What's on TV tonight Sunday 7 June 2026? Two things sit above everything else. Channel 4's Tip Toe reaches its midpoint at 9pm with a structural shift that puts the spotlight firmly on David Morrissey -- events are replayed tonight from Clive's perspective, and if the first two episodes established the surface of his character, tonight removes it. On BBC One at 9.15pm, Death Valley brings its second series to a close with a finale that involves a murder in a commune, an estranged father arriving in questionable outdoor wear, and Timothy Spall and Gwyneth Keyworth navigating a family reunion that nobody in Mid Wales has been looking forward to.

Earlier in the evening, BBC One has a genuinely good hour of natural history at 7.15pm with Tiger Island -- cameras in the western Nepalese jungle, two tiger mothers raising cubs on a community-owned forest island, and the arrival of a male tiger that turns a compelling situation into a dangerous one. At 8.15pm, Antiques Roadshow runs a sports-themed special that turns out to have considerably more emotional weight than the word "special" usually suggests, largely because the Lost Lionesses are in it.

Live sport today runs from mid-morning to mid-afternoon: England and New Zealand at Lord's for Day 4 of the first Test, the French Open Men's Final at Roland Garros from 1.30pm, and then the Monaco Grand Prix at 2pm -- one of the most singular two hours of sport the calendar produces.

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, ITV1, Channel 4, U&Alibi, Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Cricket, Sky Sports F1, and TNT Sports 1. For yesterday's listings see our Saturday 6 June 2026 TV guide.

What's on TV tonight: quick picks

  • Tip Toe (Ep 3 of 5) -- Channel 4, 9pm -- written by Russell T Davies; Alan Cumming as Leo; David Morrissey as Clive -- powerhouse performance; events replayed from Clive's POV; troubled homophobe, disintegrating marriage, gay teenage son George has key to Leo's flat; Leo's friends: "Call the police! Get your locks changed!"; night of nasty discoveries; continues Mon 8 June (Ep 4) and Tue 9 June (Ep 5 -- final); Channel 4 streaming; Patrick Mulkern byline
  • Death Valley (SERIES 2 FINALE, Ep 6 of 6) -- BBC One, 9.15pm -- Series 2 premiered 17 May 2026; Timothy Spall as John Chapel; Gwyneth Keyworth as DS Janie Mallowan; Janie's estranged father Michael (Owen Teale) back from a commune; murder within new-age community; John arrives in "practical farming wear" -- Janie: more Toad of Toad Hall; set Mid Wales; iPlayer; David Brown byline
  • Tiger Island -- BBC One, 7.15pm -- two-part BBC Studios NHU / PBS co-production; cinematographer Anna Dimitriadis, western Nepalese jungle; tiger mothers Goma and Mala, community-owned forest island, one of highest tiger concentrations on Earth; 40°C, 90% humidity; with Max Hug Williams and big cat scientist Dan O'Neill; drone tech, stabilised lenses, remote cameras; male tiger arrives -- danger spikes for both families; Exec Producer Roger Webb; Series Producer Matthew Wright; Gareth McLean byline; RT feature p4; iPlayer
  • Antiques Roadshow Sports Special -- BBC One, 8.15pm -- one-off special; Fiona Bruce at Lord's and Wimbledon; four Olympic gold medallists; Nobby Stiles's 1966 World Cup shirt; oldest written rules of cricket (1727); metal tennis racket; the Lost Lionesses -- England women at unrecognised 1971 Women's World Cup Mexico (COPA 71), reportedly 90,000 at Estadio Azteca; FA banned women's football 1921--71; players received 3--6-month suspensions on return; manager Harry Batt banned for life; overlooked nearly 50 years; iPlayer
  • The Beautiful Game ★★★ (12) -- Channel 4, 3.35pm -- 2024 film; director Thea Sharrock; screenplay Frank Cottrell-Boyce; Bill Nighy as Mal, manager England team Homeless World Cup Rome; Micheal Ward as Vinny; HWC since 2003 (Austria beat England 2-1 inaugural Graz final); 2024 Seoul: Mexico beat England 6-5; 2025 Oslo: Egypt winners; Scotland most decorated home nation (2007 Copenhagen, 2011 Paris); C4 streaming
  • The Mother of All Cons (Ep 2 of 3) -- BBC Two, 9pm -- Believe in Magic; Megan Bhari + Jean O'Brien; 2015: private jet, low altitude Atlantic crossing, approx £130,000; Megan on prescription drugs; no solid fraud evidence yet but doubt growing; Nick and Joanna digging obsessively; Kingston Adult Safeguarding Board conclusion (Ep 1): Munchausen by proxy, Jean as architect; iPlayer
  • Mock the Week -- Summer Specials NEW SEASON (Ep 1 of 5) -- TLC, 9pm -- Dara O Briain host, Rhys James sidekick; Hugh Dennis, Russell Howard, Ed Gamble, Sara Pascoe (wider stable across run); World Cup + political chaos -- "the UK's two biggest team sports"; filmed close to transmission; Discovery+
  • Kevin Bridges: In Search of the Beautiful Game -- BBC One, 10.30pm -- Kevin Bridges in Brazil and USA; meets players and fans; timed for Scotland's first World Cup since 1998; Group C: Scotland, Brazil, Morocco, Haiti; same three opponents as 1998 (minus Haiti); Scotland v Brazil 24 June, Miami; iPlayer
  • Later... with Jools Holland -- BBC Two, 10pm -- Mitski (Japanese-American, emotional songwriting, devoted following); Westside Cowboy (indie, sound older than they look); Pigeon (Ghanaian/dancehall vocals over electro-krautrock, Margate-based); iPlayer
  • Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? -- ITV1, 9pm -- Jeremy Clarkson hosts; ITVX
  • The Gentlemen ★★ (18) -- ITV1, 10.45pm -- Guy Ritchie 2020; Matthew McConaughey as Mickey Pearson; Hugh Grant as Fletcher (tabloid hack, narrates as screenplay pitch, full-on Cockney); Grant: "long periods of boredom dispersed with tiny moments of terror"; ITVX
  • The Assembly: More Unseen (LAST IN SERIES) -- ITV1, 10pm -- out-takes; Sir Stephen Fry, Nicola Sturgeon, Sir Lenny Henry, Anna Maxwell Martin, Aitch, Rylan; neurodivergent interviewers
  • Hudson and Rex -- U&Alibi, 8pm -- wilderness-survival reality show contestant found mauled to death; Now
  • Monaco Grand Prix (F1 Round 6) -- Sky Sports F1, coverage 12.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event from 1pm; race 2pm BST -- Circuit de Monaco; 78 laps, 3.337km; 83rd Monaco GP
  • England v New Zealand -- 1st Test, Day 4 (potential final day) -- Sky Sports Main Event + Sky Sports Cricket, from 10.15am -- Lord's; Crowe-Thorpe Trophy; highlights BBC Two 7pm
  • French Open -- Men's Singles Final -- TNT Sports 1, from 1.30pm -- Roland Garros; Day 15; Court Philippe-Chatrier

See what's on right now for live updates.

Tonight's TV schedule: full listings

Time Channel Programme
10.15am Sky Sports Main Event + Sky Sports Cricket England v New Zealand -- 1st Test Day 4 LIVE -- Lord's; Crowe-Thorpe Trophy
1.30pm TNT Sports 1 French Open -- Men's Singles Final LIVE -- Roland Garros, Paris; Day 15
3.35pm Channel 4 The Beautiful Game ★★★ (12) -- Bill Nighy; Micheal Ward; Homeless World Cup Rome; Thea Sharrock
12.30pm Sky Sports F1 Monaco Grand Prix coverage start -- Circuit de Monaco build-up and qualifying analysis
1.00pm Sky Sports Main Event Monaco Grand Prix coverage start -- pre-race
2.00pm Sky Sports F1 + Sky Sports Main Event Monaco Grand Prix RACE START -- 78 laps; Circuit de Monaco; Round 6 F1 2026
7.00pm BBC Two England v New Zealand -- 1st Test Day 4 Highlights -- Lord's; edited BBC Two coverage
7.15pm BBC One Tiger Island -- BBC Studios NHU / PBS; Anna Dimitriadis; western Nepal; Goma and Mala
8.00pm U&Alibi Hudson and Rex -- wilderness-survival show; contestant found mauled
8.15pm BBC One Antiques Roadshow Sports Special -- Fiona Bruce; Lord's + Wimbledon; Lost Lionesses; Nobby Stiles shirt
9.00pm Channel 4 Tip Toe Ep 3 of 5 -- David Morrissey powerhouse; Clive's POV; Russell T Davies
9.00pm BBC Two The Mother of All Cons Ep 2 of 3 -- Believe in Magic; private jet £130,000; Megan Bhari
9.00pm ITV1 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? -- Jeremy Clarkson hosts
9.00pm TLC Mock the Week Summer Specials NEW SEASON Ep 1 of 5 -- Dara O Briain; Rhys James; World Cup
9.15pm BBC One Death Valley SERIES 2 FINALE (Ep 6 of 6) -- Timothy Spall; Gwyneth Keyworth; Owen Teale; Mid Wales
10.00pm BBC Two Later... with Jools Holland -- Mitski; Westside Cowboy; Pigeon
10.00pm ITV1 The Assembly: More Unseen LAST IN SERIES -- Sir Stephen Fry; Nicola Sturgeon; Sir Lenny Henry
10.30pm BBC One Kevin Bridges: In Search of the Beautiful Game -- Brazil; USA; Scotland's first WC since 1998
10.45pm ITV1 The Gentlemen ★★ (18) -- Guy Ritchie 2020; Matthew McConaughey; Hugh Grant
Now streaming BBC iPlayer Tiger Island both parts; Death Valley S2 full series; Antiques Roadshow Sports Special
Now streaming Channel 4 streaming Tip Toe full series; The Beautiful Game
Now streaming Discovery+ Mock the Week Summer Specials
Now streaming ITVX The Gentlemen; Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Now streaming Now Hudson and Rex

Tip Toe -- Episode 3 of 5 -- Channel 4, 9pm

Tip Toe, Series 1, Episode 3 of 5. Channel 4 at 9pm. Written by Russell T Davies. Directed by Peter Hoar. Alan Cumming as Leo. David Morrissey as Clive. Continues Monday 8 June (Episode 4) and Tuesday 9 June (Episode 5, final). Full series on Channel 4 streaming. Patrick Mulkern byline.

Russell T Davies structures his five-episode run the way a novelist structures a five-act play: the midpoint is not a pause, it is a reversal. Tonight the series is at its mathematical centre, and the choice Davies makes for that position is to take everything we have seen across the first two episodes and run it again from a different vantage point.

Events are replayed from Clive's perspective.

That decision is, on paper, a risk. Structural devices of this kind can feel like authorial convenience -- a mechanism rather than a dramatic choice. What makes it a dramatic choice here is who Clive is, and what his point of view does to the story we thought we were watching. The first two episodes gave us Leo's world: Canal Street, the bar, the showman, the timid man behind the performance. Clive existed in that world as a presence Leo struggled to account for -- the neighbour of fifteen years whose trouble was legible but unexplained. Tonight the explanation arrives, in Clive's own register.

David Morrissey delivers what those who have seen the episode are calling a powerhouse performance. Clive is a troubled and dangerous-to-know homophobe -- not a cartoon, not an abstraction, but a specific man whose homophobia is bound up with a marriage that is coming apart and a son who is gay and who has, as a practical matter, keys to the flat next door. George having those keys is not a small detail. It is the detail that makes everything volatile.

Leo's friends and the options they offer

Leo's friends, when they understand what is happening next door, respond with the clarity that friends provide when they are not the ones who have to live with the consequences: call the police, get the locks changed. These are the rational options, and they are probably the correct ones, and Leo cannot take them in the way that the advice assumes he can. The fifteen-year history with Clive is the weight that makes the rational options complicated. Davies is interested in why people do not do the obvious thing, and the answer Tip Toe keeps returning to is that the obvious thing requires a severance that proximity makes harder than it looks from the outside.

The night tonight produces nasty discoveries for both Leo and Clive. The plural is significant. This is not a one-sided episode in which Clive is the problem and Leo the victim. Davies has been building toward a moral situation in which both men are implicated, and the midpoint of the series is where that situation crystallises.

What comes next

Tip Toe continues on Channel 4 on Monday 8 June with Episode 4, and concludes on Tuesday 9 June with Episode 5, the final. Five episodes. Five consecutive broadcast nights if you include last Sunday's double-bill. Davies has designed the run to be watched quickly enough that the pressure accumulates rather than dissipating between instalments.

The full series is on Channel 4 streaming for anyone who cannot wait, or who needs to catch up before the final two episodes.

On Channel 4 at 9pm.

Death Valley -- SERIES 2 FINALE -- BBC One, 9.15pm

Death Valley, Series 2, Episode 6 of 6. BBC One at 9.15pm. SERIES FINALE. Timothy Spall as John Chapel. Gwyneth Keyworth as DS Janie Mallowan. Series 2 premiered 17 May 2026. Set in Mid Wales. David Brown byline. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Series 2 of Death Valley has been doing something structurally different from the first. Where Series 1 was built around John Chapel's professional misadventures in a particular setting, the second series has been progressively pulling Janie Mallowan forward -- Gwyneth Keyworth's detective taking more of the moral and emotional weight as the episodes advance. The finale tonight is, among other things, the payoff for that shift.

The mechanism the finale uses is a good one: the return of Janie's estranged father Michael, played by Owen Teale. He is not a villain. He is something more difficult to deal with than a villain. He walked out on the family years ago to join a commune -- a decision that Janie has filed under "feckless and unreliable," the verdict of someone who experienced an abandonment and has been translating that experience into a character assessment ever since. John Chapel, who has known Janie long enough to understand the limits of her self-analysis, reckons Michael is more misguided than malicious. That gap between Janie's verdict and John's is the episode's live fault line.

The commune and what happened there

The timing of Michael's reappearance is not coincidental. A murder has taken place within his new-age community, and the investigation has brought both Chapel and Mallowan to a part of Mid Wales that John has clearly dressed for with more optimism than accuracy. He arrives, he tells people, in "practical farming wear." Janie's assessment of the outfit -- more Toad of Toad Hall than anything that would pass scrutiny on an actual farm -- is the episode's first comic beat, and Death Valley has always known that comedy and dread sit closer together than most crime drama acknowledges.

Mid Wales as a setting for a death investigation has a specific quality that the series has been using well across its run. The landscape is unambiguous about its scale and its indifference; the communities that exist within it are close enough to each other that secrets have nowhere obvious to go, and far enough from urban resources that the options for resolving crises formally are limited. A murder in a commune, in that context, is not a puzzle to be solved from a distance. It is a problem at the centre of a social world that the investigators have to enter.

Gwyneth Keyworth and the character she has built

Gwyneth Keyworth has taken Janie Mallowan somewhere in this second series that the character was not entirely at the start of the first. The detective work is still there; the instinct for detail that makes her effective is unchanged. What has changed is the degree to which the programme is interested in what Janie costs herself, and the finale tonight -- with her estranged father present in the middle of an investigation -- is the scenario that puts the most pressure on all of it at once.

Timothy Spall's John Chapel is the series' reliable constant: a man whose emotional intelligence and social awkwardness arrive in equal measure, and whose relationship with Janie is the programme's argument that people who are very different can be genuinely useful to each other.

Series 2 of Death Valley began on BBC One on 17 May 2026. The full series is on BBC iPlayer.

On BBC One at 9.15pm.

Tiger Island -- BBC One, 7.15pm

Tiger Island. BBC One at 7.15pm. Two-part BBC Studios Natural History Unit production, co-produced with PBS. Cinematographer Anna Dimitriadis. Exec Producer Roger Webb. Series Producer Matthew Wright. Gareth McLean byline; Radio Times feature p4. Both episodes available on BBC iPlayer.

The western Nepalese jungle is not the setting most natural history films reach for when they want to film wild tigers. The well-established locations -- Ranthambore, Bandhavgarh, parts of the Sundarbans -- carry decades of footage. What Anna Dimitriadis and her colleagues found in western Nepal is something those locations do not currently offer: a community-owned forest island where the density of tigers is among the highest on Earth, where the wildlife management sits with the local community rather than a national park authority, and where two tiger mothers named Goma and Mala were raising cubs at the same time within a territory small enough to make filming both stories possible without months of waiting.

That combination of factors -- genuinely high tiger density, community land, two breeding females simultaneously, accessible terrain -- is the specific thing that makes Tiger Island worth a two-part BBC One commission rather than a single documentary slot.

The conditions

Dimitriadis worked in 40°C heat and 90% humidity. Those numbers are not presented as personal hardship; they are presented as the physical constraints within which the filming technology had to function. Stabilised zoom lenses allow distant observation without disturbance; remotely triggered cameras placed in the tigers' paths capture behaviour that close human presence would suppress; drone technology maps territory and movement across a scale that ground-level observation cannot achieve alone.

The collaboration with colleague Max Hug Williams and big cat scientist Dan O'Neill brings both filmmaking expertise and scientific context. O'Neill's understanding of tiger social structure and territorial behaviour provides the interpretive layer that separates a wildlife film from a wildlife record: the footage gains meaning when you understand what it is showing, and what is normal, and what is not.

What changes

The male tiger's arrival is the event around which the narrative is organised. Tiger social dynamics give resident females with cubs a specific relationship to adult males that is determined not by affection but by the mathematics of survival. A male who did not sire the cubs presents a direct threat to those cubs; a male who did offers different risks. Goma and Mala are managing that situation simultaneously, which gives the film a tension that requires no artificial construction.

The community-ownership context adds something that purely national-park films cannot. The forest island's survival as tiger habitat depends on the decisions of the people who own and use it, which means the wildlife story and the human story are the same story -- the tigers are there because the community chose to keep them there, and the question of whether that arrangement continues is as much part of the film as the behaviour of Goma and Mala themselves.

Both parts are on BBC One tonight from 7.15pm. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Antiques Roadshow Sports Special -- BBC One, 8.15pm

Antiques Roadshow Sports Special. BBC One at 8.15pm. One-off sports-themed special. Fiona Bruce at Lord's Cricket Ground and Wimbledon. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Antiques Roadshow is, at its best, a programme about the gap between what an object looks like and what it carries. The sports special version of that gap is a particularly rich one, because sporting objects -- shirts, trophies, equipment, documents -- accumulate significance in proportion to the events they were present at, and the people holding them tonight were either present at those events themselves or inherited objects from people who were.

The Nobby Stiles story is the kind of thing the programme does better than almost anything else. The 1966 World Cup shirt -- Stiles's, worn in a tournament that England won, from a final that took place sixty years ago last month -- is an object with a known provenance, a known history, and a specific weight that has nothing to do with the fabric. Stiles died in October 2020, diagnosed with dementia; the programme's conversation about the shirt happens, implicitly, in the context of the debate about heading and neurological damage that his own case did a great deal to force into public view. The object is not separate from that story. It is part of it.

The oldest written rules of cricket

The 1727 document is a different kind of significance. Written rules do not make the game -- cricket was being played before anyone wrote the rules down, and the rules themselves changed repeatedly in the decades that followed. But the earliest known version of a written framework for a game that has been continuous ever since is a genuine historical artefact, and the question of where it has been since 1727 is exactly the question Roadshow exists to ask.

A metal tennis racket may seem the least arresting item on paper. In a specialist's hands, the story of when metal frames were introduced, which manufacturers attempted them, and why they largely disappeared again tends to be more interesting than the object initially suggests. Equipment history in racket sports involves a series of material experiments that the market resolved in specific directions, and the decisions the market made were not the only possible ones.

The Lost Lionesses

The centrepiece of the sports special is the story of the England women's team who competed in the 1971 Women's World Cup in Mexico -- a tournament that FIFA did not sanction and that the histories have not always been generous to.

The context matters. The Football Association had banned women's football from affiliated clubs and grounds in 1921, a ban that remained in place until 1971 -- the same year the tournament was played. The women who went to Mexico were playing at a moment when the institutional structures of English football had just, barely, allowed them to exist.

The tournament itself is sometimes known as COPA 71, and the reported attendance figures for its final -- around 90,000 at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City -- are figures that require a moment to absorb. England's women were playing in front of crowds of that scale in Mexico in the same year they were having the institutional ban on their sport lifted at home. On their return, the players received suspensions of between three and six months. Manager Harry Batt received a lifetime ban. The FA's treatment of those players was not an oversight or an administrative error. It was a deliberate decision.

The story was largely unknown to general audiences for nearly fifty years. The word "largely" is doing some work there -- a small number of people always knew, and some journalism had covered it. But the scale of what was achieved, set against the treatment it received, was not part of the common sporting memory until comparatively recently. Having it in an Antiques Roadshow sports special is the kind of curation that the programme is well placed to do, because the physical objects the players bring in -- whatever they are -- serve as prompts for the conversation rather than the conversation itself.

On BBC One at 8.15pm. Available on BBC iPlayer.

The Beautiful Game ★★★ (12) -- Channel 4, 3.35pm

The Beautiful Game. Channel 4 at 3.35pm. Certificate 12. Three stars. 2024 film. Director: Thea Sharrock. Screenplay: Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Bill Nighy as Mal. Micheal Ward as Vinny. Available on Channel 4 streaming.

The Homeless World Cup has been running since 2003, when Austria beat England 2-1 in the inaugural final held in Graz. The tournament takes a different host city each year and fields teams composed of players who have been homeless or vulnerably housed -- people using football as the mechanism for re-entering a life that has, at some point, come apart. The 2024 tournament was held in Seoul, where Mexico beat England 6-5 in the final. The 2025 edition went to Oslo, where Egypt won.

Scotland are the most decorated home nation in the tournament's history, having won in Copenhagen in 2007 and Paris in 2011. That detail is worth holding alongside the fiction: the film is set at the Rome tournament, England are the team, and the real tournament has been running long enough to have a proper history of its own.

Thea Sharrock directs from a Frank Cottrell-Boyce screenplay, a combination that gives the film a particular quality of humane comedy -- the kind that finds the specific dignity of people in difficult situations without requiring them to be either tragic or inspirational in any schematic sense. Bill Nighy plays Mal, the England manager, which on paper sounds like Bill Nighy playing a version of Bill Nighy in a sports context, but is in practice more interesting than that: Mal is someone who has found, in the Homeless World Cup, a purpose that the rest of his life did not obviously provide.

Micheal Ward plays Vinny, one of the players, and the relationship between them is the film's engine: the older man who has given his life to something small and important, and the younger one who has arrived at that something from the wrong direction and is deciding whether to stay.

The film's timing, landing on Channel 4 on the day before the 2026 FIFA World Cup opens in North America, is the kind of juxtaposition that either feels pointed or feels accidental. In this case it is probably both. On Channel 4 at 3.35pm.

The Mother of All Cons -- Episode 2 of 3 -- BBC Two, 9pm

The Mother of All Cons, Episode 2 of 3. BBC Two at 9pm. Believe in Magic charity. Full series on BBC iPlayer.

Last week's episode established the architecture: the Believe in Magic charity, the celebrity support, the children's "magical experiences," and the end point that the Kingston Adult Safeguarding Board eventually reached -- that Megan Bhari was likely a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, with her mother Jean O'Brien as the architect of the deception.

Episode 2 is the halfway point, and the documentary is now deep enough into its material to produce details that the first episode was building toward. No solid evidence of fraud has yet surfaced for the investigators at this point in the timeline. What has surfaced is doubt. The doubt is located in the spaces that the narrative does not explain cleanly: why is Megan on this many prescription drugs; what are these trips producing; who is making what decisions and why.

The private jet

The 2015 detail at the centre of tonight's episode is specific enough to require its own context. A private jet flew Megan and Jean at low altitude across the Atlantic -- the low altitude because Megan was, on the official account of the trip, too unwell for full-altitude flight. The estimated cost was around £130,000.

That figure is not primarily a story about extravagance. It is a story about what the Believe in Magic charity was willing to do in pursuit of experiences that the stated mission said Megan deserved. The gap between a charity that gives terminally ill children magical experiences and a charity that charters a private jet for an Atlantic crossing requires explanation, and the explanation -- the severity of the illness, the nature of the need -- is precisely what two parents named Nick and Joanna are now interrogating with a degree of focus that the programme describes as obsessive.

Nick and Joanna are not investigators in any formal sense. They are parents of genuinely ill children who encountered the Believe in Magic narrative and found, in the details, things that did not match what severe childhood illness actually looked like. Their investigation is the documentary's emotional spine: two people who had every reason not to pursue this, choosing to pursue it anyway, with consequences that tonight's episode is moving toward.

Things are about to become very unpleasant.

On BBC Two at 9pm. Full series on BBC iPlayer.

Mock the Week -- Summer Specials -- TLC, 9pm

Mock the Week, Summer Specials, New Season, Episode 1 of 5. TLC at 9pm. Dara O Briain hosts. Rhys James as sidekick. Panel includes Hugh Dennis, Russell Howard, Ed Gamble, Sara Pascoe. Five episodes. Catch-up on Discovery+.

Mock the Week's return as a summer specials format -- five episodes, filmed close to transmission, a rotating panel that allows different combinations of regulars across the run -- is the version of the show that suits a summer in which political chaos and a World Cup are happening simultaneously. Dara O Briain is back in the host's chair, which is where he belongs: his instinct for managing a panel while contributing to it rather than merely directing it is the specific skill the format requires.

Rhys James as sidekick is a useful pairing. James is a comedian whose timing and willingness to take a position give him the kind of stage presence that supports rather than competes with O Briain's hosting rhythm. The combination allows O Briain to make choices about when to intervene and when to let the panel find its own level.

The panel this week -- Hugh Dennis, Russell Howard, Ed Gamble, and Sara Pascoe -- represents a range of comedy registers. Dennis is Mock the Week legacy, someone whose relationship with the format goes back far enough to give the new run a sense of continuity. Howard has a gift for converting political material into personal observation. Gamble brings a structured joke instinct that sits alongside improvisation differently from how the others do it. Pascoe's presence gives the panel a perspective that it requires.

The subjects

Covering the World Cup and political chaos as "the UK's two biggest team sports" is a joke that works precisely because it is accurate. Both subjects involve large numbers of people putting emotional investment into outcomes they cannot control, with results that frequently disappoint, and an infrastructure of media commentary that generates more heat than light regardless of what happens. The programme's self-awareness about being part of that infrastructure is what distinguishes the best Mock the Week from the functional versions.

Filming close to transmission means tonight's episode already contains material that was written last week. By the standards of a summer in which something has been happening every Tuesday, that is a genuine advantage.

On TLC at 9pm. Catch-up on Discovery+.

Kevin Bridges: In Search of the Beautiful Game -- BBC One, 10.30pm

Kevin Bridges: In Search of the Beautiful Game. BBC One at 10.30pm. Kevin Bridges travels to Brazil and the USA. Scotland begin their first World Cup campaign since 1998. Available on BBC iPlayer.

The timing of this documentary on this specific Sunday evening is deliberate and well-judged. Tomorrow Scotland play their first World Cup match since 1998. Kevin Bridges -- a Glasgow comedian whose relationship to Scottish football is one of the things most likely to appear in his stand-up if you have seen his live work over the past fifteen years -- has spent time in Brazil and the USA meeting players and supporters, and what he has come back with is the kind of documentary that the BBC can make when the subject and the presenter are genuinely aligned.

Scotland's 1998 World Cup participation is a piece of sporting history that sits particularly oddly given who their opponents were. Group C in France 1998 contained Brazil, Morocco, and Norway, and Scotland lost to Brazil in the opener before losing to Morocco in what turned out to be Craig Brown's last game. Group C in 2026 contains Brazil, Morocco, and Haiti -- three of the four are the same, twenty-eight years on, with Haiti replacing Norway. That coincidence is either the universe's idea of a structured test or a piece of group-stage mathematics with no particular meaning. Scottish football supporters will choose their own interpretation.

Scotland v Brazil, 24 June, Miami

The first match of Scotland's 2026 campaign is against Brazil on 24 June from Miami. In 1998 Scotland played Brazil in Saint-Denis and lost 2-1 to a goal Craig Brown's men could not entirely prevent. The conditions in Miami will be different from a Parisian June evening in 1998 in several respects, and the Brazil squad that Scotland will face is not the 1998 squad that had Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos, and Rivaldo in it. But the fixture carries its history, and the history is not comfortable for Scotland.

Bridges meets people in Brazil and the USA for whom the World Cup is not an episodic occurrence but a continuous presence in their cultural life. That difference in relationship to the tournament -- the countries where football is not a sport among sports but the sport around which other things are organised -- is the documentary's subject. What it costs Scotland supporters to care this much, and what it means for people in countries where caring this much is unremarkable, is the gap Bridges is walking in.

On BBC One at 10.30pm. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Also worth watching tonight

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? -- ITV1, 9pm

Jeremy Clarkson puts more hopefuls in the hot seat. The programme's rhythm under Clarkson has settled into something that suits the format's fundamental question: whether the person sitting opposite him is going to make a decision that is brave, or cautious, or simply incorrect. Clarkson's responses to all three are specific enough to be worth watching regardless of whether the contestant succeeds. On ITV1 at 9pm. Available on ITVX.

Later... with Jools Holland -- BBC Two, 10pm

Three acts worth noting tonight. Mitski is a Japanese-American singer-songwriter whose work sits in the calming and emotionally precise register of artists who have built their following through the quality of the songwriting rather than the scale of the production. Her fanbase is devoted in the way that audiences become devoted to work they find personally significant; the Later... studio is a setting she has not appeared in before, and the combination of new space and known material tends to produce good television.

Westside Cowboy are an indie act whose sound is older than the people making it, which is often a sign that a band has been listening carefully rather than following what is current. Impressive live dynamics are the quality the programme notes flag. Pigeon present Ghanaian and dancehall vocal traditions over electro-krautrock rhythms and are based in Margate, which is a combination of elements that probably sounds more improbable on paper than it does when played. On BBC Two at 10pm. Available on BBC iPlayer.

The Assembly: More Unseen -- ITV1, 10pm (LAST IN SERIES)

The final outing for The Assembly's out-takes format. The series -- in which neurodivergent and learning-disabled interviewers conduct celebrity interviews without the usual broadcast conventions acting as filters -- produces a particular quality of exchange that the programme's regular format has been showcasing for several series, and the out-takes versions tend to include moments that were edited out of the main run for reasons that this separate broadcast then demonstrates were the wrong reasons. Sir Stephen Fry, Nicola Sturgeon, Sir Lenny Henry, Anna Maxwell Martin, Aitch, and Rylan tonight. On ITV1 at 10pm.

The Gentlemen ★★ (18) -- ITV1, 10.45pm

Guy Ritchie's 2020 crime comedy is the version of his filmmaking that has the widest spread of elements: Matthew McConaughey as Mickey Pearson, an American who built a marijuana empire in the English countryside and now wants to exit it; Hugh Grant as Fletcher, a tabloid private investigator who narrates the entire film to McConaughey as a screenplay pitch, in a performance that is playing multiple levels of irony simultaneously and doing it in a Cockney accent that Grant has described, in a separate context, as emerging from a process of research and adoption. Grant's own account of the making of the film -- "long periods of boredom dispersed with tiny moments of terror" -- is either an accurate description of a film set or a reflection of what it is like to perform extended scenes with Matthew McConaughey in an unspecified English country estate. Available on ITVX. On ITV1 at 10.45pm.

Hudson and Rex -- U&Alibi, 8pm

Rex and detective Charlie Hudson investigate after a contestant on a wilderness-survival reality show is found mauled to death. The premise allows the programme its usual combination of canine detective work and the specific social world of a closed competitive environment -- in this case, the contestant base of a show whose entire premise involves pretending to be resourceful while probably being filmed doing it. The mauling raises questions that both the production and the investigators would rather have answered differently. On U&Alibi at 8pm. Available on Now.

Live sport today

Formula One: Monaco Grand Prix -- Sky Sports F1, coverage 12.30pm, race 2pm BST

Round 6 of the 2026 F1 World Championship. Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo. Race start 2pm BST (3pm local). 78 laps, 3.337km street circuit. The 83rd Monaco Grand Prix. Sky Sports F1 coverage from 12.30pm. Sky Sports Main Event from 1pm.

Monaco is the race that cannot be replicated elsewhere in the calendar because its characteristics are not replicable. The street circuit through Monte Carlo was designed for a different era of motor racing, in which the width and speed of the cars were different enough that the barriers did not define the racing line as completely as they do now. Modern Formula One cars are barely narrower than the gaps between the barriers in several sections; the margins for error are not margins in the conventional sense but theoretical spaces that exist on paper rather than in practice.

Overtaking at Monaco is difficult to the point of being essentially impossible under normal racing conditions. What this produces is a race that is decided in qualifying, in strategy, and in pit stops -- the moments when the physical constraint of the street is briefly circumvented by the arithmetic of tyre compounds and stop timing. A driver who qualifies on pole at Monaco and does not make a mistake has, historically, won the race. The qualification is the one about not making a mistake.

The 78 laps of the 3.337km circuit take approximately ninety minutes at racing pace. The race does not produce the position changes of a circuit with a long straight and a heavy braking zone at the end of it, but it produces a different kind of tension: the permanent possibility of the error that costs everything, operating simultaneously for every driver on every lap from first to last.

Why Monaco matters in 2026

Round 6 of the 2026 championship comes at the point where the title fight is beginning to acquire a shape. Early-season results from the first five rounds have established who has pace and who has reliability, and Monaco is the circuit where reliability means something specific: a car that retires from any cause at any point in the ninety minutes loses a minimum of ten to fifteen points to whoever is leading, in a sport where championship gaps of that magnitude take several race weekends to recover.

The 83rd Monaco Grand Prix. Live and exclusive on Sky Sports F1 from 12.30pm and Sky Sports Main Event from 1pm. Race start 2pm BST.

Men's Test Cricket: England v New Zealand -- 1st Test, Day 4 -- Sky Sports, 10.15am; highlights BBC Two, 7pm

Day 4 at Lord's is the day that Lord's Test matches most frequently become decisive. The pitch at this stage has undergone three days of wear; the cracks that appear on the square by the third afternoon are wider by the fourth morning, and the seam bowlers find more purchase and the spinners more turn than the first two days allowed. If the match is in a position where one side needs to bat through the day for a draw, the conditions work against them; if one side needs wickets quickly, those conditions work in their favour.

The Crowe-Thorpe Trophy takes its name from Martin Crowe and Graham Thorpe -- two batsmen of the same era, both from different sides of the series, both no longer alive. Naming an inaugural series is a choice that creates the history it pretends to commemorate: after this Test, and this series, the Trophy will exist, and the name will attach to matches that have not yet been played.

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

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

Day 15 at Roland Garros is the Men's Singles Final, which completes the clay-court Grand Slam season on the Court Philippe-Chatrier. The women's final was yesterday. The men's final today brings the tournament to its formal close on a surface that, by Day 15, is worn, compressed, and producing a specific rhythm of play that the finalists have spent two weeks adapting to.

The clay at Roland Garros in the final week rewards consistent deep hitting, patience in long rallies, and the ability to construct a point from a position of apparent neutral -- the player who is willing to stay in the rally one shot longer than the other is, across most surfaces, the player who wins it. Philippe-Chatrier on a Sunday afternoon in June, with 15,000 people in the stands and two players who have won six matches each to reach this moment, is one of the better arguments for why the clay-court game produces its own aesthetic separate from the other surfaces.

Live on TNT Sports 1 from 1.30pm BST.

Frequently asked questions

What's on TV tonight Sunday 7 June 2026?

Sunday 7 June 2026's primetime is led by Tip Toe Episode 3 of 5 on Channel 4 at 9pm (Russell T Davies; events from Clive's POV; David Morrissey powerhouse; gay teenage son George; continues Mon 8 June Ep 4 and Tue 9 June Ep 5 final; Channel 4 streaming) and Death Valley Series 2 Finale on BBC One at 9.15pm (Timothy Spall as John Chapel; Gwyneth Keyworth as Janie Mallowan; Owen Teale as Michael; commune murder; Mid Wales; iPlayer). BBC One has Tiger Island at 7.15pm (BBC Studios NHU / PBS; Anna Dimitriadis; western Nepal; Goma and Mala; male tiger arrival; RT feature p4; iPlayer) and Antiques Roadshow Sports Special at 8.15pm (Fiona Bruce; Lord's and Wimbledon; Nobby Stiles shirt; oldest cricket rules 1727; Lost Lionesses COPA 71; iPlayer). Channel 4 has The Beautiful Game (12 cert) at 3.35pm (Bill Nighy; Micheal Ward; Thea Sharrock; Homeless World Cup Rome; Channel 4 streaming). BBC Two has The Mother of All Cons Episode 2 of 3 at 9pm (Believe in Magic; private jet £130,000 Atlantic 2015; Nick and Joanna; iPlayer). TLC has Mock the Week Summer Specials Episode 1 of 5 at 9pm (Dara O Briain; Rhys James; Discovery+). ITV1 has Who Wants to Be a Millionaire at 9pm (Jeremy Clarkson), The Assembly: More Unseen LAST IN SERIES at 10pm (Sir Stephen Fry, Nicola Sturgeon, Sir Lenny Henry, Anna Maxwell Martin, Aitch, Rylan), and The Gentlemen (18 cert) at 10.45pm (Guy Ritchie; Matthew McConaughey; Hugh Grant; ITVX). BBC Two has Later... with Jools Holland at 10pm (Mitski; Westside Cowboy; Pigeon; iPlayer). BBC One has Kevin Bridges: In Search of the Beautiful Game at 10.30pm (Brazil; USA; Scotland's first WC since 1998; Group C; iPlayer). U&Alibi has Hudson and Rex at 8pm. Formula One Monaco Grand Prix is on Sky Sports F1 with coverage from 12.30pm and race at 2pm BST. England v New Zealand 1st Test Day 4 is live on Sky Sports from 10.15am; highlights BBC Two at 7pm. French Open Men's Final is on TNT Sports 1 from 1.30pm.

What happens in Tip Toe Episode 3 tonight?

Tip Toe Episode 3 of 5 airs on Channel 4 at 9pm on Sunday 7 June 2026. Written by Russell T Davies, the series is at its midpoint tonight. Events are replayed from Clive's point of view -- a structural shift that brings David Morrissey's character into focus. Clive is a troubled homophobe whose marriage is disintegrating and who deals badly with his gay teenage son George having a key to Leo's flat next door. David Morrissey delivers a powerhouse performance. Leo's friends urge him to call the police and get the locks changed; a night of nasty discoveries follows for both men. Continues Monday 8 June (Episode 4) and concludes Tuesday 9 June (Episode 5, final). Alan Cumming plays Leo. Full series on Channel 4 streaming. Patrick Mulkern byline.

What happens in the Death Valley Series 2 finale tonight?

Death Valley Series 2 Finale (Episode 6 of 6) airs on BBC One at 9.15pm on Sunday 7 June 2026. Series 2 premiered on 17 May 2026. Timothy Spall plays John Chapel; Gwyneth Keyworth plays DS Janie Mallowan. The tension is brought into focus by the return of Janie's estranged father Michael (Owen Teale), who walked out years ago to join a commune. Janie sees him as feckless and unreliable; John reckons he is more misguided than malicious. The uneasy reunion follows a murder within Michael's new-age community. John arrives in what he describes as "practical farming wear" -- Janie's verdict is more Toad of Toad Hall. Set in Mid Wales. David Brown byline. Full series available on BBC iPlayer.

What is Tiger Island on BBC One tonight?

Tiger Island airs on BBC One at 7.15pm on Sunday 7 June 2026. It is a two-part BBC Studios Natural History Unit production, co-produced with PBS. Cinematographer Anna Dimitriadis filmed in the western Nepalese jungle, alongside Max Hug Williams and big cat scientist Dan O'Neill. Two tiger mothers, Goma and Mala, are raising cubs on a community-owned forest island with one of the highest tiger concentrations on Earth. Filming took place in 40°C heat and 90% humidity, using drone technology, stabilised zoom lenses, and remotely triggered cameras. A male tiger arrives, raising the danger for both families. Exec Producer Roger Webb; Series Producer Matthew Wright. Gareth McLean byline; Radio Times feature p4. Both episodes are available on BBC iPlayer.

What is the Antiques Roadshow Sports Special tonight?

Antiques Roadshow Sports Special airs on BBC One at 8.15pm on Sunday 7 June 2026. It is a one-off special hosted by Fiona Bruce, visiting Lord's Cricket Ground and Wimbledon. Items include Nobby Stiles's 1966 World Cup shirt, the oldest known written rules of cricket (1727), and a metal tennis racket. Four Olympic gold medallists appear. The standout story is that of the Lost Lionesses -- the England women's team who played in the unrecognised 1971 Women's World Cup in Mexico (COPA 71), reportedly in front of around 90,000 at the Estadio Azteca. The FA had banned women's football from 1921 to 1971. On returning home, the players received suspensions of three to six months; manager Harry Batt was banned for life. Their story was largely overlooked for nearly fifty years. Available on BBC iPlayer.

What time is the Monaco Grand Prix today?

The Formula One Monaco Grand Prix takes place on Sunday 7 June 2026. Race start is at 2pm BST (3pm local time at Circuit de Monaco in Monte Carlo). Sky Sports F1 coverage begins at 12.30pm; Sky Sports Main Event coverage begins at 1pm. The race covers 78 laps of the 3.337km street circuit. It is Round 6 of the 2026 F1 World Championship and the 83rd Monaco Grand Prix. Live and exclusive on Sky Sports.

What is the French Open today and when is it on?

Sunday 7 June 2026 is Day 15 of the 2026 French Open at Roland Garros -- the Men's Singles Final. Live on TNT Sports 1 from 1.30pm BST on Court Philippe-Chatrier in Paris. It is the final Grand Slam match of the clay-court season.

What is Kevin Bridges: In Search of the Beautiful Game?

Kevin Bridges: In Search of the Beautiful Game airs on BBC One at 10.30pm on Sunday 7 June 2026. The documentary follows comedian Kevin Bridges to Brazil and the USA, where he meets players and fans ahead of the World Cup. It arrives the week Scotland begin their first World Cup campaign since 1998. Scotland are in Group C of the 2026 FIFA World Cup alongside Brazil, Morocco, and Haiti -- the same group opponents as 1998 (minus Haiti, who replace Norway). Scotland v Brazil is on 24 June from Miami. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Tonight's final word

Sunday 7 June 2026 is the evening before the 2026 FIFA World Cup begins. Whatever is on television tonight exists in the last hours before a six-week period in which, for a significant proportion of the audience, the schedule's status hierarchy will be temporarily reorganised around group-stage results and knockout draws. That context does not diminish what is on tonight. It simply frames it.

The natural history hour on BBC One at 7.15pm is Tiger Island, and it is the evening's most uncomplicated pleasure. Anna Dimitriadis spent months in a jungle in Nepal filming tiger mothers and cubs in conditions that would defeat most people before they reached the equipment, and what she has brought back is television that does not require any supplementary argument for why you should watch it. Goma and Mala and their cubs are there. The male tiger arrives. The rest follows.

Antiques Roadshow at 8.15pm, in its sports-special form, turns out to carry more weight than the scheduling slot suggests. The Lost Lionesses story is not the kind of story that requires embellishment. What happened to those women when they came back from Mexico in 1971 -- the suspensions, the lifetime ban on their manager, the decades of institutional indifference -- is its own argument, made by the objects they bring in and the accounts they give. The programme does not have to work hard to make it affecting. It only has to ask the right questions.

At 9pm the three-way split -- Tip Toe on Channel 4, The Mother of All Cons on BBC Two, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire on ITV1 -- produces the usual streaming-era problem of a choice that cannot be resolved in real time. Tip Toe is the drama with the week's sharpest claim on attention: the midpoint episode that replays everything from Clive's perspective is the kind of structural moment a series either earns or doesn't, and the indication from the reporting is that David Morrissey makes it earn. The Mother of All Cons, now at its own midpoint, is arriving at the private jet. Once you know what the private jet cost, and what the official justification was, and what Nick and Joanna think about it, the pace of the investigation changes.

Death Valley's series finale at 9.15pm on BBC One is where Timothy Spall and Gwyneth Keyworth bring five weeks of Mid Wales television to a conclusion. The combination of Owen Teale as the estranged father, a murder in a new-age community, and John Chapel's assessment of his outdoor wear constitutes precisely the kind of finale that a well-run British crime drama should be delivering by its sixth episode. Whether the series continues to a third run is a question for another day. Tonight it ends, and it has earned the ending.

Monaco at 2pm is the afternoon's specific reason to be indoors. Eighty-three Monaco Grand Prix races have been run, and each one has produced at least one moment that the subsequent years did not improve on. The 2026 edition will produce one too.

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