TV tonight: Bill Bailey is a brilliant tour guide in Vietnam | Television & radio

TV tonight: Bill Bailey is a brilliant tour guide in Vietnam | Television & radio

Bill Bailey’s Vietnam

7.15pm, Channel 4

Amid a deluge of movie star travelogues, Bill Bailey is truly an entertaining guide as he explores Vietnam (“I’m thinking about a sandwich I had in 1982,” he confesses throughout a meditation). Bailey begins in Hoi An, an historic worldwide buying and selling port, the place he meets Chef Duc – an asylum seeker through the struggle who is now well-known for his meals. Then, it’s time to get a jazzy swimsuit made on the tailor’s in time for the lantern competition. Hollie Richardson

Michael McIntyre’s Big Show

6.45pm, BBC One

In the sequence finale, Jade Thirlwall heroically checks her cellphone in for the Send to All problem (with a shock twist); Love Island’s Tasha Ghouri helps orchestrate a heartwarming Unexpected Star shock, which includes Theatre Royal Drury Lane being remodeled into a prepare station; and British-Italian singer-songwriter Jack Savoretti delivers a soulful reside efficiency. Ali Catterall

The Brit Awards 2026

8.15pm, ITV1

Wolf Alice, Harry Styles and Rosalía are a number of the acts acting at this 12 months’s huge pop night time. Olivia Dean (additionally enjoying reside) and Lola Young have probably the most nominations, and Pulp are up for group of the 12 months – that means Jarvis Cocker’s return for the primary time since interrupting Michael Jackson in 1996. HR

The Roman Empire By Train With Alice Roberts

8.15pm, Channel 4

Prof Alice continues her epic Roman journey with the exploration of an underground resort in Parma. Then it’s on to Turin, the place Italy’s historic love affair with bread started. The carb-loading ought to gas the episode’s last leg: a dramatic prepare journey throughout the Alps. Is this the route that Hannibal as soon as took on elephant-back? Ellen E Jones

Classic Hits in the Piano Room

8.30pm, BBC Two

The newest TV gimmick designed to gull artists into doing a totally different reside model of their largest hits, Radio 2’s Piano Room has been in operation lengthy sufficient to have its personal appreciable again catalogue. This compendium of performances contains Coldplay doing Paradise, Macy Gray reinterpreting I Try, and 10cc’s I’m Not in Love surviving the transition from lush pop to orchestral sweep. Jack Seale

The Walsh Sisters

9.20pm, BBC One

The wit and heat of Marian Keyes’s writing shines by way of this Irish drama about 5 sisters. Anna and her fiance Aidan are in hospital after the automobile accident, forcing Rachel to rethink life and prepare a place at rehab. But when she arrives at Cloisters, she stays adamant that she’s not like the opposite addicts there. HR

Film selection

Bring Her Back, 10.20pm, Sky Cinema Premiere

A horror hit … Bring Her Back on Sky Cinema Premiere. Photograph: THA/Alamy

Danny and Michael Philippou’s grisly follow-up to their hit horror debut Talk to Me options a efficiency of malign nervous vitality from Sally Hawkins that offers you the heebie-jeebies. Not to say a scene involving tooth which will have you ever hiding behind your arms. Hawkins performs Laura, a foster father or mother – and grieving mom – who takes in Billy Barrett’s 17-year-old Andy and his partially sighted youthful stepsister Piper (Sora Wong). She’s already caring for Oliver (an uncanny Jonah Wren Phillips) who doesn’t communicate and is clearly disturbed. What is the far-from-parental Laura as much as (there’s a clue in the title) and why is she notably in Piper? Simon Wardell

A Clockwork Orange, 12.10am, Sky Cinema Greats

From Anthony Burgess’s sharp dystopian novel, Stanley Kubrick crafted a bleakly comedian movie that is concurrently prescient and dated. It’s centred on Alex (a career-defining function for Malcolm McDowell), a younger gang chief who loves “ultraviolence” and Beethoven. The state makes an attempt to rehabilitate him with experimental psychological conditioning – however you possibly can’t maintain a good droog down … The movie’s sexual politics go away a lot to be desired however the 60s stab at futuristic design nonetheless has its charms. Viddy effectively! SW

Live sport

Premier League Football: Bournemouth v Sunderland, 11am, TNT Sports 1 Followed by Leeds v Man City at 5pm on Sky Sports Main Event.

Super League Rugby: Warrington Wolves v Wakefield Trinity, 5.15pm, BBC Two At Halliwell Jones Stadium.

Super League Rugby: Hull Kingston Rovers v Leeds Rhinos, 11.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event The champions Hull KR, led by Elliot Minchella, play away from residence, in Las Vegas.

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