What's on TV tonight Saturday 23 May 2026? The evening belongs to Two Weeks in August, a new BBC One thriller that has been generating heavy advance word. Episodes 1 and 2 land tonight at 9pm and 9.45pm, and the full eight-episode series drops on BBC iPlayer at the same time. Either the BBC is confident, or they have accepted that nobody watches anything in instalments any more. Probably both. The day gets to that point through a schedule that is full from lunchtime: a Championship Play-Off Final at Wembley with a backstory that belongs in a documentary rather than a match preview, the Women's Champions League Final from Oslo, a birthday tribute for Cher, a prize-winning Iranian film on BBC Four, and a new Danny Dyer and Emily Atack reality quiz that looks more watchable than it has any right to be.

Browse what's on right now for live updates, see tonight's full highlights, or go straight to the channels list -- including dedicated pages for BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Four, ITV1, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky Sports Main Event, and Sky Documentaries. For yesterday's listings -- including the Giro rest-day build-up, Europa League Final preview, and more -- see our Friday 22 May 2026 TV guide.

What's on TV tonight: quick picks

  • Two Weeks in August (Eps 1 & 2) -- BBC One, 9pm + 9.45pm -- NEW SERIES; double bill; Eps 1--8 all on iPlayer same night; Jessica Raine, Damien Molony, Leila Farzad; filmed Malta/Gozo; holiday-turns-nightmare thriller; writer Catherine Shepherd
  • Women's Champions League Final: Barcelona v OL Lyonnes -- BBC Two, coverage 4.30pm, kick-off 5pm -- LIVE; Ullevaal Stadion Oslo; fourth time these clubs have met in a final; referee Tess Olofsson
  • EFL Championship Play-Off Final: Hull City v Middlesbrough -- Sky Sports Main Event, kick-off 3.30pm -- LIVE; Wembley; Middlesbrough reinstated after Southampton's Spygate expulsion; promotion to Premier League
  • Cher at the BBC -- BBC Two, 9pm -- archive tribute; Cher turned 80 on 20 May; I Got You Babe from 1965; followed at 10.20pm by Cher Meets Rylan (2023 Rylan Clark interview, repeated)
  • My Favourite Cake -- BBC Four, 9pm -- 2024 Iranian drama; Maryam Moghaddam + Behtash Sanaeeha; FIPRESCI Prize Berlinale 2024; Lily Farhadpour; subtitled; ★★★★
  • Nobody's Fool -- ITV1, 9pm -- NEW SERIES Ep 1; Danny Dyer + Emily Atack; "Smart House" reality quiz; £100,000 prize; "National Trust property without the trust" (Dyer)
  • Casualty -- BBC One, 8.10pm -- S41 Ep 4; Dylan/Matty/Stevie morphine storyline; Faith and Pearl NICU subplot
  • Blankety Blank -- BBC One, 6.35pm -- Bradley Walsh hosts; Jonathan Ross, Joanna Page, Harry Redknapp, Joe Swash, Susan Wokoma, Shazia Mirza
  • The Equalizer 3 -- Channel 4, 9pm -- 2023; Antoine Fuqua; Denzel Washington + Dakota Fanning reunited nearly two decades after Man on Fire; Italy setting
  • RHS Chelsea Flower Show -- BBC Two, 8pm -- Saturday highlights; Rachel de Thame and Monty Don; Royal Hospital Chelsea
  • Angela Rippon's River Cruises -- Channel 5, 8pm -- Ep 3; Mekong; Cambodia; Scenic Spirit; Angkor Wat at 4.30am; pangolin encounter
  • The Yogurt Shop Murders: The End of Wondering -- Sky Documentaries, 9pm -- Ep 5 (final); HBO/Sky doc; 1991 Austin murders; Margaret Brown; major real-life breakthrough; UK premiere same day as HBO
  • Bullseye for Soccer Aid -- ITV1, 5.55pm -- Freddie Flintoff hosts; Olly Murs + Mark Wright vs Kym Marsh + Jon Richardson; build-up to Soccer Aid 31 May
  • Giro d'Italia Stage 14 -- TNT Sports 3 from 11am / TNT Sports 1 from 11.45am -- Aosta to Pila, 133km; 4,000m+ climbing; summit finish

See what's on right now for live updates.

Tonight's TV schedule: full listings

Time Channel Programme
11.00am TNT Sports 3 Cycling: Giro d'Italia Stage 14 LIVE -- Aosta to Pila, 133km; mountain stage; 4,000m+ climbing
11.45am TNT Sports 1 Cycling: Giro d'Italia Stage 14 LIVE -- switch to main channel; summit finish up Pila
2.45pm ITV4 Champions Cup Final: Leinster v Bordeaux Bègles LIVE -- San Mamés, Bilbao; kick-off 2.45pm; free-to-air on ITV4 / ITVX
3.00pm Sky Sports Main Event EFL Championship Play-Off Final coverage start -- Hull City v Middlesbrough build-up
3.30pm Sky Sports Main Event + Football EFL Championship Play-Off Final: Hull City v Middlesbrough KICK-OFF -- Wembley
4.30pm BBC Two Women's Champions League Final coverage start -- Barcelona v OL Lyonnes; Oslo
5.00pm BBC Two Women's Champions League Final: Barcelona v OL Lyonnes KICK-OFF -- Ullevaal Stadion
5.55pm ITV1 Bullseye for Soccer Aid -- Freddie Flintoff hosts; Olly Murs + Mark Wright vs Kym Marsh + Jon Richardson
6.35pm BBC One Blankety Blank -- Bradley Walsh; Jonathan Ross; Joanna Page; Harry Redknapp; Joe Swash; Susan Wokoma; Shazia Mirza
8.00pm BBC Two RHS Chelsea Flower Show Saturday highlights -- Rachel de Thame and Monty Don
8.00pm Channel 5 Angela Rippon's River Cruises Ep 3 -- Mekong; Cambodia; Scenic Spirit; Angkor Wat
8.10pm BBC One Casualty S41 Ep 4 -- morphine dosing storyline; NICU subplot
9.00pm BBC One Two Weeks in August Ep 1 NEW SERIES -- Jessica Raine, Damien Molony, Leila Farzad
9.00pm BBC Two Cher at the BBC -- archive tribute; Cher's 80th birthday; from 1965
9.00pm BBC Four My Favourite Cake (2024 film) ★★★★ -- Maryam Moghaddam; Behtash Sanaeeha; Lily Farhadpour; subtitled
9.00pm ITV1 Nobody's Fool S1 Ep 1 NEW SERIES -- Danny Dyer + Emily Atack; Smart House; £100,000
9.00pm Channel 4 The Equalizer 3 (2023 film) -- Denzel Washington; Dakota Fanning; Antoine Fuqua
9.00pm Sky Documentaries The Yogurt Shop Murders: The End of Wondering Ep 5 (final) -- HBO/Sky; UK premiere
9.45pm BBC One Two Weeks in August Ep 2 -- double bill continues
10.20pm BBC Two Cher Meets Rylan -- Rylan Clark interview special (repeat; originally 9 Dec 2023)
Now streaming BBC iPlayer Two Weeks in August Eps 1--8 -- full series available from tonight

Two Weeks in August -- BBC One, 9pm + 9.45pm

Two Weeks in August, Episodes 1 and 2 of 8, airs as a BBC One double bill at 9pm and 9.45pm on Saturday 23 May 2026. Writer: Catherine Shepherd. Directors: Tom George (Eps 1--4) and Matthew Moore (Eps 5--8). The full 8-episode series is available on BBC iPlayer from the same night.

The comparisons to The White Lotus have been circulating for weeks, and they are not entirely wrong. A group of people on a beautiful holiday island. The slow realisation that several of them are doing something they should not be. The unease creeping in under a surface designed to suggest everything is fine. But Two Weeks in August earns its own identity. Catherine Shepherd's script is interested in the specific chemistry of a group of friends who know each other well enough to understand exactly which lies will work, and the architecture of her plot — the illicit kiss someone sees, the boat trip that goes somewhere nobody planned, the secrets that surface when people have been confined to the same villa for too long — belongs to a more specific tradition of British ensemble drama than the American resort-satire of The White Lotus.

The cast is one of those BBC assemblies that looks easy on paper and took a casting director months to land. Jessica Raine, who has been one of the most consistently interesting actors working in British television for the past decade, plays Zoe. Damien Molony, who tends to be underused and is very good at playing someone apparently solid with something working against him underneath, is Dan. Leila Farzad, whose profile has climbed steadily since I Hate Suzie, plays Nat. Hugh Skinner, Nicholas Pinnock, Antonia Thomas, Dylan Brady, Maria Almeida, Dolly Wells, and Tom Goodman-Hill round out the ensemble.

Filmed where Greece was not an option

The series is set on a Greek island and filmed in Malta and Gozo by local production company Pellikola. Greece's production infrastructure for international drama is still developing; Malta's is not. Gozo in particular has been standing in for the wider Mediterranean in a growing number of UK and European productions over the past five years. The light works, the landscape works, the illusion holds.

Tom George directed the first four episodes. He has been building a body of work in prestige British drama with good instincts for tone and for ensemble blocking — close enough to read faces, wide enough to feel the context pressing in. Matthew Moore takes over for episodes 5 to 8.

The iPlayer drop

BBC One broadcasts Episodes 1 and 2 tonight. The full eight-episode series is available on BBC iPlayer from the same evening. The BBC has historically been cautious about this approach — it tends to hollow out linear ratings — and the fact that they have gone for it here suggests they expect this audience to be iPlayer-native anyway. Watch the first two on BBC One, continue on iPlayer, or skip the linear broadcast and treat tonight as the starting gun.

On BBC One at 9pm (Ep 1) and 9.45pm (Ep 2). Full series on BBC iPlayer.

Women's Champions League Final: Barcelona v OL Lyonnes -- BBC Two, coverage 4.30pm, kick-off 5pm

The 2025/26 UEFA Women's Champions League Final -- Barcelona Femeni v OL Lyonnes -- kicks off at 5pm BST at Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo. BBC Two coverage begins at 4.30pm, free to air; also on BBC iPlayer. Referee: Tess Olofsson of Sweden.

The reason this match keeps happening is that these are the two best-organised and best-funded women's clubs in Europe over the past decade, and the knockout rounds of the Women's Champions League have been producing the obvious result: Barcelona and Lyon, again, in the final. Tonight is the fourth time these clubs have met at this stage. Lyon won in 2019 and 2022. Barcelona won in 2024. 2026 depends partly on whether Lyon can replicate the defensive discipline that won them the 2022 final, and partly on whether Barcelona's squad depth has grown enough to handle a Lyon press that remains among the most organised in European women's football.

Lyon carry some history into this one. They have eight Women's Champions League titles, more than twice Barcelona's three, and they have rebuilt since the 2024 defeat. OL Lyonnes is the current branding; the club that was Olympique Lyonnais Féminin reorganised under the new name. On historical grounds they are the structural favourites, even with Barcelona defending.

Ullevaal Stadion is Norway's national football stadium and a sensible neutral ground for a final between Spanish and French sides. Swedish referee Tess Olofsson takes charge. She has refereed at the highest level of international women's football for several years and is regarded as one of Europe's calmest officials under pressure.

This is the fixture of the afternoon. The Women's Champions League Final has been growing its UK audience with each edition, and BBC Two's switch from highlights to live coverage reflects where that audience has moved. On BBC Two from 4.30pm. Available on BBC iPlayer.

EFL Championship Play-Off Final: Hull City v Middlesbrough -- Sky Sports, kick-off 3.30pm

The 2025/26 EFL Championship Play-Off Final -- Hull City v Middlesbrough -- kicks off at 3.30pm BST at Wembley Stadium. Live on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Football, coverage from 3pm. The winner earns promotion to the Premier League.

The reason this is Hull City v Middlesbrough rather than one of the sides that beat Middlesbrough in the semi-final needs a brief explanation, because it is one of the more extraordinary decisions in recent Football League history. On 19 May 2026, the EFL Disciplinary Commission expelled Southampton from the Play-Off Final after finding the club guilty of what has been widely described as "Spygate": the covert filming of opposition training sessions. The breaches covered Oxford United training in December 2025, Ipswich Town training in April 2026, and Middlesbrough's preparation in May 2026 in the build-up to the Play-Off semi-final itself. Middlesbrough had lost that semi-final 2-1 on aggregate to Southampton. After expelling Southampton, the Commission reinstated Middlesbrough to the final.

The decision runs against standard football disciplinary precedent. Points deductions and fines are the usual sanctions, not stripping a club of a competition place already won on the pitch. The third breach involving Middlesbrough — the semi-final opponents themselves — is what changed the calculation. Southampton have indicated they will appeal.

Hull City reached the final through the other semi-final bracket without any of the drama that has surrounded the rest of the competition. Whatever you think of the Commission's reasoning, the game in front of these two clubs is straightforward: ninety minutes at Wembley, promotion to the Premier League for the winners, another season in the Championship for the losers. The prize is large enough that the pre-match controversy will go quiet the moment the whistle blows.

On Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Football from 3pm, kick-off 3.30pm.

Cher at the BBC + Cher Meets Rylan -- BBC Two, 9pm + 10.20pm

Cher at the BBC airs on BBC Two from 9pm on Saturday 23 May 2026 -- an archive compilation marking Cher's 80th birthday (she turned 80 on Wednesday 20 May 2026). The programme draws on decades of BBC footage, including I Got You Babe with Sonny Bono from 1965. At 10.20pm, BBC Two follows with Cher Meets Rylan, a repeat of the Rylan Clark interview special originally broadcast on 9 December 2023.

Cher is 80, and the BBC has the archive footage to prove what that span of time looks like from inside a television career that began before most of the audience watching tonight was born. The 1965 appearance is in here — I Got You Babe with Sonny Bono, one of the defining pop singles of its decade — and it lands with the particular resonance early colour television footage tends to have, distant and vivid at once. The compilation isn't just a catalogue. It traces the public persona across six decades: Sonny and Cher, the solo career, the film work (Silkwood, Mask, Moonstruck, Suspect), and the various reinventions since.

Her birthday was Wednesday 20 May, so the Saturday night tribute arrives three days late — scheduling logic, not an oversight. Cher Meets Rylan at 10.20pm is a different register. Rylan Clark's 2023 interview, originally broadcast in December of that year, benefits from his instinct for warmth, which tends to draw out a less guarded version of interview subjects than the more formally journalistic approach does. Cher has been doing interviews for six decades and knows exactly what is expected of her; she appeared to find the format congenial. The repeat reads slightly differently now with the 80th birthday placing it in a longer frame.

On BBC Two from 9pm (Cher at the BBC) and 10.20pm (Cher Meets Rylan).

My Favourite Cake ★★★★ -- BBC Four, 9pm

My Favourite Cake airs on BBC Four at 9pm on Saturday 23 May 2026. Directed by Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha (2024). Lily Farhadpour as Mahin; Esmaeil Mehrabi as Faramarz. Won the FIPRESCI Prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2024 Berlinale. Persian language, subtitled. Available on BBC iPlayer.

The backstory of My Favourite Cake arriving at the 2024 Berlinale without its directors reframes how you watch the film. Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha — whose previous film, Ballad of a White Cow, premiered at Berlin in 2021 — were placed under travel bans by Iranian authorities during post-production and could not attend the premiere of a film that went on to win two of the festival's most significant prizes. The absence was noticed. The film won anyway. The link between the work — a story about an elderly widow who decides, on impulse, to invite a stranger home for the evening — and the political conditions under which it was made and then withheld from its own directors is not coincidental.

Lily Farhadpour plays Mahin with a kind of warmth that is rare on screen. She is funny without being broadly comic, lonely without being pathetic. The premise is chamber-piece simple: Mahin meets Faramarz (Esmaeil Mehrabi) in a park; the encounter is brief and unremarkable; she invites him home; they have dinner. The film proceeds with the confidence of work that knows it does not need much plot to carry weight. The dinner becomes something bigger than a dinner.

The directors work in a tradition of Iranian cinema, the Kiarostami and Farhadi line, that understands the power of surfaces and the politics of everyday life under a demanding state. My Favourite Cake is the best film BBC Four has scheduled in months. Subtitled. On BBC Four at 9pm. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Nobody's Fool -- ITV1, 9pm

Nobody's Fool, Series 1 Episode 1, launches on ITV1 at 9pm on Saturday 23 May 2026. Danny Dyer and Emily Atack host. Ten strangers compete in a "Smart House" for a £100,000 prize by outwitting both the house and each other. The show continues Sunday 24 May and Monday 25 May.

Danny Dyer's description of the Smart House is the only launch quote you need: "Welcome to our manor... It's like a National Trust property without the trust." That is a well-written line, and the fact that it was almost certainly prepared in advance does not make it any less useful as an orientation for what the show is. Nobody's Fool sits between a reality format and a quiz show. Ten contestants, strangers to each other, a house full of systems and challenges that test strategic thinking, and a structure that eliminates players while the prize pot grows. The format rewards people who are good at puzzles and good at reading other people in the same breath, which is a different skill set from most British reality competitions.

Emily Atack as co-host alongside Dyer is a pairing with plausible chemistry. She has the warmth and the timing; he has the authority of a presenter who is, whatever the format, inescapably Danny Dyer about it. Whether the show is as compelling as its premise depends on how the casting has filled those ten stranger slots, and we find that out from tonight. ITV has scheduled three episodes this week (Saturday, Sunday, Monday), which suggests they are confident enough to put it in front of an audience at pace rather than spread it across a longer run.

On ITV1 at 9pm. Available on ITVX.

Sport today

Giro d'Italia Stage 14 -- TNT Sports 3 from 11am / TNT Sports 1 from 11.45am

Stage 14 of the 2026 Giro d'Italia is a mountain stage from Aosta to Pila: 133 kilometres with more than 4,000 metres of climbing. The key ascents are Saint-Barthélémy, Lin Noi, and Verrogne before the summit finish up Pila, which is 16.5 kilometres of climbing at gradients tightening to 11% near the top. This is not a transitional stage. The Pila ramp is long enough and steep enough to provoke real attacks from the GC contenders, and the earlier ascents mean the race arrives at the base of Pila with legs that have already worked hard.

After a relatively flat week through southern Italy, Stage 14 begins the proper mountain phase of this Giro. The general classification is likely to shift tonight, and the leadout battles on the earlier climbs will have consequences for the shape of the Pila finish. Live on TNT Sports 3 from 11am and TNT Sports 1 from 11.45am BST.

Champions Cup Final: Leinster v Bordeaux Bègles -- ITV4, kick-off 2.45pm

The 2025/26 Investec Champions Cup Final between Leinster and Bordeaux Bègles takes place at San Mamés Stadium in Bilbao — the Athletic Club ground, one of the better neutral venues European rugby has used recently — with a 2.45pm BST kick-off. In the UK, the match is broadcast live and free-to-air on ITV4 and ITVX. Leinster, the most successful club in the competition's modern era, are after a fifth European Champions Cup. Bordeaux Bègles, who have reached this stage on the back of a Top 14 campaign that has made them one of the French rugby identities of the moment, are chasing a first.

Live on ITV4 and ITVX, kick-off 2.45pm.

EFL Championship Play-Off Final: Hull City v Middlesbrough -- Sky Sports, 3.30pm

Covered in full above. Wembley, 3.30pm kick-off. Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Football from 3pm.

Women's Champions League Final: Barcelona v OL Lyonnes -- BBC Two, 5pm

Covered in full above. Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo. BBC Two from 4.30pm, kick-off 5pm.

Also worth watching today

Blankety Blank -- BBC One, 6.35pm

Bradley Walsh hosts with a panel of Jonathan Ross, Joanna Page, Harry Redknapp, Joe Swash, Susan Wokoma, and Shazia Mirza. Whoever is casting Blankety Blank has a reliable formula by this point: a football name, a soap or family-television regular, a panellist whose timing is sharp enough to anchor the others, and at least one guest whose job is to be unexpectedly good at the format. Redknapp has been a durable television personality since his I'm a Celebrity stretch, and Ross and Mirza between them give the panel real comedic range. Walsh remains one of the more natural hosts working in early-evening Saturday television. On BBC One at 6.35pm.

Casualty -- BBC One, 8.10pm

Series 41, Episode 4. The morphine dosing storyline involving Dylan, Matty, and Stevie moves into territory that long-time Casualty viewers will recognise as the show's particular speciality: a clinical situation that is also an ethical one, with the hospital environment pushing the stakes higher than they would be anywhere else. The Faith and Pearl NICU subplot adds another layer. Neonatal storylines in Casualty tend to be the ones that viewers remember at the end of a series. On BBC One at 8.10pm. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Bullseye for Soccer Aid -- ITV1, 5.55pm

Freddie Flintoff hosts a charity Bullseye special on ITV1 at 5.55pm, with Olly Murs and Mark Wright taking on Kym Marsh and Jon Richardson. It is promotional context for Soccer Aid for UNICEF — the main match is on 31 May 2026 at London Stadium, not tonight and not at Wembley. The format is Bullseye, the reason is charity build-up, and the entertainment level is roughly what you would expect from Flintoff trying to make a darts-based charity special work. He has the temperament for it.

The Equalizer 3 -- Channel 4, 9pm

Antoine Fuqua's 2023 action film arrives on Channel 4 at 9pm. Denzel Washington's Robert McCall has retired to Italy; the criminals who interrupt that retirement are connected to his former espionage life; Dakota Fanning co-stars, reuniting with Washington almost two decades after Tony Scott's Man on Fire (2004). The dynamic between them this time around is very different. The Equalizer series has never pretended to be more than it is — efficient action cinema built around a specific performer doing something he does well — and the third film is the most cinematically interesting of the three. The Italian setting gives Fuqua and cinematographer Robert Richardson more to work with visually than the previous instalments. On Channel 4 at 9pm.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show -- BBC Two, 8pm

Saturday's highlights from the Royal Hospital Chelsea, presented by Rachel de Thame and Monty Don. Chelsea remains one of the more reliable pleasures in the BBC's Saturday evening schedule: real horticultural ambition, the occasional spectacular garden that took years to design and gets dismantled inside a week, and presenters who know the difference between a good plant and a good television moment. On BBC Two at 8pm. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Angela Rippon's River Cruises -- Channel 5, 8pm

Episode 3 moves the series from European rivers to the Mekong, with Angela Rippon aboard Scenic Spirit in Cambodia. This week's highlights include an Angkor Wat sunrise at 4.30am (the kind of television moment that requires either genuine early rising or a very co-operative production schedule), aerobics on the river deck, a pangolin encounter, fried cricket, and a tropical downpour that makes Cambodia in the wet season look exactly like Cambodia in the wet season. The series remains a comfortable companion piece to Rippon's 60th anniversary as a broadcaster, and gives the travel format enough personality to separate it from the stack of similar programmes Channel 5 has run over the past five years. On Channel 5 at 8pm.

The Yogurt Shop Murders: The End of Wondering -- Sky Documentaries, 9pm

The fifth and final episode of the HBO/Sky documentary series on the 1991 murder of four teenage girls at an Austin, Texas yogurt shop arrives on Sky Documentaries at 9pm. Margaret Brown's series covers one of the most extensively investigated cold cases in Texas history: four girls, aged 13 to 17, killed on the night of 6 December 1991 at an I Can't Believe It's Yogurt! shop in north Austin. The series has been building toward this fifth episode, added after a major real-life development in the case. It premiered on HBO on 22 May 2026, with UK broadcast following the next day. If you have not seen the earlier four episodes, they are on Sky Documentaries and NOW. Tonight will not make full sense without them, but the series is worth the commitment. On Sky Documentaries at 9pm.

Frequently asked questions

What's on TV tonight Saturday 23 May 2026?

The headline of Saturday 23 May is Two Weeks in August, the new BBC One thriller airing as a double bill at 9pm (Ep 1) and 9.45pm (Ep 2) on BBC One, with all 8 episodes available on BBC iPlayer from the same night. The day's sport brings the EFL Championship Play-Off Final (Hull City v Middlesbrough, Wembley, 3.30pm kick-off) on Sky Sports Main Event, and the Women's Champions League Final (Barcelona v OL Lyonnes, Oslo, 5pm) on BBC Two from 4.30pm. Also on BBC Two: Cher at the BBC (9pm, archive tribute, Cher's 80th birthday) and Cher Meets Rylan (10.20pm). BBC Four has My Favourite Cake (9pm, Iranian drama, Berlinale prizewinner). ITV1 launches Nobody's Fool (9pm, Danny Dyer and Emily Atack, Smart House reality quiz). Channel 4 has The Equalizer 3 (9pm, Denzel Washington). Blankety Blank is on BBC One at 6.35pm, Casualty at 8.10pm, Bullseye for Soccer Aid on ITV1 at 5.55pm. Giro d'Italia Stage 14 is on TNT Sports from 11am. Browse tonight's highlights or what's on right now.

What is Two Weeks in August on BBC One?

Two Weeks in August is a new 8-episode BBC drama written by Catherine Shepherd, directed in the first half by Tom George and in the second by Matthew Moore. The cast includes Jessica Raine (Zoe), Damien Molony (Dan), Leila Farzad (Nat), Hugh Skinner (Jacob), Nicholas Pinnock (Solomon), Antonia Thomas (Jess), Dylan Brady (Will), Maria Almeida (Avery), Dolly Wells, and Tom Goodman-Hill. The story follows a group of friends on a holiday that goes wrong in the specific way holidays do when secrets start to surface -- an illicit kiss someone sees, a boat trip that takes an unexpected turn, things that cannot be unsaid. Set on a Greek island; filmed in Malta and Gozo by local production company Pellikola. BBC One double bill at 9pm (Ep 1) and 9.45pm (Ep 2); full series on BBC iPlayer from the same night.

What time is the Women's Champions League Final today and where can I watch it?

The 2025/26 UEFA Women's Champions League Final -- Barcelona v OL Lyonnes -- kicks off at 5pm BST at Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo. BBC Two coverage begins at 4.30pm, free to air and available on BBC iPlayer. Referee: Tess Olofsson (Sweden). This is the fourth time these clubs have met in the UWCL Final: Lyon won in 2019 and 2022; Barcelona won in 2024. Lyon hold 8 UWCL titles (the record); Barcelona have 3.

Why is it Hull City v Middlesbrough in the Play-Off Final and not Southampton?

Southampton were expelled from the 2025/26 EFL Championship Play-Off Final by an EFL Disciplinary Commission on 19 May 2026. The Commission found the club guilty of systematically and covertly filming the training sessions of opposition teams: Oxford United in December 2025, Ipswich Town in April 2026, and Middlesbrough in the build-up to the Play-Off semi-final in May 2026. Because the third breach directly affected the semi-final that Middlesbrough lost 2-1 on aggregate to Southampton, the Commission reinstated Middlesbrough to the final in Southampton's place. Hull City, who reached the final through the other semi-final, meet Middlesbrough at Wembley at 3.30pm on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Football.

What is Cher at the BBC tonight and why is it on?

Cher turned 80 on Wednesday 20 May 2026, and BBC Two's Saturday night tribute -- Cher at the BBC (9pm) -- draws on decades of BBC archive footage to mark the occasion. The programme includes her 1965 television appearance performing I Got You Babe with Sonny Bono. At 10.20pm, BBC Two follows with Cher Meets Rylan, a repeat of Rylan Clark's interview special with Cher, originally broadcast on 9 December 2023 on BBC Two.

What is My Favourite Cake on BBC Four tonight?

My Favourite Cake is a 2024 Iranian drama directed by Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha. Lily Farhadpour stars as Mahin, a widow in Tehran who invites a retired taxi driver (Esmaeil Mehrabi) home for dinner after a chance meeting. The film won the FIPRESCI Prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2024 Berlinale; both directors were prevented by travel bans from attending the premiere. Their previous film, Ballad of a White Cow, premiered at Berlin in 2021. Persian language, subtitled. On BBC Four at 9pm; available on BBC iPlayer.

What is Nobody's Fool on ITV1 tonight?

Nobody's Fool is a new strategic reality quiz series launching on ITV1 at 9pm on Saturday 23 May. Hosted by Danny Dyer and Emily Atack, the format places ten strangers in a "Smart House" and asks them to outwit the house and each other for a £100,000 prize. The show continues on Sunday 24 May and Monday 25 May. Danny Dyer at the launch: "Welcome to our manor... It's like a National Trust property without the trust." Available on ITVX.

What time is the Giro d'Italia on TV today?

Stage 14 of the 2026 Giro d'Italia -- Aosta to Pila, 133km -- is live on TNT Sports 3 from 11am and TNT Sports 1 from 11.45am BST. It is a mountain stage with more than 4,000m of climbing; the summit finish up Pila is 16.5km at gradients reaching 11% near the top.

Tonight's final word

Saturday 23 May holds together because the components, varied as they are, all carry genuine weight. The Play-Off Final at Wembley is a promotion match that arrives trailing one of the most extraordinary expulsion decisions in Football League history. The Women's Champions League Final in Oslo is the fourth iteration of a fixture that defines the top of European women's football, and it produces a winner with real historical significance: either Lyon claiming a ninth title and stretching a record they have held for years, or Barcelona cementing themselves as the dominant force of the mid-2020s. Neither outcome is a footnote.

The evening drama is the hardest to call because Two Weeks in August is, genuinely, new. BBC One has scheduled a double bill and dropped the full series on iPlayer at the same time, which is an unusual amount of confidence for a drama nobody has seen yet. The cast is strong, the writer's previous work suggests she can sustain eight episodes, and the directors are not making their first television series. Whether it ends up being The British White Lotus, as reviewers have already decided to call it, or something with its own identity that survives the comparison, you will know by 11pm tonight.

Cher at the BBC and My Favourite Cake, opposite each other on BBC Two and BBC Four from 9pm, are an interesting double bill on the same theme: two programmes about women in the second half of life on their own terms, rather than as background furniture. One is an archive celebration. The other is a film about what life looks and feels like at 70 in Tehran. Both are worth your time after the drama concludes.

Check what's on right now, browse tonight's highlights, or find any channel through the full channels list. Tomorrow: Nobody's Fool Episode 2 on ITV1, plus the weekly Sunday schedule. The Sunday 24 May guide will be live from early morning.