What's on TV tonight Wednesday 10 June 2026? Two series finales and a double bill finale in the same 9pm hour, and on BBC Four, something that will be worth watching at midnight. Amandaland ends on BBC One, The Fortune ends on Channel 5, and A Good Girl's Guide to Murder brings its second series to a close on BBC Three -- all within a forty-five-minute window. Three different tones, three different things to resolve.

Later, BBC Four turns the evening over to Ken Loach, whose 90th birthday falls on 17 June. The night runs from his most recent film -- The Old Oak, 2023 -- all the way back to Up the Junction in 1965, when a Wednesday evening drama about a back-street abortion was watched by nearly ten million people and changed, in a small but measurable way, the terms of a real political debate.

Earlier, England take on Costa Rica in Orlando at 9pm -- the last warm-up before the World Cup proper begins on Thursday. Before that: The Future with Hannah Fry on BBC Two at 7.30pm, Springwatch continuing from County Fermanagh, The Repair Shop on BBC One, and the Bislett Games live from Oslo at 7pm on BBC Three.

Browse what's on right now for live updates, see tonight's full highlights, or go straight to the channels list -- including dedicated pages for BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, ITV1, Channel 4, and Channel 5. For yesterday's listings see our Tuesday 9 June 2026 TV guide.

What's on TV tonight: quick picks

  • Amandaland (LAST IN SERIES, S2 Ep 6 "Prom") -- BBC One, 9pm -- Lucy Punch as Amanda; Rosie Cavaliero guest stars as Claire -- chaotic make-up artist, back from chemo, travels the country telling horrified suburbanites about her tragic life while caking them in panto-worthy slap; Claire almost steals the episode; inspires rare act of genuine kindness from Amanda; Series 3 already commissioned (announced 13 May 2026); won Best Scripted Comedy at the 2026 BAFTA TV Awards; "Here's hoping for Claireland as well"; Huw Fullerton byline; full series iPlayer
  • The Fortune (SERIES FINALE, Ep 4 of 4) -- Channel 5, 9pm -- Amanda Blakefield (Eleanor Tomlinson) framed for murder; mother Linda (Paula Wilcox -- dementia, care home) and husband Jimmy (Matthew Lewis) missing; inundated with anonymous texts; whoever it is wants Amanda to accept the inheritance -- family safe if she does; Amanda not one for the easy route -- sets off to track them down; Martin Worrall's (Denis Lawson) family still searching; writer Aschlin Ditta, director Andy de Emmony; filmed Hartlepool; "delicious and slightly ludicrous conclusion with unexpected revelations"; Morgan Cormack byline; 5 streaming
  • A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (S2 FINALE double bill) -- BBC Three, 9.05pm + 9.50pm; BBC One 10.40pm + 11.25pm (11.40pm + 12.25am NI) -- all six episodes on iPlayer + Netflix boxset from 27 May 2026; verdict in the Max Hastings trial; truth behind Jamie Reynolds's disappearance; both resolve -- neither without cost; Pip (Emma Myers): ethical reckoning; world doesn't always make sense, often can't be fixed; Holly Jackson's third novel "As Good as Dead" awaits adaptation (this series adapted Good Girl, Bad Blood); David Brown byline
  • Ken Loach Night -- BBC Four, from 10.05pm -- ahead of Ken Loach's 90th birthday, 17 June 2026 (born 17 June 1936); 10.05pm: Loach introduces The Old Oak (2023) -- his stated final film; struggling publican + Syrian refugees; Dave Turner and Ebla Mari; 12.10am: Loach remembers Up the Junction; 12.25am: Up the Junction -- Wednesday Play, 3 November 1965, adapted by Nell Dunn; back-street abortion scene contributed to debate leading to Abortion Act 1967; nearly 10 million viewers on first tx; Calum Baker byline; iPlayer
  • Only Child (LAST IN SERIES, S2 Ep 6) -- BBC One, 9.30pm -- Gregor Fisher as Ken Pritchard; Greg McHugh as Richard; Amy Lennox as Emily; property developers' diggers roll in at the allotments -- protest group takes extreme action; Richard lays it all on the line to woo Emily; can Ken find his own happy ever after?; Bryce Hart; BBC Scotland; iPlayer
  • International Football: England v Costa Rica -- ITV1, coverage 8pm, kick-off 9pm BST -- Inter&Co Stadium, Orlando, Florida; England's final pre-World Cup warm-up; Thomas Tuchel; first warm-up was v New Zealand, Raymond James Stadium Tampa, 6 June; England open World Cup v Croatia, 17 June 2026; 2026 FIFA World Cup begins Thursday 11 June (Mexico v South Africa)
  • Surgeons: at the Edge of Life (LAST IN SERIES, S8) -- BBC Two, 9pm -- Shaun Dooley voiceover; NHS Lothian; Kathleen from Aberdeen -- tumour invaded liver and diaphragm; Professor Steve Wigmore (HPB/Transplant Surgeon) attempts to rebuild diaphragm; complications shift to leaking lung; Dawn from Kincardine -- spina bifida, scar tissue around spinal membrane; disaster a millimetre away; Jack Seale byline; iPlayer
  • The Future with Hannah Fry (S1, Ep 5 of 6 "Inclusion") -- BBC Two, 7.30pm -- NOT a 2023 repeat -- 2026 first-run BBC Two acquisition, Bloomberg Originals; Series 1 began 13 May 2026; robotics; Hannah orders coffee from robot at Dawn Avatar Robot Cafe, Tokyo (avatars operated remotely by disabled/housebound workers); mind-controlled bionic arms; deaf subtitling spectacles; Series 2 in production; Gary Rose byline; iPlayer
  • Laurence Rees Remembers... The Nazis: A Warning from History -- BBC Four, 9pm (ep 1 at 9.15pm) -- 2025 introduction by Rees; landmark 1997 BBC series; narrated by Samuel West; historical consultant Professor Sir Ian Kershaw; won 1997 Peabody Award and 1998 BAFTA Best Factual Series; iPlayer
  • On the Front Line: Exposed -- the High Street Crime Crisis -- BBC Two, 10pm (11pm NI) -- year-long investigation by BBC reporter Ed Thomas (Panorama); shops as fronts for organised crime; Rochdale: minimart making Ā£2,000/day selling illegal cigarettes; Shrewsbury: barber shop closed for money laundering; solicitors registering shops in names of ghost directors -- and admitting it on camera; iPlayer
  • The Repair Shop -- BBC One, 8pm -- repeat from 2025; Bear Ladies (Amanda Middleditch and Julie Tatchell); life-sized stuffed pony Hector from Drum Riding for the Disabled near Edinburgh -- 29 years in service; vacuum first, then TLC; also: a "kind of clock"; a chair beloved by two men; a leather darts case; Jane Rackham byline; iPlayer
  • Inside the Tower of London (S9) -- Channel 5, 8pm -- role of King's House resident; Elizabeth I's time -- master spy; William Wade used torture on Guy Fawkes; Beefeater swapped Parachute Regiment beret for Tudor bonnet; Yeomen Warders prepare for Remembrance Sunday
  • Springwatch -- BBC Two, 8pm -- continuing live from Crom Estate, Fermanagh; recent unseasonably hot weather; Iolo Williams reporting; runs Mon--Thu, 25 May -- 11 June; iPlayer
  • Location, Location, Location -- Channel 4, 8pm -- Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer; couple nervous about flightpaths in Edinburgh; revisit Derbyshire live/work search from 2007
  • Athletics: Diamond League -- Bislett Games -- BBC Three, 7pm -- live from Bislett Stadium, Oslo, Norway; one of the oldest fixtures on the Diamond League calendar
  • HSBC Championships at Queen's -- Day 3 (Women's) -- BBC Two, 1pm -- second round women's singles; Elena Rybakina (World No.2); Emma Raducanu; Belinda Bencic; Serena Williams in doubles as wild card -- her tennis comeback; runs 8--14 June

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Tonight's TV schedule: full listings

Time Channel Programme
1.00pm BBC Two HSBC Championships -- Women's Day 3 LIVE -- Queen's Club; second round; Rybakina; Raducanu; Bencic; Serena Williams doubles
7.00pm BBC Three Athletics: Diamond League -- Bislett Games LIVE -- Bislett Stadium, Oslo
7.30pm BBC Two The Future with Hannah Fry S1 Ep 5 of 6 "Inclusion" -- robotics; Dawn Avatar Robot Cafe Tokyo; bionic arms; deaf subtitling
8.00pm ITV1 England v Costa Rica -- pre-World Cup warm-up coverage begins -- Inter&Co Stadium, Orlando
8.00pm BBC One The Repair Shop -- Hector the stuffed pony; Bear Ladies; Drum Riding for the Disabled Edinburgh
8.00pm BBC Two Springwatch -- Crom Estate, Fermanagh; Iolo Williams; unseasonably hot weather
8.00pm Channel 5 Inside the Tower of London S9 -- King's House; William Wade; Guy Fawkes; Yeomen Warders
8.00pm Channel 4 Location, Location, Location -- Kirstie Allsopp; Phil Spencer; Edinburgh flightpaths; Derbyshire revisit 2007
9.00pm BBC One Amandaland LAST IN SERIES S2 Ep 6 "Prom" -- Lucy Punch; Rosie Cavaliero as Claire; BAFTA Best Scripted Comedy 2026
9.00pm Channel 5 The Fortune SERIES FINALE Ep 4 of 4 -- Eleanor Tomlinson; Matthew Lewis; Paula Wilcox; Denis Lawson; framed for murder
9.00pm ITV1 England v Costa Rica LIVE KICK-OFF -- Inter&Co Stadium, Orlando, Florida
9.00pm BBC Two Surgeons: at the Edge of Life LAST IN SERIES S8 -- Professor Steve Wigmore; Kathleen Aberdeen; Dawn Kincardine spina bifida
9.00pm BBC Four Laurence Rees Remembers... The Nazis: A Warning from History -- 9.15pm: Episode 1 of 6; Samuel West narrates; Professor Sir Ian Kershaw
9.05pm BBC Three A Good Girl's Guide to Murder S2 Ep 5 -- Max Hastings verdict; Jamie Reynolds; Pip's reckoning
9.30pm BBC One Only Child LAST IN SERIES S2 Ep 6 -- Gregor Fisher; Greg McHugh; Amy Lennox; allotments; Richard woos Emily
9.50pm BBC Three A Good Girl's Guide to Murder S2 Ep 6 -- Series 2 finale; final resolutions
10.00pm BBC Two On the Front Line: Exposed -- the High Street Crime Crisis -- Ed Thomas; Rochdale; Shrewsbury; ghost directors
10.05pm BBC Four Ken Loach Night begins -- Loach introduces The Old Oak (2023); Dave Turner; Ebla Mari
10.40pm BBC One A Good Girl's Guide to Murder S2 Ep 5 -- BBC One broadcast
11.25pm BBC One A Good Girl's Guide to Murder S2 Ep 6 -- BBC One broadcast; (11.40pm + 12.25am in Northern Ireland)
12.10am BBC Four Ken Loach Night -- Loach remembers Up the Junction
12.25am BBC Four Up the Junction -- Wednesday Play, 3 November 1965; Nell Dunn; back-street abortion
Now streaming BBC iPlayer Amandaland S1 + S2 full series; A Good Girl's Guide to Murder S2 all 6 episodes; Surgeons S8 full series
Now streaming Netflix A Good Girl's Guide to Murder S2 all 6 episodes (from 27 May 2026)
Now streaming 5 streaming The Fortune Episodes 1--4

Amandaland -- Last in Series, Series 2 Episode 6: "Prom" -- BBC One, 9pm

Amandaland, Series 2, Episode 6: "Prom." BBC One at 9pm. LAST IN SERIES. Lucy Punch as Amanda. Guest star: Rosie Cavaliero as Claire. The Motherland spin-off. Series 3 commissioned. Won Best Scripted Comedy, BAFTA TV Awards 2026. Full series on BBC iPlayer. Huw Fullerton byline.

The title of the Amandaland series finale is "Prom," and the episode earns it. But the more important thing to know before you watch it is the guest: Rosie Cavaliero turns up as Claire, and Claire is the kind of character that a sitcom half-hour can either absorb or be overwhelmed by. This one very nearly absorbs her -- and "very nearly" is intended as the highest possible compliment.

Claire is a make-up artist. She is back from chemotherapy, and she has apparently responded to the experience of surviving cancer by developing a compulsion: she travels the country seeking out suburbanites, makes them sit still, and cakes them in make-up of panto-level intensity while telling them, in detail, about the more harrowing chapters of her life so far. The suburbanites are horrified. Claire does not particularly notice. She is in the grip of something that the episode wisely does not attempt to pathologise or resolve -- it is just who she is, in this particular post-chemo configuration, and the comedy does not ask the audience to approve or judge so much as recognise.

What Claire does to Amanda

The thing Claire does to Amanda is the episode's structural centre. Amanda is not, generally, a person who performs genuine kindness. She performs generosity when it costs her nothing and consideration when someone is watching, and she has the social intelligence to deploy both convincingly. But genuine kindness -- the kind that costs something, that inconveniences the person extending it, that cannot be explained by self-interest -- is not her default mode. The series has spent two runs establishing precisely this, which makes tonight's rare departure from it land with the weight that comes from being earned rather than asserted.

Claire, almost inadvertently, produces it. Whether through the force of her own catastrophic openness or through some mechanism that the episode does not overexplain, she gets something out of Amanda that Amanda does not usually offer. The detail of how that happens is the episode's best comic-to-something-else gear change, and it is the reason this half hour will be remembered after most of the series' other finales.

The BAFTA and the commission

Amandaland won Best Scripted Comedy at the 2026 BAFTA TV Awards, which is the kind of recognition that confirms what the audience for the series has been saying across two runs: that a spin-off from Motherland has turned into something with its own distinct identity. The Motherland DNA is visible in the premise and some of the recurring structures, but Amandaland has built a world around Lucy Punch's performance that belongs to this show specifically.

Series 3 was commissioned on 13 May 2026 -- before this finale had even aired. That is a level of institutional confidence that is not often extended to comedy series, and the BAFTA win presumably represents confirmation of a decision that had already been made for creative rather than ratings-driven reasons. The question "Here's hoping for Claireland as well" is not, on the basis of tonight's episode, an entirely unreasonable one to put to the BBC bigwigs. Rosie Cavaliero as Claire at large in the world feels like unfinished business.

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

The Fortune -- Series Finale, Episode 4 of 4 -- Channel 5, 9pm

The Fortune, Series 1, Episode 4 of 4. Channel 5 at 9pm. SERIES FINALE. Amanda Blakefield (Eleanor Tomlinson). Jimmy Blakefield (Matthew Lewis). Linda (Paula Wilcox). Martin Worrall (Denis Lawson). Written by Aschlin Ditta. Directed by Andy de Emmony. Filmed in Hartlepool. Morgan Cormack byline. Available on 5 streaming.

The Fortune has arrived at its finale carrying more weight than most four-part dramas accumulate, which is partly a product of structure and partly a product of the choices Aschlin Ditta has been making as a writer. The premise -- a woman inherits an estate from a man she has never met, and the estate arrives with several bodies attached -- is the kind of setup that promises escalation and can fail to deliver it in a way that leaves the final episode doing the work of three. That is not the problem here. Episode 3 left Amanda framed for a murder she did not commit. That is a specific and significant problem, and the finale has to solve it while also retrieving the two people most important to her.

Linda is missing. Linda is Amanda's mother, played by Paula Wilcox, and the character has dementia and lives in a care home -- which means whoever has taken her from that care home has done something that is not merely a crime against Amanda but a violation of a person who cannot fully comprehend what is happening to her. The weight of that is not treated lightly in the billing, and it should not be.

Jimmy is missing too. Matthew Lewis's Jimmy has been the series' consistent complication: a husband whose love for Amanda is not in doubt and whose knowledge of the situation around the inheritance has been, across three episodes, strongly suggested to be more comprehensive than he has been letting on. The question of what Jimmy knows, and whether what he knows makes him a threat or a victim or something in between, is the one the finale has to answer.

The anonymous caller

The mechanism the series is using to put pressure on Amanda in her most exposed moment is the anonymous texts and calls. Whoever is behind them has worked out a logic: if Amanda accepts the inheritance, her family is returned to her safe. It is a clean offer. The problem is that it is also an admission of culpability -- no one makes that offer from a position of innocence -- and Amanda, being constituted the way she is, cannot treat an offer that requires her to ask no further questions as a satisfactory resolution.

She sets off to find them herself. That choice, and what it costs her, is what the forty-five minutes or so of finale are for.

Martin Worrall's family

Denis Lawson's Martin Worrall has been dead since before the series began, but his family has been searching for answers across all four episodes with a persistence that the story required and the cast sustained. The finale brings their thread to a conclusion alongside Amanda's, which is the structure Ditta set up in Episode 1 and has been maintaining: two separate investigations converging on the same buried truth.

The assessment that this is a "delicious and slightly ludicrous conclusion with unexpected revelations" is accurate enough to be useful. The Fortune has never positioned itself as gritty realism -- it is a thriller with the kind of plotting that requires the audience to accept a certain amount of improbability in exchange for the specific pleasure of watching the resolution arrive. That exchange is honoured tonight. Filmed in Hartlepool. Morgan Cormack byline. On Channel 5 at 9pm. Available on 5 streaming.

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder -- Series 2 Finale Double Bill -- BBC Three, 9.05pm and 9.50pm

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, Series 2, Episodes 5 and 6. BBC Three at 9.05pm and 9.50pm. BBC One at 10.40pm and 11.25pm (11.40pm and 12.25am in Northern Ireland). All six episodes on BBC iPlayer and Netflix from 27 May 2026. David Brown byline.

Before addressing what happens tonight, the iPlayer situation is worth restating one more time, because the timing matters for how you approach this broadcast. All six episodes of Series 2 dropped on BBC iPlayer and Netflix on 27 May 2026 -- the same evening the first two aired on BBC Three. Fourteen days later, a significant part of the show's audience will have already seen the finale, possibly twice. For them, tonight is a different kind of television experience: the linear broadcast as a communal occasion rather than a first encounter.

For the audience watching in real time, tonight's double bill has two things to deliver: the verdict in the Max Hastings trial, and the truth behind Jamie Reynolds's disappearance. The series has been building toward both simultaneously, understanding that the two strands are structurally dependent -- what happened to Jamie and what Max Hastings did are connected in the specific way that Holly Jackson's original novels connect violence to its social context, which is to say not directly but through the networks of complicity and silence that make both possible.

The Max Hastings verdict

The rape trial has been the series' moral engine since Episode 1 of Series 2. The first book established Max Hastings as a villain; this series adapted Good Girl, Bad Blood, the second novel, which is about what happens after the villain is named -- the institutional processes, the family calculations, the specific dynamics of a courtroom attempting to adjudicate something that courtrooms are not always well-designed to adjudicate.

The verdict arrives tonight. What the series has earned, across five episodes, is the right to a conclusion that is not necessarily satisfying in the ways that verdicts are supposed to be satisfying. Holly Jackson's writing has always understood that the legal system and the moral reality of a situation are not always in correspondence -- that the verdict a courtroom produces can be technically correct and still leave the people most affected by it without anything that functions as resolution.

Jamie Reynolds

The Jamie Reynolds thread is the one that connects the series more directly to its thriller genre pleasures. His disappearance is the mystery that needs solving, and the solution, when it arrives, requires the audience to have held everything the series has established about the people around him. The resolution -- "neither without cost" is the billing's phrase -- is accurate about both strands. This is not a series that ends with the score settled.

The toll on Pip

Emma Myers's Pip has been the series' moral compass and its most reliable source of tension. What Series 2 has done, building on Series 1, is advance the cost of what Pip does. She is not a detective. She is a teenager who is very good at noticing things and very bad at letting those things go unaddressed. The series has been honest, from the start, about what that costs her -- the sleep, the relationships, the specific pressure of caring about the truth in contexts where the truth is protected by powerful people who would prefer it stayed buried.

Tonight's finale adds an ethical dimension to that cost. Pip arrives at the end of Series 2 having resolved the cases and lost something that the cases did not take from her directly but that the process of pursuing them has made it hard to hold onto: the belief that the world, if properly investigated, makes sense. It does not always. It often cannot be fixed. That is the Series 2 version of the lesson that Series 1 started teaching.

Holly Jackson's third novel

The series adapted Jackson's first book in Series 1 and the second in Series 2. The third novel, "As Good as Dead," is the obvious next source. That the creative team would adapt it, if given the opportunity, is not in doubt. Whether that opportunity is formally confirmed is the question that tonight's finale will be reviewed against -- if the ending is designed to accommodate a third run rather than close the world completely, the answer is probably yes. On BBC Three at 9.05pm and 9.50pm. Full series on BBC iPlayer.

Ken Loach Night -- BBC Four, from 10.05pm

Ken Loach Night. BBC Four from 10.05pm. Ahead of Ken Loach's 90th birthday, 17 June 2026. The Old Oak (2023) and Up the Junction (1965). Calum Baker byline. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Ken Loach was born on 17 June 1936. He will be ninety years old in a week. BBC Four has scheduled a night in his honour, and the decision of what to put in that night is worth examining before the programmes themselves, because the programming is itself an argument.

They have chosen The Old Oak and Up the Junction, which is a choice that takes a span of sixty years -- from 1965 to 2023 -- and suggests that the essential things Loach was doing at the beginning of his career and the things he was doing at its end are recognisably the same things. That the argument holds is the interesting part.

The Old Oak (2023)

The Old Oak is Loach's stated final film, and he introduces it tonight at 10.05pm. It is a film about a struggling white publican in a struggling northern English village, and about the arrival of Syrian refugees whose reception by the community varies from open hostility to something more complicated. Dave Turner plays the publican. Ebla Mari plays Yara, a Syrian woman whose relationship with him is the film's moral centre.

The film was shot in County Durham and released in 2023. It completed a loose trilogy with I, Daniel Blake (2016) and Sorry We Missed You (2019) -- three films about the northwest and northeast of England in the age of austerity and its aftermath, made with the consistent methodology that Loach has used throughout his career: non-professional or semi-professional actors, naturalistic performance, a camera that observes rather than dramatises. The Old Oak received the Palme d'Or nomination at Cannes 2023 and is, by any measure, a dignified and coherent final statement from a director who has been making the same essential argument for six decades without noticeably softening it.

Up the Junction (1965)

At 12.25am, the evening moves back to the beginning. Up the Junction was broadcast on BBC1 on 3 November 1965 as part of the Wednesday Play strand -- the BBC drama vehicle through which some of the most significant British television of the 1960s was transmitted. The play was adapted by Nell Dunn from her own short story collection -- Loach directed, and the adaptation work was also partly his, though that credit was not formally acknowledged at the time. James MacTaggart produced.

What the play is most remembered for, in cultural-historical terms, is the back-street abortion sequence. A young woman attempts a self-induced abortion; the scene was filmed with the kind of unflinching directness that the Wednesday Play strand existed to enable and that mainstream television drama was not, in 1965, otherwise providing. The sequence contributed to the specific public and political debate around abortion that culminated in the Abortion Act 1967 -- not by itself, but in the way that a piece of drama watched by nearly ten million people on a Wednesday evening in November 1965 can contribute to a debate: by making the reality visible to an audience that the existing political conversation had not been addressing directly.

The connection between them

The thing that connects The Old Oak in 2023 to Up the Junction in 1965 is not a subject matter or a style. It is a conviction about what television and film can do when they are pointing their camera at people whose lives are not typically the subject of drama. The Syrian refugees in County Durham. The young women in Battersea. The unemployed in Newcastle. The publican who keeps the last pub open because it is the only communal space his village has. Loach has been describing those people, in their own terms, for sixty years. BBC Four is right to mark the birthday.

On BBC Four from 10.05pm. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Only Child -- Last in Series, Series 2 Episode 6 -- BBC One, 9.30pm

Only Child, Series 2, Episode 6. BBC One at 9.30pm. LAST IN SERIES. Gregor Fisher as Ken Pritchard. Greg McHugh as Richard Pritchard. Amy Lennox as Emily. Written by Bryce Hart. BBC Scotland commission. Available on BBC iPlayer.

The series finale of Only Child has, as its structural event, something that Bryce Hart has been positioning all series: the arrival of the property developers' diggers at the allotments. That is the kind of event that a gentle sitcom about a Scottish father and son can build toward without the comedy becoming subordinate to it -- the diggers are the occasion, not the point, and the episode understands the difference.

The protest group taking extreme action is the comedy. What extreme action looks like in the context of a Forres allotment and a group of people who have been managing their plots for years is something the episode is entitled to define on its own terms, and it is unlikely to involve anything other than the specific kind of improvised defiance that is funnier the less formally organised it is.

Richard and Emily

The romantic thread that the series has been maintaining is reaching its conclusion tonight. Richard Pritchard is a jobbing actor who came back from London in Series 1 and has spent two runs finding reasons to stay -- one of which has always been Amy Lennox's Emily, Ken's neighbour and Richard's schoolfriend from before his departure. The slow convergence of those two people toward each other has been the series' secondary pleasure, and "lays it all on the line" is the phrase that confirms tonight is not another near-miss.

Whether Emily responds in kind is the question. The series has been careful not to treat the romantic conclusion as inevitable in a way that removes the tension from the final episode, which is the correct approach.

Can Ken find his own happy ever after?

The billing's question -- "Can Ken find his own happy ever after?" -- is the series acknowledging its own warmth without embarrassment about it. Gregor Fisher's Ken Pritchard has been widowed and in a state of managed equilibrium across two series, and Bryce Hart has written him as a man whose affection for the people around him is expressed almost entirely through behaviour rather than declaration. Whether that equilibrium shifts tonight is the series' emotional bet, and it is one the programme has earned the right to make.

"Another series of this gentle gem, please, BBC bigwigs" is the correct response regardless of outcome. On BBC One at 9.30pm. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Surgeons: at the Edge of Life -- Last in Series, Series 8 -- BBC Two, 9pm

Surgeons: at the Edge of Life, Series 8 Series Finale. BBC Two at 9pm. LAST IN SERIES. Voiceover by Shaun Dooley. NHS Lothian. Available on BBC iPlayer. Jack Seale byline.

Eight series in and the programme has not changed its fundamental proposition: that the operating theatres of the NHS contain, on any given day, a level of technical difficulty and human consequence that most people have no access to, and that making it visible is a worthwhile act of public television. Series 8 has been building toward this last episode at Edinburgh's NHS Lothian, and the two cases tonight are, by the programme's own measure, among the more demanding the series has documented.

Kathleen from Aberdeen

Kathleen has come to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh for an operation that the geography of her tumour makes significantly more complex than the term "tumour removal" suggests to the uninitiated. The tumour has not confined itself to her liver. It has invaded her diaphragm -- the muscle that, among other functions, separates the abdominal cavity from the chest cavity and is the primary mechanism of breathing. Removing a tumour that has grown into the diaphragm requires removing the affected portion of the diaphragm and then rebuilding it, which is a surgical feat that sits at the edge of what reconstructive technique can reliably accomplish.

Professor Steve Wigmore is the Consultant HPB and Transplant Surgeon at NHS Lothian who attempts this tonight. Hepatopancreatobiliary surgery -- the specialism designated HPB -- is the field that deals with the liver, the pancreas, and the bile ducts, and the combination of transplant experience with HPB expertise that Wigmore brings to Kathleen's case is precisely the combination that the complexity of the tumour's location requires.

Complications shift attention to her lung during the procedure. When a surgeon attempting to rebuild a patient's diaphragm encounters a leaking lung, the situation has acquired a second urgent problem while the first is still unresolved. The series handles this kind of compounding pressure with the steady camera work and undemonstrative voiceover that Shaun Dooley has developed across the run -- the drama is the situation, not the framing.

Dawn from Kincardine

The second case tonight is one of the more precise pieces of neurosurgical work the series has shown. Dawn has spina bifida -- a congenital condition in which the spinal canal does not close fully before birth, with consequences that vary considerably in severity but that in Dawn's case have reached the point where surgical intervention is required for scar tissue around the membrane protecting her brain and spinal cord.

That membrane is the meninges. Scar tissue around the meninges, in a patient who already has the structural vulnerabilities that spina bifida creates, is scar tissue in territory where the margin for error is measured in fractions. "Disaster a millimetre away" is the billing's phrase, and it is not hyperbole. The surgical precision required to address scar tissue in that anatomical context without causing the damage it is intended to prevent is the kind of thing that the programme has spent eight series demonstrating is both routinely attempted and never routine.

Voiceover by Shaun Dooley. On BBC Two at 9pm. Available on BBC iPlayer.

England v Costa Rica -- ITV1, coverage 8pm, kick-off 9pm BST

International Football. England v Costa Rica. ITV1 coverage from 8pm, kick-off 9pm BST (4pm ET). Inter&Co Stadium, Orlando, Florida. England's final pre-2026 FIFA World Cup warm-up. Thomas Tuchel.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup begins tomorrow. Mexico v South Africa is the tournament's opening match -- and England are two warm-ups into their preparation, with tonight against Costa Rica being the last before the competition proper. The first warm-up, against New Zealand at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa on 6 June, had its own interest as a first look at Thomas Tuchel's selections in a competitive context. Tonight in Orlando is the last opportunity to see those selections adjusted before they become the ones that matter.

The Inter&Co Stadium is a compact venue by international standards -- the home ground of Orlando City SC in MLS, with a capacity of around 25,500. The atmosphere that generates for an England warm-up, even with a substantial travelling support in a football-aware American city in the days before a World Cup, will be different from what waits at the tournament itself. England's opening group match, against Croatia on 17 June 2026, is played at a stadium considerably larger and in front of an audience that regards England games as major occasions.

What tonight is for

Warm-up matches perform a specific function that is easy to underestimate when looking at the scoreline. They allow the manager to assess fitness, confirm tactical positions, manage minutes for players at risk of fatigue or minor injury, and -- perhaps most usefully -- give the players a shared competitive experience in tournament conditions before the games start to count. Whether England's performance against Costa Rica maps onto their performance against Croatia is the question the Thursday morning analysis will address. The answer, historically, is not very reliably.

Thomas Tuchel took the England job in 2024 and this is his first World Cup campaign. The tournament is being staged across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. England's opening match v Croatia on 17 June 2026 carries the weight that England v Croatia always carries -- the 2018 World Cup semi-final, the 2022 group stage, the Nations League accumulation of results that have made the fixture a reliable temperature-check for where each side is at the time.

Coverage on ITV1 from 8pm, kick-off 9pm BST.

The Future with Hannah Fry -- Episode 5 of 6: "Inclusion" -- BBC Two, 7.30pm

The Future with Hannah Fry, Series 1, Episode 5 of 6: "Inclusion." BBC Two at 7.30pm. NOT a 2023 repeat. 2026 first-run BBC Two acquisition of a Bloomberg Originals series. Series 1 began 13 May 2026. Gary Rose byline. Available on BBC iPlayer.

One thing to establish before anything else: this is not the 2023 Hannah Fry BBC Two series that aired as a repeat run earlier this spring. That series, which ran with nuclear fusion and biosecurity and the other headline futures, was a 2023 production given a weekly BBC Two airing from May 2026. This is a different programme -- a Bloomberg Originals series, Series 1, which BBC Two began broadcasting on 13 May 2026. The two programmes share a presenter and a BBC Two timeslot and have consequently been confused with each other in listings coverage.

Series 1 of this incarnation is six episodes, and tonight is Episode 5 of 6. The subject is inclusion. The mechanism is robotics -- specifically, the question of how robotic technology is being used to extend participation in the workforce to people who have been excluded from it by physical disability or housebound circumstances.

Dawn Avatar Robot Cafe

The Dawn Avatar Robot Cafe in Tokyo is the episode's most striking sequence. The cafe is a real venue: customers who arrive order coffee and food served by small robots, some of which are dressed in costumes that would not look out of place in a themed restaurant. The robots are not autonomous. They are operated remotely -- via screen and controller -- by people who are physically disabled or housebound and who could not otherwise hold conventional employment in a service industry context. The cafe is their workplace, mediated through hardware, and the system is more than a proof of concept: it operates commercially and its remote workforce has real employment contracts.

Hannah ordering coffee from a robot in a witch's cloak is an image that the programme earns rather than contrives, because the witch's cloak is simply the costume choice of the specific person operating the robot that day, and that person is an individual exercising judgment within a commercial context. That is the point: the robot is not replacing a human, it is extending a human's ability to be present in a space they could not otherwise occupy.

Bionic arms and subtitling spectacles

The episode also covers mind-controlled bionic arms -- prosthetics that use neural signals to translate the user's intentions into mechanical movement, a technology that has advanced considerably in the past decade and is no longer confined to research settings -- and spectacles that deliver live subtitling for deaf wearers. The subtitling glasses are, in functional terms, a real-time captioning system built into eyewear: the wearer sees a transcription of what is being said around them without requiring a phone screen or a separate device.

The thread connecting all three technologies is the same as the thread the cafe embodies: assistive technology as an inclusion mechanism rather than a compensatory one. Series 2 is in production. On BBC Two at 7.30pm. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Also worth watching tonight

Laurence Rees Remembers... The Nazis: A Warning from History -- BBC Four, 9pm

The earlier part of BBC Four's Wednesday evening is occupied by Laurence Rees's 2025 introduction to his 1997 series. That introduction airs at 9pm, which means the first episode of The Nazis: A Warning from History proper begins at 9.15pm. The 1997 series is one of the most significant pieces of BBC historical documentary making -- six episodes, narrated by Samuel West, with Professor Sir Ian Kershaw as historical consultant. The Peabody Award in 1997 and the BAFTA for Best Factual Series in 1998 are the institutional confirmations of something the audience had already recognised: that this was documentary television working at the edge of what the form can do with archival material and historical analysis.

The 2025 introduction by Rees adds contemporary resonance to a series that was already widely taught and referenced. What he makes of it from the perspective of 2025 -- what the intervening thirty years have added to the context in which the series was made -- is the argument the introduction is positioned to advance. On BBC Four at 9pm (first episode from 9.15pm). Available on BBC iPlayer.

On the Front Line: Exposed -- the High Street Crime Crisis -- BBC Two, 10pm

Ed Thomas is a BBC reporter whose Panorama work has covered organised crime and institutional failure across a substantial run of investigations. The year-long scope of this particular investigation -- shadowing police forces tackling shops used as fronts for organised crime -- is the methodological basis for the specificity of what it finds. The minimart in Rochdale making two thousand pounds a day from illegal cigarettes is a specific figure attached to a specific operation. The Shrewsbury barber shop closed for money laundering is a specific case. The solicitors registering shops in the names of ghost directors and admitting it on camera is the kind of evidence that investigations of this scale occasionally obtain and that, in this instance, has been obtained.

What the programme is documenting is not simply individual criminal operations but a system -- the use of legitimate high-street retail fronts as the public face of organised criminal activity. The question of how that system persists despite law enforcement attention is the structural argument the documentary is making. On BBC Two at 10pm (11pm in Northern Ireland). Available on BBC iPlayer.

The Repair Shop -- BBC One, 8pm

The Bear Ladies -- Amanda Middleditch and Julie Tatchell -- are the programme's resident soft-toy specialists, which means they handle anything fabric-based that arrives in the barn. Hector is by some margin the largest thing they are likely to have worked on: a life-sized stuffed horse, used as a teaching aid at Drum Riding for the Disabled near Edinburgh for 29 years, now in a state of shabbiness and structural instability. The progression from twenty-nine-year-old teaching aid to show-ready condition requires, as the billing notes, a vacuum first -- an appropriately methodical beginning to a project whose scale is considerably beyond the usual range.

The darts case is the episode's most precise restoration challenge: a cherished leather case whose owner's handling over decades has left marks and wear that are part of its history, and where the brief is to stabilise and restore without erasing the evidence that the object was genuinely used by a specific person. That distinction -- between restoration that preserves provenance and restoration that erases it -- is the kind of thing The Repair Shop handles with more care than most antiques programming. On BBC One at 8pm. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Springwatch -- BBC Two, 8pm

Springwatch is into its final week from the Crom Estate in County Fermanagh -- tomorrow's episode is the last of the run. The unseasonably hot weather that has arrived across parts of the UK in recent days is the kind of variable that Springwatch can absorb better than most nature programmes, because the live broadcast format means the presenters and cameras are responding to actual conditions rather than producing a narrative constructed in post-production. Iolo Williams has been filing from locations across the UK throughout this run, and what he finds on any given night is at the mercy of the same weather the audience is experiencing. On BBC Two at 8pm. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Location, Location, Location -- Channel 4, 8pm

Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer conducting a follow-up visit to a couple nervous about flightpaths in Edinburgh is the kind of segment that Location, Location, Location does with genuine warmth rather than as filler -- the follow-ups tend to reveal whether the anxieties that shaped the original search were well-founded, which is often more interesting than the search itself. The Derbyshire revisit from 2007 is a near-twenty-year gap: whatever was found in that live/work search has had two decades to become something settled or something regretted. On Channel 4 at 8pm.

Live sport today

Tennis: HSBC Championships at Queen's -- Women's Day 3 -- BBC Two, from 1pm

Day 3 of the HSBC Championships at Queen's Club moves into the second round of the women's singles, and the draw is beginning to produce the matchups that will define the quarter-final picture. Elena Rybakina, the World No.2, is the tournament's highest-ranked player and the person the seedings are arranged around. Emma Raducanu's presence in the draw is the home interest that BBC coverage will naturally track. Belinda Bencic, the former Wimbledon finalist and Olympic gold medallist, is the kind of opponent that the grass-court schedule at this stage in the season consistently produces -- a player whose game suits the surface and who can beat anyone in this field on her day.

Serena Williams is in the doubles draw as a wild card. Her tennis comeback -- in doubles, at a grass-court warm-up event, in what amounts to a carefully managed return to competitive conditions -- is the tournament's other story. How her partnership performs, and what can be read from it about her individual form and fitness, is the question the commentary will be attentive to. Live on BBC Two from 1pm.

Athletics: Diamond League -- Bislett Games -- BBC Three, 7pm

The Bislett Games is among the oldest meetings on the Diamond League calendar, and Bislett Stadium in Oslo has a record for world records that no other arena in the sport can match. The middle-distance tradition at Oslo is the event the programme's scheduling reputation is built on -- the 1,500m and the mile have been run at Bislett in conditions that suit fast times since the 1970s, when the stadium's combination of a receptive crowd, a well-prepared track, and the specific late-evening Oslo summer light made it the place where records were broken as a matter of routine.

The Diamond League meeting is live on BBC Three from 7pm, which gives tonight's broadcast schedule a useful sports opening before the Hannah Fry programme at 7.30pm on BBC Two.

International Football: England v Costa Rica -- ITV1, coverage 8pm, kick-off 9pm BST

Covered in full above. England's final warm-up before the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Inter&Co Stadium, Orlando, Florida. Thomas Tuchel. The World Cup begins tomorrow. Coverage on ITV1 from 8pm, kick-off 9pm BST.

Frequently asked questions

What's on TV tonight Wednesday 10 June 2026?

Wednesday 10 June 2026 is a night of finales. BBC One has the Amandaland series finale (S2 Ep 6 "Prom") at 9pm -- Lucy Punch; Rosie Cavaliero guest stars as Claire, a chaotic make-up artist back from chemo who cakes horrified suburbanites in panto-worthy slap while describing her tragic life; inspires a rare act of genuine kindness from Amanda; Series 3 commissioned 13 May 2026; Amandaland won Best Scripted Comedy BAFTA TV Awards 2026; Huw Fullerton byline; iPlayer. Channel 5 has The Fortune series finale (Ep 4 of 4) at 9pm -- Eleanor Tomlinson as Amanda Blakefield framed for murder; Paula Wilcox as Linda (dementia, care home) missing; Matthew Lewis as Jimmy missing; anonymous calls want Amanda to accept inheritance; she sets off to track them down; Aschlin Ditta writer; Andy de Emmony director; filmed Hartlepool; Morgan Cormack byline; 5 streaming. BBC Three has A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Series 2 finale double bill at 9.05pm and 9.50pm (BBC One 10.40pm and 11.25pm; 11.40pm and 12.25am NI) -- Max Hastings verdict; truth behind Jamie Reynolds's disappearance; Pip (Emma Myers) ethical reckoning; Holly Jackson's third novel As Good as Dead awaits adaptation; David Brown byline; iPlayer and Netflix. BBC Four has Ken Loach Night from 10.05pm -- The Old Oak (2023, Dave Turner, Ebla Mari) then 12.10am Loach remembers Up the Junction, 12.25am Up the Junction (Wednesday Play 3 November 1965, Nell Dunn, back-street abortion, Abortion Act 1967, 10 million viewers); Calum Baker byline; iPlayer. BBC One has Only Child last in series (S2 Ep 6) at 9.30pm -- Gregor Fisher, Greg McHugh, Amy Lennox; allotments vs property developers; Richard woos Emily; Bryce Hart; iPlayer. ITV1 has England v Costa Rica, coverage 8pm kick-off 9pm BST, Inter&Co Stadium Orlando -- final pre-World Cup warm-up; Thomas Tuchel; England open v Croatia 17 June; World Cup begins 11 June. BBC Two has Surgeons: at the Edge of Life last in series (S8) at 9pm -- Professor Steve Wigmore; Kathleen Aberdeen liver/diaphragm tumour; Dawn Kincardine spina bifida; Shaun Dooley; Jack Seale byline; iPlayer. BBC Two has The Future with Hannah Fry Ep 5 of 6 "Inclusion" at 7.30pm -- 2026 Bloomberg Originals acquisition, NOT a repeat; robotics; Dawn Avatar Robot Cafe Tokyo; Gary Rose byline; iPlayer. BBC Four has Laurence Rees Remembers... The Nazis: A Warning from History at 9pm (first episode 9.15pm; Samuel West; Professor Sir Ian Kershaw; Peabody 1997; BAFTA Best Factual 1998). BBC Two has On the Front Line: Exposed -- High Street Crime Crisis at 10pm -- Ed Thomas Panorama; Rochdale; Shrewsbury; ghost directors. Channel 5 has Inside the Tower of London Series 9 at 8pm -- King's House; William Wade; Guy Fawkes. BBC One has The Repair Shop at 8pm -- Hector the pony; Bear Ladies; Drum Riding for Disabled Edinburgh; Jane Rackham byline. Channel 4 has Location, Location, Location at 8pm -- Kirstie and Phil; Edinburgh flightpaths; Derbyshire 2007. BBC Two has Springwatch at 8pm -- Crom Estate; Iolo Williams; unseasonably hot. BBC Three has Bislett Games Oslo at 7pm. BBC Two has HSBC Championships Women's Day 3 from 1pm -- Rybakina; Raducanu; Bencic; Serena Williams doubles.

What happens in the Amandaland series finale on BBC One tonight?

Amandaland Series 2 Episode 6 "Prom" airs on BBC One at 9pm on Wednesday 10 June 2026. It is the last in the series. Lucy Punch plays Amanda. Guest star Rosie Cavaliero plays Claire, a chaotic make-up artist who is back from chemotherapy and has developed a habit of travelling the country telling horrified suburbanites about her tragic life while caking them in panto-worthy slap. Claire almost steals the episode and inspires a rare act of genuine kindness from the usually self-centred Amanda. Series 3 has been commissioned (announced 13 May 2026). Amandaland won Best Scripted Comedy at the 2026 BAFTA TV Awards. Huw Fullerton byline. Available on BBC iPlayer.

What happens in The Fortune series finale on Channel 5 tonight?

The Fortune Series Finale -- Episode 4 of 4 -- airs on Channel 5 at 9pm on Wednesday 10 June 2026. Amanda Blakefield (Eleanor Tomlinson) is framed for murder. Her mother Linda (Paula Wilcox -- the character has dementia and lives in a care home) and her husband Jimmy Blakefield (Matthew Lewis) are both missing. Amanda is inundated with anonymous texts and calls from someone who wants her to accept the inheritance, promising her family will be safe if she does. Amanda sets off to track them down instead. Martin Worrall's (Denis Lawson) family also continues searching for answers. Written by Aschlin Ditta, directed by Andy de Emmony, filmed in Hartlepool. Morgan Cormack byline. Available on 5 streaming.

What happens in A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Series 2 finale tonight?

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Series 2 finale -- Episodes 5 and 6 -- airs on BBC Three at 9.05pm and 9.50pm on Wednesday 10 June 2026 (BBC One 10.40pm and 11.25pm; 11.40pm and 12.25am in Northern Ireland). All six episodes have been on iPlayer and Netflix as a boxset since 27 May 2026. Tonight resolves the verdict in the Max Hastings trial and the truth behind Jamie Reynolds's disappearance. Both reach conclusions -- neither without cost. The real focus is the toll on Pip (Emma Myers): an ethical reckoning, an understanding that the world does not always make sense and often cannot be fixed. Holly Jackson's third novel "As Good as Dead" is the next potential adaptation -- this series adapted the second, Good Girl, Bad Blood. David Brown byline.

What is Ken Loach Night on BBC Four tonight?

Ken Loach Night airs on BBC Four from 10.05pm on Wednesday 10 June 2026, one week ahead of Ken Loach's 90th birthday on 17 June 2026 (born 17 June 1936). At 10.05pm: Loach introduces The Old Oak (2023), his stated final film -- a struggling white publican befriends Syrian refugees in a struggling northern village; Dave Turner and Ebla Mari star. At 12.10am: Loach remembers Up the Junction. At 12.25am: Up the Junction itself airs -- the Wednesday Play, broadcast 3 November 1965. Adapted by Nell Dunn (and uncredited Loach) from Dunn's short story collection; directed by Loach; produced by James MacTaggart. The harrowing back-street abortion scene contributed to the debate that led to the Abortion Act 1967. Watched by nearly 10 million on first transmission. Calum Baker byline. Available on BBC iPlayer.

What time is England v Costa Rica on TV tonight?

England v Costa Rica is on ITV1 on Wednesday 10 June 2026, with coverage from 8pm and kick-off at 9pm BST (4pm ET). The match is at Inter&Co Stadium in Orlando, Florida. It is England's final pre-2026 FIFA World Cup warm-up. Thomas Tuchel is England's manager. The first warm-up was against New Zealand at Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, on 6 June 2026. England's opening World Cup group match is against Croatia on 17 June 2026. The 2026 FIFA World Cup begins on Thursday 11 June with Mexico v South Africa.

What is Surgeons: at the Edge of Life about on BBC Two tonight?

Surgeons: at the Edge of Life Series 8 -- the last in the series -- airs on BBC Two at 9pm on Wednesday 10 June 2026. Voiceover by Shaun Dooley. Filmed at NHS Lothian. Kathleen from Aberdeen is at the Royal Infirmary for an operation to remove a tumour that has invaded her liver and diaphragm. Professor Steve Wigmore (Consultant HPB and Transplant Surgeon) attempts to rebuild her diaphragm; complications shift to a leaking lung. Dawn from Kincardine has spina bifida and needs surgery for scar tissue around the membrane protecting her brain and spinal cord. Disaster is a millimetre away. Jack Seale byline. Available on BBC iPlayer.

What is The Future with Hannah Fry on BBC Two tonight?

The Future with Hannah Fry Episode 5 of 6 "Inclusion" airs on BBC Two at 7.30pm on Wednesday 10 June 2026. This is NOT a 2023 repeat -- it is a 2026 first-run BBC Two acquisition of a Bloomberg Originals series (Series 1 began 13 May 2026). Tonight's robotics episode features Hannah at Tokyo's Dawn Avatar Robot Cafe, where small robots are operated remotely by physically disabled and housebound workers. The episode also covers mind-controlled bionic arms and spectacles delivering live subtitling for deaf wearers. Series 2 is in production. Gary Rose byline. Available on BBC iPlayer.

Is Amandaland returning for Series 3?

Yes. Amandaland Series 3 has been commissioned by the BBC, with the announcement made on 13 May 2026. The series also won Best Scripted Comedy at the 2026 BAFTA TV Awards. Series 2 concluded on Wednesday 10 June 2026 with Episode 6 "Prom" on BBC One at 9pm. Guest star Rosie Cavaliero appeared as Claire in the finale. The full series is available on BBC iPlayer.

What is Up the Junction and why is it significant?

Up the Junction was a Wednesday Play broadcast on BBC1 on 3 November 1965. It was adapted by Nell Dunn from her short story collection; directed by Ken Loach; produced by James MacTaggart. The play depicted the lives of young working-class women in Battersea. It is particularly remembered for its harrowing back-street abortion sequence, which was filmed with unflinching directness unusual for mainstream television at the time. The play was watched by nearly 10 million viewers on first transmission. It contributed to the public debate that led to the passage of the Abortion Act 1967. BBC Four airs it at 12.25am on Wednesday 10 June 2026, as part of Ken Loach Night ahead of his 90th birthday on 17 June 2026.

Tonight's final word

Wednesday 10 June 2026 is the kind of evening that makes the scheduling decisions visible in a useful way. Three series finales in the same ninety minutes -- Amandaland, The Fortune, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder -- is the television schedule doing something it cannot always manage: providing genuine choice between things that are each worth watching and that cannot be watched simultaneously. Someone is recording two of them. Someone else is watching the football and catching all three on iPlayer tomorrow morning.

The football is England's last argument before the World Cup starts. Thomas Tuchel has had two warm-ups to look at what he has and make his mind up. After tonight, the decisions become fixed in the way that decisions become fixed when they stop being choices and become team sheets. The World Cup proper begins on Thursday -- Mexico v South Africa -- and the country that will have been watching from Orlando will know, tomorrow, that the preparation is over.

BBC Four, later, offers something that the rest of the evening does not: duration. Ken Loach Night is not a package of highlights. It is the kind of broadcast that asks you to sit with a filmmaker's work across sixty years -- to watch The Old Oak in 2023 and then stay up until half past midnight for Up the Junction in 1965, and notice what has changed in the space between them and what has not. That kind of comparative viewing is what late-night BBC Four is for, and it is one of the things that BBC Four does that nothing else on the British schedule does in quite the same way.

Rosie Cavaliero turns up as Claire in the Amandaland finale and almost steals it. Lucy Punch has spent two series building a character precisely calibrated to be un-stealable from, and the fact that tonight's guest very nearly manages it is the episode's most accurate measure of how good the guest performance is. Amandaland won its BAFTA, its Series 3 is commissioned, and tonight's finale ends with a small act of genuine kindness that the series has been careful enough not to force until the moment it has actually been earned. That is good television comedy -- and there is less of it around than there should be.

Check what's on right now, browse tonight's highlights, or find any channel through the full channels list. Yesterday: Tuesday 9 June 2026. Tomorrow: The 2026 FIFA World Cup begins with Mexico v South Africa; Springwatch concludes its Crom Estate run on BBC Two; and The Future with Hannah Fry reaches its sixth and final episode.