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Hollie Richardson, Ellen E Jones, Alexi Duggins and Phil Harrison

TV tonight: Wimbledon coverage looks a little bit different this year

Elena Rybakina playing tennis
Elena Rybakina winning the ladies’ singles at Wimbledon last year; can she do it again? Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

Today at Wimbledon

9pm, BBC Two

While retired Sue Barker hands the golden racket to Clare Balding to host live coverage of this year’s tennis tournament, the nightly highlights over the next two weeks come from Qasa Alom. It starts with the first round of the men’s and ladies’ singles matches, which will see Novak Djokovic and Elena Rybakina start their journey to defend their championship titles. Hollie Richardson

RSC: All’s Well That Ends Well

8pm, Sky Arts

A chance to see Blanche McIntyre’s 2022 production of Shakespeare’s dark comedy, in what the RSC calls its “most ambitious stage-to-screen adaptation to date”. Rosie Sheehy is ruthless romantic Helena, whose determined, cameraphone-captured pursuit of the indifferent Bertram (Benjamin Westerby) reveals modern resonances of this 400-year-old play. Ellen E Jones

Long Lost Family

9pm, ITV1

Series 13 of Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell’s attempt to reunite blood relatives opens with an ex-amateur boxer who was taken into care when he was “put out with the rubbish” as a two-week-old baby. He’s joined by an adoptee who recently discovered that his birth parents had two other children that they kept. Alexi Duggins

Davina McCall presents Series 13 of Long Lost Family with Nicky Campbell
Davina McCall presents Series 13 of Long Lost Family with Nicky Campbell. Photograph: ITV/REX/Shutterstock

The Righteous Gemstones

9pm, Sky Comedy

The bleakly funny televangelist comedy continues to feel more like a Netflix true-crime series. Baby Billy (Walton Goggins) makes an unkeepable promise while Danny McBride’s Jesse prepares to be initiated into a secret society – which will clearly open the door to even more clandestine debauchery. Phil Harrison

The Idol

9pm, Sky Atlantic

It might be the biggest dud of the year, but it’s also the most hotly debated – from its reliance on torture porn to the Weeknd’s awful acting and Lily-Rose Depp’s slim ciggies. The last knife twist is that this week’s finale means the series’ original six-episode commission has been cut down. HR

We Hunt Together

10.40pm, BBC One

The sordid crime thriller with mismatched cops on a murder case continues. “It’s quite exciting isn’t it?” Freddy purrs to co-killer Baba after sex. “Waiting for that knock at the door.” But will she keep her cool when that knock comes? HR

Live sport

Tennis: Wimbledon, 10.30am, BBC Two Coverage of the opening day from the All England Club. Will Carlos Alcaraz (above) be able to snatch the title from Novak Djokovic?

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