What's on TV tonight Monday 8 June 2026? The 9pm slot has a problem, and it is a good one. BBC One, BBC Two, and Channel 4 all arrive at 9pm with something that demands attention. Sir Gareth Southgate travels across the UK for a one-off film about young men and the things they are missing. Norma Percy's landmark Brexit documentary -- the 10th anniversary two-parter from Brook Lapping, the production house whose previous subjects include Slobodan Milosevic and the dissolution of Yugoslavia -- opens its first part. And Tip Toe reaches its penultimate episode, with Russell T Davies writing the long night of the soul that the series has been building toward.

The scheduling means that something will end up on iPlayer tonight, and both BBC documentaries are there. But the live broadcast is the first encounter with the material, and all three 9pm programmes are worth that encounter.

At 10pm on Channel 4, Andrew Haigh's All of Us Strangers -- a 2023 film that received six BAFTA nominations including Leading Actor for Andrew Scott and Supporting Actor for Paul Mescal -- arrives in what many will be watching for the first time. It is the best film on television tonight by some distance.

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 Witness, U&Drama, Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Cricket, and TNT Sports 1. For yesterday's listings see our Sunday 7 June 2026 TV guide.

What's on TV tonight: quick picks

  • Tip Toe (PENULTIMATE Ep 4 of 5) -- Channel 4, 9pm -- Russell T Davies writes; Peter Hoar directs; Alan Cumming as Leo, David Morrissey as Clive; long night of the soul for both warring neighbours; more of Leo's compassion and resolve; more of Clive's embarrassment and shame -- and his ability to surprise; Jackson Connor as George Goss -- Clive's gay teenage son, first night out on Canal Street gay scene as an "out" lad; Iz Hesketh as Zee Malone (trans woman, George's new pal); "a flare before an inferno"; concludes Tuesday 9 June (Ep 5); full series C4 streaming; Patrick Mulkern byline
  • Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men -- BBC One, 9pm -- one-off film; Sir Gareth Southgate (knighted King's 2025 New Year Honours -- fourth England manager knighted, after Ramsey, Winterbottom, Robson); chose not to return to club football; travels UK meeting young men: some without a father figure, others in prison or struggling at school, many dealing with mental-health issues; candid conversations; moving testimony; Gabriel Tate byline; iPlayer
  • Brexit: A Very British Civil War (Part 1 of 2) -- BBC Two, 9pm (11pm N Ireland) -- by Norma Percy (Brook Lapping: Death of Yugoslavia, Putin Russia and the West, Inside Obama's White House); 10th anniversary June 2016 referendum; contributors: Cameron, Boris Johnson, Farage, Gove, Osborne, Brown, Mandelson, Corbyn, Wheeler, Geldof, Seumas Milne -- only Dominic Cummings absent; studied neutrality; opens 2015: Cameron triumphant, Labour leftward turn imminent, Farage disconsolate; RT page 29; iPlayer
  • All of Us Strangers ★★★★★ (15) -- Channel 4, 10pm -- 2023 film; writer-director Andrew Haigh (Weekend, 45 Years, Lean on Pete, Looking HBO); from Taichi Yamada's 1987 novel Strangers; Andrew Scott career-best performance; Paul Mescal; Claire Foy and Jamie Bell as parents; veil of grief, light of hope; six BAFTA nominations (Outstanding British Film, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Supporting Actress Foy, Supporting Actor Mescal, Leading Actor Scott); 15 cert; C4 streaming
  • G'wed (Series 3 Ep 1) -- ITV2, 10.35pm -- Liverpool teen sitcom; Dylan Thomas-Smith BAFTA-nominated as Reece; mum Jodie (Leanne Best) in tug-of-love; Refugee Awareness Week at school; viral football video, Magic Mike tribute, Cilla Black biopic, surprise party; John Barnes cameo; Jennifer Ellison joins as Aimee's estranged mum Anna; ITVX
  • HSBC Championships -- Women's Day 1 -- BBC Two, 1pm -- WTA 500; Queen's Club, Hammersmith; women's tournament returns to Queen's for first time since 1973; Serena Williams competitive return -- doubles draw; tournament 8--14 June
  • The Brokenwood Mysteries (Series 12) -- U&Drama, 8pm -- long-lost relation, paternity questions, valuable artwork, whispers of espionage; masquerade party setting; subplot: what was Det. Kristin Sims (Fern Sutherland) up to New Year's Eve?; David Brown byline; catch-up U
  • The Sky at Night -- "Space Weather: The Perfect Storm" -- BBC Four, 10pm -- the Carrington Event (1--2 September 1859, solar storm wrecked telegraph systems worldwide); how catastrophic a comparable event today would be; Chris Lintott + Maggie Aderin-Pocock; Jim Wild (Royal Astronomical Society); Dr Ravindra Desai (Warwick); iPlayer
  • Rob Rinder: The Crime I Can't Forget -- Crime+Investigation, 9pm -- murder of Lucy Hargreaves, 22, Liverpool, 2005; haunted Rinder 20 years; he was defence barrister for accused who was acquitted (Rinder believes rightly); no one ever convicted for Lucy's murder; speaks to family member for first time; emotional; JR byline
  • Jeremy Bamber: Proof of Innocence -- the Missing Phone Call -- Channel 5, 9pm -- August 1985: five family members massacred at White House Farm including two young children; Bamber convicted, always protested innocence; examines: Sheila Bamber's letter beforehand; silencer evidence (if used, why replaced in cupboard?); local police handling; Jane Rackham byline; 5 streaming
  • Springwatch -- BBC Two, 8pm (BBC One in Northern Ireland) -- first time the show has anchored in Northern Ireland; main studio Crom Estate, Co Fermanagh; Chris Packham + Michaela Strachan at Crom; Iolo Williams monitoring seabirds, East Yorkshire; iPlayer
  • Law & Order: SVU -- Sky Witness, 9pm -- Detectives Griffin and Bruno at fertility clinic for DNA evidence; bomb blast destroys it, IVF extremists suspected; plot pivots; Det. Velasco (Octavio Pisano) quiet exit -- accepts DEA undercover assignment, San Diego; Now
  • Policing Paradise (Series 2) -- BBC One, 2pm -- Bermuda police documentary; tonight: suspicious package at airport
  • Hamza Loves Animals: Africa -- CBeebies, 10.55am -- new series; Hamza Yassin (Strictly 2022 winner); elephants
  • England v New Zealand -- 1st Test, Day 5 (FINAL DAY) -- Sky Sports Main Event + Sky Sports Cricket, from 10.15am -- Lord's; highlights BBC Two 7pm
  • MLB: Toronto Blue Jays v Philadelphia Phillies -- TNT Sports 1, midnight (start ~12.07am Tuesday) -- Rogers Centre, Toronto

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Tonight's TV schedule: full listings

Time Channel Programme
10.55am CBeebies Hamza Loves Animals: Africa NEW SERIES Ep 1 -- Hamza Yassin; elephants
10.15am Sky Sports Main Event + Sky Sports Cricket England v New Zealand -- 1st Test Day 5 (FINAL DAY) LIVE -- Lord's
1.00pm BBC Two HSBC Championships -- Women's Day 1 LIVE -- Queen's Club; WTA 500; Serena Williams doubles
2.00pm BBC One Policing Paradise Series 2 -- Bermuda police; suspicious package at airport
7.00pm BBC Two England v New Zealand -- 1st Test Highlights -- Lord's; BBC Two edited coverage
8.00pm BBC Two Springwatch -- Packham; Strachan; Crom Estate, Co Fermanagh; Iolo Williams seabirds
8.00pm U&Drama The Brokenwood Mysteries Series 12 -- masquerade party; Kristin Sims New Year's Eve mystery
9.00pm BBC One Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men -- one-off film; Sir Gareth; young men; mental health
9.00pm BBC Two Brexit: A Very British Civil War Part 1 of 2 -- Norma Percy; 10th anniversary; Cameron; Johnson; Farage
9.00pm Channel 4 Tip Toe PENULTIMATE Ep 4 of 5 -- Alan Cumming; David Morrissey; George Canal Street; Russell T Davies
9.00pm Crime+Investigation Rob Rinder: The Crime I Can't Forget -- Lucy Hargreaves; Liverpool 2005; 20 years
9.00pm Channel 5 Jeremy Bamber: Proof of Innocence -- the Missing Phone Call -- White House Farm 1985; silencer
9.00pm Sky Witness Law & Order: SVU -- Griffin and Bruno; fertility clinic; bomb; Velasco exits
10.00pm Channel 4 All of Us Strangers ★★★★★ (15) -- Andrew Haigh; Andrew Scott; Paul Mescal; Claire Foy; Jamie Bell
10.00pm BBC Four The Sky at Night -- Space Weather: The Perfect Storm -- Carrington Event; Lintott; Aderin-Pocock
10.35pm ITV2 G'wed Series 3 Ep 1 -- Dylan Thomas-Smith; Jennifer Ellison; John Barnes; Liverpool
00:00 TNT Sports 1 MLB: Toronto Blue Jays v Philadelphia Phillies LIVE -- Rogers Centre (start ~12.07am Tue)
Now streaming BBC iPlayer Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men; Brexit: A Very British Civil War both parts; Springwatch
Now streaming Channel 4 streaming Tip Toe full series; All of Us Strangers
Now streaming ITVX G'wed Series 3
Now streaming Now Law & Order: SVU
Now streaming Channel 5 streaming Jeremy Bamber: Proof of Innocence

Tip Toe -- Episode 4 of 5 (Penultimate) -- Channel 4, 9pm

Tip Toe, Series 1, Episode 4 of 5. Channel 4 at 9pm. PENULTIMATE EPISODE. Written by Russell T Davies. Directed by Peter Hoar. Produced by Nicola Shindler, Quay Street Productions. Alan Cumming as Leo. David Morrissey as Clive. Concludes Tuesday 9 June with Episode 5. Full series on Channel 4 streaming. Patrick Mulkern byline.

After Sunday night's structural pivot -- events replayed from Clive's point of view, David Morrissey delivering a performance described by those who have seen it as something close to definitive -- Episode 4 finds both men facing the morning after the night before, and then the night after that. The billing calls it a long night of the soul for warring neighbours. That formulation is accurate, and it is also more interesting than the phrase usually suggests, because Leo and Clive are not equally positioned in the conflict between them, and the nature of what they each have to confront is not the same.

What the episode gives us of Leo is more of what the series has been building since the start: his compassion, which is genuine and not merely performed, and his resolve, which has been tested across three episodes and is now being tested in a way the earlier episodes were preparing for without quite arriving at. Leo's world -- Canal Street, the bar, the community around him, the care he extends to people within his orbit -- is not a refuge tonight. It is a responsibility.

What the episode gives us of Clive is, if anything, harder to watch. His embarrassment and shame are the emotions of a man who has had several of his assumptions stripped from him in a compressed timeframe, and the programme does not offer him easy exits from those emotions. The billing adds something that the previous episodes have only suggested: Clive's ability to surprise. That is not the quality you expect in the character at this stage of the series. That it is named here suggests the penultimate episode is where the surprise lands.

George Goss on Canal Street

The episode's other major thread is entirely separate in register and entirely connected in structure. Jackson Connor plays George Goss -- Clive's gay teenage son, the young man whose existence in relation to his father has been one of the series' most carefully managed pressures since the opening. Tonight George is out on Manchester's Canal Street gay scene. The billing specifies this is his first night out as an "out" young man.

That combination of details -- the specific geography of Canal Street, the first time, the permission that the word "out" carries and the vulnerability it implies -- is exactly what Russell T Davies does with the texture of a life rather than the plot of a narrative. George is not experiencing his father's storyline tonight. He is experiencing his own, in a space that was built for precisely the kind of night he is having.

Iz Hesketh plays Zee Malone, a trans woman who becomes George's new friend for the evening. The introduction of this character in the penultimate episode is a structural decision as much as a casting one: Zee Malone is not a recurring figure from the earlier episodes, which means George's Canal Street night is genuinely new territory, occupied by genuinely new people.

"A flare before an inferno"

That phrase is the episode's summary in the production notes, and it is chosen precisely. A flare is bright, brief, and announces something. An inferno is what comes after it. Tonight is not the conclusion -- that is Tuesday 9 June -- but it is the moment before the conclusion that makes the conclusion necessary.

Davies has structured Tip Toe as a series that builds pressure rather than releasing it between episodes. The five-night run is tight enough that the pressure accumulated across the first three episodes has not had time to dissipate; the penultimate episode inherits all of it and concentrates it further. What remains for Tuesday is the final reckoning.

The full series is on Channel 4 streaming for anyone who needs to catch up. Tip Toe concludes Tuesday 9 June with Episode 5.

Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men -- BBC One, 9pm

Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men. BBC One at 9pm. One-off documentary film. Sir Gareth Southgate. Gabriel Tate byline. Available on BBC iPlayer.

The decision Sir Gareth Southgate made when he left the England job in the summer of 2024 was the decision that makes this documentary possible. Unlike most former England managers, who return to club football reasonably quickly, Southgate chose not to. The choice meant that the next chapter of his public life would have to be something other than a return to the training ground, and the film that BBC One is showing tonight is what that chapter has looked like in practice.

Southgate was knighted in the King's 2025 New Year Honours. The honour made him the fourth England manager to receive a knighthood, following Sir Alf Ramsey, Sir Walter Winterbottom, and Sir Bobby Robson -- all figures associated with either winning or with the most sustained period of competitive English football in the post-war era. Southgate did not win a major tournament. He reached a World Cup semi-final, two European Championship finals, and changed the emotional and cultural register of what the England squad represented to many of its supporters. The knighthood reflects the latter as much as the former.

What the film is about

The documentary follows Sir Gareth travelling across the UK to meet young men. Not young men who are doing well, by and large. Young men growing up without a father figure. Young men in prison. Young men who are struggling at school in the specific ways that struggling at school tends to compound -- the isolation, the behavioural consequences, the gap between what they are capable of and what the institutional structures around them are managing to bring out. Young men grappling with mental-health issues, in the period when the infrastructure for addressing those issues is unevenly available and the cultural permission to discuss them is more available than it has been historically, though still uneven.

The conversations Southgate has with these young men are described as candid. That word is worth holding, because candid is not the mode of a motivational speaker or a public figure doing a tour of institutions for press purposes. Candid means that something is said that the person saying it has not necessarily said before, to someone they did not know well enough to have said it to already. Whether the programme achieves that consistently, or whether some moments are more guarded, the billing suggests the film found genuine exchanges.

Why Southgate

The question the documentary raises, implicitly, is why Southgate specifically. He is not a social worker, a therapist, or a criminologist. He is a former footballer and football manager who became, in the second half of his England tenure, something closer to a cultural figure -- a man whose public image was built around the refusal of a certain kind of performative masculinity in favour of something more open. That refusal is what the young men in this documentary are navigating in their own lives, often without the resources or the role models that might make it easier. Southgate, for whatever his limitations, represents the version of it that succeeded in public view.

Gabriel Tate byline. On BBC One at 9pm. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Brexit: A Very British Civil War -- Part 1 of 2 -- BBC Two, 9pm

Brexit: A Very British Civil War, Part 1 of 2. BBC Two at 9pm. By Norma Percy, Brook Lapping Productions. Marks the 10th anniversary of the June 2016 referendum. Both parts on BBC iPlayer. Radio Times page 29 feature.

Norma Percy is the documentary-maker whose previous subjects are a guide to the scale of what she takes on. The Death of Yugoslavia put Slobodan Milosevic and the key players of the Yugoslav wars on camera and produced the definitive documentary record of that period. Putin, Russia and the West did the same for the early decades of Russian foreign policy under its current leadership. Inside Obama's White House was the closest any British documentary crew came to that administration's internal deliberations.

The Brexit referendum -- 10 years old this month -- is of comparable complexity and considerably closer to home. Percy is applying to it the same method she has used elsewhere: get the principals in front of a camera, let them speak in their own words, and construct the account from what they say rather than imposing a verdict from outside.

The contributors

The roster is, by any measure, extraordinary. David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Michael Gove, George Osborne, Gordon Brown, Peter Mandelson, Jeremy Corbyn, Marina Wheeler, Bob Geldof, and Seumas Milne have all spoken on the record. The only significant absence from the key figures of the campaign is Dominic Cummings. His absence is noted without explanation in the billing, but an absence from a Norma Percy documentary is itself a kind of statement.

What the contributors do with their time on camera varies, as Percy's work always reveals. Some are seeking to justify the decisions they made. Others, the billing suggests, are in something closer to a mode of atonement -- an acknowledgement that things were done or said that they would do differently with ten years of distance. Some are regretful about outcomes they did not predict. Others are unrepentant about the choices that produced those outcomes. The studied neutrality that Percy brings to all of this is not fence-sitting. It is the methodology: give people the space to say what they actually think and let the contradictions and the tensions between accounts do the work that editorial commentary would flatten.

Where Part 1 begins

The opening episode starts in 2015. Cameron has just won a general election that many predicted he would lose -- the Conservative majority surprised pollsters, markets, and most of the political class, including much of the Conservative Party itself. He is, at that moment, in the strongest political position of his career.

Labour is on the verge of its own upheaval. The party's leftward turn -- Jeremy Corbyn's leadership victory, which arrived in September 2015 -- is imminent at the episode's opening, which means the Labour figures who will later argue the Remain case are about to be led by someone whose relationship to the European project is considerably more equivocal than his predecessors.

And Farage, at this point, is disconsolate. Another failed parliamentary campaign -- he stood for South Thanet in the general election and lost again, a loss that led him to resign from the UKIP leadership before withdrawing the resignation within days. The man whose campaign would eventually deliver the referendum he had spent his career demanding was, at the moment this documentary begins, in the most uncertain position of his political career.

That opening configuration -- the triumphant Cameron with a commitment to a referendum as the price of managing his own party, a Labour Party about to move decisively leftward, and a Farage who had just lost again -- is the precondition for everything that followed. Part 2 airs tomorrow. Both parts are on BBC iPlayer. Radio Times page 29.

A note on scheduling: BBC Two broadcasts at 9pm in most of the UK; Northern Ireland viewers should note the documentary airs at 11pm on BBC Two there.

The 9pm clash: Southgate vs Brexit

It is worth being direct about the scheduling problem this evening creates. Both BBC One and BBC Two have put significant, entirely serious documentaries at 9pm tonight, and neither one is the obvious lesser claim on your time.

The Southgate film is immediate and personal -- a man in his fifties, with a public profile built around emotional openness, sitting with young men in circumstances that make openness considerably harder, and finding out whether what he represents to them is useful or incidental. The Brexit documentary is historical and political -- the most comprehensive account yet assembled of how the referendum happened, told by the people who made it happen, at the distance of a decade.

The practical answer is iPlayer, where both will sit for 30 days. The honest answer is that if you have to choose in real time, you should know that the Brexit two-parter is a finite event -- Part 2 is tomorrow, and the conversation it generates will be loudest in the 48 hours after each part airs. The Southgate film can follow. But both deserve the attention.

And of course Channel 4 at 9pm has the penultimate episode of Tip Toe, which has been the week's most pressurised drama. Some viewers will be managing all three via recording, streaming, and a late night. It is that kind of evening.

All of Us Strangers ★★★★★ (15) -- Channel 4, 10pm

All of Us Strangers. Channel 4 at 10pm. Certificate 15. Five stars. 2023 film. Written and directed by Andrew Haigh. Andrew Scott. Paul Mescal. Claire Foy. Jamie Bell. Available on Channel 4 streaming.

Andrew Haigh has been making films for long enough that the consistency of his preoccupations is no longer surprising, even when what he does with them is. Weekend (2011) was about a single encounter between two men over two days in Nottingham, which is the kind of premise that sounds slight until you encounter what Haigh did with it. 45 Years (2015) was about a marriage tested by a revelation, which sounds like the premise of a hundred films and is in practice like almost none of them. Lean on Pete was about a teenage boy and a horse in the American West, which Haigh treated with a directness about loneliness and precarity that the film's apparent genre did not prepare you for.

All of Us Strangers is his most complete work. It is based on Taichi Yamada's 1987 Japanese novel, which Haigh has adapted by stripping out the supernatural register of the original -- the novel's ghosts are genuinely, physically present and progressively threatening -- in favour of something harder to categorise. The ghosts in Haigh's film are real in the same way that memory is real: undeniably present, unverifiable, and more honest than the waking world.

Andrew Scott

The performance at the centre of the film is Andrew Scott's, and it is career-best work in a career that was already notable enough that "career-best" requires some precision. Scott plays Adam, a screenwriter living alone in a mostly empty London tower block, working on a script about his childhood. He visits his childhood home and finds his parents there -- his parents, who died when he was twelve.

Claire Foy plays the mother. Jamie Bell plays the father. Both are exactly as Scott's character remembers them: young, slightly bewildered, and genuinely glad to see him. The visits are impossible by any conventional account of how time and death work, and the film is not interested in explaining them. What it is interested in is what Adam does with the access they provide: the conversations he could not have as a twelve-year-old, the grief that has been waiting for a context in which to operate, and the things that only a parent can give you when you are forty and understand, finally, what you needed when you were twelve.

Paul Mescal as Harry

Paul Mescal plays Harry, the one other occupant of the tower block that Adam becomes aware of. Harry is drunk on the night they meet, and he is carrying something that the film reveals gradually: a loneliness so long-standing that it has become a fixed condition rather than a circumstance. The relationship between Adam and Harry is the film's present tense, set against the visits to the parents that occupy a different register of time altogether. Mescal was nominated for a BAFTA Supporting Actor award for the performance, which does not quite account for what he does in the film's final section.

Six BAFTA nominations: Outstanding British Film, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Supporting Actress (Foy), Supporting Actor (Mescal), and Leading Actor (Scott). A veil of grief lies over the entire film, and the light of hope penetrates it in the way that light through fog is not the same as sunlight but is not nothing either.

Five stars. Certificate 15. On Channel 4 at 10pm. Available on Channel 4 streaming.

G'wed -- Series 3, Episode 1 -- ITV2, 10.35pm

G'wed, Series 3, Episode 1. ITV2 at 10.35pm. Liverpool-set teen sitcom. Dylan Thomas-Smith as Reece. Leanne Best as Jodie. Jennifer Ellison joins as Anna. Available on ITVX.

G'wed arrives at its third series having accumulated the kind of track record that makes ITV2 very willing to recommission it. Awards and critical recognition have arrived with the consistency that suggests the programme is doing something more than serviceable -- the BAFTA nomination for Dylan Thomas-Smith as Reece is not an anomaly but a recognition of a lead performance that has been carrying the show's most emotionally demanding material since the start.

Series 3 opens with a situation that is structurally simple and emotionally less so: Reece is aghast to find his mum Jodie (Leanne Best) has become the object of a tug-of-love. Jodie is the kind of parent that Liverpool teen comedies tend to position carefully -- too much presence crowds the comedy, too little undermines the emotional register. Leanne Best has played the balance well across two series, and the tug-of-love scenario gives the character somewhere new to go in a way that puts Reece in the position the show finds most productive: horrified, affectionate, and completely unable to do anything useful about the situation.

What else is happening tonight

The episode has the density of incident that G'wed uses as a signature: several things happening simultaneously, each with its own comic and emotional frequency, none resolved before the next one introduces itself. Refugee Awareness Week at school provides the backdrop, but Reece's energy is entirely absorbed by the domestic situation. A viral football video, a Magic Mike tribute act, a Cilla Black biopic, and a surprise party are the episode's other component parts, which is a lineup that requires some trust in the writers, and the trust appears warranted.

The cameo from John Barnes is the episode's most enjoyable peripheral element. Barnes played for Liverpool from 1987 to 1997, and his presence in a Liverpool-set comedy operates both as local colour and as a piece of the specific popular-cultural geography of a city where football history is woven into the texture of everyday life.

Jennifer Ellison joins the series this episode as Aimee's estranged mum Anna. Ellison's arrival as a recurring cast member is the kind of addition that Series 3 premieres make to signal that the show has resources and ambitions for the run ahead. On ITV2 at 10.35pm. Available on ITVX.

Tennis: HSBC Championships Women's Day 1 -- BBC Two, 1pm

HSBC Championships, Women's Tournament, Day 1. BBC Two from 1pm. WTA 500. Queen's Club, Hammersmith, west London. Women's tournament returns to Queen's for the first time since 1973.

The return of a women's tennis tournament to Queen's Club is a story that the programme notes handle with appropriate understatement, but it deserves a moment of attention. Queen's last hosted a women's event in 1973 -- more than fifty years ago. The club has been, in the public mind, primarily associated with the men's grass-court build-up to Wimbledon in the week immediately preceding it. The decision to bring the women's WTA 500 event to Queen's this year, in the week before the men's ATP 500, reclaims some of that history.

The big story of the women's tournament is Serena Williams. She is making her competitive return at this event, playing in the doubles draw. The singles draw is not part of the return -- Serena's competitive tennis has been away long enough that the comeback is calibrated to the doubles format first -- but her presence in the draws, on the court, at Queen's Club, is the week's dominant tennis narrative before a ball has been struck.

The tournament runs from 8 to 14 June. Women's week is week one; the men's ATP 500 follows in week two, with Wimbledon beginning the week after. BBC Two's coverage from 1pm gives the opening day the broadcast weight it deserves. Live from Queen's Club, Hammersmith, west London.

The Brokenwood Mysteries -- Series 12 -- U&Drama, 8pm

The Brokenwood Mysteries, Series 12. U&Drama at 8pm. Catch up on U.

Series 12 continues on U&Drama and tonight's episode has the mixture of elements that the show's most enjoyable outings tend to combine: a genuinely intriguing collection of plot ingredients set against a social occasion that puts most of the relevant characters in the same room before anything goes wrong.

The occasion is a masquerade party, which is the kind of setting that New Zealand cozy crime uses because it is honest about what it is doing. A masquerade allows people to be present without being themselves, which in a murder investigation later becomes either a problem or an advantage depending on whether the disguise is external or internal. The specific ingredients tonight are a long-lost relation, questions of paternity, the provenance of a valuable artwork, and whispers of espionage -- a mixture that is, even by Brokenwood's standards, accessorised.

The subplot is where the episode's most interesting texture sits. Detective Kristin Sims (Fern Sutherland) is suffering considerably the morning after New Year's Eve, and the question of what she was doing that evening is being handled by the programme as a mystery in its own right. Sims has been one of the series' more reliably watchable presences; a storyline in which she is the one with something to account for rather than the one doing the accounting is the kind of inversion that a long-running show needs.

David Brown byline. On U&Drama at 8pm. Catch up on U.

The Sky at Night -- "Space Weather: The Perfect Storm" -- BBC Four, 10pm

The Sky at Night: Space Weather: The Perfect Storm. BBC Four at 10pm. Presenters: Chris Lintott and Maggie Aderin-Pocock. With Jim Wild (Royal Astronomical Society) and Dr Ravindra Desai (University of Warwick). Available on BBC iPlayer.

The Carrington Event of 1--2 September 1859 is the benchmark against which all subsequent space-weather events are measured, and the benchmark is uncomfortable. The event was caused by a massive coronal mass ejection from the sun -- a burst of magnetised plasma that reached Earth in approximately 17 hours, far faster than the typical 2--4 days. The effect on the planet's telegraph infrastructure was immediate and dramatic: telegraph systems across North America and Europe failed; operators received electric shocks; in some cases, messages were sent and received on telegraph lines that had been disconnected from their power sources entirely, running on the auroral current alone. The northern lights were visible as far south as Cuba.

What makes the Carrington Event important in 2026 is not its historical interest but its precedent value. The 1859 infrastructure that was damaged was, by modern standards, primitive and localised. Power grids, satellite networks, GPS systems, internet infrastructure, mobile telecommunications -- none of these existed. A solar storm of Carrington intensity today would, according to the scientists who study it, represent a potential catastrophe of a different order.

How serious is the risk

Chris Lintott and Maggie Aderin-Pocock are the right pairing for this subject -- Lintott's grounding in astrophysics and Aderin-Pocock's gift for communicating the gap between what scientists know and what the public assumes provide the programme's engine. Jim Wild of the Royal Astronomical Society and Dr Ravindra Desai of the University of Warwick are the episode's specialist voices.

The Space Weather Prediction Center in the United States issues real-time alerts for solar activity. The international scientific community has been working on space-weather preparedness for more than a decade, with varying degrees of urgency from governments and infrastructure providers. The gap between what the scientists are telling the operators of critical infrastructure and what the operators are doing about it is, the episode suggests, still wider than it should be.

The Carrington Event was not unique -- a comparably intense event in July 2012 missed Earth by approximately nine days, which is the kind of information that tends to shift the discussion from abstract concern to practical planning. On BBC Four at 10pm. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Also worth watching tonight

Rob Rinder: The Crime I Can't Forget -- Crime+Investigation, 9pm

The murder of Lucy Hargreaves, 22, in Liverpool in 2005 is the kind of case that stays with the people who were professionally closest to it for reasons that go beyond professional involvement. For Rob Rinder, the involvement was specific: he was the defence barrister for one of the accused, who was acquitted. Rinder believes the acquittal was correct, and has said as much. The problem is that no acquittal means a conviction for someone else, and in Lucy's case, no conviction for anyone has ever followed.

Many who have followed the case believe it was a gang murder gone wrong, in which Lucy was an innocent victim in the wrong place. Rinder speaks to a family member for the first time in this documentary -- the first time in twenty years of haunting that the conversation across that specific line has been attempted. JR byline. On Crime+Investigation at 9pm.

Jeremy Bamber: Proof of Innocence -- the Missing Phone Call -- Channel 5, 9pm

The White House Farm case has been relitigated in documentary form more than once, but the specific focus of tonight's Channel 5 film is on three pieces of evidence that the original investigation and trial left inadequately examined. The letter Sheila Bamber wrote in the period before the killings is the contextual starting point: its content, and what it suggests about her state of mind, affects the interpretation of every other piece of evidence in the case.

The silencer is the detail that the film's title alludes to in the phrase "the missing phone call" -- the phone call that placed the silencer on the gun at a time inconsistent with how it was later found. If the silencer was used inside the house during the killings, the question of how it ended up replaced in a cupboard afterwards is one that the original investigation did not pursue adequately. The handling of the case by local police in its early hours is the third thread.

Jeremy Bamber has been in prison for more than forty years. The evidence this documentary examines does not result in his release -- that is not the documentary's claim. The claim is that what is shown here is compelling enough that the questions it raises have not yet been satisfactorily answered. Jane Rackham byline. On Channel 5 at 9pm. Available on 5 streaming.

Springwatch -- BBC Two, 8pm

Springwatch 2026 is at its most distinctive configuration this year. For the first time in the programme's history, the main studio is anchored in Northern Ireland -- at the Crom Estate in County Fermanagh, a National Trust property on the Upper Lough Erne whose woodland and lakeshore habitat is among the more varied in the island. That decision accounts for tonight's simulcast: BBC Two in most of the UK, BBC One in Northern Ireland, so that the programme's home-territory audience can watch on the main channel.

Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan are at Crom. Iolo Williams is not -- he is reporting from East Yorkshire, where the seabird season at Bempton Cliffs provides a contrast to the Fermanagh countryside that the programme uses productively. The seabirds on the East Yorkshire cliffs are in a different phase of their seasonal cycle from the woodland and lakeshore species at Crom; running both simultaneously gives the programme its characteristic sense of the country's wildlife operating across multiple registers at once.

On BBC Two at 8pm. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Hamza Loves Animals: Africa -- CBeebies, 10.55am

The first episode of Hamza Yassin's new CBeebies series. Yassin won Strictly Come Dancing in 2022 and has been a wildlife cameraman for considerably longer than that -- his broadcasting background is in natural history before the dancing competition made him a household name across a different demographic. The Africa series takes him to the continent for a run of episodes built around specific animals and the things he has learned about them in the field. Tonight: elephants. On CBeebies at 10.55am.

Law & Order: SVU -- Sky Witness, 9pm

Detectives Griffin and Bruno are at a fertility clinic to retrieve DNA evidence in a rape case. Before the evidence can be secured, a bomb destroys it -- and the investigation shifts from retrieval to explosion, with IVF-opposed extremists as the assumed perpetrators, requiring the unit to navigate a politically charged investigation rather than a forensic one. The episode also marks the quiet departure of Det. Velasco (Octavio Pisano), who accepts an undercover posting with the Drug Enforcement Administration in San Diego. The exit is handled without ceremony, which suits the character and the unit's operational context. On Sky Witness at 9pm. Available on Now.

Policing Paradise Series 2 -- BBC One, 2pm

The second series of the documentary following police officers in Bermuda continues on BBC One at 2pm. Tonight's episode: airport staff at L.F. Wade International Airport find a suspicious package, and the response to it follows. The Bermuda series has established the territory well across its first run -- the specific conditions of policing a small island territory, with the social dynamics and resource constraints that implies, and the particular atmosphere of a place whose economy depends heavily on its international reputation.

Live sport today

Tennis: HSBC Championships Women's Day 1 -- BBC Two, from 1pm

The return of women's tennis to Queen's Club, covered in full above. Day 1 of the WTA 500. The draw features Serena Williams in the doubles alongside whatever the main singles draw produces on an opening day at a tournament returning to a storied venue after half a century. Live on BBC Two from 1pm.

Men's Test Cricket: England v New Zealand -- 1st Test, Day 5 (final day) -- Sky Sports, 10.15am; highlights BBC Two, 7pm

Day 5 at Lord's is the final day of the first Test. What happens today depends on where the match stood at close of play on Day 4 -- the positions of the batting and bowling sides, the state of the pitch after four days of use, and the mathematics of what each team needs to achieve or avoid. A final-day Test at Lord's, with the pitch offering the variable conditions that late-match Lord's surfaces typically produce, is the kind of cricket that makes the longest form of the game its own argument for itself.

The Lord's pitch by Day 5 will carry the wear of four days: cracks in the surface, rough areas where the spinners can exploit the abrasion, and enough inconsistency in the bounce that batting becomes a calculation with variables the batsman cannot entirely predict. Bowlers, conversely, find purchase they did not have on the first two mornings. Whether England or New Zealand are batting to save the match or chasing a target determines how those conditions play.

Live on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Cricket from 10.15am BST. Highlights on BBC Two at 7pm.

MLB: Toronto Blue Jays v Philadelphia Phillies -- TNT Sports 1, midnight (start ~12.07am Tuesday)

Late-night baseball from the Rogers Centre in Toronto. Toronto Blue Jays host the Philadelphia Phillies. For those who are recording for morning viewing, or who maintain the hours that North American sport requires of its UK followers: TNT Sports 1 from midnight, match starting approximately 12.07am Tuesday 9 June.

Frequently asked questions

What's on TV tonight Monday 8 June 2026?

Monday 8 June 2026 is anchored by three significant 9pm programmes and there is no easy way to watch all three live. Channel 4 has the penultimate episode of Tip Toe (Episode 4 of 5) -- Russell T Davies; Alan Cumming as Leo; David Morrissey as Clive; long night of the soul; George Goss on Canal Street for the first time; "a flare before an inferno"; concludes Tuesday 9 June. BBC One has Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men -- one-off documentary; Sir Gareth (knighted King's 2025 New Year Honours) meeting young men across the UK who are dealing with absent fathers, prison, mental health. BBC Two has Brexit: A Very British Civil War Part 1 of 2 -- Norma Percy (Brook Lapping); 10th anniversary of the June 2016 referendum; Cameron, Boris Johnson, Farage, Gove, Osborne, Brown, Mandelson, Corbyn, Geldof, Milne; Cummings absent; opens 2015. Both BBC documentaries are on iPlayer. Channel 4 has All of Us Strangers (five stars, 15 cert) at 10pm -- 2023 Andrew Haigh film; Andrew Scott; Paul Mescal; Claire Foy; Jamie Bell; six BAFTA nominations. ITV2 has G'wed Series 3 Episode 1 at 10.35pm -- Dylan Thomas-Smith; Jennifer Ellison; John Barnes cameo. BBC Two has Springwatch at 8pm (Packham; Strachan; Crom Estate, Co Fermanagh; first time anchored in Northern Ireland). BBC Four has The Sky at Night: Space Weather: The Perfect Storm at 10pm. U&Drama has Brokenwood Mysteries Series 12 at 8pm. Crime+Investigation has Rob Rinder: The Crime I Can't Forget at 9pm. Channel 5 has Jeremy Bamber: Proof of Innocence at 9pm. Sky Witness has Law and Order SVU at 9pm. BBC Two has HSBC Championships Women's Day 1 from 1pm. England v New Zealand 1st Test Day 5 (final day) is on Sky Sports from 10.15am; highlights BBC Two 7pm.

What happens in Tip Toe Episode 4 tonight -- the penultimate episode?

Tip Toe Episode 4 of 5 -- the penultimate episode -- airs on Channel 4 at 9pm on Monday 8 June 2026. Written by Russell T Davies, directed by Peter Hoar. Alan Cumming plays Leo; David Morrissey plays Clive. It is a long night of the soul for both warring neighbours. More of Leo's compassion and resolve; more of Clive's embarrassment and shame -- and, the billing specifies, his ability to surprise. Jackson Connor plays George Goss (Clive's gay teenage son), who is enjoying his first night out on Manchester's Canal Street gay scene as an openly gay young man. Iz Hesketh plays Zee Malone, a trans woman who becomes George's new pal. The episode is described as "a flare before an inferno." The series concludes Tuesday 9 June (Episode 5). Full series on Channel 4 streaming. Patrick Mulkern byline.

What is Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men on BBC One tonight?

Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men is a one-off documentary on BBC One at 9pm on Monday 8 June 2026. Sir Gareth Southgate was knighted in the King's 2025 New Year Honours -- the fourth England manager knighted, after Sir Alf Ramsey, Sir Walter Winterbottom, and Sir Bobby Robson. Unlike most former England managers, he chose not to return to club football. The documentary follows him travelling across the UK to meet young men: some without a father figure, others in prison or struggling at school, many dealing with mental-health issues. Gabriel Tate byline. Available on BBC iPlayer.

What is Brexit: A Very British Civil War on BBC Two tonight?

Brexit: A Very British Civil War Part 1 of 2 airs on BBC Two at 9pm on Monday 8 June 2026 (11pm in Northern Ireland). Made by Norma Percy of Brook Lapping Productions -- whose previous work includes The Death of Yugoslavia, Putin, Russia and the West, and Inside Obama's White House. It marks the 10th anniversary of the June 2016 referendum. Contributors include David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Michael Gove, George Osborne, Gordon Brown, Peter Mandelson, Jeremy Corbyn, Marina Wheeler, Bob Geldof, and Seumas Milne. Only Dominic Cummings is absent. Part 1 opens in 2015: Cameron triumphant, Labour's leftward turn imminent, Farage disconsolate after another failed parliamentary campaign. Both parts are on BBC iPlayer. Radio Times page 29 feature.

What is All of Us Strangers on Channel 4 tonight?

All of Us Strangers airs on Channel 4 at 10pm on Monday 8 June 2026. Certificate 15. Five stars. 2023 film by writer-director Andrew Haigh (Weekend, 45 Years, Lean on Pete; Looking on HBO). Based on Taichi Yamada's 1987 Japanese novel Strangers. Andrew Scott gives what many consider career-best work as a writer who reunites with his long-dead parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell). Paul Mescal plays Harry, Scott's neighbour. Six BAFTA nominations: Outstanding British Film, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Supporting Actress (Foy), Supporting Actor (Mescal), and Leading Actor (Scott). Available on Channel 4 streaming.

Is there a BBC One and BBC Two 9pm clash tonight?

Yes. Both BBC One and BBC Two have put significant documentaries at 9pm on Monday 8 June 2026. BBC One has Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men -- Sir Gareth's personal journey across the UK meeting young men dealing with absent fathers, prison, mental health. BBC Two has Brexit: A Very British Civil War Part 1 of 2 -- Norma Percy's landmark two-part documentary marking the 10th anniversary of the June 2016 referendum. Both are on BBC iPlayer, so the choice is which to watch live and which to return to. Channel 4 also has Tip Toe Episode 4 (the penultimate episode) at 9pm.

What is G'wed Series 3 Episode 1 on ITV2 tonight?

G'wed Series 3 Episode 1 airs on ITV2 at 10.35pm on Monday 8 June 2026. The Liverpool-set teen sitcom returns for a third series. BAFTA-nominated Dylan Thomas-Smith plays Reece, who is dismayed to find his mum Jodie (Leanne Best) has become the focus of a tug-of-love. Refugee Awareness Week is at school but Reece has more pressing matters. The episode involves a viral football video, a Magic Mike tribute act, a Cilla Black biopic, and a surprise party. John Barnes makes a cameo, and Jennifer Ellison joins the cast as Aimee's estranged mum Anna. Available on ITVX.

Is Serena Williams playing at Queen's Club this week?

Yes. Serena Williams is making a competitive return at the 2026 HSBC Championships at Queen's Club, playing in the doubles draw. The women's tournament begins on Monday 8 June 2026 -- the first time Queen's has hosted a women's event since 1973. BBC Two has live coverage from 1pm. The tournament runs 8--14 June (women's week; men's ATP 500 follows in week 2).

What is The Sky at Night about tonight on BBC Four?

The Sky at Night on BBC Four at 10pm on Monday 8 June 2026 is titled Space Weather: The Perfect Storm. It covers the Carrington Event -- the most extreme recorded space-weather event, which occurred 1--2 September 1859, when a solar storm destroyed the world's telegraph infrastructure. The episode examines what a comparable event would mean for today's digital and telecommunications systems, which the scientists involved describe as potentially catastrophic. Presenters Chris Lintott and Maggie Aderin-Pocock are joined by Jim Wild (Royal Astronomical Society) and Dr Ravindra Desai (University of Warwick). Available on BBC iPlayer.

What is Rob Rinder: The Crime I Can't Forget on Crime+Investigation tonight?

Rob Rinder: The Crime I Can't Forget airs on Crime+Investigation at 9pm on Monday 8 June 2026. It focuses on the murder of Lucy Hargreaves, 22, in Liverpool in 2005. Rinder was the defence barrister for one of the accused, who was acquitted -- he believes rightly. Despite that, no one has ever been convicted for Lucy's murder. Many believe it was a gang murder gone wrong. Rinder speaks to a family member for the first time. JR byline.

Tonight's final word

Monday 8 June 2026 is the kind of evening that the television schedule occasionally produces when several genuinely serious programmes arrive simultaneously without apparent coordination. The 9pm slot asks something real of its audience tonight: three substantial programmes, across three channels, all of them making claims on the available attention.

The Southgate documentary is the one that carries the most unexpected quality for a film about a figure this well-known. Southgate's public persona was constructed carefully across his England tenure, and the tendency of public figures to repeat their public personas in documentary settings is familiar enough. What the billing suggests is that the conversations tonight go somewhere different -- that the young men he meets, and what they are carrying, generate a different mode of exchange from anything that his football career or its analysis could produce. Whether that quality holds across the full hour is the question the programme has to answer. The indication is that it does.

The Brexit two-parter is the documentary of record for the decade's defining political event. Norma Percy has made programmes whose subjects looked back on upheavals they were central to and found, on camera, things they had not said before. The 2026 distance from June 2016 is enough that the principal figures have had time to reckon with consequences they could not have predicted when the votes were counted. Cameron, Johnson, Farage: ten years is a complicated interval for all three. What they say to Percy's camera is the film's substance and its value.

Tip Toe at 9pm on Channel 4 is the penultimate episode, and the phrase "a flare before an inferno" is doing the work that the best programme notes do: telling you precisely what kind of experience you are entering without telling you anything that would reduce it. The inferno is tomorrow. Tonight, the flare.

At 10pm, All of Us Strangers. Andrew Haigh made the film, and Andrew Scott is in it, and it has five stars, and if you have not seen it, this is the night.

Check what's on right now, browse tonight's highlights, or find any channel through the full channels list. Yesterday: Sunday 7 June 2026. Tomorrow: Tip Toe reaches its final episode on Channel 4 at 9pm, Brexit: A Very British Civil War Part 2 airs on BBC Two at 9pm, and the HSBC Championships Women's Tournament continues at Queen's Club.