So what's on tv tonight? Tuesday's tv guide is notable for something that rarely happens: two series finales landing on the same channel on the same night. BBC One signs off both Babies and Sort Your Life Out within three hours of each other, which makes for an unexpectedly emotional evening at the Corporation. Check the full tv listings below, or browse the freeview tv guide and now-and-next listings to plan your evening -- and note that ITV1's entire schedule tonight belongs to the Lionesses.
What's On TV Tonight: Quick Picks
- Babies ⭐ – BBC One, 9pm – SERIES FINALE ep 6/6; Stefan Golaszewski's devastating drama concludes; Lisa, Stephen, Dave, and the baby that came after loss
- Sort Your Life Out with Stacey Solomon – BBC One, 8pm – SERIES FINALE S6 ep 6/6; blended Yorkshire family of six; a heartbreaking reason behind the clutter
- Sam and Ade Go Birding – Channel 5, 8pm – NEW SERIES ep 1/3; Samuel West and Adrian Edmondson; west Cornwall; curlews, spoonbills, and a pub
- England v Spain Women's Football – ITV1, 6:30pm – LIVE World Cup qualifier from Wembley; Lionesses v Spain; takes over all of ITV1 tonight
- Gordon Ramsay's Secret Service – Channel 4, 10pm – NEW SERIES; undercover Ramsay; hidden cameras; Greek restaurant in Washington DC
- To Think Like a Killer – BBC Two, 9:45pm – ep 1/3; Dr Ann Burgess; serial-killer profiling pioneer; Ted Bundy; Menendez brothers
- 24 Hours in Police Custody: The Cold Case Murder – Channel 4, 9pm – CONCLUSION; partial DNA match; suspect brought in; Una Crown case
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TV Tonight: Sport
England v Spain Women's Football – ITV1, 6:30pm LIVE
The biggest free-to-air event of the week. England's Lionesses host Spain at Wembley in a Women's World Cup qualifier, and the stakes are high -- both sides have been unbeaten in Group A3 going into tonight. ITV1 has handed over the entire evening to the match, which means no Emmerdale, no Coronation Street, and no other ITV1 programming until after 9pm. Coverage runs until approximately 9:10pm. Also on ITVX.
Champions League -- Liverpool v PSG (Amazon Prime Video, k/o 8pm). Quarter-final second leg. Not in the standard EPG but confirmed on Prime Video.
Champions League -- Atletico Madrid v Barcelona (TNT Sports 1, coverage from 6:30pm, k/o 8pm). The other quarter-final of the night.
EFL Championship -- Portsmouth v Ipswich (Sky Sports Main Event, coverage from 6:30pm); Southampton v Blackburn (Sky Sports Football, coverage from 6:30pm).
Masters Highlights -- Sky Sports Golf, 6:30pm. Final round replays from Augusta.
TV Guide: Early Evening (6pm – 8:30pm)
Great Japanese Railway Journeys – BBC Two, 6:30pm
Episode 2 of 15. Michael Portillo rolls into Kyoto, a city that rewards slower exploration than most tourists allow themselves. For anyone not glued to Wembley tonight, this is a pleasant way to spend half an hour. Available on BBC iPlayer.
Does Your Child Have ADHD? – Channel 5, 7pm
A new documentary that arrives at a moment when ADHD diagnoses in the UK have surged sharply and the NHS waiting list has cracked half a million. The film follows three families -- including eleven-year-old Fletcher, whose ADHD presents primarily through emotional dysregulation rather than the hyperactivity most people associate with the condition. Worth watching for anyone who has navigated this system, or is currently doing so. Available on My5.
EastEnders – BBC One, 7:30pm
A situation escalates for Vicki, Oscar tries to sidestep Josh, and Bea finds herself struggling with jealousy over Honey. ITV1 has no soap tonight -- the football has the whole channel -- so EastEnders is the only Albert Square fix available this evening. Available on BBC iPlayer.
Sort Your Life Out with Stacey Solomon – BBC One, 8pm
Series 6, episode 6 of 6. The series finale. Stacey Solomon and her team descend on a blended Yorkshire family of six -- Mary, Stuart, and four children between them -- who have spent years accumulating a home's worth of clutter that turns out to have a heartbreaking explanation. These final episodes of Sort Your Life Out tend to carry more emotional weight than the show's cheerful surface suggests, and this one sounds like no exception. Available on BBC iPlayer.
Sam and Ade Go Birding – Channel 5, 8pm
New series, episode 1 of 3. The comparisons to Gone Fishing are inevitable and not entirely unfair -- two old friends, the great outdoors, lots of gentle chat between attempting to spot wildlife. But Samuel West and Adrian Edmondson are their own thing entirely, and the dynamic here is different. Sam has been a committed birdwatcher for two decades; Ade has never really paid attention to birds and approaches the whole enterprise with cheerful scepticism. They start in west Cornwall, hoping for curlews, egrets, spoonbills and perhaps a friendly robin. The pub is also on the itinerary. Warm, funny, and a strong start to what looks like a series worth following. Available on My5.
Britain's Biggest Warship: Goes to Sea – BBC Two, 8pm
Episode 2 of 3. The next phase of flight testing for the F35 jets is under way aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth, but a hurricane is looming on the horizon. For viewers not drawn to ITV1's football or Channel 5's birding, this is solid documentary television. Available on BBC iPlayer.
TV Tonight: Prime Time (9pm onwards)
Tuesday night's headline act has been building across six weeks, and it delivers its conclusion tonight.
Babies ⭐ – BBC One, 9pm
Series finale. Episode 6 of 6. Stefan Golaszewski's drama about the many ways parenthood can break and remake people reaches its end tonight, and it has been as uncomfortable and as rewarding as anything on British television this year.
The final episode centres on the two relationships the series has been circling throughout its run. Lisa and Stephen are trying to hold themselves together around a pregnancy that followed the loss of a previous baby -- a situation the show has handled with the kind of precision that most dramas about grief only pretend to. The non-conversations between them, the way each tries to protect the other by saying nothing, have been some of the best writing on screen this year. Meanwhile Dave makes another effort to reach his son, and keeps getting it wrong in ways that feel entirely true.
Golaszewski created Him and Her, and the instinct for what people do not say to each other runs all the way through this series too. Siobhán Cullen and Paapa Essiedu are doing career-best work. Clear your evening for this one, or at minimum set the recording. See the full BBC One schedule for tonight. Available on BBC iPlayer.
24 Hours in Police Custody: The Cold Case Murder – Channel 4, 9pm
Conclusion of the two-part special. A partial DNA match has emerged thirteen years after the murder of 86-year-old widow Una Crown, found stabbed and set alight at her Cambridgeshire bungalow in 2013. Tonight a suspect comes in for questioning, and the cold case team have to work out whether what they have is enough. Channel 4's most durable true-crime strand does cold cases particularly well, and the detail about original forensic opportunities being missed adds an uncomfortable layer to this one. If you watched part one last night, tonight's conclusion is essential. Available on Channel 4 streaming.
Missed Call – Channel 5, 9pm
Episode 2 of 5. Joanna Scanlan's Sarah is still in Saint-Michel and still not getting any straight answers. The host family's teenage daughter is giving off the strong impression that she knows something she is not sharing, and a young man with a BMW has appeared in Sarah's orbit as a possible lead. The question the show keeps returning to -- would an entire village really close ranks to protect its tourist trade -- is a fair one, and Scanlan's performance keeps it watchable regardless of whether the answer feels credible. Continues tomorrow. Available on My5.
I'm a Celebrity... South Africa – ITV1, 9:10pm
Series 2, episode 6. Two new camp kings are crowned, a bush banquet is laid on, and a safari reward is up for grabs. ITV1 returns to its normal schedule after the football finishes.
To Think Like a Killer – BBC Two, 9:45pm
Episode 1 of 3. Dr Ann Burgess is approaching ninety years old and is still, by all accounts, catching killers. A psychiatric nurse and researcher from Massachusetts, she was at the centre of the team that developed modern criminal profiling in the late 1970s -- the methodology that gave investigators a structured way to think about serial offenders for the first time. Her case files include Ted Bundy and the Menendez brothers. This three-part documentary series offers remarkable access to someone who has been doing this work quietly for decades without ever becoming a household name. Worth staying up for if the Babies finale finishes in time. Available on BBC iPlayer.
Ligas – Sky Atlantic, 8pm
Episodes 3 and 4 back to back. Defence lawyer Lorenzo takes on a former bodybuilder charged with murder (ep 3, 8pm--9:15pm), then separately handles a radio presenter facing incitement charges (ep 4, 9:15pm--10:25pm). If you have not caught up with the first two episodes yet, this is probably not the night to jump in cold.
TV Guide UK: Late Night
Gordon Ramsay's Secret Service – Channel 4, 10pm
New series. Ramsay goes into struggling restaurants undercover, fitting the premises with hidden cameras during a night-time visit, then watching the footage remotely before staging a reveal. The format is slicker and more Mission: Impossible than his usual kitchen confrontations, and the energy is distinctly American -- the opening episode features Parthenon, a family-run Greek restaurant in Washington DC whose owner Pete has been running the place for nearly forty years and has watched standards slide. Whether the hidden camera angle adds anything to what Ramsay already does is a fair question, but as opening subjects go, Pete sounds like a sympathetic one. Continues tomorrow. Available on Channel 4 streaming.
Speechless: Storyville – BBC Four, 10pm
Emmy-winning Canadian documentary maker Ric Esther Bienstock surveys the free speech battles that erupted on American university campuses -- Harvard, Yale, and others -- and asks whether anything has changed. The answer, based on what the trailer suggests, appears to be: not especially. Two-part series starting tonight. Available on BBC iPlayer.
Spymasters: The Great Spy Writers – Sky Arts, 9pm
New series, episode 3. Ian Fleming's wartime intelligence career and the strange alchemy by which it became James Bond. Good company if you have Sky and a late-night slot to fill.
The Copenhagen Test – Channel 4, 11pm/12:10am
Episodes 5 and 6. Simu Liu's spy thriller continues with Alexander making an unauthorised move and then having to live with what it costs him. Available on Channel 4 streaming.
Tonight's TV Listings: Full Schedule
Here are the full tv listings for Tuesday 14th April 2026 across all major Freeview, Sky and streaming channels.
| Time | Channel | Programme |
|---|---|---|
| 6:30pm | ITV1 | England v Spain Women's Football (LIVE, World Cup qualifier) |
| 6:30pm | BBC Two | Great Japanese Railway Journeys (ep 2/15) |
| 6:30pm | Sky Sports Golf | Masters Final Round Highlights |
| 6:30pm | TNT Sports 1 | Atletico Madrid v Barcelona -- Champions League (coverage; k/o 8pm) |
| 6:30pm | Sky Sports Main Event | Portsmouth v Ipswich (EFL Championship, LIVE) |
| 6:30pm | Sky Sports Football | Southampton v Blackburn (EFL Championship, LIVE) |
| 7pm | Channel 5 | Does Your Child Have ADHD? (NEW documentary) |
| 7pm | BBC One Wales | Wales v Albania Women's WC Qualifier (LIVE) |
| 7:15pm | BBC Scotland | Scotland v Belgium Women's WC Qualifier (LIVE) |
| 7:30pm | BBC Two | Great British Menu (S21 ep 22/29) |
| 7:30pm | Sky Sports Cricket | IPL Cricket (LIVE) |
| 8pm | BBC One | Sort Your Life Out with Stacey Solomon (SERIES FINALE S6 ep 6/6) |
| 8pm | Channel 5 | Sam and Ade Go Birding (NEW SERIES ep 1/3) |
| 8pm | BBC Two | Britain's Biggest Warship: Goes to Sea (ep 2/3) |
| 8pm | Amazon Prime Video | Liverpool v PSG -- Champions League (LIVE, k/o 8pm) |
| 8pm | Sky Atlantic | Ligas (ep 3) |
| 9pm | BBC One | Babies (SERIES FINALE ep 6/6) |
| 9pm | Channel 4 | 24 Hours in Police Custody: The Cold Case Murder (conclusion) |
| 9pm | Channel 5 | Missed Call (ep 2/5) |
| 9pm | BBC Two | QI XL |
| 9pm | Sky Arts | Spymasters: The Great Spy Writers (ep 3) |
| 9:10pm | ITV1 | I'm a Celebrity... South Africa (S2 ep 6) |
| 9:15pm | Sky Atlantic | Ligas (ep 4) |
| 9:45pm | BBC Two | To Think Like a Killer (ep 1/3) |
| 10pm | Channel 4 | Gordon Ramsay's Secret Service (NEW SERIES) |
| 10pm | BBC Four | Speechless: Storyville (NEW, ep 1/2) |
| 11pm | Channel 4 | The Copenhagen Test (eps 5 and 6) |
Freeview TV Guide: What's On Streaming
Can't watch live? Here's where everything lands. The freeview tv guide for tonight's catch-up platforms:
BBC iPlayer: Babies, Sort Your Life Out with Stacey Solomon, EastEnders, Great Japanese Railway Journeys, Britain's Biggest Warship: Goes to Sea, QI XL, To Think Like a Killer, Speechless: Storyville
My5: Sam and Ade Go Birding, Missed Call, Does Your Child Have ADHD?
Channel 4 streaming: 24 Hours in Police Custody: The Cold Case Murder, Gordon Ramsay's Secret Service, The Copenhagen Test
ITVX: England v Spain Women's Football, I'm a Celebrity... South Africa
Sky Go / Now TV: Ligas, Spymasters: The Great Spy Writers
Amazon Prime Video: Liverpool v PSG (subscription required)
What's On TV Tonight: Frequently Asked Questions
Is EastEnders on TV tonight, Tuesday 14th April 2026?
Yes, EastEnders is on BBC One tonight at 7:30pm. A situation escalates for Vicki, Oscar tries to avoid Josh, and Bea grows jealous of Honey. Note that Emmerdale and Coronation Street are not on ITV1 tonight -- England v Spain women's football takes the channel from 6:30pm through to approximately 9:10pm. Catch up on EastEnders any time via BBC iPlayer.
What time is Babies series finale on tonight?
The Babies series finale is on BBC One at 9pm tonight, Tuesday 14th April 2026. Episode 6 of 6 concludes Stefan Golaszewski's acclaimed drama about loss, grief and parenthood. Available on BBC iPlayer afterwards.
What time is England v Spain on TV tonight?
England v Spain Women's World Cup qualifier is live on ITV1 from 6:30pm tonight, kicking off from Wembley. Coverage runs through until approximately 9:10pm. The match is also streaming live on ITVX.
What time is Sam and Ade Go Birding on tonight?
Sam and Ade Go Birding begins on Channel 5 at 8pm tonight -- episode 1 of 3. Samuel West and Adrian Edmondson head to west Cornwall to watch birds, cook, paint, and enjoy the pub. Available on My5 afterwards.
What time is Gordon Ramsay's Secret Service on Channel 4?
Gordon Ramsay's Secret Service begins on Channel 4 at 10pm tonight. The new series sees Ramsay go undercover in a failing restaurant before revealing himself. First episode features Parthenon, a Greek restaurant in Washington DC. Available on Channel 4 streaming.
What's the best thing to watch on TV tonight?
Babies on BBC One at 9pm. The series finale of Golaszewski's drama has been one of the best things on television this year and tonight it ends. If you have not seen any of it, BBC iPlayer has all six episodes and it is worth starting from the beginning. For something new, Sam and Ade Go Birding on Channel 5 at 8pm is a warm and funny series opener. For sport, England v Spain live on ITV1 from 6:30pm is the biggest free-to-air event of the evening.
TV Guide UK: Final Verdict
Tuesday's tv guide has a clear talking point -- two series finales on the same channel on the same night. BBC One is unusually busy with endings this evening, and the more significant of the two is Babies at 9pm: a drama that has consistently been one of the best things on television this year and which deserves to go out in front of the largest possible audience. If you have been watching, do not miss it. If you have not, BBC iPlayer is right there.
Sam and Ade Go Birding on Channel 5 at 8pm is the night's best new arrival -- warmer and funnier than the premise suggests, and built around a friendship that reads as entirely convincing. It sits alongside Gone Fishing but does not try to copy it, which is the right instinct.
The football on ITV1 from 6:30pm reshapes the whole evening around the Lionesses, and with Liverpool v PSG on Prime Video at 8pm for Champions League fans, Tuesday has no shortage of live sport to keep half the room occupied.
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