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Entertainment
Hollie Richardson, Jack Seale, Phil Harrison, Hannah Verdier and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: the original rock stars of rap tell the story of Run DMC

Kings from Queens: The Run DMC Story.
Kings from Queens: The Run DMC Story. Photograph: Peacock

Kings from Queens: The Run DMC Story

9pm, Sky Documentaries

The original rock stars of rap, who achieved the first platinum hip-hop album, get a three-part documentary charting their story. Run and DMC tell their tale themselves, more than 20 years after Jam Master Jay’s murder, starting from the very beginning when they met on the streets of Hollis in Queens and, like everybody else in the neighbourhood, bought two turntables and a microphone. Hollie Richardson

Changing Ends

9pm, ITV1

Northampton, 1987. For 11-year-old Alan Carr, his Saturday nights are a world of Findus Crispy Pancakes and watching TV wrestling with his beloved mum. Oliver Savell is back playing the young comedian (wonderfully so) in this semi-autobiographical comedy-drama, as his mum forces him to watch Platoon at the cinema with the other underage kids. HR

Jay Blades: The West End Through Time

9pm, Channel 5

Jay Blades takes us to the West End in a two-part history tour. He starts with the 2006 discovery of a Roman sarcophagus at St Martin-in-the-Fields church, then learns how the Savoy Hotel was stormed by people from the East End in the second world war. HR

End of Summer

9pm, BBC Four

The superior Swedish thriller continues, delving deeper into its characters’ complex psyches. The aftermath of Billy’s disappearance reveals much about hardman Harald and hesitant cop Månsson. Meanwhile, there’s a surprising but effective deployment of Lionel Richie on the soundtrack. Jack Seale

High Country

9.10pm, BBC One

A sturdy if generic crime drama set in the alpine region of Australia. The premise feels familiar: city cop Andie Whitford (Leah Purcell) is sent to police a remote region with its own unique challenges. When she arrives, she finds an abandoned car and learns worrying facts about its driver. Phil Harrison

Tom Allen: Completely

10pm, ITV1

Allen is your lovable host of extra slices of Bake Off and The Apprentice, but now he returns to his standup roots for this memoir-like show. His biggest news is that he’s finally moved out of the family home, so he has plenty of acerbic anecdotes about his vegetable patch and inviting friends with kids to dinner. Hannah Verdier

Film choice

Typist Artist Pirate King, out now, Netflix

Carol Morley’s sensitive but very funny biographical drama about forgotten British artist Audrey Amiss has an animated performance by Monica Dolan that is one of the best in recent years. Amiss was a talented painter whose mental health problems put paid to her career. We meet her in middle age, as she inveigles her social worker, Sandra Panza (Kelly Macdonald), into a quixotic road trip to a gallery that will exhibit her work. Along the way, Amiss’s delusional outbursts reveal her past – a fraught process that Morley leavens with raucous humour. Simon Wardell

Munich, 7.15am, 2.25pm, Sky Cinema Greats

Following the terrorist killing of 11 Israelis at the 1972 Munich Olympics, spy agency Mossad set up a covert operation to assassinate the Palestinians responsible. In 2005, Steven Spielberg turned that revenge plot into a tense political thriller, with agent Avner Kaufman (Eric Bana) leading a group (played by Daniel Craig and Ciarán Hinds among others) in a deadly pursuit. But it’s not all espionage thrills – the murky morality of their actions, in an era when every country had their violent activists, becomes a nagging doubt in their minds. SW

School of Rock, 6.45pm, E4

For those about to rock … Director Richard Linklater and The White Lotus creator Mike White are the cool kids behind this gold-star family comedy. It’s a powerhouse vehicle for Jack Black, never more ebullient as self-aggrandising but penniless rock guitarist Dewey Finn, who poses as a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school. Realising his pupils have musical talent but lack confidence, he decides to get a group together for a battle of the bands concert, while educating them in the finer points of rock history, power stances and sticking it to the Man. SW

Live sport

Tennis: Wimbledon, 11am, BBC Two The women’s singles final and the women’s wheelchair singles final take place. Coverage continues on BBC One from 1pm.

International Rugby Union: New Zealand v England, 7.30am, Sky Sports Main Event The second and final Test at Eden Park, Auckland. Followed by Australia v Wales at 10.30am and South Africa v Ireland at 3.45pm.

Men’s Test Cricket: England v West Indies, 10.15am, Sky Sports Cricket The fourth day of the first Test in the three-match series at Lord’s.

Cycling: Tour de France, 11.30am, Eurosport 1/ITV4 Stage 14, a 151.9km route from Pau to Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla d’Adet.

Women’s T20 Cricket: England v New Zealand, 6.15pm, Sky Sports Main Event The fourth T20 in the five-match series at the Oval, London.

• This article was amended on 15 July 2024 as an earlier version incorrectly listed the Wimbledon men’s finals instead of the women’s.

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