What's on TV tonight Saturday 6 June 2026? Five days before the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off in North America, three home nations are playing final warm-up matches simultaneously, and the evening's football schedule runs from teatime to midnight. Channel 4 is marking sixty years since England's only World Cup win with a colourised re-broadcast of the 1966 final, introduced by David Baddiel, with Sir Geoff Hurst reflecting on what he and his teammates have subsequently carried. BBC Four has a Venice Silver Lion-winning Italian film. U&Drama closes Monsieur Spade with a finale double bill that promises considerably more violence than the south of France usually provides.

England play New Zealand at 9pm BST in Tampa -- Thomas Tuchel's first match in charge. Scotland play Bolivia in Harrison, New Jersey at the same time -- Steve Clarke's last look at the squad before the tournament. And Romania play Wales in Bucharest at 6.45pm, in what will be the first meeting between those two sides since a raw November evening in Cardiff in 1993 when Wales were trying to reach the World Cup in the United States, failed to do so, and would wait thirty years before trying again.

The rest of the evening's television is not short of things to recommend. BBC One has Two Weeks in August back at 9.15pm, with Zoe now unmoored and everyone heading to a party that will not end well. Casualty continues the Colonel Jack Bard arc at 8.25pm. BBC Four opens the primetime hours with a conservation documentary in South Sudan at 7pm and closes them with Vermiglio, Maura Delpero's extraordinary quiet film about a family in the Alps at the end of the war, at 9.20pm. And U&Gold's Red Dwarf repeats at 10pm carry more weight than most repeats do this year, given what happened in February.

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, U&Drama, Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Cricket, and TNT Sports 1. For yesterday's listings see our Friday 5 June 2026 TV guide.

What's on TV tonight: quick picks

  • Romania v Wales -- BBC One Wales, 6.30pm coverage, k/o 6.45pm BST -- National Arena, Bucharest; first meeting since 17 November 1993 (Cardiff Arms Park, 1994 World Cup qualifier -- not "since 1994" as sometimes cited); Wales did NOT qualify for the 2026 World Cup (lost to Bosnia-Herzegovina in play-off semi-final); prep for autumn UEFA Nations League
  • England v New Zealand -- ITV1, 8.15pm coverage, k/o 9pm BST -- Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, Florida; Thomas Tuchel's first game as England manager; England's third-ever meeting with New Zealand (last June 1991); second warm-up v Costa Rica, Orlando, Wednesday 10 June; World Cup opens 11 June
  • Bolivia v Scotland -- BBC Two, 8.30pm coverage, k/o 9pm BST -- Sports Illustrated Stadium, Harrison, New Jersey; Steve Clarke's final pre-tournament warm-up; Scotland are at the World Cup; first-ever Bolivia v Scotland meeting; World Cup final MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ, 19 July 2026
  • 1966 FIFA World Cup Final in Colour -- Channel 4, 4.45pm -- 60th anniversary; England 4--2 West Germany AET, Wembley, 30 July 1966; colourised re-broadcast (first shown C4 July 2021); SunLife partnership, Alzheimer's Society; David Baddiel introduces; Sir Geoff Hurst reflects on teammates with dementia; Harry Kane contributes; "you still won't know if the third goal was over the line"; C4 streaming
  • Vermiglio ★★★★ (15) -- BBC Four, 9.20pm -- 2024 Italian film; writer-director Maura Delpero; South Tyrolean Alps 1944--45; schoolteacher Cesare's large family; eldest daughter Lucia + escaped PoW; drawn from Delpero's late father's memories; Venice Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize 2024; Italy's Oscar submission; "I mix things and fictionalise"; iPlayer
  • Monsieur Spade (SERIES FINALE double bill) -- U&Drama, 9pm + 10.10pm -- Clive Owen as Sam Spade; Bozouls, Aveyron, 1963; co-created/directed Scott Frank (The Queen's Gambit) + Tom Fontana; high body count, last-minute twists, murderous denouement; full series on U
  • Two Weeks in August (Ep 4 of 8) -- BBC One, 9.15pm -- written by Catherine Shepherd; Zoe (Jessica Raine) spirals after split from Dan (Damien Molony) at end of Ep 3; group (minus Dan) attends lavish fancy-dress party, James (Tom Goodman-Hill) + Flick (Dolly Wells) hosting; dynamics worsen; all 8 eps on iPlayer
  • Casualty (S41, "Lethal Legacy" arc) -- BBC One, 8.25pm -- Colonel Jack Bard (Mark Womack), military discipline into bullying; Recruit Rory Dickson (Gwion Morris Jones) back from last week, distressed, professionally assessed not at risk; Flynn (Olly Rix) convinced Rory faces real danger returning to barracks; arc launched 25 April 2026; iPlayer
  • Celebrity Bridge of Lies -- BBC One, 5.35pm -- Ross Kemp hosts; Louisa Lytton (Ruby Allen, EastEnders), Greg Rutherford, Janet Ellis, Sanjeev Kohli; iPlayer
  • Blankety Blank -- BBC One, 6.20pm (BBC Two in Wales) -- Bradley Walsh hosts; Sue Perkins, Emmett J Scanlan, Melvin Odoom, Grace Dent, Vanessa Williams, Chris McCausland; iPlayer
  • Red Dwarf (S1 repeats) -- U&Gold, 10pm + 10.40pm -- 1988 original BBC Two series; Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Danny John-Jules, Norman Lovett; Rob Grant died 25 February 2026, aged 70; prequel novel Red Dwarf: Titan (with Andrew Marshall) publishes 16 July 2026 (Gollancz); Now
  • D-Day 82nd Anniversary -- U&Yesterday, from 10am -- D-Day: Last Words 10am + 11am; World War Two from Above (Tony Robinson, drone tech) 1pm; Churchill's Toy Shop 3pm; Guy Martin's Battle of Britain 4pm; Robson Green: World's Most Amazing Walks (Normandy beaches) 8pm
  • Expedition Rhino: The Search for the Last Northern White -- BBC Four, 7pm -- 2022 documentary; war-torn South Sudan; northern white rhinos; iPlayer
  • Football Fantastics -- CBeebies, 8.45am -- fresh series; kids' football comedy; Lucy and Georgie
  • England v New Zealand -- 1st Test, Day 3 -- Sky Sports Main Event + Sky Sports Cricket, from 10.15am -- Lord's; Rothesay series, inaugural Crowe-Thorpe Trophy; highlights BBC Two 7.30pm
  • French Open -- Women's Singles Final -- TNT Sports 1, from 1.30pm -- Roland Garros, Paris; Day 14
  • Weather Hits at the BBC -- BBC Two, 11.15pm -- Carol Kirkwood + Tomasz Schafernaker; weather-themed music from the BBC vaults; iPlayer

See what's on right now for live updates.

Tonight's TV schedule: full listings

Time Channel Programme
8.45am CBeebies Football Fantastics -- new series; kids' football comedy; Lucy and Georgie
10.00am U&Yesterday D-Day: Last Words -- Part 1; veterans recall the longest day
10.15am Sky Sports Main Event + Sky Sports Cricket England v New Zealand -- 1st Test Day 3 LIVE -- Lord's; Crowe-Thorpe Trophy
11.00am U&Yesterday D-Day: Last Words -- Part 2
1.00pm U&Yesterday World War Two from Above -- Tony Robinson; drone tech; German trench networks
1.30pm TNT Sports 1 French Open -- Women's Singles Final LIVE -- Roland Garros, Paris; Day 14
3.00pm U&Yesterday Churchill's Toy Shop
4.00pm U&Yesterday Guy Martin's Battle of Britain
4.45pm Channel 4 1966 FIFA World Cup Final in Colour -- 60th anniversary; David Baddiel; Sir Geoff Hurst; Harry Kane; SunLife; Alzheimer's Society
5.35pm BBC One Celebrity Bridge of Lies -- Ross Kemp; Louisa Lytton; Greg Rutherford; Janet Ellis; Sanjeev Kohli
6.20pm BBC One Blankety Blank -- Bradley Walsh; Sue Perkins; Grace Dent; Chris McCausland (6.20pm; BBC Two in Wales)
6.30pm BBC One Wales Romania v Wales -- international football; National Arena, Bucharest; coverage from 6.30pm
6.45pm BBC One Wales Romania v Wales KICK-OFF -- 6.45pm BST; Bucharest
7.00pm BBC Four Expedition Rhino: The Search for the Last Northern White -- 2022 documentary; South Sudan
7.30pm BBC Two England v New Zealand -- 1st Test Day 3 Highlights -- Lord's; edited BBC Two coverage
8.00pm U&Yesterday Robson Green: World's Most Amazing Walks -- Normandy beaches; D-Day anniversary
8.15pm ITV1 England v New Zealand -- international football; Tampa, Florida; coverage from 8.15pm
8.25pm BBC One Casualty S41 -- Colonel Jack Bard; Rory Dickson; Flynn; "Lethal Legacy" arc
8.30pm BBC Two Bolivia v Scotland -- international football; Harrison, NJ; coverage from 8.30pm
9.00pm ITV1 England v New Zealand KICK-OFF -- 9pm BST; Raymond James Stadium, Tampa
9.00pm BBC Two Bolivia v Scotland KICK-OFF -- 9pm BST; Sports Illustrated Stadium, Harrison, NJ
9.00pm U&Drama Monsieur Spade SERIES FINALE -- Clive Owen; Scott Frank; murderous denouement begins
9.15pm BBC One Two Weeks in August Ep 4 of 8 -- Zoe spirals; fancy-dress party; Jessica Raine
9.20pm BBC Four Vermiglio ★★★★ (15) -- Maura Delpero; Venice Silver Lion 2024; South Tyrolean Alps 1944
10.00pm U&Gold Red Dwarf Series 1 -- 1988; Craig Charles; Chris Barrie; Rob Grant tribute
10.10pm U&Drama Monsieur Spade SERIES FINALE -- second episode of double bill; final denouement
10.40pm U&Gold Red Dwarf Series 1 -- second episode; Danny John-Jules; Norman Lovett
11.15pm BBC Two Weather Hits at the BBC -- Carol Kirkwood + Tomasz Schafernaker; music from the vaults
Now streaming BBC iPlayer Two Weeks in August full series; Casualty S41; Vermiglio; Expedition Rhino
Now streaming Channel 4 streaming 1966 World Cup Final in Colour
Now streaming U (streaming) Monsieur Spade full series

Three home nations, one evening: the pre-World Cup warm-ups

The 2026 FIFA World Cup begins on Thursday 11 June at stadiums across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The opening match is Mexico v South Africa. The final is at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on 19 July 2026. Five days out, three of the home nations are using tonight to assess squads, test formations, and get a last proper look at what they have before the tournament begins in earnest.

It is a busy sporting evening in a way that requires a small amount of schedule navigation. England kick off at 9pm BST in Florida. Scotland kick off at the same moment in New Jersey. Wales kick off ninety minutes earlier in Romania. For anyone planning around linear television, the practical order is: put the 1966 final on at 4.45pm, catch the Wales match from 6.30pm on BBC One Wales, then make a choice between England on ITV1 and Scotland on BBC Two at 9pm. Only streaming and recording will let you watch all three of the later kick-offs in full.

Romania v Wales -- BBC One Wales, coverage 6.30pm, kick-off 6.45pm BST

Romania v Wales. National Arena, Bucharest. Kick-off 6.45pm BST. BBC One Wales coverage from 6.30pm. Wales's first meeting with Romania since 17 November 1993.

The detail that any Welsh football supporter over thirty will remember about 17 November 1993 is what was at stake. Wales were trying to qualify for the 1994 World Cup in the United States. They needed a result at Cardiff Arms Park. They did not get what they needed. The tournament went to the USA without them, and it would be another three decades before Wales returned to a World Cup, in Qatar in 2022.

So the gap between that Cardiff night and tonight's National Arena fixture in Bucharest is thirty-two and a half years. Some sources have described tonight as Wales's first meeting with Romania "since 1994." The match was in November 1993. It is a small distinction, but the wrong date has a way of appearing in copy as though it is correct -- the year the World Cup happened rather than the year the game was played -- and it is worth stating plainly.

Wales are not at the World Cup

This is preparation for the autumn UEFA Nations League, not for the World Cup. Wales lost to Bosnia-Herzegovina in a play-off semi-final and did not qualify for 2026. That context shapes tonight's match: it is a squad assessment for a Nations League cycle that begins in the autumn, rather than a final tune-up before a major tournament. The gap in meaning between those two things is significant. The players know the difference; the manner of their preparation tends to reflect it.

That said, any competitive footballer preparing to represent their country against Romania in the National Arena in Bucharest is not treating this as a friendly in the traditional sense of mild interest and careful rotation. There are positions to press claims for. There are coaches watching. The Nations League is live football with consequences attached to it.

On BBC One Wales from 6.30pm. Kick-off 6.45pm BST.

England v New Zealand -- ITV1, coverage 8.15pm, kick-off 9pm BST

England v New Zealand. Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, Florida. Kick-off 9pm BST. ITV1 coverage from 8.15pm. Thomas Tuchel's first match as England manager.

It is an unusual thing to watch a manager's first game in charge of the national team five days before a World Cup. The normal sequence -- appointment, training camps, friendlies over months, gradual imprint of the new manager's methods before the major tournament -- has not been available to Tuchel, whose appointment came too recently to allow any of that. What happens tonight in Tampa will be the first public evidence of how he wants England to play.

Tuchel's record in club management -- Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain, Borussia Dortmund -- is the record of a coach who develops systems, demands pressing intensity, and tends to organise defensively from a position of clarity about roles. Whether he can do any of that with an international squad in the time available before 11 June is the question that makes this match worth watching regardless of the opposition.

New Zealand are not a trivial opponent. They have qualified for the 2026 World Cup -- tonight's match is preparation for them too, and they will come with a structure and an intent. But the honest framing is that England's supporters will spend the ninety minutes watching Tuchel's choices on the touchline and the shape of the side more than they will be studying New Zealand's individual qualities.

England's history with New Zealand

This is only the third time England and New Zealand have met in men's international football. The second meeting was in June 1991. The first was before that. The rarity of the fixture is partly a reflection of the logistics of test football in the southern hemisphere and partly of the relative standing of New Zealand's programme in the decades when England's opponents were chosen by the Football Association's available calendar slots.

New Zealand have since earned a cleaner identity in international football -- their Oceania confederation place at the 2026 World Cup is not the same as the guaranteed pathway it once was, and the squad they bring to Florida tonight will have been selected on merit from a programme that now runs professionally at domestic and national level.

England's second warm-up is against Costa Rica at Orlando on Wednesday 10 June. Then it is the World Cup.

On ITV1 from 8.15pm. Kick-off 9pm BST.

Bolivia v Scotland -- BBC Two, coverage 8.30pm, kick-off 9pm BST

Bolivia v Scotland. Sports Illustrated Stadium, Harrison, New Jersey. Kick-off 9pm BST. BBC Two coverage from 8.30pm. Steve Clarke's final pre-tournament warm-up. First-ever meeting between Bolivia and Scotland.

Scotland are at the World Cup, which is a sentence that required a particular amount of patience from supporters who waited long enough that some had stopped expecting to use it. Tonight's match in Harrison, New Jersey -- the Sports Illustrated Stadium, which sits in the Meadowlands sports complex a short drive from where the World Cup final will be held on 19 July -- is the last chance Steve Clarke has to look at the full squad before the tournament begins.

Bolivia are a viable final test. They play at altitude in La Paz, which gives their domestic football a specific physical quality that international opponents rarely encounter until they are already disadvantaged by the conditions. In New Jersey sea-level air, that home advantage disappears, but the technical qualities that Bolivian football tends to produce do not. This is a meaningful warm-up in a way that a mismatch would not be.

Why Harrison, New Jersey

The choice of venue is not accidental. Harrison sits close to MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, where Scotland could find themselves playing if they progress through the group stage. Playing in the same metropolitan area gives the squad a sense of the travel patterns, the local conditions, and the feel of the region that will be relevant if they need to return in the tournament's later rounds.

The first-ever meeting between Bolivia and Scotland is a straightforward fact that the programme notes with appropriate weight. International football at this level produces genuine firsts less often than it once did; the global calendar has contracted the gaps between nations that would once have gone decades without encountering each other. This one is real.

On BBC Two from 8.30pm. Kick-off 9pm BST.

1966 FIFA World Cup Final in Colour -- Channel 4, 4.45pm

1966 FIFA World Cup Final in Colour. Channel 4 at 4.45pm. England 4, West Germany 2. Wembley, 30 July 1966. 60th anniversary. David Baddiel introduces. Broadcast in partnership with SunLife in aid of the Alzheimer's Society. Available on Channel 4 streaming.

Sixty years ago today -- or close enough, given that the date of this broadcast is 6 June and the original match was played on 30 July -- England won the World Cup. The actual anniversary falls on 30 July 2026, but tonight's broadcast marks the anniversary year rather than the precise date, and in the context of the week that precedes a new World Cup, the scheduling makes its own kind of sense.

The colourised version of the 1966 final was first broadcast on Channel 4 in July 2021, the night before England played Italy in the Euro 2021 final at Wembley. The timing of that original broadcast was calculated: here is the last time England were at this stage at home, in colour, for a generation that either wasn't alive or was too young to remember it, as England prepared to try to do it again. They came within a penalty shootout of succeeding.

Tonight it returns with a different frame. The partnership with SunLife and the Alzheimer's Society brings the broadcast into territory that the 2021 version did not foreground: the connection between the 1966 squad and the dementia epidemic among former professional footballers. Sir Geoff Hurst -- the only player to have scored a hat-trick in a World Cup Final, and now the most prominent surviving member of that squad -- contributes reflections on teammates who went on to develop dementia. The association between heading a football and subsequent neurological deterioration is one the sport has been reckoning with formally since 2019, when the evidence from studies of former professional players became impossible to minimise.

David Baddiel and Harry Kane

David Baddiel introduces the programme. His own investment in England football is long-established and well-documented; his role here is to contextualise a piece of national sporting history for an audience that spans people who watched the original live and people for whom 1966 is as remote as the FA Cup finals of the 1930s.

Harry Kane's contribution places the present-day England squad alongside the 1966 generation at a specific moment: the eve of a World Cup in which England are once again among the contenders.

The third goal

Every broadcast of the 1966 final, colourised or otherwise, carries the same qualification in its programme notes. Roger Hunt's celebratory reaction -- he turned and ran without following the rebound because he was certain the ball had crossed the line -- is the clearest contemporary evidence that the goal was valid. The Hawkeye and goal-line technology that would have settled the question definitively did not exist. The technology that colourises the footage does not resolve where the ball was. You will have to make your own judgment, as people have been doing for sixty years.

On Channel 4 at 4.45pm. Available on Channel 4 streaming.

Vermiglio ★★★★ (15) -- BBC Four, 9.20pm

Vermiglio. BBC Four at 9.20pm. Certificate 15. Four stars. Written and directed by Maura Delpero. Venice Silver Lion (Grand Jury Prize), 2024 Venice Film Festival. Italy's Oscar submission. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Maura Delpero grew up in the South Tyrolean Alps, and the landscape she returns to in Vermiglio is one she knows from the inside -- not as a location chosen for its visual qualities, but as a place whose specific history and social texture she researched carefully before writing the script. She spoke with local residents who had memories of the period. She drew on what her late father had told her. Then she fictionalised, which is the word she uses openly: "I mix things and fictionalise."

The result is not a document. It is a drama with the patience and visual precision of a painting, set across a few months of 1944 and 1945 in a village where the war is happening at a distance but arriving, nonetheless.

The family at the centre

Cesare is a schoolteacher, which in a small mountain village in 1944 means he is also a kind of presiding authority -- educated, responsible for the formation of the next generation, and in charge of a large family of his own whose domestic life the film observes with the quiet attention that Delpero applies to everything. His eldest daughter is Lucia. Lucia falls in love with a man who is hiding in the village -- an escaped prisoner of war whose presence there is dangerous for everyone who knows about it and doubly dangerous for anyone who helps him.

The film does not play this as a thriller. The danger is present but subordinate to the texture of what the family is, who these people are to each other, and what the war is doing to the ordinary fabric of life in a place that is not a battlefield but is not untouched. There is a scene -- quiet, domestic, significant -- in which Cesare and his wife discuss which of their daughters will be sent to upper school. The weight of that conversation, in that time and place, carries more than it appears to.

The Venice Silver Lion

The award at the 2024 Venice Film Festival was the Silver Lion for the Grand Jury Prize -- the second highest honour at the festival, behind the Golden Lion for best film. Venice in 2024 was a strong competition year, and the Grand Jury Prize is not a consolation; it reflects a film that the jury regarded as the second most significant work in a competitive field. Italy subsequently chose Vermiglio as their submission for the Best International Feature Film category at the 2025 Academy Awards.

Delpero's film earned its place in that competition on the strength of what it is rather than what it is about. The subject matter -- the war, the Alps, the family, the PoW -- is not unusual territory for Italian cinema. What is unusual is the specific quality of attention she brings, and the degree to which the film asks the viewer to sit with people rather than observe events.

On BBC Four at 9.20pm. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Monsieur Spade -- SERIES FINALE Double Bill -- U&Drama, 9pm and 10.10pm

Monsieur Spade, Series Finale. U&Drama at 9pm and 10.10pm. SERIES FINALE. Clive Owen as Sam Spade. Co-created and directed by Scott Frank and Tom Fontana. Full series on U.

U&Drama began broadcasting Monsieur Spade's UK linear premiere on 9 May 2026, which means the series has been running on the channel for four weeks by the time tonight's double bill closes it. For anyone who has been watching weekly on U&Drama rather than going straight to the U box set, tonight is the culmination of that investment.

Scott Frank is the creative force behind Monsieur Spade in the same way he was behind The Queen's Gambit -- a showrunner with a specific visual sensibility and a patience for atmosphere that production-line television rarely allows. Tom Fontana co-created the series. The direction across the six episodes is Frank's, which gives the programme a consistency of register that is not always available when limited series spread the work across multiple directors.

Sam Spade in Bozouls

The premise -- Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade, the hardboiled San Francisco detective of The Maltese Falcon, transplanted to rural France in 1963 -- is a specific kind of literary transplant that could easily have been a curio rather than a drama worth watching. What stops it being a curio is Clive Owen, who plays Spade as a man who chose obscurity because obscurity was preferable to what came before, and is now finding that the specific corner of France he chose -- the real commune of Bozouls, built around a natural canyon in the Aveyron -- is not the quiet retirement he negotiated with himself.

The series has been building toward tonight in the way that a well-constructed limited series should: each episode adding to the pressure rather than resolving it. The finale promises a high body count and what the programme notes describe as a murderous denouement. Mr Kahn, a fellow private investigator who shares Bozouls with Spade for reasons neither is entirely transparent about, has described the detective as having "a wisecrack for every occasion." The occasions that produce wisecracks in tonight's finale are likely to be among the more extreme occasions the series has yet offered.

The double bill format for the finale gives the closing two episodes a combined running time that allows the plot to be resolved properly rather than compressed. Whether the resolution satisfies depends on what you have been expecting the series to deliver across its run; the indication from the build-up is that Frank and Fontana have not been careful with their characters only to throw them away at the end.

On U&Drama at 9pm and 10.10pm. Full series available on U.

Two Weeks in August -- Episode 4 -- BBC One, 9.15pm

Two Weeks in August, Series 1, Episode 4 of 8. BBC One at 9.15pm. Written by Catherine Shepherd. Jessica Raine as Zoe. Damien Molony as Dan. All 8 episodes on BBC iPlayer since 23 May 2026.

The separation at the end of Episode 3 was handled in the specific way Catherine Shepherd handles things: not with a scene of explicit confrontation but with an accumulation of small moments that made the outcome feel both inevitable and slightly ambiguous. Zoe and Dan are not dramatically splitting. They are doing the quieter thing, which is quietly recognising that something is over, and the programme withholds for now whether that recognition is accurate.

Tonight, the group moves on in the way that holiday groups do when one member of a central couple has just become unstuck: slightly too carefully at first, then not carefully enough. The invitation to a fancy-dress party hosted by James (Tom Goodman-Hill) and Flick (Dolly Wells) -- wealthy ex-pats whose version of the holiday experience involves a scale of resource and social performance that contrasts with the group's own -- is the evening's mechanism. Parties in ensemble dramas perform a specific function. They concentrate people, remove the normal escape routes of separate rooms and early nights, and force the things that have been managed at a distance into proximity.

Dolly Wells as Flick is worth particular attention. Wells is a performer whose range from her own work -- she co-created and starred in Doll and Em, and her presence across British comedy and drama has been consistent since -- means she tends to bring something to supporting roles that the roles do not necessarily require on paper. How Flick operates as a social figure in this particular world is the question the episode will start to answer.

Zoe, spiralling

Zoe's trajectory from here -- Jessica Raine is carrying the moral weight of this series in the way that the central character of a Catherine Shepherd drama tends to, which is to say with a quality of controlled distress that reads as containment until it becomes visible as something less controlled -- is the spine of the second half of the run. Whether the spiral is destruction or liberation is left deliberately unclear, which is the honest version of what a break from a long marriage actually looks like in the early weeks. The party tonight is the first social occasion where Zoe has to perform being fine in public.

A reminder that all 8 episodes have been on BBC iPlayer since the launch night of 23 May 2026. If you are watching linearly, the party tonight will be one of the sequences you return to when discussing the series as a whole. If you have already watched ahead, you know why.

On BBC One at 9.15pm. Full series on BBC iPlayer.

Casualty -- BBC One, 8.25pm

Casualty, Series 41. BBC One at 8.25pm. The "Lethal Legacy" arc. Available on BBC iPlayer.

The twelve-part "Lethal Legacy" mini-arc has been running since 25 April 2026 and has been establishing, with the patience that Casualty applies to its longer storylines, the specific character of Colonel Jack Bard's world before it begins to pull that world apart.

Mark Womack plays Bard as someone whose certainty is the problem. He does not believe he is bullying. He believes he is maintaining standards in an environment where standards, in his view, are the difference between a soldier who comes back from deployment and a soldier who does not. The argument has surface credibility -- the forces do require discipline, the consequences of failure in the field are different from the consequences in a civilian workplace -- and Bard uses that credibility as cover. The gap between discipline and bullying is one that institutions do not always manage to close before someone gets hurt.

Recruit Rory Dickson (Gwion Morris Jones) is the person at the centre of that gap. He was spirited away by superiors last week -- a move that Casualty presented as ambiguous, possibly protective, possibly something else. Tonight he is back. He is distressed. He has been assessed professionally and found not to be at risk, which is one of the ways that systems fail: the assessment is accurate to the moment it was conducted, and the moment changes.

Flynn (Olly Rix) has been watching Rory and watching Bard, and what he has concluded is that the professional assessment is not measuring the right things. His conviction that Rory faces real danger if he returns to barracks is the episode's active problem. The question is what he can do with that conviction when the formal processes have already reached a different answer.

Casualty does this kind of institutional-failure story well -- the specific tension between what a person knows and what the system will formally recognise is a subject the programme has been returning to since its early years, and it has not run out of ways to make the gap feel consequential.

On BBC One at 8.25pm. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Celebrity Bridge of Lies -- BBC One, 5.35pm

Celebrity Bridge of Lies. BBC One at 5.35pm. Host: Ross Kemp. Tonight's celebrities: Louisa Lytton, Greg Rutherford, Janet Ellis, Sanjeev Kohli. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Ross Kemp's hosting instinct on Celebrity Bridge of Lies has settled into something that suits the format: enough authority to keep the pressure on contestants who are trying to second-guess statements on a moving bridge without much time to think, and enough warmth to make the failures entertaining rather than uncomfortable.

Louisa Lytton's EastEnders connection -- she played Ruby Allen in Walford across multiple stints -- gives tonight's line-up a specific flavour of familiar face. Ruby Allen's trajectory in the Square involved relationships, mistakes, and returns across a span of years that EastEnders viewers of a certain vintage will remember in some detail. The bridge questions may or may not draw on that heritage. Greg Rutherford brings the Olympic and World Championship credential that adds a different kind of cultural reference point to the panel. Janet Ellis -- presenter, actor, broadcaster, BAFTA chairman -- and Sanjeev Kohli complete the four.

On BBC One at 5.35pm. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Blankety Blank -- BBC One, 6.20pm (BBC Two in Wales)

Blankety Blank. BBC One at 6.20pm (BBC Two in Wales). Bradley Walsh hosts. Panel: Sue Perkins, Emmett J Scanlan, Melvin Odoom, Grace Dent, Vanessa Williams, Chris McCausland. Available on BBC iPlayer.

The panel tonight has some internal comedy potential worth noting. Grace Dent has been in the news this week as the MasterChef judge who closed the series finale on BBC One on Friday -- returning to a Saturday quiz show the following day is the kind of scheduling proximity that the programme makers presumably either noticed and enjoyed or simply failed to avoid.

Sue Perkins has been the permanent host of Just a Minute on Radio 4 since July 2021, taking over a programme that Nicholas Parsons ran for over fifty years. The comparison Bradley Walsh draws tonight, if he draws one, will be the obvious one: a host who has made an institution their own. Chris McCausland has been one of the more distinctive additions to British comedy panel programmes in recent years; his instinct for the unexpected angle tends to make panels harder to predict than they would otherwise be.

Emmett J Scanlan has a television profile that spans crime drama and comedy, and Melvin Odoom brings a presenting energy that has translated well from his radio background to television panel formats. Vanessa Williams, actor, rounds the six to a panel that spans quite different registers.

On BBC One at 6.20pm (BBC Two in Wales). Available on BBC iPlayer.

Red Dwarf -- Series 1 Repeats -- U&Gold, 10pm and 10.40pm

Red Dwarf, Series 1. U&Gold at 10pm and 10.40pm. Written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor. Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Danny John-Jules, Norman Lovett. Available on Now.

There is an obvious context for these repeats, and it should be stated plainly before anything else.

Rob Grant -- co-creator of Red Dwarf, who wrote the original series alongside Doug Naylor across the programme's BBC Two years -- died on 25 February 2026. He was 70 years old. The announcement of his death came days after a separate and happier piece of news: that his Red Dwarf prequel novel, Red Dwarf: Titan, co-written with Andrew Marshall, had been completed. The book is due to be published on 16 July 2026 by Gollancz. Grant did not live to see it appear. The novel's completion was among the last things confirmed before his death.

Watching Series 1 of Red Dwarf in that light is a different experience from watching a straightforward archive repeat. The series it gave rise to ran for a decade on BBC Two, survived cancellation, returned on Dave, and became one of the most enduringly watched British sitcoms of its era -- still generating new audiences decades after the original transmission. The characters Grant and Naylor built are specifically and permanently themselves: Dave Lister (Craig Charles), the last known human alive, slovenly and oddly heroic; Arnold Rimmer (Chris Barrie), the hologram of a man nobody would have chosen to be kept company by; the Cat (Danny John-Jules), who evolved from Lister's cat over three million years into an elegantly self-regarding being; and Holly (Norman Lovett), the ship's computer, deadpan beyond the capacity of most living deadpan.

Series 1 from 1988 has the specific quality of a show that is just discovering what it is. The jokes are not yet as confident as they become; the production design is working within constraints that the later series expanded past. But the central relationship -- Lister and Rimmer, stuck together with no prospect of rescue and every incentive to make each other's existence more difficult -- is already entirely itself.

The novel that Grant completed just before his death will extend that universe past the point the television left it. Whether it reads as a proper continuation or as a formal farewell to a world he spent decades building alongside Naylor is something its July readers will decide. These repeats are, in the meantime, what they always were: very funny, sometimes unexpectedly moving, and now carrying a weight they did not have before February.

On U&Gold at 10pm and 10.40pm. Available on Now.

Also worth watching today

Expedition Rhino: The Search for the Last Northern White -- BBC Four, 7pm

A 2022 documentary following a team of conservationists into South Sudan in search of evidence of surviving northern white rhinos. The northern white rhinoceros is functionally extinct -- as of 2018, only two individuals remained alive, both female, both held at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, and neither capable of natural reproduction. The search documented in this film dates from the years when a small possibility of wild survival was still being systematically investigated. War-torn South Sudan was among the last habitats where sightings had been reported; the combination of political instability and remote terrain had prevented thorough surveys. The film is a record of looking for something that may not have been there to find, conducted with the seriousness that the stakes required. On BBC Four at 7pm. Available on BBC iPlayer.

D-Day 82nd Anniversary -- U&Yesterday, from 10am

The 82nd anniversary of the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944 is marked across the full schedule on U&Yesterday today. The programming runs from 10am and covers the day across several formats. D-Day: Last Words (10am and 11am) draws on testimony from veterans -- a resource that becomes rarer with each passing year, and whose availability to documentary makers is now measured in months rather than decades. Tony Robinson narrates World War Two from Above at 1pm, using drone survey technology to re-examine the physical landscape of the Western Front: German trench networks, defensive structures, and the terrain that shaped the tactical decisions of June 1944. Churchill's Toy Shop at 3pm covers the clandestine engineering operations that developed specialised equipment for the landings. Guy Martin's Battle of Britain at 4pm shifts focus to the summer of 1940, widening the day's historical frame. Robson Green: World's Most Amazing Walks at 8pm walks the Normandy beaches -- a format that allows the ground itself, rather than archive footage, to carry the programme's weight.

Football Fantastics -- CBeebies, 8.45am

A new series on CBeebies. Football comedy for children, following characters Lucy and Georgie. Given that the 2026 World Cup begins in five days and the country's football attention is at one of its periodic highs, the timing of a fresh children's football series is well judged. The morning slot means this is Saturday morning television in the traditional sense rather than primetime family viewing, but for households with younger children who are already aware of the approaching tournament, it serves a specific function.

Live sport today

England v New Zealand -- 1st Test, Day 3 -- Sky Sports Cricket, 10.15am; highlights BBC Two, 7.30pm

The Crowe-Thorpe Trophy -- the name for the inaugural Rothesay Test series between England and New Zealand -- was named in honour of two giants of both sides' cricketing history. The first Test at Lord's is three days in. Day 3 is typically the day when a Test match acquires its definitive character: the pitch has aged enough to produce variable bounce; the side batting in the first innings is either building a lead that will require a major second-innings response, or has been set a total that requires the batting side to grind. The balance going into Day 3 is something only the closing overs of Day 2 can establish.

England's squad gives Ben Stokes a range of options across the batting order and a bowling attack that Lord's conditions tend to suit. Gus Atkinson's pace off the pitch at the Nursery End is a specific weapon; Joe Root's ability to bat through the innings's phases without losing concentration has been the spine of England's run-scoring across several series. Jacob Bethell and Sonny Baker represent the newer generation who have been building their Test credences.

New Zealand bring a team with genuine depth. Their touring squads in recent years have carried the kind of collective skill and tactical intelligence that makes them difficult to dismiss even when conditions are not in their favour.

Live on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Cricket from 10.15am BST. Highlights on BBC Two at 7.30pm.

French Open -- Women's Singles Final -- TNT Sports 1, from 1.30pm

Day 14 at Roland Garros is the Women's Singles Final, the last of the four Grand Slam finals to be decided on clay at the Stade Roland Garros this fortnight. The men's final is tomorrow. The women's final today brings the tournament's main draw to its conclusion on the Philippe Chatrier court, where the clay at this stage has been compressed and worn by two weeks of competitive use, producing a surface that rewards consistent deep hitting and punishes anything loose in the rally.

Live on TNT Sports 1 from 1.30pm BST.

England v New Zealand cricket -- full context

The three-match Test series between England and New Zealand is named the Crowe-Thorpe Trophy, recognising Martin Crowe on the New Zealand side and Graham Thorpe on the England side -- two batsmen of the same era, both no longer alive, both regarded as among the finest players their respective nations produced. The naming was agreed before the series began. It is the inaugural edition of the trophy, which gives this Lord's Test the specific quality that the first iteration of any named series tends to have: the history starts here.

Frequently asked questions

What's on TV tonight Saturday 6 June 2026?

Saturday 6 June 2026 has three home-nation football warm-ups ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup (which opens 11 June). England v New Zealand is on ITV1 with coverage from 8.15pm and kick-off at 9pm BST at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa -- Thomas Tuchel's first game as England manager; England's third-ever meeting with New Zealand. Bolivia v Scotland is on BBC Two with coverage from 8.30pm and kick-off at 9pm BST at Sports Illustrated Stadium in Harrison, New Jersey -- Steve Clarke's final pre-tournament warm-up; first-ever meeting between the nations; Scotland are at the World Cup. Romania v Wales is on BBC One Wales with coverage from 6.30pm and kick-off at 6.45pm BST at the National Arena in Bucharest -- first meeting since November 1993, not "since 1994"; Wales did not qualify for the 2026 World Cup. Channel 4 has the 1966 FIFA World Cup Final in Colour at 4.45pm -- 60th anniversary; David Baddiel introduces; Sir Geoff Hurst reflects on dementia among teammates; Harry Kane; SunLife and Alzheimer's Society. BBC Four has Vermiglio at 9.20pm -- Maura Delpero's 2024 Italian film, Venice Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize 2024, certificate 15, four stars; iPlayer. U&Drama has the Monsieur Spade series finale double bill at 9pm and 10.10pm -- Clive Owen, Scott Frank, murderous denouement; full series on U. BBC One has Two Weeks in August Episode 4 at 9.15pm -- Zoe (Jessica Raine) spirals after her split; fancy-dress party; Catherine Shepherd; iPlayer. BBC One has Casualty at 8.25pm -- Colonel Jack Bard bullying arc; Flynn and Rory. BBC One has Celebrity Bridge of Lies at 5.35pm (Ross Kemp; Louisa Lytton, Greg Rutherford, Janet Ellis, Sanjeev Kohli) and Blankety Blank at 6.20pm (Bradley Walsh; Sue Perkins, Grace Dent, Chris McCausland). U&Gold has Red Dwarf Series 1 at 10pm and 10.40pm -- bittersweet, following Rob Grant's death on 25 February 2026; prequel novel publishes 16 July 2026. U&Yesterday has D-Day 82nd anniversary programming from 10am. England v New Zealand 1st Test Day 3 is live on Sky Sports from 10.15am; highlights BBC Two 7.30pm. French Open Women's Singles Final is on TNT Sports 1 from 1.30pm.

What time is England v New Zealand tonight and where is it played?

England v New Zealand kicks off at 9pm BST on Saturday 6 June 2026 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. ITV1 coverage starts at 8.15pm. This is Thomas Tuchel's first match as England manager. It is England's third-ever meeting with New Zealand in men's international football -- the sides last met in June 1991. England have a second warm-up match against Costa Rica at Orlando on Wednesday 10 June 2026, before the 2026 FIFA World Cup opens on Thursday 11 June.

What time is Bolivia v Scotland and what is the significance?

Bolivia v Scotland kicks off at 9pm BST on Saturday 6 June 2026 at Sports Illustrated Stadium in Harrison, New Jersey. BBC Two coverage begins at 8.30pm. This is Steve Clarke's final pre-tournament warm-up before Scotland's campaign at the 2026 FIFA World Cup (which opens 11 June). It is the first-ever meeting between Bolivia and Scotland in men's international football. Scotland are among the 48 nations at the 2026 World Cup; the final is at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on 19 July 2026.

When did Wales last play Romania and did Wales qualify for the 2026 World Cup?

Wales last played Romania on 17 November 1993 at Cardiff Arms Park in a 1994 World Cup qualifier. Tonight's match at the National Arena in Bucharest -- BBC One Wales, coverage 6.30pm, kick-off 6.45pm BST -- is therefore the first meeting since that date. Some sources say "since 1994" but the match was played in November 1993. Wales did not qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, having lost to Bosnia-Herzegovina in a play-off semi-final. Tonight is preparation for the autumn UEFA Nations League.

What is the 1966 World Cup Final in Colour on Channel 4 tonight?

The 1966 FIFA World Cup Final in Colour airs on Channel 4 at 4.45pm on Saturday 6 June 2026, marking the 60th anniversary of England's only major tournament win. The colourised re-broadcast was first shown on Channel 4 in July 2021 -- the night before the Euro 2021 Final. It returns tonight in a broadcast partnership with SunLife in aid of the Alzheimer's Society. David Baddiel introduces. Sir Geoff Hurst -- the hat-trick scorer -- reflects on teammates who developed dementia. Harry Kane also contributes. The original match: England 4, West Germany 2 after extra time, Wembley, 30 July 1966. As the programme notes: "you still won't know whether England's third goal is over the line." Available on Channel 4 streaming.

What is Vermiglio on BBC Four tonight?

Vermiglio airs on BBC Four at 9.20pm on Saturday 6 June 2026. Certificate 15, four stars. Written and directed by Maura Delpero, it is a 2024 Italian film set in the South Tyrolean Alps during 1944--45. Drawn from Delpero's late father's memories and conversations with local residents: "I mix things and fictionalise." Schoolteacher Cesare oversees a large family; his eldest daughter Lucia falls for an escaped PoW hiding in the village. The film won the Silver Lion (Grand Jury Prize) at the 2024 Venice Film Festival and was Italy's submission for the 2025 Academy Awards Best International Feature Film. Available on BBC iPlayer.

What happens in the Monsieur Spade series finale tonight?

Monsieur Spade closes its six-episode run on U&Drama in a double bill at 9pm and 10.10pm on Saturday 6 June 2026. The UK linear premiere began on 9 May 2026 on U&Drama. The series was co-created and directed by Scott Frank (The Queen's Gambit) and Tom Fontana, and stars Clive Owen as Sam Spade -- Dashiell Hammett's detective, now a cynical widower in the French commune of Bozouls (Aveyron) in 1963. Tonight's finale double bill brings the series to a close with a high body count, last-minute twists, and a murderous denouement. The full series is available on U.

What happens in Two Weeks in August Episode 4 tonight?

Two Weeks in August Episode 4 of 8 airs on BBC One at 9.15pm on Saturday 6 June 2026, written by Catherine Shepherd. Following Zoe (Jessica Raine)'s low-key split from husband Dan (Damien Molony) at the end of Episode 3, Zoe spirals. Tonight the group -- minus Dan -- attends a lavish fancy-dress party hosted by wealthy ex-pats James (Tom Goodman-Hill) and Flick (Dolly Wells). Dynamics worsen. All 8 episodes have been available on BBC iPlayer since the series launched on 23 May 2026.

Why is Red Dwarf on tonight and what happened to Rob Grant?

Red Dwarf Series 1 (1988) repeats air on U&Gold at 10pm and 10.40pm on Saturday 6 June 2026. The timing carries weight because co-creator Rob Grant died on 25 February 2026, aged 70. His death came days after news that his Red Dwarf prequel novel, Red Dwarf: Titan (co-written with Andrew Marshall), had been completed. The book publishes on 16 July 2026 from Gollancz. Series 1 starred Craig Charles as Dave Lister, Chris Barrie as Arnold Rimmer, Danny John-Jules as the Cat, and Norman Lovett as Holly. Available on Now.

What D-Day programming is on TV today?

Saturday 6 June 2026 is the 82nd anniversary of D-Day, and U&Yesterday is marking it with a full day of programming from 10am. D-Day: Last Words runs in two parts at 10am and 11am, with veterans recalling the landings in their own words. World War Two from Above (Tony Robinson, drone technology, German trench networks) airs at 1pm. Churchill's Toy Shop is at 3pm. Guy Martin's Battle of Britain is at 4pm. Robson Green: World's Most Amazing Walks visits the Normandy beaches at 8pm.

Tonight's final word

Saturday 6 June 2026 is a different kind of television evening from most. The usual primetime organisation -- a big drama at 9pm, a reality show for the hour before it, a film late -- gives way to an evening built around football at two different time slots and a sense that the country is, as of Thursday of next week, going to be focused on something specific for the next six weeks.

The 1966 final at 4.45pm on Channel 4 is the right programme for the right moment. Sixty years is the right anniversary for a colourised broadcast that carries new meaning because of what the Alzheimer's Society partnership says about that generation of players. David Baddiel introducing it, Geoff Hurst speaking to its weight, Harry Kane present as the through-line to the current squad and the current tournament: the programme has been assembled with intelligence.

At 9pm, if you have a choice between England in Tampa and Scotland in Harrison, the honest answer is that both matches matter for different reasons and neither will give you a result with predictable meaning. England with Thomas Tuchel for the first time is a story about what happens next for a generation of players who have been close without getting there. Scotland at their second consecutive World Cup is a story about a programme that has learned, slowly, what it takes to be consistently present at tournaments rather than occasionally present. Both are worth your time, and streaming will let you catch what linear cannot.

Vermiglio on BBC Four at 9.20pm is the evening's least obvious reason to stay up past the football, and potentially the most rewarding one. The Venice Silver Lion is a serious award given by serious people. Maura Delpero's film earned it, and the BBC Four late slot, on a night when most of the audience will be looking at their phones for football updates, will do what BBC Four's late slot does best: be there for anyone who wants something quieter and more considered.

Red Dwarf at 10pm on U&Gold is a tribute the channel did not have to frame as one, and is more powerful for that. The repeats will be the same as they always were. Rob Grant's contribution to them is fixed. The book comes out in July.

Check what's on right now, browse tonight's highlights, or find any channel through the full channels list. Yesterday: Friday 5 June 2026.