TV tonight: Sharon D Clarke returns as the formidable DCI Ellis | Television

TV tonight: Sharon D Clarke returns as the formidable DCI Ellis | Television

Ellis

9pm, Channel 5
“It’s all about hiding the evidence in plain sight – it’s a Godfather move.” Sharon D Clarke is again as formidable DCI Ellis, who’s parachuted in to rural northern England to resolve failing circumstances, with DS Chet Harper (Andrew Gower) in tow. Their first homicide is that of a village’s well-respected businessman, but it surely seems that lots of the locals held secret grudges in opposition to him. Hollie Richardson

Sort Your Life Out With Stacey Solomon

8pm, BBC One
More than 1,000 greetings playing cards, 762 trinkets and a set of miniature pigs … Stacey Solomon and the SYLO crew have their work minimize out at the Kings’ house. With dad Gerry coping with early-onset dementia, their compassionate strategy to decluttering is all the extra essential on this tear-jerker. Hannah J Davies

Aldi vs M&S: Battle of the Brands

8pm, Channel 4
Colin the Caterpillar v Cuthbert the Caterpillar is a retail rivalry like no different. It’s now 4 years since Marks & Spencer and Aldi reached a deal in the high court over copycat claims. But right here’s Kate Quilton on a mission to search out out which ones is (unofficially) the greatest grocery store. HR

Europe on the Edge With Katya Adler

9pm, BBC Two
Katya Adler travels by means of Germany, ancestral house of the US president, Donald Trump. With rising safety threats, elevated defence spending and tensions over migration and the far proper, it’s a rustic “uneasy in its own skin … unsure of who or what to be”. Later, in Barcelona, she encounters National Day of Catalonia – and a rustic nonetheless very a lot divided. Ali Catterall

The Summit

9pm, ITV1
Only six climbers stay now as the adventurers enter the remaining levels of their epic, tetchy, probably profitable climb. And anticipate the contenders to skinny out additional as incessant game-player Dockers tries to type a secret group. When some chocolate goes lacking, this constructing stress threatens to blow up. Phil Harrison

Storyville: Mistress Dispeller

10pm, BBC Four

Extraordinarily candid and uncooked … Storyville: Mistress Dispeller Photograph: BBC/Elizabeth Lo/ Emma D Miller/Maggie Li

“In China, people who discover their spouse is cheating can hire professionals to break up the affair,” reads the opening to this hanging movie, which fits on to observe the real-life case of a “mistress dispelling”. As nicely as being terribly candid and uncooked, it tells the wider story of a altering society. HR

Film alternative

I Swear (Kirk Jones, 2025), Netflix

Spirited, important … Robert Aramayo and Maxine Peake in I Swear. Photograph: Graeme Hunter

One factor that has been misplaced in the furore surrounding John Davidson’s outbursts at the Baftas is the movie itself. As a plea for tolerance and understanding, Kirk Jones’s award-winning biopic of Davidson – who has Tourette syndrome – is shifting and persuasive. And in Robert Aramayo it has a lead who throws himself wholeheartedly right into a life that oscillates between desperation and hope, tragedy and comedy. Scott Ellis Watson is his equal taking part in the younger John, who begins to develop tics as a teen and finds his life falling aside. Maxine Peake and Peter Mullan, as the two mentors who assist him see his potential, add lustre to a spirited and important watch. Simon Wardell

Live sport

Cheltenham pageant racing 12.45pm, ITV1. Day one options seven races.

Champions League soccer Newcastle v Barcelona, 6.30pm, Prime Video. Galatasaray v Liverpool, 5pm, TNT Sports 1, adopted by Atlético Madrid v Tottenham, 7.45pm.

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