The Witchfinder
10pm, BBC Two
Daisy Might Cooper and Tim Key in a interval comedy from the writers behind This Time With Alan Partridge? Sure please! Secret is an unbearable and failing witch-hunter in 1645, who sees a possibility to climb to the highest of his recreation with a suspected witch (the reliably uncouth and deadpan Cooper). He carts her throughout the nation to go on trial and, over six episodes, they encounter comedy stars together with Jessica Hynes, Julian Barratt and Allan Mustafa alongside the way in which.Hollie Richardson
The Conductor
8pm, Sky Arts
When she was 9, Marin Alsop noticed Leonard Bernstein conduct an orchestra in New York and selected her path in life. Utilizing music carried out by Alsop, this documentary charts her outstanding journey to the highest of the classical music world, monitoring her large achievements within the face of institutional sexism. Phil Harrison
This Is Going to Harm
9pm, BBC One
It’s breaking level for the medical doctors. Adam rounds up colleagues to attend his doomed engagement celebration whereas coping with a betrayal near house, and Shruti goes heavy on the alcohol the night time earlier than her examination. Adam’s cold-as-ice mom additionally makes a return. Sammy Gecsoyler
Rock Until We Drop
9pm, BBC Two
Martin Kemp and Woman Leshurr proceed on the helm of this heartwarming ode to late bloomers. Tonight, the ageing rockers type two bands and rehearse earlier than their efficiency on the primary stage on the Isle of Wight pageant. Whereas one band struggles to harmonise, the opposite forges forward.SG
The Gilded Age
9pm, Sky Atlantic
Tonight in Julian Fellowes’s interval drama of outdated cash in Nineteenth-century America: a sure Mr Edison activates Manhattan along with his electrical energy show; Bannister plots revenge; and George prepares for a authorized dust-up of his personal. Ali Catterall
Cheaters
9.50pm, BBC One
With its 10-minute-long episodes, intertwining tales and lived-in characters, it’s straightforward to fall for this romantic comedy. Tonight, Zack faces disaster whereas selecting up his dad from the airport, Josh and Fola fail to remain aside and Esther plans a very bleak “sten do” (that’s a hen and stag combo). Henry Wong
Movie selections
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller, 2018), 9pm, Film4
Melissa McCarthy’s magnificently unlikable lead character makes Marielle Heller’s real-life drama a prickly however extremely rewarding watch. Lee Israel is a hard-up, alcoholic author who's struggling to get her biography of actor Fanny Brice commissioned, so resorts to forging letters by well-known useless individuals – and discovers an revenue stream and a real expertise. Richard E Grant has a ball as her deadbeat felony sidekick Jack in a droll story of hubris and greed within the literary world. Simon Wardell
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017), 11.15pm, BBC Two
This 2017 Paul Thomas Anderson masterwork was Daniel Day-Lewis’s sudden swan track as an actor, and his dedication to the function is complete (he even spent a 12 months studying dressmaking in preparation for it). His high-end Fifties clothier, Reynolds Woodcock, finds his obsessively managed world – aided by sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) – thrown off-centre by Alma (Vicky Krieps), a waitress he seduces after which makes an attempt to form right into a pliant muse. The push and pull of her resistance to – and love for – him offers their relationship a twisted energy dynamic as finely detailed as one in every of his outfits. SW
Reside sport
Worldwide Check cricket: West Indies v England1pm, BT Sport 1. Day one of many first Check of three, from Sir Vivian Richards Stadium.
Uefa Champions League soccer: Liverpool v Inter Milan7pm, BT Sport 2. The last-16 second-leg tie at Anfield.
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