TV tonight: the 20-year legacy of Bend It Like Beckham

Bend It Like Beckham: 20 Years On

8pm, BBC Three

For therefore many younger girls within the UK, Gurinder Chadha’s 2002 movie Bend It Like Beckham – nonetheless the highest-grossing soccer movie ever – was a groundbreaking piece of cinema that modified their lives. From difficult the stigma that British-Asian girls who play sport usually face to treating girls’s our bodies as these of athletes as a substitute of sexualising them, devoted followers clarify to journalist Miriam Walker-Khan what its legacy means, whereas Gary Lineker recollects that cameo scene. Hollie Richardson

RHS Chelsea Flower Present 2022

6pm, BBC One

Finest buds: after a digital version in 2020 and a shift to autumn in 2021, the storied backyard present returns to its conventional spring berth. Sophie Raworth and Joe Swift go rooting across the Grand Pavilion and past to seek out probably the most revolutionary designs, whereas Caroline Quentin drops in searching for some yard inspiration. Graeme Advantage

Grace

8pm, ITV

Extra seaside gloom this week for John Simm’s stony-faced detective, as one more physique rises up from the seabed. The sufferer’s rigorously harvested organs lead Grace to consider this was no accident. It’s an successfully chilling season finale, with some angst for his private life thrown in for good measure. Henry Wong

Gentleman Jack

9pm, BBC One

“What’s honest and what’s authorized aren’t all the time the identical bedfellows, Miss Walker.” Authorized proceedings dominate the penultimate episode, in regards to the carve-up of the property. A lot-needed gentle reduction comes through younger architect John Harper (Luke Newberry) and a few familiar-looking Sunday faculty provide lecturers. Ali Catterall

Idris Elba’s Combat Faculty

9pm, BBC Two

Combat night time lastly arrives. Ash, Jess, Chanika and Fin are the final 4 standing and able to enter the ring for his or her first novice bouts. Removed from being nearly throwing punches, the top of their emotional journey is stuffed with weepy moments. HR

Conversations With Buddies

10pm, BBC Three

Tonight’s episode of the Sally Rooney adaptation sees Frances and Bobbi stick with Melissa and Nick at their Croatian villa. An extremely awkward however aesthetically pleasing vacation ensues, filled with longing stares, highway journeys, boozy hookups and a rising pressure between the guests. HR

Movie alternative

Dogman, 1.40am, Channel 4

Marcello (Marcello Fonte) is a meek canine groomer making a small residing in a dilapidated city on the outskirts of Rome, spending high quality time along with his daughter Alida (Alida Baldari Calabria) and dealing some cocaine on the aspect. Nevertheless, he has fallen right into a poisonous friendship with thuggish felony Simoncino (Edoardo Pesce), who entails the pliant man in his more and more harmful enterprises. Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone’s movie is one other nuanced, neo-realist slice of life on the margins, the place small errors can have a cumulatively devastating impact. Simon Wardell

I Am Not a Witch, 1.50am, Film4

This Bafta-winning drama from Zambian-Welsh writer-director Rungano Nyoni is a satirical condemnation of the observe of “witch camps” in some African nations, the place girls (often previous) who're accused of sorcery are detained. Right here, a younger lady, Shula (Maggie Mulubwa) is exploited by the tourism minister Mr Banda (Henry BJ Phiri) for her supposed talents, whereas the opposite captives work the fields, perpetually tied to large spools of ribbon. A heart-tugging combination of comedy and tragedy. SW

Dwell sport

French Open Tennis, 10am, Eurosport 2 The opening day of the match at Roland Garros in Paris. Protection continues all through the week.

Premier League Soccer: Closing Day, 3pm, Sky Sports activities Premier League Protection of all 10 video games, which kick off concurrently at 4pm.

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