What's On TV Tonight: Wednesday 6th May 2026

What's on TV tonight? Wednesday 6th May 2026 is one of those evenings the schedule occasionally assembles without quite meaning to. BBC One has two sitcom premieres back-to-back from 9pm. The biggest second leg in this year's Champions League kicks off at 8pm on TNT Sports 1. Prime Video drops an entire season of Citadel this morning, the Daredevil: Born Again finale arrived on Disney+ at 2am, and BBC iPlayer released all six episodes of both new BBC One comedies at dawn. Before the soaps have even started, today has asked you to make several decisions about how much television one evening can reasonably contain.

Browse what's on right now for live updates, check tonight's highlights, or head to the full channels list including pages for BBC One, ITV1, Channel 4, and TNT Sports. The Freeview TV guide runs from early evening straight through to past midnight.

What's On TV Tonight: Quick Picks

• Amandaland ⭐ -- BBC One, 9pm -- SERIES 2 PREMIERE; Lucy Punch; Harriet Webb as new rival Abs; careers day mortification; Joanna Lumley; all 6 eps on iPlayer from 6am
• Only Child ⭐ -- BBC One, 9:30pm -- SERIES 2 PREMIERE; Greg McHugh; Gregor Fisher as Ken; Norway job collapses; allotment protest; written by Bryce Hart
• Bayern Munich vs PSG ⭐ -- TNT Sports 1, coverage 7pm, k/o 8pm -- UCL semi-final 2nd leg; PSG lead 5-4 from nine-goal first leg; Bayern need a miracle at the Allianz Arena
• Citadel Season 2 -- Prime Video -- ALL 7 EPS from today; Richard Madden; Priyanka Chopra Jonas; Matt Berry; Jack Reynor
• Daredevil: Born Again S2 finale -- Disney+ -- "The Southern Cross" (Ep 8); available from 2am BST; 51 minutes
• Surgeons: At the Edge of Life -- BBC Two, 9pm -- NEW SERIES S8 Ep 1; CJ Shukla; Alistair from Inverness; penile cancer; Western General Edinburgh
• Salisbury Poisonings: The Untold Story -- Channel 4, 9pm -- Ep 2 of 3; ICU battle; Nick Bailey contamination

See what's on right now for live updates.

TV Guide: Early Evening (6:30pm -- 8pm)

Great Korean Railway Journeys -- BBC Two, 6:30pm

Michael Portillo is into the third episode of his five-part South Korean railway series, continuing south from Seoul. The series runs weeknightly on BBC Two through Friday 8 May -- episode 1 (the DMZ) and episode 2 are both on BBC iPlayer if you are coming in late. Portillo with a Bradshaw's Guide and a high-speed train is dependable early-evening television, and South Korea is a newer destination for the strand than the usual European circuits.

Iolo's River Valleys -- BBC Two, 7pm

A new series (Series 2) begins on BBC Two tonight, simultaneously on BBC One Wales, with wildlife presenter Iolo Williams following the River Usk from its mouth in south Wales up through limestone cliffs and coniferous woodlands to the Usk Reservoir. This is a programme that earns its running time by knowing exactly where to stand and when to stop talking.

Tonight's wildlife roll-call includes little-ringed plovers on their nests, shad pushing into fresh water from the sea, cave spiders in the limestone faces, the javelin wasp Gasteruption jaculator (named for a reason that becomes obvious when you see one), redstarts and a male firecrest in the woodland. It is a strong series opener: the Usk is a river with enough variety across its length to carry a full hour without repetition. On BBC iPlayer after broadcast.

For the Love of Dogs with Alison Hammond -- ITV1, 7:30pm

Alison Hammond at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home. Tonight a Staffordshire bull terrier is learning sign language to help manage sensory issues, and there is a crossbreed whose nose simply is not performing as it should. Hammond has brought a different warmth to this show than the late Paul O'Grady -- more openly emotional, less stoic -- and both qualities work for a programme that runs on the relationship between a dog and the human trying to understand it. On ITV1 from 7:30pm.

EastEnders -- BBC One, 7:30pm

Ian instantly regrets something, which is such a familiar EastEnders rhythm that the interesting question is what, specifically, he has done this time. Grant is helping a friend, which historically covers a fairly wide range of activity in Walford. Gina and Harry are forced to come clean about something they have been concealing -- the episode feels like it is setting up the rest of the week's storylines rather than paying one off. On BBC One at 7:30pm, available on BBC iPlayer.

TV Tonight: Prime Time (8pm onwards)

The Repair Shop -- BBC One, 8pm

Series 16 is two episodes from its conclusion, and tonight's episode 5 of 6 features one of the most historically significant items the workshop has handled this run: a 1970s logbook from the Gay Switchboard helpline. The Gay Switchboard -- now Switchboard LGBT+ -- was founded in 1974 and provided anonymous support to LGBT+ callers through some of the most difficult decades for that community in UK history. A physical record from that period carries enormous weight, and the programme knows it.

Elsewhere tonight: a handmade rocking horse, conga drums in need of attention, and a nurse's 1956 graduation painting brought in by Angelina Bakalarou. Bookbinder Chris Shaw works on whatever needs binding. The Repair Shop does not need to manufacture emotion from any of this -- the objects do it themselves. On BBC One at 8pm, available on BBC iPlayer.

Location, Location, Location -- Channel 4, 8pm (NEW SERIES)

Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer return for what Channel 4 is marking as a new series -- the 44th run of a programme that first aired in May 2000, which makes it 26 years on air this month. Tonight a Surrey couple are looking for a home. The formula is unchanged because it does not need to be: two presenters who have retained a genuine enthusiasm for the task, clients with a specific and frequently incompatible set of requirements, and the unscripted reality that properties in the right area rarely conform to what people thought they wanted. Available on Channel 4 streaming after broadcast.

Warship: Life in the Royal Navy -- Channel 5, 8pm (SERIES FINALE)

The Series 2 finale airs tonight on Channel 5 -- episode 6 of 6 -- closing out this run with a joint exercise between the Royal Navy and NATO allies. It is worth noting what tonight is not: the Kate Humble HMS Dragon episode (weapons testing, storm handling) aired in mid-April as episode 3. The finale is a different ship, a different context, and a different kind of operational story. Series 2 has been consistently watchable access documentary television; the finale ties off the series' narrative threads with the kind of sequence that reminds you why the Royal Navy bothers letting cameras near its ships at all. Available on My5.

Emmerdale -- ITV1, 8pm

The week's dominant storyline -- the trial of Bear, Paddy, and Dylan -- continues across this 30-minute episode. The courtroom proceedings have been the spine of Emmerdale's early May schedule, and Wednesday's instalment will move the case further toward its conclusion. On ITV1 at 8pm, available on ITVX.

Coronation Street -- ITV1, 8:30pm

The murder investigation that has been accumulating forensic weight over the past week takes another step forward tonight. A photograph -- apparently innocuous -- reveals a figure at the crime scene that changes the direction of the inquiry. Someone then makes a desperate attempt to delete incriminating footage, which tends to mean the footage survives in some form. Wednesday's 30-minute episode is pulling threads that will likely unravel in Thursday's longer instalment. On ITV1 at 8:30pm, available on ITVX.

BBC One's Comedy Double Bill: The Main Event at 9pm

Amandaland ⭐ -- BBC One, 9pm (SERIES 2 PREMIERE)

The most useful way to frame Amanda, Lucy Punch's magnificent creation, is this: she is the version of social aspiration that the internet has enabled without improving. The David Brent of South Harlesden. The Hyacinth Bouquet of Instagram. In Series 1, she was magnificently deluded and mostly failing upward while remaining unaware she was failing. Series 2 introduces a specific threat: Abs, played by Harriet Webb (Big Boys), a no-nonsense charity worker who is the ex-partner of Amanda's boyfriend Mal (Samuel Anderson) and who is simply, infuriatingly, actually good at the things Amanda performs.

The Series 2 premiere heads toward a school careers day showdown that is as mortifying as the premise suggests, and Harriet Webb's Abs is exactly the right foil -- she is not a villain, which makes the comedy harder and better. Joanna Lumley's Felicity (Amanda's mother, all charm and selective blindness) gets a love interest this series. Philippa Dunne's Anne is described as more settled now, which will presumably not prevent Amanda from finding new ways to destabilise her. Brisk, sharp, worth your 30 minutes.

All 6 episodes of Series 2 have been on BBC iPlayer since 6am this morning if you cannot wait. On BBC One at 9pm.

Only Child ⭐ -- BBC One, 9:30pm (SERIES 2 PREMIERE, BBC One nationwide)

The BBC Scotland sitcom that earned quiet, loyal praise during its first series gets its BBC One primetime slot tonight -- a meaningful step up for a show that, until now, had been largely an iPlayer discovery. Greg McHugh's Richard is a struggling actor whose professional life is characterised by the specific kind of optimism that only makes each setback feel worse. The Norway job -- a gig that represented genuine progress -- has not gone quite to plan. He is back home.

Ken, played by Gregor Fisher with the timing of a man who has been waiting for Bryce Hart to write him these lines, handles the return by immediately enlisting Richard in a campaign to save the local allotments from development. The comedy in Only Child comes from people who genuinely care about small things fighting for them with no awareness of how small those things are. That is not an insult to allotment protesters. It is the engine of the best British sitcoms. The coffin-based slapstick that apparently features later in the series is worth the wait.

This is Only Child's first BBC One nationwide premiere; earlier episodes aired on BBC Scotland first. The BBC is betting on this double bill as its Wednesday comedy appointment. On BBC One at 9:30pm.

The Other 9pm Programmes

A Taste for Murder -- ITV1, 9pm

Episode 2 of 6. DCI Joe Mottram (Warren Brown) is in Capri for the summer with his daughter, notionally a civilian, inevitably ending up involved in murder cases. Tonight a tourist is found at the bottom of a cliff. An investigation-within-the-investigation involves a baking lesson with Elena that produces a clue significant enough to break the case open -- which is, as the Radio Times noted, the sort of culinary set piece that could slot into a Nigella Lawson special without feeling out of place.

The series is doing what Death in Paradise does on a French island but on an Italian one, with the same contract between writer and viewer: Mediterranean heat, scenic staging, a detective who is slightly out of place, and cuisine that is better than the local murder rate deserves. Warren Brown holds it together. Weekly Wednesdays on ITV1 until 3 June. Available on ITVX.

Surgeons: At the Edge of Life -- BBC Two, 9pm (NEW SERIES)

Series 8 opens at Western General Hospital in Edinburgh with consultant urological surgeon CJ Shukla treating Alistair Munro -- a 41-year-old civil engineer from Inverness who has been diagnosed with cancer of the penis. This is one of the rarest cancers in Scotland (approximately 83 men diagnosed annually), and Alistair's episode carries particular weight: his mother died of cancer during his treatment period, and the cumulative effect of the documentary's access to his recovery builds toward something genuinely affecting.

The surgery itself -- partial penile amputation and reconstruction followed by lymph node removal -- is handled with the programme's established directness. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life has never been a programme for the half-attending viewer, and its eighth series opening with Alistair's case is a deliberate statement of intent: we are starting where the stakes are highest. On BBC Two at 9pm, available on BBC iPlayer from 7 May.

Salisbury Poisonings: The Untold Story -- Channel 4, 9pm

Episode 2 of 3. The series began on 29 April with the attack itself and the immediate response. Tonight covers what came next: hospital ICU staff working to save Sergei and Yulia Skripal while Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey, who had unknowingly contaminated himself by touching the front door handle at the Skripal house, was also fighting for his life. The Russian disinformation campaign begins in parallel -- the institutional effort to muddy the account of what had happened running alongside the medical reality of Novichok poisoning.

The Wonderhood Studios documentary is using inquiry findings alongside direct testimony from those present, which gives it authority the earlier crop of Salisbury documentaries lacked. The ICU sequences are harrowing in the right proportion -- enough to be honest about the severity, not so much as to lose the broader picture. On Channel 4 at 9pm, available on Channel 4 streaming. Episode 1 is also on All 4 if you missed last week.

Number One Fan -- Channel 5, 9pm

Episode 3 of 4 -- the penultimate episode of the psychological thriller, which means the pace has to be up tonight. Sally Lindsay's Donna and Jill Halfpenny's Lucy Logan have been the show's spine across four stripped weeknights (Monday through Thursday), and the third episode is where the series needs to commit to where it is heading. The obsession that has been building since episode 1 needs visible teeth by the end of tonight. On Channel 5 at 9pm, available on My5. Finale tomorrow.

Sport

Bayern Munich vs Paris Saint-Germain -- TNT Sports 1, coverage 7pm, k/o 8pm ⭐

This is the match of the week without serious competition.

On 28 April at the Parc des Princes, Bayern Munich and PSG produced a nine-goal Champions League semi-final that will be discussed for years. PSG won it 5-4. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia scored twice for the French side; Ousmane Dembele added another two; Harry Kane and Michael Olise both scored for Bayern in a match that refused to settle. PSG lead the tie. Tonight at the Allianz Arena, Bayern need to score more goals than they concede while ensuring the aggregate tips in their favour. There is no away-goals rule in the current Champions League format -- Bayern need to win the tie outright. Overturning a one-goal deficit at home is manageable; doing it after a nine-goal first leg, against a PSG side that are defending holders and currently playing the best football in Europe, is a different proposition.

The winner faces the Arsenal vs Atletico Madrid result in the final on Saturday 30 May. Coverage on TNT Sports 1 from 7pm; kick-off 8pm. Also on HBO Max UK. The argument for watching this over anything else at 8pm is simple: you will not get this particular 90 minutes back.

WSL: Brighton Women vs Arsenal Women -- Sky Sports Main Event/Football, k/o 7:45pm

Brighton host Arsenal at Broadfield Stadium in a WSL fixture with title implications. Coverage from 7:35pm on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Football; kick-off 7:45pm.

IPL Cricket: Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings -- Sky Sports Cricket, from 2:50pm

Match 49 of IPL 2026. Sunrisers Hyderabad host Punjab Kings at Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Hyderabad. Live on Sky Sports Cricket from 2:50pm and Sky Sports Main Event from 3pm. Punjab Kings beat SRH in an earlier encounter in the tournament; both sides remain in play-off contention.

TV Guide UK: Late Night

Stephen Poliakoff Remembers... Caught on a Train -- BBC Four, 10pm

A brief introduction (approximately 15 minutes) in which Stephen Poliakoff recalls his 1980 BBC play before it airs in full. The introductory strand is BBC Four doing what BBC Four occasionally remembers it is good at: presenting archive television with enough context to make it legible rather than simply pointing at the past and walking away.

Caught on a Train -- BBC Four, 10:15pm

The 1980 BBC play itself -- a three-BAFTA winner including Best Single Drama, directed by Peter Duffell and written by Poliakoff -- follows. Michael Kitchen plays Peter, a work-obsessed man who boards a train to Linz, Austria, and encounters Frau Messner, played by Peggy Ashcroft: an elderly, entitled Austrian woman who repeatedly commandeers his reserved seat and whose presence fills the carriage with an unspoken post-war weight that the play never quite names directly.

It is a small play about the dynamics of power and inconvenience, and Ashcroft's Frau Messner is one of British television drama's great performances in a limited space. Kitchen's Peter, trying to maintain professional composure while being systematically disregarded, is the comedy's straight man and its moral centre. The smoky, packed continental train setting gives the whole thing a specific claustrophobia that has aged better than many productions from the same era. On BBC Four from 10:15pm, available on BBC iPlayer.

Matlock -- Sky Witness, 10pm

The mid-season return of Season 2. Episode 9, "Collateral", sees Olympia and Matty each build collateral to present to Julian following a discovery that has shaken his trust in both of them. Meanwhile, an immigration case takes a serious turn when their client is detained by ICE agents. The legal team must fight to prevent deportation while the family's situation deteriorates.

One thing to be clear about: Matlock is at 10pm tonight on Sky Witness, not 9pm. Several listings have the time wrong. On Sky Witness at 10pm; available on NOW streaming.

Twenty Twenty Six -- BBC Two, 10pm (11pm Northern Ireland)

Episode 5 of 6, titled "Balls". John Morton's World Cup satire reaches the moment the series has been quietly building toward: an online conspiracist emerges with incendiary claims about dangerous technology hidden in the new official tournament football. The conspiracy content is perfectly pitched -- absurd enough to be obviously fictional, realistic enough to feel precisely like something that would actually happen in 2026. Ian (Hugh Bonneville) observes the fallout with his customary air of a man standing at the edge of a sinkhole he technically warned people about. The Ian and Sarah romance continues its halting, genuine progress. Episode 6 (the finale) is next Wednesday. On BBC Two at 10pm.

Streaming: What's Available Today

Citadel Season 2 -- Prime Video (from midnight BST)

All seven episodes of Citadel Season 2 are on Amazon Prime Video from today. Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra Jonas return as Mason Kane and Nadia Sinh, with Stanley Tucci and Lesley Manville also back. New additions include Jack Reynor and Matt Berry -- the latter's casting being the single most unexpected piece of genre television news of the spring, and worth investigating purely to see what Berry does with it. Season 1 was Prime Video's most expensive production ever; Season 2 arrives after a three-year wait. A Prime Video subscription is required.

Daredevil: Born Again -- Disney+ (from 2am BST)

The Season 2 finale, "The Southern Cross" (episode 8), became available on Disney+ UK at 2am this morning. At 51 minutes it is the longest episode of the season, and Season 3 is already confirmed. If you have been watching weekly, the finale is there. If you are catching up, the full 8-episode season is available. A Disney+ subscription is required.

Amandaland Series 2 and Only Child Series 2 -- BBC iPlayer (from 6am BST)

Both series are available in full on BBC iPlayer from this morning, ahead of their BBC One broadcasts tonight. The iPlayer full-series release alongside linear broadcast is now BBC's standard approach for comedy; it means tonight's BBC One double bill functions simultaneously as a premiere event and a first-look for anyone who has already binged ahead. Both series are free with a BBC account.

Tonight's TV Listings: Full Schedule

Full tv listings for Wednesday 6th May 2026 across major Freeview, Sky, and streaming channels.

Time	Channel	Programme
2:50pm	Sky Sports Cricket	IPL: Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings (LIVE)
3pm	Sky Sports Main Event	IPL: Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings (LIVE)
6:30pm	BBC Two	Great Korean Railway Journeys (S1 Ep 3/5 -- Portillo, South Korea)
7pm	BBC Two / BBC One Wales	Iolo's River Valleys (NEW SERIES Ep 1/4 -- River Usk; wildlife)
7pm	TNT Sports 1	Bayern Munich vs PSG -- UCL semi-final 2nd leg (coverage)
7:30pm	BBC One	EastEnders (Ian regrets; Grant helps; Gina + Harry come clean)
7:30pm	ITV1	For the Love of Dogs with Alison Hammond (S3 -- staffy; sign language; sensory)
7:35pm	Sky Sports Main Event/Football	WSL: Brighton Women vs Arsenal Women (coverage; k/o 7:45pm)
8pm	BBC One	The Repair Shop (S16 Ep 5/6 -- Gay Switchboard logbook; rocking horse; conga drums)
8pm	Channel 4	Location, Location, Location (NEW SERIES -- Kirstie + Phil; Surrey couple)
8pm	Channel 5	Warship: Life in the Royal Navy (S2 FINALE Ep 6/6 -- NATO joint exercise)
8pm	ITV1	Emmerdale (Bear/Paddy/Dylan trial week)
8pm	TNT Sports 1	Bayern Munich vs PSG -- UCL semi-final 2nd leg (k/o 8pm) ⭐
8:30pm	ITV1	Coronation Street (murder inquiry; hidden figure in photo; footage wiped)
9pm	BBC One	Amandaland (S2 PREMIERE Ep 1/6 -- Lucy Punch; Harriet Webb as Abs; careers day) ⭐
9pm	BBC Two	Surgeons: At the Edge of Life (NEW S8 Ep 1/6 -- CJ Shukla; Alistair from Inverness; Western General)
9pm	ITV1	A Taste for Murder (S1 Ep 2/6 -- Warren Brown; cliff-bottom tourist death; baking clue; Capri)
9pm	Channel 4	Salisbury Poisonings: The Untold Story (Ep 2/3 -- ICU; Nick Bailey; Novichok aftermath)
9pm	Channel 5	Number One Fan (Ep 3/4 -- Sally Lindsay; Jill Halfpenny; obsession escalates)
9:30pm	BBC One	Only Child (S2 PREMIERE Ep 1/6 -- Greg McHugh; Gregor Fisher; Norway job; allotments) ⭐
10pm	BBC Two	Twenty Twenty Six (Ep 5/6 "Balls" -- John Morton; conspiracy theorist; World Cup ball; Hugh Bonneville)
10pm	BBC Four	Stephen Poliakoff Remembers... Caught on a Train (15-min introduction)
10pm	Sky Witness	Matlock (S2 Ep 9 "Collateral" -- mid-season return; ICE case; Kathy Bates)
10:15pm	BBC Four	Caught on a Train (1980 BBC play -- Michael Kitchen; Peggy Ashcroft; three BAFTAs)
All day	Prime Video	Citadel Season 2 -- ALL 7 EPS (Madden; Chopra Jonas; Matt Berry; Jack Reynor)
From 2am	Disney+	Daredevil: Born Again S2 Ep 8 finale "The Southern Cross"
From 6am	BBC iPlayer	Amandaland S2 all 6 eps; Only Child S2 available

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, Iolo's River Valleys, Great Korean Railway Journeys, Amandaland S2 (all 6 episodes now), Only Child S2, Surgeons: At the Edge of Life (from 7 May), Twenty Twenty Six, Stephen Poliakoff Remembers..., Caught on a Train

ITVX: A Taste for Murder (full 6-episode series available to binge), For the Love of Dogs with Alison Hammond, Emmerdale, Coronation Street

Channel 4 streaming: Salisbury Poisonings: The Untold Story (Eps 1 and 2), Location, Location, Location

My5: Warship: Life in the Royal Navy (all 6 episodes of Series 2), Number One Fan

Amazon Prime Video: Citadel Season 2 (all 7 episodes -- subscription required)

Disney+: Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 (full series including finale -- subscription required)

NOW TV / Sky: Matlock Season 2 (Sky Witness live at 10pm; NOW streaming; subscription required), Bayern Munich vs PSG (TNT Sports; NOW subscription required)

Frequently Asked Questions

What time is Amandaland Series 2 on BBC One tonight, Wednesday 6 May 2026?

Amandaland Series 2 premieres on BBC One tonight at 9pm -- episode 1 of 6. Lucy Punch returns as Amanda, with Harriet Webb joining as new rival Abs. Joanna Lumley and Samuel Anderson also return for Series 2. All 6 episodes of Series 2 are already available on BBC iPlayer from 6am today.

What time is Only Child on BBC One tonight?

Only Child Series 2 is on BBC One tonight at 9:30pm, immediately after Amandaland. This is the show's BBC One nationwide premiere -- it previously aired on BBC Scotland first. Greg McHugh returns as Richard, whose Norway job has not gone to plan. Gregor Fisher plays Ken. Written by Bryce Hart.

What channel is Bayern Munich vs PSG on tonight?

Bayern Munich vs PSG is live on TNT Sports 1 tonight. Coverage starts at 7pm; kick-off is 8pm at the Allianz Arena, Munich. PSG lead the tie 5-4 from the first leg on 28 April. The match is also on HBO Max UK. A TNT Sports subscription or NOW TV subscription is required to watch.

Is Citadel Season 2 available on Prime Video tonight?

Yes -- all 7 episodes of Citadel Season 2 are on Amazon Prime Video from today, Wednesday 6 May 2026. Richard Madden, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Stanley Tucci, and Lesley Manville return. New cast includes Matt Berry and Jack Reynor. A Prime Video subscription is required.

Where can I watch the Daredevil Born Again Season 2 finale?

The Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 finale, "The Southern Cross" (episode 8), is on Disney+ UK now -- it became available at 2am BST today, Wednesday 6 May 2026. A Disney+ subscription is required.

What time is The Repair Shop on BBC One tonight?

The Repair Shop is on BBC One at 8pm tonight -- Series 16, episode 5 of 6. Items tonight include a 1970s Gay Switchboard logbook, a handmade rocking horse, conga drums, and a nurse's 1956 graduation painting. Available on BBC iPlayer after broadcast.

What time is Matlock on Sky Witness tonight?

Matlock is on Sky Witness at 10pm tonight -- not 9pm. This is episode 9, "Collateral", the mid-season return of Season 2. Kathy Bates stars. The team handles an immigration case involving ICE agents alongside a trust crisis at the firm. Available on NOW streaming.

What time is the Salisbury Poisonings documentary on tonight?

The Salisbury Poisonings: The Untold Story is on Channel 4 at 9pm tonight -- episode 2 of 3. The series began on 29 April. Tonight covers the ICU battle for the Skripals and DS Nick Bailey's accidental contamination with Novichok. Available on Channel 4 streaming. Episode 1 is also on All 4.

What's the best thing to watch on TV tonight, Wednesday 6 May 2026?

Three genuine picks: the BBC One comedy double bill from 9pm (Amandaland and Only Child back-to-back, both series premieres) is the television event of the Wednesday schedule; Bayern vs PSG on TNT Sports 1 from 7pm is the most important football of the week; and Surgeons: At the Edge of Life on BBC Two at 9pm opens its eighth series with one of the more affecting individual cases the show has produced. If you cannot decide between comedy and sport, the answer is that Amandaland starts at 9pm and Bayern vs PSG kicks off at 8pm -- you can catch the first half before the comedies begin.

TV Guide UK: Final Verdict

Two sitcom premieres, a Champions League semi-final second leg with a nine-goal first leg behind it, an entire season of Citadel on Prime Video, the Daredevil finale on Disney+, the opening episode of a new Surgeons series, and a 1980 Peggy Ashcroft BAFTA-winner on BBC Four. Wednesday 6 May is not a quiet evening.

BBC One wins the argument for the 9pm hour simply because having Amandaland and Only Child back-to-back is the strongest thirty-minute comedy block it has assembled in some time. Both are character comedies that trust their performers, both are written with specific British social textures that do not translate into easy comparisons with anything else on, and the fact that all twelve episodes between them are already on iPlayer means tonight's broadcast is the beginning rather than the whole of it.

The Bayern vs PSG argument is different and probably stronger if football is your priority. Five-four from the first leg, second leg at the Allianz Arena, the defending champions needing to hold on against a side that scored four goals at home against them and still nearly won by more. That is the best fixture of the European calendar right now.

For late night, the Poliakoff/Kitchen/Ashcroft programming on BBC Four from 10pm is the overlooked pick of the evening -- Caught on a Train is one of those plays that people who have seen it mention for the rest of their lives, and the BBC is right to give it a broadcast night.

Check what's on right now for live updates, browse the full channels list, or see tonight's highlights. Tomorrow brings the Warship finale catch-up on My5, the Coronation Street investigation moving to its next phase, and the Half Man episode 3 drop on BBC iPlayer. The week is moving.