TV tonight: Richard Gadd’s hard hitting follow-up to Baby Reindeer | Television

TV tonight: Richard Gadd’s hard hitting follow-up to Baby Reindeer | Television

Half Man

10.40pm, BBC One
Richard Gadd’s follow-up to Baby Reindeer comes to common telly, having premiered on iPlayer final week. Mitchell Robertson and Stuart Campbell are each very good as weak Niall and violent Ruben, a duo of Eighties schoolboys. We flash ahead to glimpse Jamie Bell and Gadd himself enjoying them as adults – who’re about to kind a poisonous lifelong bond. Jack Seale

Michael Portillo in Stockholm

7pm, Channel 5
Meatballs, schnapps, saunas … if this Swedish travelogue feels slightly overfamiliar, it is likely to be as a result of it has been thriftily recycled from Portillo’s earlier Euro-hopping Long Weekends sequence. In any case, the inquisitive Tory grandee is reliably chummy firm and sports activities gadgets from a startling yellow wardrobe. Graeme Virtue

Interior Design Masters With Alan Carr

8pm, BBC One
Romantic weekend in a medieval citadel, anybody? Alan’s second process for his designers is to make love nests at Peckforton Castle in Cheshire. Nobody’s creativeness runs too wild – which is an effective job, as a result of visitor choose Linda Boronkay has elegant style. Hollie Richardson

Our Welsh Chapel Dream

8pm, Channel 4
The transformation of the courtyard and visitor bed room is full. Now, Keith Brymer Jones and Marj Hogarth put together to flip the chapel’s Sunday college corridor right into a pottery studio. Meanwhile, Keith has a major birthday arising, and the celebrations embrace Welsh gin, a 50-strong male voice choir – and a novel cowl of a Talking Heads tune. AC

MasterChef

9pm, BBC One

Cooking up a storm … judges Anna Haugh and Grace Dent. Photograph: BBC/Shine TV

The heats proceed with an keen new bunch. Yuvi has undentable confidence and prepares duck 3 ways, however manufacturing facility employee Tony’s methods with pork are sixfold. The apron cook-off (fishfinger sandwiches) is wonderful carnage, and the Grace Dent lyricism is plentiful, the spotlight being her description of a solitary boiled egg as a “visiting dignitary”. Lucinda Everett

Better Date Than Never

9pm, BBC Three
A double invoice of the mild Aussie documentary about first-time daters from the makers of Love on the Spectrum. Charles struggles with small speak, and Olivia is immediately taken with a fellow Taylor Swift fan. Elsewhere, Liv is already planning her wedding ceremony – although she is but to discover the groom. Hannah J Davies

Film alternative

Small Things Like These (Tim Mielants, 2024), Netflix

Haunted … Zara Devin as Sarah Raymond and Cillian Murphy as Bill Furlong. Photograph: Lionsgate/PA

Adapted by Enda Walsh from Claire Keegan’s novel, Tim Mielants’s heart-rending drama comes at Ireland’s Magdalene laundries scandal from a extra home angle to different campaigning movies, however is not any much less devastating. Cillian Murphy makes use of that haunted visage of his to nice impact as Eighties coal service provider Bill Furlong, the son of an single mom and the daddy of 5 daughters. The brutal therapy of ladies at a convent the place he makes deliveries ignites his compassion, however he butts up in opposition to the neighborhood’s omertà within the face of the church’s energy. Simon Wardell

Live sport

Champions League soccer: PSG v Bayern Munich, 7pm, Prime Video The semi-final first-leg tie.

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