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Unacceptable

9pm, TLC

“We should pay the royals more,” Romesh Ranganathan puts to the audience in this edgy new panel show, where two teams battle it out for the most votes in favour of their outrageous opinions. Is he saying it just to get an OBE? “The last thing my name needs is more letters.” With Ed Gamble hosting and Richard Ayoade and Joanne McNally as team captains, the results are very funny – and always close to making you wince. Hollie Richardson

Countryfile

6pm, BBC Two

Anita Rani embarks on a four-part English east coast trip, starting on the remote Northey Island in Essex’s Blackwater Estuary. It’s a refuge for lapwings, curlews and ringed plovers, but rising sea levels are threatening their habitats. Could retired Thames barges help? Rani meets the volunteers. HR

Border Force: America’s Gatekeepers

7pm, U&Dave

This documentary drama was first broadcast on Channel 4 in 2025, but it hits differently now. It certainly makes for on-the-nose viewing – as US border control has been explicitly racialised by the Maga administration, viewers today might question whose side they’re on: the officers in Texas and Mexico or the accused. Priya Elan

Grand Ole Opry: Opry Live

7pm, Sky Arts

To Nashville, where the most famous stage in country music has been celebrating 100 years of live shows. Over an hour of highlights, enjoy music from the genre’s top performers including Jelly Roll, Lanie Gardner and Marcus King. HR

The Rite of Spring: Inside Classical

8pm, BBC Four

In 1913, Igor Stravinsky sent heads spinning with the debut of his audacious The Rite of Spring. The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra perform the piece at Manchester Aviva Studios, hoping to again stir the audience – just maybe not as aggressively. Calm follows in the form of Grammy award-winning composer Jessie Montgomery’s Chemiluminescence. HR

Iris Prize Best British Shorts

3.25am, Channel 4

Luke Wintour’s punchy period piece Sweetheart is set in a London molly house in 1723, where queer men sought companionship and sexual freedom. This 18-minute short was nominated for LGBTQ+ film award the Iris prize in 2025 and – if you’re not up at 3am – is, of course, streaming on Channel 4’s website. HJD

Film choice

Tombstone, 9pm, Film4

This tough-talking 1990s western is one of several movies to retell events surrounding the legendary Gunfight at the OK Corral, when Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) and his deputised lawmen attempted to disarm a gang of cattle rustlers in the saloon town of Tombstone, Arizona. But what sets this version apart from all the others is a scene-stealing turn from Val Kilmer as sickly souse Doc Holliday, a brief-but-brilliant voiceover narration from the great Robert Mitchum, and several of the most tremendous ’taches this side of the Rio Grande. Ellen E Jones

Blade Runner, 10pm, BBC Two

Los Angeles, 2019. The permanent neo-noir night. It’s the job of cop turned bounty hunter Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) to track down and “retire” rogue replicants. But what if Rick can’t tell the humans from their bioengineered counterparts? Ridley Scott’s 1982 film was a relative flop on first release, but is now widely considered among the greatest sci-fi films of all time. This 2007-issued “final cut” blends influences as disparate as German expressionism, Italian futurism and “Hong Kong on a very bad day” into a visually iconic whole. EEJ

Live sport

Formula One Racing: British Grand Prix, 2.30pm, Channel 4 George Russell aims to follow up his Austrian GP win with victory at Silverstone.

Women’s World T20 Cricket, 5pm, Sky Sports Main Event The final at Lord’s in London.

World Cup Football: Mexico v England, midnight, BBC One The fourth round-of-16 match, which takes place at Mexico City Stadium. Kick-off at 1am.