Wondering what's on tv tonight? Wednesday 22nd April is one of those packed Wednesdays — three finales, two new series, and an actual must-watch human-interest moment on The Repair Shop that caught me off guard when the episode preview landed. Browse the full tv listings below, check what's on right now for live updates, see the tonight highlights, or browse the channels list including BBC One, ITV1 and Channel 5. The Freeview TV guide is stacked tonight, right through to a series finale at midnight.
What's On TV Tonight: Quick Picks
- The Repair Shop ⭐ – BBC One, 8pm – the Cretan lyra story; mother of man who died of MND at 31 has her son's instrument restored; bring tissues
- Coronation Street – ITV1, 8:30pm – WEDDING DAY; venue floods; Becky returns from witness protection; a villain dies; big night on the Street
- MasterChef – BBC One, 9pm – heat 2; judges Grace Dent and Anna Haugh; guest Jane Devonshire; first quarter-final tomorrow
- Michael Jackson: An American Tragedy – BBC Two, 9pm – FINALE; $500m debt, London comeback, doctor convicted; no easy verdict
- Saint-Pierre – U&Alibi, 10pm – NEW SERIES; Joséphine Jobert in a remote French archipelago; James Purefoy as a shifty local; Murder in Paradise but colder
- Making A Maestro – Sky Arts, 8pm – NEW SERIES; 20 young conductors compete for an LSO post; fifteen minutes to impress; "MasterChef meets MasterClef"
- Burnley v Manchester City – Sky Sports, k/o 8pm – Premier League at Turf Moor
See what's on right now for live updates.
TV Guide: Early Evening (7pm – 8pm)
EastEnders – BBC One, 7:30pm
EastEnders is on tonight. Suki is worried about the family, which in Walford dialect covers anything from a school-run dispute to a body under the patio. Max and Cindy are getting closer, which rarely ends cleanly. The Mitchells are rallying together, which historically means someone's about to need a solicitor. On iPlayer afterwards.
Springtime on the Farm – Channel 5, 7pm
Series 9, episode 2. Helen Skelton and the Nicholson brothers are back at Cannon Hall Farm. Tonight the drama comes courtesy of a Shire horse called Brook, who is in labour. Shire horses weigh around a tonne, so this is not telly to half-watch while scrolling. Rob and Dave are on hand to help. The show does what it always does: earthy, watchable, occasionally a bit mucky.
Snooker World Championship Day 5 – BBC Four, 7pm
Day 5 from the Crucible. BBC Four has the evening session from 7pm to 10pm, with TNT Sports 1 and 3 running alongside from 7:30pm. Still early-round territory — but the Crucible tends to throw up one weird frame per session that pays off if you dip in at the right moment.
TV Tonight: Prime Time (8pm onwards)
The Repair Shop ⭐ – BBC One, 8pm
Four restorations tonight. Suzie gets a football from the 1963 Scottish Cup Final, which is already a good story on its own. Chris has a magazine hand-made to keep morale up inside a Japanese POW camp — that it survived at all is remarkable. Geoff takes on a pachinko machine, which is described as a Japanese pinball machine and, yes, it makes the sound its name suggests.
And then there's Rebecca's piece. A Cretan lyra — a lute-like stringed instrument — brought in by the mother of a young man who died of motor neurone disease at 31. He played it. When the restoration is done, his mother says that seeing it whole again would be like seeing him whole again. That line sits with you. The Repair Shop doesn't manufacture moments like that. It sets up the circumstances and then steps back. Comfort viewing that absolutely earns the tissue box on the coffee table.
Digging for Britain – BBC Two, 8pm
The archaeology series is back with another round of finds from across the country. Alice Roberts doing her thing with a trowel, an aerial drone, and a professor who is quietly having the time of their life. If you like your history dug out of the ground rather than stitched together from archive footage, this is your 8pm.
Coronation Street – ITV1, 8:30pm
Right. Carla and Lisa's wedding day, which February's flash-forward has been waving at us for weeks. The venue floods. Of course it does, it's Weatherfield. Relocating a wedding at short notice would be enough story for most soaps — Corrie isn't most soaps.
Lisa's estranged wife Becky resurfaces after four years in witness protection, and she's got notions about Lisa that very much don't involve Carla. She tries to abduct Carla for a fresh start in Spain, which is one way of objecting to a ceremony. And then the reception ends with the murder of a Weatherfield villain, which seems to be the payoff the February flash-forward was setting up. Don't pick this one up cold — you'll spend the whole episode asking who's who.
Making A Maestro – Sky Arts, 8pm
New series, episode 1. Twenty young conductors from across Europe land in London with fifteen minutes each in front of a professional orchestra to impress the judges. The prize: a one-year junior post at the LSO, based on the real Donatella Flick Conducting Competition. The show bills itself as "MasterChef meets MasterClef", which is either a brilliant pitch or a terrible pun, depending on your tolerance.
The real question the series asks is what an orchestral conductor actually does. On the face of it, waving a stick at people who already know the music looks optional. Twenty European hopefuls, all of whom have spent their lives answering that question in front of mirrors, now have to answer it in front of a professional band and a panel. Fascinating viewing for classical music fans, and surprisingly gripping even if you don't know your Rachmaninov from your elbow.
MasterChef – BBC One, 9pm
Heat 2. Six more amateur cooks walk in, four will walk out with an apron. Dent and Haugh are back, and tonight they've got former champion Jane Devonshire alongside them as a guest judge, plus Eddie Scott and finalist Alexina Anatole. The first quarter-final is tomorrow, so if you're not on an apron by the end of tonight you're going home.
If you caught heat 1 earlier in the week, this is the same template: less theatre, more food. The guest judges bring something the old format rarely had — actual graduates of the thing, assessing new hopefuls. Pairs neatly with the Repair Shop-at-8 for a relaxed BBC One two-hour block. iPlayer if you miss it.
Michael Jackson: An American Tragedy – BBC Two, 9pm (FINALE)
The three-part documentary reaches its conclusion. Jackson is $500 million in debt by 2009 and planning a 50-date London residency at the O2 — the This Is It concerts — to dig himself out. He dies before the first night. His personal physician Conrad Murray is later convicted of involuntary manslaughter.
The series has refused throughout to deliver a simple verdict on the abuse allegations, and the final episode doesn't break that pattern. It holds the competing narratives of Jackson as predator and Jackson as victim side by side, without forcing either to win. What the last hour does is walk through the aftermath: the debts, the estate (now worth an estimated $2 billion), the ongoing battle between those who saw a monster and those who saw a target. A documentary that trusts its audience to sit with complication — which is rarer on telly than it should be.
Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future – Channel 4, 9pm
Episode 2. Perry is still roaming San Francisco, still trying to work out whether the tech industry is saving the world or quietly building a very comfortable prison for the rest of us. One woman calls it "a cashmere prison", which is the best line in tonight's television by some distance. He meets people building lasers to shoot down drones, robots designed to teach children social skills, and a former Facebook executive who describes where commercial AI is heading as "feudalism with better marketing".
Perry pushes back against the doom with his usual idiosyncratic optimism — the suggestion being that being quirkily human and a bit creative is the one thing the models can't easily imitate. So he goes home and draws something. Timely, funny, considerably sharper than a lot of current AI coverage. Recommended.
TV Guide UK: Late Night
The Assembly – ITV1, 10:05pm
Aitch is in the chair. The Manchester rapper picked up an army of fans on last year's I'm a Celebrity, which means tonight's panel of autistic and learning-disabled interviewers already know more about him than the press line allows. The Assembly's whole point is that the interviewers aren't angling for a future booking, so they ask whatever they actually want to know. Tonight that includes his lyrics, his bank balance, and a frankly brilliant question about whether he was on anything when he visited Buckingham Palace. Aitch, by reputation, handles it well. The show works precisely when it's uncomfortable.
Twenty Twenty Six – BBC Two, 10pm
Episode 3 of 6. John Morton's World Cup sitcom from the W1A team. David Beckham is supposed to be tournament ambassador; Zurich has other ideas. Ian looks on helplessly while his underlings say roughly the same nothings at each other again. His quietly lovely romance with sustainability consultant Sarah ticks on. Will the personal assistant is still peak Will. Morton's formula runs the risk at this point of being a bit too well-worn — we all know W1A — but the writing still lands.
The Murder Line – ITV1, midnight (SERIES FINALE)
The Canadian thriller wraps up its first series at the stroke of midnight. Tensions at the Heron reach breaking point, an unexpected arrival lights the fuse, and Henry's grip on the room slips. Erica's team lands on the discovery the show has been teeing up since episode one. Worth staying up for if you've been along for the ride, but set a reminder — it's actually midnight, not a friendly "late evening" midnight.
Sport
Burnley v Manchester City – Sky Sports Main Event/PL, k/o 8pm
Burnley host City at Turf Moor. Sky Sports Premier League has pre-match from 7pm; kick-off is 8pm on both Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League. City away from home, late season, with points still mattering at the top of the table. Burnley, as ever, will have thoughts on being the obstacle.
Snooker World Championship Day 5 – BBC Four, 7pm–10pm; TNT Sports from 7:30pm
Day 5 at the Crucible. BBC Four has the evening session live. TNT Sports 1 and 3 carry additional matches from 7:30pm. The tournament runs through to the final on 5 May.
Madrid Open Tennis – Sky Sports Tennis, from 10am
The Madrid Open continues on clay. Live on Sky Sports Tennis from 10am. The IPL is also on today — Lucknow Super Giants v Rajasthan Royals highlights at 10pm on Sky Sports Cricket.
Tonight's TV Listings: Full Schedule
Full tv listings for Wednesday 22nd April 2026 across all major Freeview, Sky, and streaming channels.
| Time | Channel | Programme |
|---|---|---|
| 10am | Sky Sports Tennis | Madrid Open Tennis (LIVE) |
| 7:30pm | TNT Sports 1 | World Snooker Championship Day 5 (LIVE) |
| 7pm | BBC Four | World Snooker Championship Day 5, evening session (LIVE) |
| 7pm | Channel 5 | Springtime on the Farm (S9 Ep 2) |
| 9pm | U&Alibi | Death in Paradise (S13 Ep 8) |
| 7:30pm | BBC One | EastEnders |
| 8pm | BBC One | The Repair Shop (S16 Ep 3) |
| 8pm | BBC Two | Digging for Britain |
| 8pm | ITV1 | Emmerdale |
| 8pm | Channel 4 | Help! I Bought It at Auction with Sarah Beeny |
| 8pm | Channel 5 | Warship: Life in the Royal Navy (S2 Ep 4) |
| 8pm | Sky Arts | Making A Maestro (NEW SERIES, Ep 1) |
| 8pm | Sky Sports Main Event/PL | Burnley v Manchester City (k/o 8pm) |
| 8:30pm | ITV1 | Coronation Street – WEDDING DAY |
| 9pm | BBC One | MasterChef (S22 Ep 2, heat 2) |
| 9pm | BBC Two | Michael Jackson: An American Tragedy (FINALE, Ep 3) |
| 9pm | ITV1 | I'm a Celebrity South Africa (S2 Ep 13) |
| 9pm | Channel 4 | Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future (Ep 2) |
| 9pm | Channel 5 | Egypt with Dan Snow (FINAL, Ep 3) |
| 10pm | Sky One | The 'Burbs (S1 Ep 5) |
| 10pm | U&Alibi | Saint-Pierre (NEW SERIES, Ep 1) |
| 10pm | Sky Sports Cricket | IPL: Lucknow Super Giants v Rajasthan Royals (highlights) |
| 10pm | BBC Two | Twenty Twenty Six (Ep 3) |
| 10pm | Channel 4 | Gordon Ramsay's Secret Service |
| 10:05pm | ITV1 | The Assembly (S2 Ep 5) |
| 10:30pm | BBC Two | Newsnight |
| 10:40pm | BBC One | Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story, Our Century |
| 10pm | BBC Four | This Life (Ep 11, final episode) |
| 10:40pm | BBC Four | Concorde: A Supersonic Story |
| 11pm | U&Alibi | Father Brown |
| 00:00 | ITV1 | The Murder Line (SERIES FINALE, Ep 6) |
Freeview TV Guide: What's On Streaming
Can't watch live tonight? Here's where to find everything on catch-up:
BBC iPlayer: The Repair Shop, EastEnders, MasterChef, Digging for Britain, Michael Jackson: An American Tragedy, Twenty Twenty Six, Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story Our Century, Newsnight, and World Snooker Championship
ITVX: Emmerdale, Coronation Street, I'm a Celebrity South Africa, The Assembly, The Murder Line
Channel 4 streaming: Help! I Bought It at Auction with Sarah Beeny, Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future, Gordon Ramsay's Secret Service
My5: Springtime on the Farm, Warship: Life in the Royal Navy, Egypt with Dan Snow
NOW TV / Sky: Burnley v Manchester City, Making A Maestro, The 'Burbs, Saint-Pierre (Sky or NOW subscription required)
Frequently Asked Questions
Is EastEnders on TV tonight, Wednesday 22nd April 2026?
Yes. EastEnders is on BBC One tonight at 7:30pm. Suki is worried about the family, Max and Cindy grow closer, and the Mitchells rally together. Available on BBC iPlayer.
What time is The Repair Shop on tonight?
The Repair Shop is on BBC One at 8pm tonight, series 16, episode 3. Four restorations, including a Cretan lyra belonging to a man who died of motor neurone disease aged 31. His mother's words when she sees it restored are worth watching the entire episode for. Available on BBC iPlayer afterwards.
What time is MasterChef on BBC One tonight?
MasterChef is on BBC One at 9pm tonight — heat 2 of series 22. Six more amateurs face judges Grace Dent and Anna Haugh, with guest judges Jane Devonshire and Eddie Scott. The first quarter-final is tomorrow night. Available on BBC iPlayer.
What time is Coronation Street on tonight?
Coronation Street is on ITV1 at 8:30pm tonight. It's Carla and Lisa's wedding day — the venue floods, Lisa's estranged wife Becky returns from four years in witness protection, and the evening ends with a murder. A significant episode. Available on ITVX.
What time is Saint-Pierre on tonight?
Saint-Pierre starts at 10pm on U&Alibi — the first episode of a brand new series. Joséphine Jobert plays local Deputy Chief Geneviève Archambault on the remote French archipelago of Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, south of Newfoundland, partnering with newly exiled Inspector Fitzpatrick (Allan Hawco). James Purefoy also appears as a morally ambiguous local. Available on U&Alibi catch-up.
What time is Burnley v Manchester City on TV tonight?
Burnley v Manchester City kicks off at 8pm at Turf Moor, live on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League. Pre-match coverage on Sky Sports Premier League from 7pm.
What's the best thing to watch on TV tonight?
The Repair Shop on BBC One at 8pm is the pick of the night — particularly the story of the Cretan lyra. For drama, Coronation Street at 8:30pm is a properly big episode. If you want something new, Making A Maestro on Sky Arts at 8pm is worth catching from the start. MasterChef continues at 9pm on BBC One if you're invested in the new era with Dent and Haugh. Saint-Pierre launches on U&Alibi at 10pm.
TV Guide UK: Final Verdict
Three finales in one evening: Michael Jackson at 9pm on BBC Two, Egypt with Dan Snow at 9pm on Channel 5, and The Murder Line at midnight on ITV1. Two new series arriving: Making A Maestro and Saint-Pierre. Heavier than the average Wednesday. BBC One at 8pm straight through is the lazy-but-correct option — Repair Shop, Corrie, MasterChef in that order. Three solid hours and you've barely touched the remote.
Making A Maestro on Sky Arts is the curveball — very different texture from the soap-and-cooking main channels, and surprisingly watchable even for people who don't normally do classical music. For something new later on, Saint-Pierre on U&Alibi at 10pm is worth starting from episode one. Jobert's done well to find a new lane after Death in Paradise.
Check what's on right now for live updates, browse the full channels list, or see tonight's highlights. This tv guide for Wednesday 22nd April holds up from 7pm right through to well past midnight. The Freeview TV guide runs all the way to the series finale.