What's on TV tonight Tuesday 9 June 2026? Tonight is where Russell T Davies collects the debt the previous four episodes have been accruing. Tip Toe reaches its series finale at 9pm on Channel 4, and the flash-forward image that has been threaded through every episode -- Leo's death by hanging -- is no longer a portent. It is tonight's destination. Alan Cumming and David Morrissey have been building toward this since Episode 1, and what arrives is, by Davies's own account, a "cry from the heart."

Earlier in the evening the Lionesses take on Ukraine at the Hill Dickinson Stadium in Liverpool -- the final group-stage qualifier before the Women's World Cup 2027. Kick-off at 8pm on ITV1, with coverage from 7.30. It is a different version of England football from the one BBC One examines at 10.40pm, when the documentary England 2006: the Golden Generation opens the archive on a men's tournament campaign that went to Germany carrying more expectation than any squad could reasonably sustain, and then came home via Baden-Baden and penalties.

Sky One has the UK premiere of Best Medicine -- the American remake of Doc Martin, with Josh Charles in the lead and, in one of tonight's double-bill episodes, Martin Clunes himself turning up to guest star. BBC One at 9pm has Who Do You Think You Are? with Joe Swash, which turns out to contain Sylvia Pankhurst and a communist workers' rally in 1923.

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What's on TV tonight: quick picks

  • Tip Toe (SERIES FINALE, Ep 5 of 5) -- Channel 4, 9pm -- Russell T Davies writes; Peter Hoar directs; Quay Street Productions (ITV Studios); Alan Cumming as Leo, David Morrissey as Clive; Stephanie Dale (Elizabeth Berrington) round at Leo's for a boxset binge; Clive and sons host boozy crowd for football match next door; George Goss (Jackson Connor) freaked out when Zee Malone (Iz Hesketh) calls by; five-episode flash-forward to Leo's death by hanging paid off tonight; heated exchanges turn with speed to hate and extreme homophobia; Davies: "cry from the heart" -- "terrifying viewing for all queer people and everyone who loves and supports us"; Patrick Mulkern byline; all 5 episodes on C4 streaming
  • Best Medicine (NEW SERIES -- UK premiere) -- Sky One, 8pm + 9pm -- US Doc Martin remake; originally aired FOX 4 January 2026; Josh Charles (The Good Wife) as Dr Martin Best; cantankerous MD; private practice in Port Wenn, Maine; blood phobia intact; Abigail Spencer as schoolteacher Louisa; Martin Clunes guest stars as Dr Robert Best (Martin's father) in episode titled "Doc Martin" -- likely in tonight's double-bill; renewed for Season 2; David Brown byline; Now
  • Football: England v Ukraine -- Women's WC 2027 Qualifier -- ITV1, coverage 7.30pm, kick-off 8pm -- Lionesses' final group-stage qualifier; Hill Dickinson Stadium, Bramley-Moore Dock, Liverpool (Everton's new stadium, opened August 2025); England won away leg 6-1 in Antalya, 3 March 2026
  • Who Do You Think You Are? -- Joe Swash -- BBC One, 9pm -- Series 23; London-born; EastEnders; Italian ancestry; five-times great-grandfather Donato born 1762, Senerchia (near Naples); three-times great-grandfather Giuseppe Raimo moved to London; street piano craftsman; spoke alongside Sylvia Pankhurst at a 1923 Communist Workers' Movement rally condemning rising fascist regime; reconnects Joe with late father Ricky, who died when Joe was 12; "I've read every bit of the story wrong"; JR byline; iPlayer
  • Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr (LAST IN SERIES, Series 7 Finale) -- BBC One, 8pm -- maximalist finalists -- no beige, no bland upholstery; two holiday cottages in the grounds of Longleat (Wiltshire); dark colours, animal prints, heavily patterned wallpaper; guest judge Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen -- "Nice is a word I hope never to use"; one designer: "colour witch -- but in a good way"; Michelle Ogundehin also present; finalists Emmely Elgersma and Lia Gold; iPlayer
  • The Fortune (Ep 3 of 4) -- Channel 5, 9pm -- after Ep 2's violent cliffhanger; Amanda (Eleanor Tomlinson) in a terrifying moral conundrum; must lean on husband Jimmy (Matthew Lewis) and best friend Sandy (Danielle Walters); both acting oddly; Jimmy knows more than he's letting on; Martin Worrall's (Denis Lawson) family searching for answers; finale tomorrow; Morgan Cormack byline; 5 streaming
  • Bake Off: The Professionals (Series 11) -- Channel 4, 8pm -- judges Benoit Blin and Cherish Finden; presenters Ellie Taylor and Liam Charles; savoury laminated tarts and cream buns; Blin: "too rustic"; showpiece challenge -- Tower Bridge, Japanese pagoda, the Louvre or Eiffel Tower from biscuits + matching petit gateaux; Jane Rackham byline; C4 streaming
  • England 2006: the Golden Generation -- BBC One, 10.40pm (11.10pm NI) -- documentary on the men's 2006 World Cup in Germany; told by journalists, FA officials + ex-players Rio Ferdinand, Wayne Rooney, Ashley Cole, Owen Hargreaves, Paul Robinson; summer of the Wags in Baden-Baden; egged on by the press pack; hubris; injuries; the weight of entitled expectation; down to 10 men; then came penalties; Gabriel Tate byline; iPlayer; pairs with Lionesses match earlier
  • EastEnders -- BBC One, 7.30pm -- Vicki Fowler's love triangle finally reaches a conclusion; Oscar Branning still entangled between Slater twins Jasmine and Josh (Josh played by Pierre Counihan-Moullier, "wonderfully exaggerated flair"); Oscar lands a stinging slap; retreats to Josh; consolation turns to temptation; they share a kiss -- oblivious to Kat Moon outside the window; Michael Adams byline; iPlayer
  • Modern Marvels: WWII (NEW SERIES, Ep 1 of 3) -- Sky History, 8pm -- US History Channel; Hearst Media Production Group; WWII framed as a war of engineering; across the series: V-2 rocket (prototype for space rockets); B-29 Superfortress (doubled bomber range); bouncing bomb (Dam Busters); Elektroboot (blueprint for modern submarine); Stephen Kelly byline; Now
  • Springwatch -- BBC Two, 8pm -- continuing from Crom Estate, Fermanagh; Iolo Williams reports from Bempton Cliffs, East Yorkshire -- seabirds gathering for breeding season; iPlayer
  • Reuben Owen: Life in the Dales -- Channel 5, 8pm -- Reuben hired to turn a hole in the ground into a pond; freezing temperatures hit Jess's farm
  • Only When I Laugh (Ep 1) -- Rewind TV, 6.30pm -- classic 1979--82 ITV hospital sitcom by Rising Damp creator Eric Chappell; Yorkshire Television; James Bolam as Roy Figgis, Peter Bowles as Archie Glover, Christopher Strauli as Norman Binns, Richard Wilson as Dr Gordon Thorpe; 4 series, 29 episodes
  • HSBC Championships -- Women's Day 2 -- BBC Two, 1pm -- Queen's Club, Hammersmith; WTA 500; Serena Williams in the doubles draw
  • T20 Blast: Essex v Kent Spitfires -- Sky Sports Cricket, 6.55pm (Sky Sports Main Event 7pm) -- Ambassador Cruise Line Ground, Chelmsford

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Tonight's TV schedule: full listings

Time Channel Programme
1.00pm BBC Two HSBC Championships -- Women's Day 2 LIVE -- Queen's Club; WTA 500
6.30pm Rewind TV Only When I Laugh Ep 1 -- James Bolam; Peter Bowles; Richard Wilson; classic 1979 sitcom
6.55pm Sky Sports Cricket T20 Blast: Essex v Kent Spitfires LIVE -- Ambassador Cruise Line Ground, Chelmsford
7.00pm Sky Sports Main Event T20 Blast: Essex v Kent Spitfires LIVE
7.30pm BBC One EastEnders -- Vicki Fowler love triangle concludes; Oscar Branning + Slater twins
7.30pm ITV1 England v Ukraine -- Women's WC 2027 Qualifier LIVE coverage begins
8.00pm BBC One Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr LAST IN SERIES -- Longleat cottages; Llewelyn-Bowen; Elgersma v Gold
8.00pm ITV1 England v Ukraine -- Women's WC 2027 Qualifier LIVE KICK-OFF -- Hill Dickinson Stadium, Liverpool
8.00pm Channel 4 Bake Off: The Professionals Series 11 -- Benoit Blin; Cherish Finden; savoury tarts; showpiece landmarks
8.00pm BBC Two Springwatch -- Crom Estate; Iolo Williams from Bempton Cliffs
8.00pm Sky One Best Medicine Series 1 Ep 1 NEW SERIES -- Josh Charles as Dr Martin Best; Port Wenn Maine
8.00pm Sky History Modern Marvels: WWII Ep 1 NEW SERIES -- V-2 rocket; WWII as engineering war
8.00pm Channel 5 Reuben Owen: Life in the Dales -- pond; Jess's farm; freezing temperatures
9.00pm Channel 4 Tip Toe SERIES FINALE Ep 5 of 5 -- Alan Cumming; David Morrissey; Leo's death; extreme homophobia
9.00pm BBC One Who Do You Think You Are? -- Joe Swash -- Italian ancestry; Pankhurst rally 1923; father Ricky
9.00pm Channel 5 The Fortune Ep 3 of 4 -- Eleanor Tomlinson; Matthew Lewis; Denis Lawson; moral conundrum
9.00pm Sky One Best Medicine Series 1 Ep 2 -- Martin Clunes guest stars as Dr Robert Best
10.40pm BBC One England 2006: the Golden Generation -- Rio Ferdinand; Rooney; Cole; Hargreaves; Robinson; Baden-Baden; penalties
Now streaming BBC iPlayer Interior Design Masters Series 7; Who Do You Think You Are? -- Joe Swash; England 2006; Springwatch
Now streaming Channel 4 streaming Tip Toe all 5 episodes; Bake Off: The Professionals Series 11
Now streaming 5 streaming The Fortune Episodes 1--3
Now streaming Now Best Medicine Series 1; Modern Marvels: WWII

Tip Toe -- Series Finale, Episode 5 of 5 -- Channel 4, 9pm

Tip Toe, Series 1, Episode 5 of 5. Channel 4 at 9pm. SERIES FINALE. Written by Russell T Davies. Directed by Peter Hoar. Produced by Nicola Shindler, Quay Street Productions (ITV Studios) for Channel 4. Alan Cumming as Leo. David Morrissey as Clive. All five episodes on Channel 4 streaming. Patrick Mulkern byline.

Across four episodes, Tip Toe has been doing something specific and controlled: running the same image through each instalment like a signal that cannot be switched off. Leo hangs. That is what the flash-forward has been showing, again and again, as the programme constructed the world around that moment -- the bar on Canal Street, the house next door, the relationship between two men who were never meant to become part of each other's lives.

Tonight the programme stops flashing forward. The image becomes the episode.

What the finale opens with is, by comparison with what it builds toward, almost domestic. Stephanie Dale -- Elizabeth Berrington -- is round at Leo's for a boxset binge. That is a Tuesday evening in Manchester: two people on a sofa, something to watch, the ordinary comfort of company. Next door, Clive and his sons have a boozy crowd in for a football match. Two households, separated by a wall, both occupied, both functioning in their respective registers.

George and Zee

The pressure on the finale does not come only from Leo and Clive. George Goss is in the episode. Jackson Connor has been playing George across the run as a young man navigating the specific distance between who he knows himself to be and the household he lives in -- a father whose assumptions about his son are not merely wrong but structurally hostile to what his son's life requires. Last night George was on Canal Street for the first time. Tonight Zee Malone (Iz Hesketh) calls by and George is freaked out. That formulation is carefully chosen: not alarmed, not hurt, but freaked out -- which is the specific response of someone whose new world has arrived in his old one at a moment when the separation between those two spaces was still doing protective work.

Davies does not use this moment as decoration. The convergence of Leo's world and George's world in a single night -- the boxset binge, the football crowd, Zee's visit, the event that the episode is building toward -- is the structure. Everything is in the same space, at the same time.

What the finale delivers

The description in the production notes does not use euphemism. Heated exchanges turn with speed into hate and culminate in an act of extreme homophobia. Five episodes of accumulated tension, careful character work, and the specific pressure that only a five-night limited run can generate -- and this is where it arrives.

Davies has described the series as a "cry from the heart." He has also said that the finale is "terrifying viewing for all queer people and everyone who loves and supports us." Those are not the words of a showrunner positioning a drama for awards coverage. They are the words of a writer who has made something personal and then made it public, and who is clear about what it contains and who it is for.

The production is Quay Street Productions -- Nicola Shindler's company, the same operation that has produced Davies's work since the early days of his television career -- and the direction is Peter Hoar's throughout the series. The combination of that creative team with five tight episodes and a writer who has been building to this specific ending has produced something that the television schedule does not often contain: a piece of drama that is, by its maker's account, meant to be hard to watch.

It will be available on Channel 4 streaming alongside all four preceding episodes for anyone who has not been with it since the start. There is no other sensible way to watch the finale without that context. The whole series is the work.

Best Medicine -- NEW SERIES (UK Premiere) -- Sky One, 8pm + 9pm

Best Medicine, Series 1. Sky One at 8pm and 9pm. UK PREMIERE. US remake of Doc Martin. Josh Charles as Dr Martin Best. Abigail Spencer as Louisa. Martin Clunes guest stars. Also available on Now. Renewed for Season 2. David Brown byline.

The proposition that a British programme as deeply embedded in its original setting as Doc Martin could be remade for an American network is the kind of premise that invites scepticism. Port Wenn, the Cornish fishing village that gave the original its essential quality -- cramped, nosy, beautiful, ancient -- is not the kind of place that has an American equivalent. The BBC America series understood this well enough to move the action entirely: the American version is set in Port Wenn, Maine, which is its own kind of fishing village but brings a different visual register, different community dynamics, and a different version of the isolation that the original format requires.

Josh Charles, who most UK viewers will know from his years as the morally serious and perpetually pressured Will Gardner in The Good Wife, plays Dr Martin Best. He is not doing a Martin Clunes impression -- that is not what the role requires, and it would be the wrong decision even if it were possible. What Charles brings is the particular quality of a performer comfortable with characters whose social intelligence is functionally absent despite their professional intelligence being exceptional. Dr Best is brilliant at medicine and graceless at being human. Charles has spent enough of his career playing the competent man in the room who is nevertheless never quite at ease to find the register naturally.

What the series preserves

The blood phobia is intact. That detail matters more than it might appear, because it is the element of the original that most defines the character's dramatic comedy: a doctor who cannot stand the sight of blood, practising in a village where the sight of blood is a reasonably regular professional occurrence. The fish-out-of-water dynamic -- the prestigious hospital career abandoned for a practice in a community where the patients are suspicious of expertise and the environment is actively indifferent to professional dignity -- is fully intact.

Abigail Spencer plays Louisa, the schoolteacher whose relationship with Martin in the original was the series' emotional spine for most of its run. The tentative romance element is built into the premise from the start -- which is both faithful to the source and a sensible construction for a network drama that needs an ongoing personal thread to run beneath the medical procedural.

Martin Clunes as Martin's father

One episode in the first series is titled "Doc Martin." In it, Martin Clunes -- who played the original Doc Martin across thirteen years, multiple Christmas specials, and the kind of devoted audience loyalty that ITV drama rarely generates -- guest stars as Dr Robert Best: Martin's father. It is a piece of casting that acknowledges the series' origins directly rather than pretending the original does not exist, which is the correct approach for a remake that is asking an informed audience to accept a new version of something they already know. Clunes's presence, in an episode named for his character, is the remake extending a specific courtesy to its source.

That episode appears to be part of tonight's double-bill UK premiere, which would make its first broadcast in this country simultaneously a premiere and a meeting of old and new. Best Medicine has been renewed for a second season -- the US network made that call early, which is a reasonably reliable signal of how the first season performed commercially. On Sky One at 8pm and 9pm. Available on Now.

Football: Women's WC 2027 Qualifier -- England v Ukraine -- ITV1, coverage 7.30pm, kick-off 8pm

Women's World Cup 2027 Qualifier. England v Ukraine. ITV1 coverage from 7.30pm, kick-off 8pm. Hill Dickinson Stadium, Bramley-Moore Dock, Liverpool. England's final group-stage qualifier.

The Hill Dickinson Stadium is less than a year old. Everton opened their new ground at Bramley-Moore Dock on the Liverpool waterfront in August 2025, and the decision to bring the Lionesses' final group-stage qualifier here is both a practical one -- a large, modern stadium in a football city with good transport links -- and a statement about what hosting a women's international means in 2026. The ground seats roughly 52,000, which is a different context from the compact venues that women's football was still occupying not long ago.

The qualifier itself is, on paper, the straightforward fixture the group stage usually ends with. England won the away leg in Antalya on 3 March 2026 by a margin of 6-1, which is the kind of result that makes the return fixture an exercise in management rather than a contest. But international football qualifiers at 8pm on home turf do not feel like exercises in management when you are in the ground, and the Lionesses have the quality to make a night of it for the 50,000-odd who will be at Bramley-Moore Dock.

The Women's World Cup 2027 is the broader context: qualification campaigns that feel comfortable now become the foundation for a tournament that will feel anything but. Coverage on ITV1 from 7.30pm, kick-off 8pm.

Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr -- Series 7 Finale (Last in Series) -- BBC One, 8pm

Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr, Series 7 Finale. BBC One at 8pm. Last in Series. Finalists: Emmely Elgersma and Lia Gold. Guest judge: Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. Available on BBC iPlayer.

The Interior Design Masters finale has a guest judge problem -- which is to say, it has a Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen problem, which is the good kind of problem. Llewelyn-Bowen has been making a specific argument about interior design for the best part of three decades: that restraint is a failure of nerve, that colour is a moral position, and that the word "nice" is the aesthetic equivalent of a white flag. Bringing him in to judge a finale where both finalists are, by the programme's own description, maximalist designers is not a coincidence. It is casting the judge as the final environment in which the contestants have to operate.

His line -- "nice is a word I hope never to use" -- functions as both review and instruction. When he refers to one of the finalists as a "colour witch -- but in a good way," the qualifier matters. The caveat is not reassurance; it is the difference between a compliment and a category.

Longleat as a setting

The brief for the finale is two holiday cottages in the grounds of Longleat, the Wiltshire stately home. That setting is not incidentally chosen. Longleat is the house that opened its doors to the public in 1966 and has been conducting its own ongoing experiment in maximalism ever since -- the lions, the safari park, the maze, the general sense that a stately home's dignity is something that can be productively exceeded. Two holiday cottages in the grounds of such a house are not screaming for beige.

Emmely Elgersma and Lia Gold are the finalists. The programme has been building toward a final that reflects where interior design television is in 2026: after years of the neutral palette as default, the shows that generate discussion are the ones where designers are given permission to commit. Michelle Ogundehin's presence alongside Llewelyn-Bowen for the judging of the final room suggests the winner will need to satisfy both the maximalist's instinct for full commitment and the broader design intelligence that Ogundehin brings to the conversation.

Alan Carr hosts. On BBC One at 8pm. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Who Do You Think You Are? -- Joe Swash -- BBC One, 9pm

Who Do You Think You Are?, Joe Swash. BBC One at 9pm. Series 23. Available on BBC iPlayer. JR byline.

Joe Swash is not the most genealogically complicated subject Who Do You Think You Are? has ever fielded, but the specificity of what tonight's investigation finds puts it among the more unexpected episodes the series has produced. The starting point is his Italian ancestry -- a thread that a London-born actor from a family that has been in the East End long enough for most of the Italian origin to have been absorbed into a more general east London identity might not have expected to lead anywhere very far from the expected Italian immigration narrative.

It leads to Senerchia.

Senerchia is a mountainous town near Naples, in the Campania region. It is small, it is old, and it is where Donato was born in 1762. Donato is Joe's five-times great-grandfather. The arithmetic of five generations takes the search back to the mid-eighteenth century, and the programme works backward through the family tree to plant a specific man in a specific place at a specific time.

Giuseppe Raimo and the 1923 rally

The more proximate discovery, and the one that the programme treats as its centrepiece, is Giuseppe Raimo. Giuseppe was Joe's three-times great-grandfather, which places him in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- the period of Italian mass emigration to Britain, the period when the street piano trade was one of the primary economic activities connecting the Italian community in London to the surrounding city.

Street piano craftsmen are not figures who show up in popular historical consciousness alongside the more visible Italian contributions to London life -- the ice cream sellers, the restaurant owners, the artists. But the trade was substantial, the community around it was close-knit, and the craftsmen who built and maintained these instruments occupied a specific social position within the Italian quarter of the East End and its surroundings.

That Giuseppe Raimo was one such craftsman is interesting. That he was also present at a 1923 Communist Workers' Movement rally, on a platform alongside Sylvia Pankhurst, is the episode's most arresting detail. The rally was convened to condemn the rising fascist regime in Italy -- Mussolini had come to power the previous year, and the Italian community in London was watching with a combination of fear, rage, and the specific horror of a diaspora community watching something terrible happen in a place they left but still carry. Pankhurst was the obvious figure for that rally: her politics were consistently anti-fascist and her connection to the Italian left was longstanding. That Giuseppe Raimo stood alongside her is not a minor genealogical fact. It is the family's position in a historical moment.

The late father

The programme's other thread is personal in a different register. The investigation reconnects Joe with his late father Ricky, who died when Joe was twelve years old. That is the kind of loss that genealogical research can approach obliquely -- through documents, through photographs, through the discovery of characteristics and choices in earlier generations that make the line from them to Ricky, and from Ricky to Joe, visible in a way it could not have been before.

Joe's line -- "I've read every bit of the story wrong" -- is the episode's most honest moment, and the kind of thing that is said by someone who has genuinely discovered something they did not expect. On BBC One at 9pm. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Bake Off: The Professionals -- Series 11 -- Channel 4, 8pm

Bake Off: The Professionals, Series 11. Channel 4 at 8pm. Judges Benoit Blin and Cherish Finden. Presenters Ellie Taylor and Liam Charles. Available on Channel 4 streaming. Jane Rackham byline.

Series 11 of Bake Off: The Professionals returns both of its judges for an eleventh run -- Benoit Blin and Cherish Finden have now been doing this long enough that their dynamic in the judging tent is as much a feature of the programme as the competitive structure around it. Blin's standards are uncompromising in the specific way that French pastry training produces -- a kind of precision that is not unkind but is not interested in softening its assessments. Tonight's verdict -- "too rustic" -- is the phrase that will be applied to at least one team's savoury laminated tart, and it contains a world of professional shortfall in two words.

The technical challenges

The programme runs a two-challenge structure tonight. The first is savoury laminated tarts followed by cream buns with a twist -- the combination of laminated pastry and enriched dough in the same episode is the kind of technical doubling that separates the teams who can manage the precision required for lamination from those who cannot, then immediately tests whether the same teams can shift register into a sweeter, softer format.

The showpiece challenge is the episode's set-piece. Teams are required to construct a landmark -- the choice includes Tower Bridge, a Japanese pagoda, the Louvre, or the Eiffel Tower -- from biscuits, then create matching petit gateaux. The combination of architectural precision (the biscuit structures have to be genuinely recognisable) with the fine patisserie discipline of petit gateaux is exactly the kind of challenge that produces simultaneously spectacular successes and structural collapses within the same heat.

Ellie Taylor and Liam Charles host the series for the second time as a presenting pair, and the rhythm they have built across previous runs is visible in how they manage the space between the competitor tension and the judging. On Channel 4 at 8pm. Available on Channel 4 streaming.

The Fortune -- Episode 3 of 4 -- Channel 5, 9pm

The Fortune, Series 1, Episode 3 of 4. Channel 5 at 9pm. After Episode 2's violent cliffhanger. Eleanor Tomlinson as Amanda. Matthew Lewis as Jimmy. Danielle Walters as Sandy. Denis Lawson as Martin Worrall. Morgan Cormack byline. Available on 5 streaming. Series finale tomorrow.

The Fortune reaches its penultimate episode tonight carrying the weight of an episode-ending cliffhanger that the programme used its second week to deploy. Episode 2 ended violently -- the nature of that violence is the context Amanda is carrying into tonight's episode, and the moral conundrum the billing describes is not one that a person in less exposed circumstances would face. She has to act, and the available actions are all bad in different ways.

The programme's structure places Amanda in a position of dependence: she needs the two people she trusts most, and both of them are presenting her with reasons not to trust them. Matthew Lewis's Jimmy has been one of The Fortune's more carefully constructed presences since the series began -- the husband who is supportive in the specific ways that support can function as a form of management, whose apparent concern for Amanda has been shadowed throughout by the suggestion that his knowledge of the situation may be more comprehensive than he has acknowledged.

Sandy, played by Danielle Walters, is the best-friend figure -- which in a drama of this kind is the character whose loyalty the narrative is always testing, because loyalty is the resource the protagonist relies on when everything else has failed and the one resource that the genre specialises in withdrawing at the worst moment.

Denis Lawson's Martin Worrall is dead, but his family is not, and they continue searching for answers about the inheritance that placed Amanda at the centre of everything. The family's investigation and Amanda's crisis are on a collision course that the finale tomorrow will have to resolve. On Channel 5 at 9pm. Available on 5 streaming.

England 2006: the Golden Generation -- BBC One, 10.40pm

England 2006: the Golden Generation. BBC One at 10.40pm (11.10pm in Northern Ireland). Gabriel Tate byline. Available on BBC iPlayer.

The 2006 World Cup is the tournament that the phrase "Golden Generation" was built for and that the phrase comprehensively destroyed. It had been in use before -- the players were genuinely exceptional: Lampard, Gerrard, Beckham, Ferdinand, Rooney, Cole -- but the tournament in Germany was where the weight of the description became the thing it was describing. A generation that had been told it was golden could not simply perform; it had to justify the label, and the label was not attached to what they did but to what people expected them to do, which is a different standard and a significantly harder one.

The documentary draws on a set of contributors whose proximity to the events gives it the quality of access that this kind of football history requires. Rio Ferdinand is there. Wayne Rooney, whose tournament ended with a red card in the quarter-final against Portugal and the pointed look that followed it, is there. Ashley Cole, whose career across that period was one of the most consistently undervalued in English football, is there. Owen Hargreaves -- the one England player in Germany whose contribution was broadly praised without qualification at the time, which made him an anomaly in a squad where qualification was the expected product -- is there. Paul Robinson, whose tournament included some performances the programme will presumably be direct about, is there.

Baden-Baden

The summer of the Wags in Baden-Baden is the episode that runs alongside the football. England's base camp was in the spa town, the press arrived in numbers, the partners and their schedules became a story that the football coverage ran alongside, and the combination of the two was something that the squad's management -- and the players themselves -- did not navigate cleanly. Whether Baden-Baden contributed to England's performance on the pitch is a debate that has not been resolved in twenty years; what is not in debate is that it defined the atmosphere around the tournament in a way that no previous England campaign had produced.

The documentary frames what followed as a story of hubris. Down to ten men in the quarter-final, the generation did not rise. Then came penalties. Gabriel Tate byline. On BBC One at 10.40pm (11.10pm in Northern Ireland). Available on BBC iPlayer.

A note worth making: the documentary airs approximately two and a half hours after the Lionesses' World Cup qualifier finishes on ITV1. The same-night proximity of a women's team qualifying for a World Cup and a documentary about a men's squad that failed at one is not a coincidence the schedule planners can have been unaware of.

Also worth watching tonight

EastEnders -- BBC One, 7.30pm

Vicki Fowler's love triangle is the billing's promise for tonight, and the triangle is apparently reaching a conclusion. The more compelling thread, based on the episode description, is Oscar Branning's ongoing entanglement with the Slater twins -- a situation that has been generating its comedy and its drama from the specific dynamic of two identical people occupying completely different emotional registers in the same household. Josh is played by Pierre Counihan-Moullier with what the billing calls wonderfully exaggerated flair, which is the kind of performance note that tends to mean a scene-stealer is operating. The episode ends with Oscar and Josh sharing a kiss while Kat Moon is outside the window. Kat Moon has been outside a great many windows across EastEnders' history, and her perspective on what goes on behind glass is reliably significant. On BBC One at 7.30pm. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Modern Marvels: WWII -- Sky History, 8pm

The three-part series from Hearst Media Production Group opens its first episode tonight on Sky History. The framing device -- the Second World War as primarily a war of engineering -- is one that works because the engineering actually was extraordinary and the connections between wartime developments and post-war technology are genuine. The V-2 rocket is the clearest example: the weapons programme that devastated London and Antwerp was, in the hands of the engineers who built it and the American and Soviet programmes that recruited them after 1945, the foundation of the space age. The bouncing bomb, the B-29, the Elektroboot -- each one is a specific engineering response to a specific military problem, and the civilian afterlife of each one is part of what makes the series worth watching beyond its historical content. Stephen Kelly byline. On Sky History at 8pm. Available on Now.

Springwatch -- BBC Two, 8pm

Springwatch continues from the Crom Estate in County Fermanagh tonight, with Iolo Williams filing from Bempton Cliffs on the East Yorkshire coast. Bempton is the most significant seabird colony on the English mainland -- the RSPB reserve on the chalk cliffs hosts puffins, gannets, guillemots, razorbills, and kittiwakes during the breeding season, and June is peak occupation. Williams's reporting from the cliffs runs alongside the mainland studio coverage to give the programme its characteristic dual-location structure: the lush inland estate in Northern Ireland and the dramatic coastal colony in Yorkshire, both at the same moment in the year but in quite different ecological conversation. On BBC Two at 8pm. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Only When I Laugh -- Rewind TV, 6.30pm

The chance to watch Only When I Laugh from Episode 1 is one of those scheduling decisions that Rewind TV handles better than any other channel: returning a series to its beginning, in broadcast order, on a regular slot. The 1979 ITV hospital sitcom was Eric Chappell's follow-up to Rising Damp -- which is a significant lineage. The cast assembled for it has only grown in retrospect: James Bolam, Peter Bowles, Christopher Strauli, and Richard Wilson (Dr Gordon Thorpe, which is a role that preceded his own kind of immortality as Victor Meldrew by a decade) occupy four hospital beds and find reasons not to leave them. The humour is specific to its era in some ways and in others is simply very good. On Rewind TV at 6.30pm.

Reuben Owen: Life in the Dales -- Channel 5, 8pm

Reuben Owen takes on what may be the most optimistic single job in the series: turning a hole in the ground into a pond. That is the kind of challenge that proceeds in direct proportion to the enthusiasm of the person attempting it and the patience of everyone working alongside them. Freezing temperatures have arrived at Jess's farm, which is the kind of variable that the Dales series uses as a reminder that the pastoral is never uncomplicated. On Channel 5 at 8pm.

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Tennis: HSBC Championships Women's Day 2 -- BBC Two, from 1pm

Day 2 of the women's tournament at Queen's Club builds on Monday's opening action, with the draw beginning to produce the first round results that will shape the quarter-final picture. The tournament's central story -- Serena Williams's competitive return, in the doubles draw -- continues; how her doubles partnership performs across the week is the narrative thread that the BBC's coverage will be tracking alongside the singles. Live on BBC Two from 1pm.

Football: England v Ukraine -- Women's WC 2027 Qualifier -- ITV1, coverage 7.30pm, kick-off 8pm

Covered in full above. The Hill Dickinson Stadium, Liverpool. The Lionesses' final group-stage qualifier. England won the away leg 6-1. Live on ITV1, coverage from 7.30pm, kick-off 8pm.

Men's T20 Blast: Essex v Kent Spitfires -- Sky Sports Cricket, 6.55pm

The T20 Blast continues tonight with a fixture that the East Division table context makes meaningful. Essex at home at the Ambassador Cruise Line Ground in Chelmsford is a venue with a compact boundary and a surface that tends to assist the batsman in the right conditions -- the kind of T20 fixture where 180 is a reasonable target and 200 is achievable. Kent Spitfires have been one of the more consistent T20 outfits over the past several years, and the cross-boundary rivalry between two sides who know each other well has its own specific quality as a white-ball fixture. Live on Sky Sports Cricket from 6.55pm; Sky Sports Main Event from 7pm.

Frequently asked questions

What's on TV tonight Tuesday 9 June 2026?

Tuesday 9 June 2026 is built around the Tip Toe series finale on Channel 4 at 9pm -- Russell T Davies's five-part drama concludes; Alan Cumming as Leo; David Morrissey as Clive; the flash-forward to Leo's death by hanging is paid off tonight; extreme homophobia; Davies's "cry from the heart"; Patrick Mulkern byline; all five episodes on C4 streaming. ITV1 has England v Ukraine (Women's WC 2027 Qualifier) from 7.30pm, kick-off 8pm, Hill Dickinson Stadium Liverpool. Sky One has Best Medicine (UK premiere) at 8pm and 9pm -- the US Doc Martin remake; Josh Charles; Abigail Spencer; Martin Clunes guest stars; Now. BBC One has Who Do You Think You Are? with Joe Swash at 9pm -- Italian ancestry; Donato born 1762 Senerchia; Giuseppe Raimo and Sylvia Pankhurst's 1923 rally; late father Ricky; iPlayer. BBC One has Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr (Series 7 Finale, Last in Series) at 8pm -- Longleat holiday cottages; Emmely Elgersma and Lia Gold; Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen guest judge; iPlayer. Channel 5 has The Fortune Episode 3 of 4 at 9pm -- Amanda (Eleanor Tomlinson) in a moral conundrum; Jimmy (Matthew Lewis) and Sandy (Danielle Walters) acting oddly; finale tomorrow; 5 streaming. Channel 4 has Bake Off the Professionals Series 11 at 8pm -- Benoit Blin, Cherish Finden; savoury tarts; showpiece landmarks. BBC One has England 2006: the Golden Generation at 10.40pm -- Rio Ferdinand, Rooney, Cole, Hargreaves, Robinson; Baden-Baden; penalties; Gabriel Tate byline; iPlayer. EastEnders on BBC One at 7.30pm -- Vicki Fowler love triangle; Oscar Branning, Slater twins, Kat Moon at the window. BBC Two has Springwatch at 8pm -- Crom Estate; Iolo Williams from Bempton Cliffs. Sky History launches Modern Marvels: WWII at 8pm -- WWII as engineering war; three-part series; Hearst Media; Stephen Kelly byline; Now. Rewind TV has Only When I Laugh Episode 1 at 6.30pm (1979 ITV sitcom; Bolam, Bowles, Wilson). BBC Two has HSBC Championships Women's Day 2 from 1pm. Sky Sports Cricket has T20 Blast Essex v Kent Spitfires from 6.55pm at Chelmsford.

What happens in the Tip Toe series finale tonight?

Tip Toe Series Finale -- Episode 5 of 5 -- airs on Channel 4 at 9pm on Tuesday 9 June 2026. Written by Russell T Davies, directed by Peter Hoar, produced by Nicola Shindler at Quay Street Productions (ITV Studios). Alan Cumming plays Leo, a Manchester Canal Street bar owner. David Morrissey plays Clive, his neighbour, described as Britain's electrician. Stephanie Dale (Elizabeth Berrington) is round at Leo's for a boxset binge; Clive and his sons host a boozy crowd for a football match next door. Gay teenager George Goss (Jackson Connor) is freaked out when his new friend Zee Malone (Iz Hesketh) calls by. The flash-forward to Leo's death by hanging, threaded through all five episodes, is paid off tonight. Heated exchanges turn with speed into hate and culminate in an act of extreme homophobia. Russell T Davies has described the series as a "cry from the heart" and said it is "terrifying viewing for all queer people and everyone who loves and supports us." Patrick Mulkern byline. All five episodes are on Channel 4 streaming.

What is Best Medicine on Sky One tonight?

Best Medicine is a new US drama making its UK premiere on Sky One on Tuesday 9 June 2026, with episodes at 8pm and 9pm. It is a remake of the British series Doc Martin, set in Port Wenn, Maine rather than Port Wenn, Cornwall. Josh Charles (The Good Wife) plays Dr Martin Best, a cantankerous doctor who has left a prestigious Boston hospital for private practice in a fishing village. The blood phobia is intact, as is the fish-out-of-water dynamic and the tentative romance with schoolteacher Louisa (Abigail Spencer). In an episode titled "Doc Martin," Martin Clunes -- who played the original -- guest stars as Dr Robert Best, Martin's father. That episode is believed to be part of tonight's double-bill premiere. Originally aired on FOX in the US from 4 January 2026; renewed for Season 2. David Brown byline. Available on Now.

What time is England v Ukraine on TV tonight?

England v Ukraine -- the Lionesses' Women's World Cup 2027 Qualifier -- is on ITV1 with coverage from 7.30pm and kick-off at 8pm. The match is at the Hill Dickinson Stadium, Bramley-Moore Dock, Liverpool -- Everton's new stadium, which opened in August 2025. It is England's final group-stage qualifier. England won the away leg 6-1 in Antalya on 3 March 2026.

What happens in Who Do You Think You Are with Joe Swash tonight?

Who Do You Think You Are? featuring Joe Swash airs on BBC One at 9pm on Tuesday 9 June 2026 (Series 23). Joe Swash is a London-born actor best known for EastEnders. He explores his Italian ancestry and discovers his five-times great-grandfather Donato, born in 1762 in Senerchia, a mountainous town near Naples. His three-times great-grandfather Giuseppe Raimo moved to London, became a street piano craftsman, and spoke alongside Sylvia Pankhurst at a 1923 Communist Workers' Movement rally condemning Italy's rising fascist regime. The investigation reconnects Joe with his late father Ricky, who died when Joe was 12. Joe says at one point: "I've read every bit of the story wrong." JR byline. Available on BBC iPlayer.

What is Interior Design Masters on BBC One tonight?

Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr reaches its Series 7 finale -- the last in the series -- on BBC One at 8pm on Tuesday 9 June 2026. Both finalists are maximalist designers. The brief is two holiday cottages in the grounds of Longleat, the Wiltshire stately home. Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen is the guest judge for the finale. He says: "Nice is a word I hope never to use," and calls one designer a "colour witch -- but in a good way." Michelle Ogundehin is also present. The finalists are Emmely Elgersma and Lia Gold. Available on BBC iPlayer.

What is England 2006: the Golden Generation on BBC One tonight?

England 2006: the Golden Generation airs on BBC One at 10.40pm on Tuesday 9 June 2026 (11.10pm in Northern Ireland). It is a documentary about England's men's 2006 World Cup campaign in Germany, told by journalists, FA officials, and ex-players including Rio Ferdinand, Wayne Rooney, Ashley Cole, Owen Hargreaves, and Paul Robinson. The film covers the summer of the Wags in Baden-Baden, the hubris surrounding a squad labelled a golden generation, sub-par performances, injuries, the match when England went down to ten men, and the penalties that followed. Gabriel Tate byline. Available on BBC iPlayer.

What is Modern Marvels: WWII on Sky History tonight?

Modern Marvels: WWII is a new three-part documentary series launching on Sky History at 8pm on Tuesday 9 June 2026. Produced by Hearst Media Production Group for the US History Channel, it frames the Second World War as a war of engineering. Topics across the series include the Nazi V-2 rocket (prototype for space rockets), the American B-29 Superfortress (doubled bomber range), Britain's bouncing bomb (Dam Busters), and Germany's Elektroboot (blueprint for the modern submarine). Stephen Kelly byline. Available on Now.

What is Only When I Laugh on Rewind TV tonight?

Only When I Laugh returns from Episode 1 on Rewind TV at 6.30pm on Tuesday 9 June 2026. The classic ITV hospital-set sitcom ran from 1979 to 1982 and was created by Eric Chappell, who also wrote Rising Damp. Yorkshire Television production. The cast features James Bolam as Roy Figgis, Peter Bowles as Archie Glover, Christopher Strauli as Norman Binns, and Richard Wilson as Dr Gordon Thorpe. The series ran to four series and 29 episodes.

Tonight's final word

Tuesday 9 June 2026 ends in the same place it was always going to end: a Manchester Canal Street bar, a boxset on the sofa, a football crowd next door, and the moment that Russell T Davies has been pointing toward since Episode 1. The image in the flash-forward -- Leo, a rope -- is not a metaphor. It is an event, and tonight is when the event happens. Davies describes what precedes it as heated exchanges turning with speed into hate, which is a sequence of words that could apply to a great many things in a great many places and in this drama applies to something specific, in a specific house, with specific people whose positions in relation to each other the preceding four episodes have constructed with care.

The series has earned this finale. That is not a given with limited dramas that build toward a promised conclusion -- the promise is easy to make and the fulfilment often qualifies it. What Tip Toe has done across the week is refuse to qualify anything: the tension is real, the characters are not positions but people, and the thing that happens tonight is not a device but a consequence. Patrick Mulkern's byline has been on the Radio Times coverage throughout, and his description of the series as a "cry from the heart" and "terrifying viewing for all queer people and everyone who loves and supports us" is, on the available evidence, accurate on both counts.

Earlier, the Lionesses at Bramley-Moore Dock, in a stadium that did not exist a year ago, in a qualifier that should not be close. Earlier still, on BBC Two, Iolo Williams at Bempton Cliffs with thousands of seabirds and a cliff face that has been there considerably longer than anyone's football stadium. The evening runs from gannet colonies to game shows to penalty shootouts to a Canal Street bar. That is television in June, and tonight it is doing what it occasionally does: giving you something that will stay with you after the set goes off.

Check what's on right now, browse tonight's highlights, or find any channel through the full channels list. Yesterday: Monday 8 June 2026. Tomorrow: The Fortune concludes on Channel 5; Brexit: A Very British Civil War Part 2 airs on BBC Two; and the HSBC Championships Women's Tournament continues at Queen's Club.