
Series 9, episode 5. Bulut is a stray Belgian Malinois who arrived at Wood Green having been found in difficult circumstances. Bailey the cocker spaniel and Moose the Staffie are also hoping to find their people tonight. The Dog House never really fails to deliver, and this series has been particularly strong. Available on Channel 4 streaming.
University Challenge – BBC Two, 8:30pm
Series 24, episode 36 of 37. The second semi-final with Amol Rajan. Two teams away from the final. The questions at this stage are properly hard.
Coronation Street – ITV1, 8:30pm
Todd works to keep Theo calm. Debbie gets wind of Carl's bribery. Lisa takes Kit to task. Eva pulls the family back together. Available on ITVX.
TV Tonight: Prime Time (9pm onwards)
Monday at 9pm is where this evening turns into a scheduling headache. Four channels are all putting their best foot forward at exactly the same time, and then Euphoria lands on Sky Atlantic to make things worse. Your remote control is about to earn its keep.
Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me ⭐ – BBC Two, 9pm
The one to watch tonight, and it is not particularly close.
Director Simon Draper set out to make a podcast with Miriam Margolyes. Two years later, he had accumulated hours of wobbly phone footage shot at a Florida retirement home, and what started as an audio project had become something considerably more unexpected. That footage is the entire texture of this three-part series -- hand-held, informal, occasionally out of focus, entirely alive.
Miriam says early on that she refuses to be reduced to a reputation for being loud, foul-mouthed, and elderly. What she actually is, as this documentary makes plain, is a serious actress, a deeply warm person, and someone who seems completely baffled by the scale of affection audiences have started directing at her. "In my early eighties, I have not only become disabled, but I have become more popular. I don't know what to do about that," she says, with the kind of honesty that most documentaries have to manufacture.
She is raucous, honest, frequently outrageous, and quite surprisingly moving. Three parts. This one is worth making time for. Available on BBC iPlayer.
Babies – BBC One, 9pm
Series 1, episode 5 of 6. The penultimate episode of one of this year's most uncomfortable, most compelling dramas, and it airs tonight on BBC One against three strong competitors.
The focus tonight is on Stephen (Paapa Essiedu), who has decided that his role in Lisa's grief is to be the strong one -- which means not allowing himself to feel anything. An attempt to talk to his father about it goes nowhere in a way that tells you everything about where that particular coping mechanism came from. Lisa (Siobhán Cullen) keeps trying to reach him.
Elsewhere, Amanda (Charlotte Riley) drops the news on Dave (Jack Bannon) that she is pregnant, and that she is leaving him, and that she is going to Singapore. Dave keeps repeating himself because he cannot quite process what is happening. Amanda keeps repeating herself too, waiting for it to land. It eventually does. This is tense, unsparing television, and it concludes tomorrow night. Available on BBC iPlayer.
Missed Call – Channel 5, 9pm
New series, episode 1 of 5. Joanna Scanlan plays Sarah, whose 17-year-old daughter is on a school exchange trip to France when Sarah misses a call from her. When she rings back, she gets voicemail. The host family shrugs and suggests the girl has probably just gone off on an adventure. The supervising teacher and her daughter's friends all insist they know nothing.
So Sarah flies to France herself and finds an entire village that seems to be hiding something, with Robert Lindsay and Rupert Graves among the recognisable faces doing their best to look innocent. Five consecutive nights. A proper page-turner of a drama and Scanlan is note-perfect casting as a mother who will not be fobbed off. Available on My5.
24 Hours in Police Custody: The Cold Case Murder – Channel 4, 9pm
New two-part special. Channel 4's long-running true-crime series has been going long enough to outlast its own title -- there is rarely 24 hours of it any more -- but it remains one of the sharpest and most disciplined strands on the channel.
This special follows a cold case team reopening the 2013 murder of Una Crown, an 86-year-old widow found stabbed multiple times and set alight at her bungalow in Cambridgeshire. Potential forensic clues were missed or lost during the original investigation. DI Lee Martin is now hoping that advances in DNA analysis could do what the first inquiry failed to. Part two concludes tomorrow night. Available on Channel 4 streaming.
Euphoria – Sky Atlantic, 9pm
Series 3, episode 1. Seventy-five minutes. The wait has been long enough that some viewers have quietly wondered whether this series would ever actually arrive.
Zendaya returns as Rue, Jacob Elordi as Nate, and the show is back with its particular mix of drugs, fractured relationships, heightened visual style, and social media anxiety. If you are already a fan, the premiere is exactly the event you have been waiting for. If you have never watched, going in at series three without the first two would be its own specific kind of chaos. Available on Sky Go and Now TV.
TV Guide UK: Late Night
Charmain and the Prophet – BBC Two, 10pm
New series, episode 1 of 3. In 2015, Charmain Speirs, a 41-year-old Scottish mother, died in a hotel bathtub in Ghana. Her husband Eric Adusah, a preacher, was charged with murder but the case collapsed before it reached a verdict. Myles Bonnar investigates how she came to be there, exploring a pattern of controlling behaviour that included confiscating her passport and systematically isolating her from her family. A disturbing and carefully reported three-part investigation. Also airing on BBC One Scotland at 8pm and BBC Two Northern Ireland at 11pm. Available on BBC iPlayer.
The Disappearance of Jay Slater – Channel 4, 10pm
Eighty minutes. Channel 4 has secured what it describes as an exclusive documentary about the disappearance of British teenager Jay Slater in Tenerife. The case generated an enormous amount of online attention and considerable misinformation. Worth watching with that context in mind.
Have I Got News for You – BBC One, 10:40pm
Series 70, episode 2. Monty Don in the host's chair tonight, which is an unusual and rather pleasing combination. Chris McCausland and Helen Lewis on the panels. Available on BBC iPlayer.
The Sky at Night – BBC Four, 10pm
The Artemis II mission. The team explore NASA's first crewed journey towards the Moon since 1972, looking at what the mission means and where it is going.
Rooster – Sky One, 10pm
Series 1, episode 6. Steve Carell as Greg, an author whose speaking engagement at a college draws him into a complicated dynamic with English professor Dylan Shepard (Danielle Deadwyler), while his relationship with his daughter Katie (Charly Clive) remains central. Funny and stranger than it looks.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – BBC One, 11:10pm
Tomas Alfredson's 2011 adaptation with Gary Oldman at his most controlled as George Smiley. John Hurt, Colin Firth, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hardy. If you missed it on its cinema release and you are still awake, this is a properly excellent film -- dense, cold, and worth every bit of concentration it demands.
Tonight's TV Listings: Full Schedule
Here are the full tv listings for Monday 13th April 2026 across all major Freeview, Sky and streaming channels.
| Time | Channel | Programme |
|---|---|---|
| 5:15pm | BBC One | Pointless (S34, Alexander Armstrong and Tom Allen) |
| 5:30pm | Sky Sports Golf | Masters Final Round Highlights |
| 6:30pm | BBC Two | Great Japanese Railway Journeys (NEW SERIES, ep 1/15) |
| 6:30pm | Sky Sports Main Event | Manchester United v Leeds United (build-up, LIVE) |
| 7pm | TNT Sports 3 | Snooker World Championship: Qualifiers (LIVE) |
| 7:30pm | BBC One | EastEnders |
| 7:30pm | ITV1 | How to Clean Up for Cash (NEW SERIES, ep 1) |
| 8pm | ITV1 | Emmerdale |
| 8pm | BBC Two | Mastermind (S22, last semi-final) |
| 8pm | Channel 4 | The Dog House (S9 ep 5, NEW) |
| 8pm | Sky Sports Main Event | Manchester United v Leeds United (LIVE, k/o 8pm) |
| 8:30pm | ITV1 | Coronation Street |
| 8:30pm | BBC Two | University Challenge (S24 ep 36/37, semi-final) |
| 9pm | BBC One | Babies (S1 ep 5/6) |
| 9pm | BBC Two | Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me ⭐ (NEW SERIES, ep 1/3) |
| 9pm | Channel 5 | Missed Call (NEW SERIES, ep 1/5) |
| 9pm | Channel 4 | 24 Hours in Police Custody: The Cold Case Murder (NEW, pt 1/2) |
| 9pm | Sky Atlantic | Euphoria (NEW S3, ep 1, 75 mins) |
| 9pm | ITV1 | I'm a Celebrity... South Africa (S1 ep 5, 75 mins) |
| 9pm | Sky Sports Golf | Masters Final Round Highlights |
| 10pm | BBC Two | Charmain and the Prophet (NEW SERIES, ep 1/3) |
| 10pm | Channel 4 | The Disappearance of Jay Slater (exclusive doc, 80 mins) |
| 10pm | BBC Four | The Sky at Night (Artemis II) |
| 10pm | Sky One | Rooster (S1 ep 6) |
| 10:40pm | BBC One | Have I Got News for You (S70 ep 2, Monty Don hosts) |
| 11:10pm | BBC One | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011 film) |
Freeview TV Guide: What's On Streaming
Can't watch live? Here's where everything ends up. The freeview tv guide for catch-up platforms:
BBC iPlayer: Babies, Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me, Charmain and the Prophet, EastEnders, Great Japanese Railway Journeys, The Sky at Night, Have I Got News for You
My5: Missed Call
Channel 4 streaming: 24 Hours in Police Custody: The Cold Case Murder, The Dog House, The Disappearance of Jay Slater
ITVX: How to Clean Up for Cash, Emmerdale, Coronation Street, I'm a Celebrity... South Africa
Sky Go / Now TV: Euphoria, Rooster, Manchester United v Leeds United
Frequently Asked Questions
Is EastEnders on TV tonight, Monday 13th April 2026?
Yes, EastEnders is on BBC One tonight at 7:30pm. Vicki and Ross head into their stag dos, Jasmine is settling into life with the Slaters, and Bea comes to a decision about her love life. You can also catch up on all recent episodes via BBC iPlayer.
What time is Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me on BBC Two tonight?
Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me begins on BBC Two at 9pm tonight. It is the first of three episodes. Available to watch afterwards on BBC iPlayer.
What time is Missed Call on Channel 5 tonight?
Missed Call begins on Channel 5 at 9pm tonight, with episode 1 of 5. Joanna Scanlan stars as a mother whose daughter fails to respond after a missed call during a school trip to France. The series continues nightly. Available on My5.
What time is 24 Hours in Police Custody on Channel 4 tonight?
24 Hours in Police Custody -- The Cold Case Murder begins on Channel 4 at 9pm tonight. This is part one of two, examining the unsolved 2013 murder of widow Una Crown. Part two concludes tomorrow night. Available on Channel 4 streaming.
What time is Euphoria series 3 on tonight?
Euphoria series 3 premieres on Sky Atlantic at 9pm tonight. The opening episode runs for 75 minutes. Zendaya and Jacob Elordi return. Available on Sky Go and Now TV.
What time is Manchester United v Leeds United on tonight?
Manchester United v Leeds United kicks off at 8pm tonight on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League. Build-up coverage starts from 6:30pm.
What's the best thing to watch on TV tonight?
Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me on BBC Two at 9pm is our pick -- warm, funny, and more moving than its phone-footage origins suggest it has any right to be. At 9pm you also face a proper four-way dilemma: Babies on BBC One for the best drama currently on television, Missed Call on Channel 5 for a strong new thriller, and 24 Hours in Police Custody on Channel 4 for true crime done properly. If you have Sky, Euphoria's return on Sky Atlantic is the obvious additional claim on your evening.
TV Guide UK: Final Verdict
Monday's tv guide does not believe in making things easy. The 9pm hour is as crowded with decent television as any night this week, and the argument for what to watch first is a real one.
Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me on BBC Two gets the nod. It is something different -- not a conventional documentary, not a profile piece, but two years of a remarkable person being caught off guard, and the results are unlike most things you will see on television this year.
Babies on BBC One at 9pm is the penultimate episode of a drama that deserves to finish on something close to a full audience -- if you have not started it, BBC iPlayer has all five episodes. Missed Call on Channel 5 is the new series to follow if you want something to keep you busy all week.
Browse the full channels list, check what's on right now, or see the tonight highlights for a live summary of the evening.