TV tonight: Sally Rooney’s much-hyped Conversations With Friends is here

Conversations With Buddies

10pm, BBC Three

Frances and Bobbi (Alison Oliver and Sasha Lane) are college students in Dublin who, after acting at a spoken phrase evening, are befriended by celebrated writer Melissa and her “trophy” actor husband Nick (Jemima Kirke and Joe Alwyn). They rapidly embark on a fancy ménage à quatre, with Frances and Nick – the quieter two of the pack – quickly forming a relationship. By way of plot, this 12-part adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel is just about an affair. However it's the Rooney-verse particulars – tightly-packed dialogue, observations on class, progress and identification, and an limitless house for intimacy – that at all times make her well-studied characters get underneath the pores and skin. Hollie Richardson

The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Celebration

8pm, ITV

For causes that aren’t altogether clear, Tom Cruise leads the all-star invoice of this Windsor Fortress-based bonanza – the primary reside occasion to be broadcast as a part of the jubilee celebrations. Cruise will host one of many 4 performances, which collectively promise to take us on a “gallop by way of historical past” – together with Helen Mirren’s flip as Queen Elizabeth I. Katherine Jenkins, Ant and Dec, Mo Farah and David Jason may also participate on this very odd however undoubtedly entertaining evening. HR

Gentleman Jack

9pm, BBC One

Anne and Ann’s standing at Shibden Corridor continues to attract warmth; from an “idiotic” marriage announcement within the Halifax Guardian to feedback from “tiresome, inarticulate males”, together with these nearer to dwelling. “Persons are laughing at us,” frets Ann, who later drops a bombshell revelation. Ali Catterall

Idris Elba’s Battle Faculty

9pm, BBC Two

Faces drop when the novice boxers discover out who they’ll be up towards at subsequent week’s struggle evening in east London’s famend York Corridor. Earlier than then, they head dwelling to see family and friends, returning to show to Elba that they’re prepared (or not) to get within the ring. HR

Das Boot

9pm, Sky Atlantic

Season three of the German drama breaks the floor of televisual waters like a brooding U-612, because the crew are ordered on a treacherous mission to the southern hemisphere underneath the command of Robert Ehrenberg. In the meantime in Lisbon, Hagen Forster uncovers a plot to steal plundered wartime loot – however is his conscience getting the higher of him? AC

Walter Presents: The King of Warsaw

11pm, Channel 4

Polish Peaky Blinders, anybody? Primarily based on Szczepan Twardoch’s novel, this pacy drama follows the usually brutal machinations of gang life in pre-second world conflict Poland. The main focus is an influence battle for management of a mafia-style syndicate however there’s a political edge too, with fascists, socialists and Jews scrapping it out and wider European battle looming. Phil Harrison

Movie selections

Peculiar Love, 10pm, BBC Two

Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville in Ordinary Love.
Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville in Peculiar Love. Photograph: TIFF

Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn’s devastating drama is a masterpiece of statement. Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson play a pair who discover themselves examined when she is recognized with breast most cancers. Whereas most cancers movies can err on the melodramatic – or worse, the schematic, utilizing the sickness as shorthand for character motivation – Peculiar Love by no means as soon as takes its eye off the ball. In case you’ve by no means been by way of something like this, you’ll empathise. However when you have, you'll recognise your self, and that’s the absolute best praise to provide. Stuart Heritage

Louis Theroux: My Scientology Film,11:25pm, BBC Two

Now that he’s a newly minted TikTok rapper, it may be the fitting time to look again at one in all Theroux’s most bold endeavours. After many years on TV, his first theatrically-released documentary was designed to pitch him straight into the darkish coronary heart of an notorious faith. If the aim was for Theroux to disassemble Scientology from the within, it isn’t a spoiler to say that the movie was a failure. However as a have a look at one man struggling to land a punch on an intangibly sinister organisation, it ranks amongst Theroux’s finest. SH

Cop Automotive,2:15am, Horror Channel

With Spider-Man: No Means House turning into such a sensation this 12 months, it’s nonetheless faintly miraculous to keep in mind that, pre-Spidey, the one movie Jon Watts ever directed was Cop Automotive. It’s as small and spare a movie as you possibly can think about – two bored children steal a police automobile deserted by a corrupt sheriff, and are compelled to outwit his makes an attempt at vengeance – however the consideration to element is second to none. Even higher, because the evil officer, it options one in all Kevin Bacon’s all-time-greatest performances. SH

Dwell sport

British Touring Automotive Championships, 11am, ITV4 Dwell protection of the fourth race from Manufacturers Hatch Indy Circuit.

Premier League Soccer: West Ham v Man Metropolis, 2pm, Sky Sports activities Fundamental Occasion From the London Stadium, with Man Metropolis enjoying to win the Premier League title.

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