On TV tonight, Lee Mack faces more mishaps in Not Going Out season 13, there's more drama on the way in Riches, The Capture's Ben Chanan has penned Then You Run, a new drama for Sky Max, and Disney has remastered a series of classic animated shorts to mark 100 Years of Disney. Here's what you shouldn't miss on TV Tonight.
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What's on TV tonight
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Best TV shows on TV tonight
Not Going Out season 13, 9 pm, BBC One/iPlayer (box set)
Lee (Lee Mack) has three free tickets to a theme park and plans to treat Lucy (Sally Bretton) and daughter Mollie (Francesca Newman) to a fun day out. There’s just one problem – he needs permission from Mollie’s stern head teacher, Miss Anstis (Benidorm’s Selina Griffiths), as it means taking a day off school. Faced with the prickly principal, Lee lies about a dental appointment, and so begins a rollercoaster battle of wits. Unamused, Miss Anstis is determined to catch Lee out, while he thinks it’s fair game to go to extremes to cover his tracks… with a piece of string, a doorknob and Mollie’s wobbly tooth!
★★★ ER
100 Years of Disney, Disney Plus
The House of Mouse is 100 this year. To help celebrate its pioneering place in cinema history is this collection of restored short films featuring early characters such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Disney’s first star. There are 28 shorts in total, a handful being released every month. Today’s little gems include two Goofy-led animations, Goofy Gymnastics and Aquamania, and 1929’s technically accomplished The Skeleton Dance, a Silly Symphony set to the music of Edvard Grieg.
★★★★ NT
Riches, 9 pm, ITV1/ITVX (box set)
Then You Run, 9 pm, Sky Max/NOW (box set)
Writer Ben Chanan took us on a nail-biting journey into the world of CCTV espionage with the BBC series The Capture, and he’ll be looking for similar results in this new eight-parter beginning tonight. An adaptation of Zoran Drvenkar’s thriller novel You, the tale follows Tara (Leah McNamara) and her three pals, whose summer holiday in Rotterdam takes a very different turn when Tara discovers that her estranged father is dead and her uncle is a drug lord. After making off with three kilos of his heroin and with a thirst for answers, the teenagers cut a swathe across Europe in a pacy multi-genre series that’s part coming-of-age drama, part crime caper.
★★★★ SMA
Best box set on TV tonight
Season three – split into two, with five episodes released today, and three on 27 July – finds monster-hunting hero Geralt (Henry Cavill) joining forces with Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) to protect Princess Ciri (Freya Allan) from the monsters, mages and monarchs plotting to capture her. But when Yennefer shows Ciri how to harness her powers and leads her and Geralt to the fortress of Aretuza, the trio become cornered by dark magic… Hugh Skinner joins the cast as King Vizimir’s playboy brother Prince Radovid, while Cavill bows out this season, leaving Liam Hemsworth to take over as Geralt.
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Best film on TV tonight
When bank manager Owen (Pitch Perfect’s Adam Devine) meets the parents of his fiancée Parker (Nina Dobrev) for the first time, he drunkenly lets slip some crucial security secrets to Billy (Pierce Brosnan) and Lilly (Ellen Barkin). The very next day, Owen’s bank is robbed by the infamous Ghost Bandits – who he’s convinced are really Billy and Lilly! Parker refuses to believe her parents are felons – but when she’s kidnapped by an old rival of the Bandits, Owen and her parents must combine their skills to pull off the ultimate heist to raise the money for her ransom…
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Soaps
- Emmerdale, 7.30 pm, ITV1
- Coronation Street, 8 pm, ITV1
- Hollyoaks, 6.30 pm, Channel 4
- Home and Away, 6 pm, 5Star
Live Sport
- Wimbledon 2023, from 11 am, BBC One/BBC Two
- The Ashes 2023, from 10.15 am, Sky Sports Main Event
If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…
Don't miss Not Going Out on TV tonight.
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