Wondering what's on tv tonight? Wednesday's tv guide has an unusually strong 9pm -- three shows with a real claim on your attention, all starting at the same time on different channels. Check the full tv listings below, browse the freeview tv guide or the now-and-next listings to work out your plan, and note that it is also Champions League night, with Arsenal at home in what could be a defining European evening.
What's On TV Tonight: Quick Picks
- Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future ⭐ – Channel 4, 9pm – NEW SERIES ep 1; Silicon Valley AI documentary; the woman who married a chatbot; Perry in a self-driving taxi
- Ambulance – BBC One, 9pm – SERIES FINALE S15 ep 6/6; Yorkshire paramedics; man fallen from ladder; mother whose child isn't breathing
- Missed Call – Channel 5, 9pm – ep 3/5; Joanna Scanlan; village secrets; five-year-old disappearance connection
- Arsenal v Sporting CP – TNT Sports 1, k/o ~8pm – Champions League QF second leg; Gunners hold a one-goal lead from the first leg
- Twenty Twenty Six – BBC Two, 10pm – ep 2/6; Hugh Bonneville as Ian Fletcher; FIFA World Cup prep sitcom
- The Copenhagen Test – Channel 4, 11pm – ep 7 then ep 8 at 12:05am; Simu Liu; spy thriller climax
- The Repair Shop – BBC One, 8pm – S15 ep 2; powered football wheelchair; miniature charms; bagatelle board
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TV Tonight: Sport
Arsenal v Sporting CP – TNT Sports 1, k/o ~8pm
Champions League quarter-final night, and the headline tie is Arsenal at the Emirates. The Gunners brought a one-goal advantage home from the first leg, which sounds comfortable until you remember how often these things get complicated by a nervous home crowd and an away side with nothing to lose. Sporting CP are not here to make up the numbers. Coverage from 7pm on TNT Sports 1. Not on free TV live, but BBC One has the highlights at 10:40pm for anyone without a subscription.
Bayern Munich v Real Madrid – TNT Sports 2, k/o ~8pm
The other quarter-final and arguably the bigger tie on paper. These two clubs could probably fill a book with their European encounters. Coverage from 7:30pm on TNT Sports 2.
MOTD: Champions League Highlights – BBC One, 10:40pm. Both quarter-final second legs in the one programme. The free-to-air option if you are not on TNT Sports.
Tennis – Sky Sports Main Event/Tennis, from 6pm. ATP and WTA tour action if the football is not your preference.
TV Guide: Early Evening (6:30pm – 8:30pm)
Great Japanese Railway Journeys – BBC Two, 6:30pm
Episode 3 of 15. Michael Portillo boards the Shinkansen's luxury Shimikaze service heading for the Shima peninsula. Half an hour of elegant travel television before the soaps kick in. Available on BBC iPlayer.
EastEnders – BBC One, 7:30pm
Vicki's anxiety starts to tip into paranoia tonight, Priya is carrying the weight of her concerns about Ravi, and Oscar sets Lauren and Max a challenge that neither of them may be ready for. Both ITV soaps are also running tonight -- Emmerdale at 8pm and Coronation Street at 8:30pm -- so the full soap block is in operation. See the full BBC One schedule for more. Available on BBC iPlayer.
Celebrity Lingo – ITV1, 7:30pm
New series. Adil Ray hosts this word-guessing game show with a celebrity twist. Opening episode pairs Steps bandmates Faye Tozer and Lee Latchford-Evans against comedian Russell Kane and Big Brother presenter Will Best. Steps nostalgia never really goes away, does it. Available on ITVX.
The Repair Shop – BBC One, 8pm
Series 15, episode 2. The week's project list includes miniature charms that have come loose from Debbie's necklace and bracelet (Richard Talman on jewellery duty), a bagatelle board requiring careful restoration, and a powered wheelchair that its original owner Bobby used to play wheelchair football -- he wants it restored so someone else can have the same experience. Rebecca Bissonnet takes on a speedway flag that carries a remarkable Glaswegian love story. Warm and craftsmanlike, as ever. Available on BBC iPlayer.
Coronation Street – ITV1, 8:30pm
Todd goes to the police tonight and formally declares himself a victim of abuse -- a significant moment for a storyline the show has been building carefully. Theo starts to recognise that his violent behaviour is no longer containable. This is one of the heavier current Coronation Street threads and deserves a thoughtful hour on a quiet Wednesday. Available on ITVX.
TV Tonight: Prime Time (9pm onwards)
Three shows, same time. That does not happen often and it is a slightly frustrating situation because all three have a case.
Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future ⭐ – Channel 4, 9pm
New series, episode 1. Sir Grayson Perry -- artist, Turner Prize winner, possessor of one of television's most distinctive laughs -- travels to Silicon Valley to try to understand what AI, robotics, and the coming wave of automation actually mean for how we live. Not in a think-tank-and-talking-heads way. He just goes and talks to people.
The programme's most extraordinary character is Andrea, a small business owner who has been in a relationship with Edward, her AI companion. Edward looks, according to Perry's on-camera assessment after riding in a self-driving taxi, like "a scorpus demon twink" -- not exactly a ringing endorsement. Andrea, however, married him. She has the wedding video. There is dancing. There is Stayin' Alive. There is actual happiness on her face and there is something about that which demands you take it seriously, even if you are also, quietly, unsettled by it.
Perry is the right person for this. He does not sneer -- interviewing is one of his real skills, and his interviewees open up in a way they might not for a more conventional presenter. He looks unusual, he sounds unusual, and that throws people slightly off their prepared answers. The result is something warmer and stranger than a standard AI anxiety documentary. Though it does find room for the standard AI anxiety: one researcher gives him the straightforward argument that if anyone ever builds Artificial General Intelligence, it will almost certainly kill everyone. Perry takes that in with his characteristic mixture of wit and sincerity.
One of the most distinctive premieres of the spring. Do not let the 9pm clash put you off -- Channel 4 streaming has it immediately after broadcast. Available on Channel 4 streaming.
Ambulance – BBC One, 9pm
Series 15, episode 6 of 6. Series finale. The Yorkshire series of Ambulance closes out tonight, and the episode sounds like a representative one: a man who has fallen from a ladder onto concrete and is in serious pain, dispatchers working through the matrix of calls to prioritise a mother who cannot rouse her child. The paramedics dealing with both simultaneously while another dozen calls queue behind them.
Ambulance has a reliable formula and that formula continues to work because the people it follows are extraordinary at their jobs and the situations are real. The series finale tends to carry extra weight simply because you know it is the last time this particular group will be on screen. Fifteen series in and it is still worth watching. Available on BBC iPlayer.
Missed Call – Channel 5, 9pm
Episode 3 of 5. The mystery in Saint-Michel is thickening rather than resolving. Joanna Scanlan's Sarah is discovering that the village functions as a collective enterprise in secrecy: Andrew (Robert Lindsay) tears down her missing posters with what can only be described as determined hostility, the supervising teacher wants her to stop asking questions, one of her daughter Katie's friends apparently sent her threatening texts, and nobody will acknowledge the obvious parallel with a teenage girl who went missing from the same area five years earlier. Continues tomorrow. Available on My5.
Michael Jackson: An American Tragedy – BBC Two, 9pm
Episode 2 of 3. At the absolute peak of his commercial power, Jackson faces abuse allegations that threaten not just his reputation but the business empire built around it. BBC Two's three-part series is handling difficult material and has earned some cautious respect for doing so. Contains strong language and scenes some viewers may find upsetting. Available on BBC iPlayer.
TV Guide UK: Late Night
Twenty Twenty Six – BBC Two, 10pm
Episode 2 of 6. Hugh Bonneville returns as Ian Fletcher -- the same Ian Fletcher from W1A and Twenty Twelve, now embedded with the organisation preparing for the FIFA World Cup 2026. The comedy of institutional dysfunction does not need to change its mechanisms to work: this week a global heating report threatens to make several of the planned host cities logistically untenable, and there is a quietly extended joke about the difference between a complimentary and a discretionary breakfast. Jack Seale's review suggests this is in good shape. Also airs at 11pm in Northern Ireland. Available on BBC iPlayer.
Gordon Ramsay's Secret Service – Channel 4, 10pm
Episode 2. Having opened with a Washington DC Greek restaurant, Ramsay's undercover format now turns to an Italian bistro run by a married couple whose relationship with each other has become the main threat to the business. Caffe Boa: Patrick apparently needs to change his behaviour to save both the restaurant and the marriage simultaneously. A taller order than fixing a menu. Available on Channel 4 streaming.
MOTD: Champions League Highlights – BBC One, 10:40pm
Both quarter-final second legs. Arsenal v Sporting CP and Bayern Munich v Real Madrid in the same programme on free TV. If you have been watching the football on TNT Sports, you will not need this. If you have not, it is the only free-to-air option. Available on BBC iPlayer.
The Copenhagen Test – Channel 4, 11pm (ep 7) and 12:05am (ep 8)
Final two episodes back to back. Episode 7 at 11pm, episode 8 at 12:05am. Simu Liu's spy thriller reaches its conclusion. Alexander is hunted by his own agency and is running out of time to protect the people he cares about most. He faces a choice with no good options. If you have been following this since episode one, tonight is the payoff. If you have not started it, the finale is not the place to begin -- head to Channel 4 streaming and go back to episode 1. Available on Channel 4 streaming.
Tonight's TV Listings: Full Schedule
Here are the full tv listings for Wednesday 15th April 2026 across all major Freeview, Sky and streaming channels.
| Time | Channel | Programme |
|---|---|---|
| 7pm | TNT Sports 1 | Arsenal v Sporting CP -- Champions League (coverage; k/o ~8pm) |
| 7:30pm | TNT Sports 2 | Bayern Munich v Real Madrid -- Champions League (coverage; k/o ~8pm) |
| 6:30pm | BBC Two | Great Japanese Railway Journeys (ep 3/15) |
| 6pm | Sky Sports Main Event | Tennis ATP & WTA |
| 7pm | BBC Two | Great British Menu (S21 ep 23/29) |
| 7:30pm | BBC One | EastEnders |
| 7:30pm | ITV1 | Celebrity Lingo (NEW SERIES) |
| 8pm | BBC One | The Repair Shop (S15 ep 2) |
| 8pm | ITV1 | Emmerdale |
| 8:30pm | ITV1 | Coronation Street |
| 9pm | Channel 4 | Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future (NEW SERIES ep 1) |
| 9pm | BBC One | Ambulance (SERIES FINALE S15 ep 6/6) |
| 9pm | Channel 5 | Missed Call (ep 3/5) |
| 9pm | BBC Two | Michael Jackson: An American Tragedy (ep 2/3) |
| 9pm | ITV1 | I'm a Celebrity... South Africa (S2 ep 8, 75 mins) |
| 9pm | BBC One | The Apprentice (S20 ep 11/12, interviews) |
| 9pm | Sky One | The 'Burbs |
| 9:15pm | Sky Atlantic | Euphoria (S3 ep 1, repeat) |
| 10pm | Channel 4 | Gordon Ramsay's Secret Service (ep 2) |
| 10pm | BBC Two | Twenty Twenty Six (ep 2/6) |
| 10:40pm | BBC One | MOTD: Champions League Highlights |
| 11pm | Channel 4 | The Copenhagen Test (ep 7) |
| 12:05am | Channel 4 | The Copenhagen Test (ep 8) |
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: Ambulance, The Repair Shop, EastEnders, Great Japanese Railway Journeys, Great British Menu, Michael Jackson: An American Tragedy, Twenty Twenty Six, MOTD Champions League Highlights
Channel 4 streaming: Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future, Gordon Ramsay's Secret Service, The Copenhagen Test
My5: Missed Call
ITVX: Celebrity Lingo, Emmerdale, Coronation Street, I'm a Celebrity... South Africa
TNT Sports: Arsenal v Sporting CP and Bayern Munich v Real Madrid live (subscription required)
What's On TV Tonight: Frequently Asked Questions
Is EastEnders on TV tonight, Wednesday 15th April 2026?
Yes, EastEnders is on BBC One tonight at 7:30pm. Vicki's paranoia is building, Priya is anxious about Ravi, and Oscar has a challenge in store for Lauren and Max. Both ITV soaps are also running tonight -- Emmerdale at 8pm and Coronation Street at 8:30pm -- so all three are on as normal this Wednesday. Catch up on EastEnders any time via BBC iPlayer.
What time is Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future on tonight?
Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future begins on Channel 4 at 9pm tonight, Wednesday 15th April 2026. Episode 1 of the new series. Available to stream on Channel 4 streaming immediately after broadcast.
What time is the Ambulance series finale on tonight?
The Ambulance series finale is on BBC One at 9pm tonight. Episode 6 of 6 closes out the Yorkshire run of series 15. Available to watch on BBC iPlayer afterwards.
What time is Arsenal v Sporting CP on TV tonight?
Arsenal v Sporting CP in the Champions League quarter-final second leg is on TNT Sports 1 from 7pm, with kick-off at approximately 8pm. Free-to-air highlights are on BBC One at 10:40pm and BBC iPlayer. The match is not available live on free TV.
What time is The Copenhagen Test finale on tonight?
The Copenhagen Test concludes tonight on Channel 4 -- episode 7 at 11pm and episode 8 at 12:05am, back to back. Available on Channel 4 streaming afterwards.
What's the best thing to watch on TV tonight?
Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future on Channel 4 at 9pm is the pick of the night -- a properly distinctive opener to what looks like an unusual and thought-provoking series. Perry is a much better presenter than most people expect, and the material he is working with in Silicon Valley is fascinating and unsettling in equal measure. If you prefer something more grounded, Ambulance's series finale on BBC One at the same time is a worthy close to fifteen series. For sport, Arsenal v Sporting CP on TNT Sports 1 is the Champions League match to watch tonight.
TV Guide UK: Final Verdict
Wednesday's tv guide is defined by a 9pm pile-up that does not happen very often -- three shows worth your time, all starting simultaneously. The cleanest solution is to pick one live and stream the other two later, and the live pick should probably be the Champions League if Arsenal is your team. For everyone else, Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future is the one to make time for. It is the most distinctive thing on television tonight.
The Copenhagen Test wraps on Channel 4 at 11pm for anyone who has been following it, and Twenty Twenty Six on BBC Two at 10pm is a reliable half-hour with Hugh Bonneville doing what he does with Ian Fletcher. A busy, well-stocked Wednesday.
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