TV tonight: saying goodbye to Neighbours with a nostalgic schmoozefest

Neighbours: The Finale

9pm, Channel 5

Tissues on the prepared. Even when you haven’t watched the teatime cleaning soap in additional than a decade (ahem), tuning in to say goodbye to Ramsay Road with this hour-long particular is a should. All people is there (Charlene and Scott! Jane and Mike! Harold! Toadie! The Kennedys!), and no one appears to have aged a day since arriving on the road. Count on an unapologetically nostalgic schmoozefest filled with flashbacks and reunions – you may name it the right mix. Hollie Richardson

Gardeners’ World

8pm, BBC Two

Have your vegetation taken a beating in the course of the heatwave? Monty Don is available with some scorched-earth insurance policies to assist defend in opposition to drought. Elsewhere, the historian Advolly Richmond learns in regards to the deep-rooted affect of timber in backyard design throughout a go to to the stately residence of Longleat. Graeme Advantage

Vaughan Williams’s Sea Symphony on the Proms

8pm, BBC 4

To mark the a hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s start, RVW interpreter Andrew Manze conducts the BBC Nationwide Orchestra of Wales. First up, items by Doreen Carwithen and Grace Williams set up the oceanic theme. Soloists Elizabeth Llewellyn and Andrew Foster-Williams spherical off the night with Vaughan Williams’s majestic Sea Symphony. Jack Seale

Crystal Clarke, Rose Williams and Rosie Graham in series two, episode two of Sanditon.
Crystal Clarke, Rose Williams and Rosie Graham in collection two, episode two of Sanditon. Photograph: Crimson Planet (Sanditon 2)/Alistair Heap

Jane Austen’s Sanditon

9pm, ITV

Swordplay gone fallacious! Haughty aunts! Gutsy governesses! This resurrected Jane Austen adaptation continues to ship the whole lot a dependable interval drama ought to. Whereas Charlotte (Rose Williams) makes an attempt to show two troublesome ladies, Georgiana (Crystal Clarke) learns unhealthy information from Antigua. HR

8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

9pm, Channel 4

One other collection of the sweary however affectionate Countdown tribute act will get off to a powerful begin with Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont taking over oddball bros Richard Ayoade and Joe Wilkinson. Jimmy Carr is nominally in cost, however when will he crack down on Ayoade plugging his youngsters’s ebook?GV

Canada’s Drag Race

10.30pm, BBC Three

The Canadian queens have had time to dimension one another up and this week it's double bother as they have to display these all‑essential lip-syncing expertise in pairs. There's a deal with for Drag Race diehards, because the one and solely Vanessa “Miss Vanjiiiiie” Mateo lends her visitor judging expertise. Hannah Verdier

Shaolin Soccer.
Stunts and pratfalls … Shaolin Soccer. Photograph: Miramax/Allstar

Movie selection

Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow, 2001) 3.25am, Sky Cinema Cult Classics
Hong Kong film-maker and actor Stephen Chow first got here to world consideration with this gloriously foolish martial arts comedy. Eager to advertise shaolin kung fu, down-on-his-luck Sing – AKA Mighty Metal Leg – together with coach “Golden Leg” Fung, makes use of its specific disciplines to create a soccer workforce of superhumans. He joins his fellow practitioners together with Iron Head, Mild Weight and keeper Lightning Arms, as they tackle Evil Staff (subtlety isn’t on Chow’s radar) in a event of high-wire stunts and slapstick pratfalls. Simon Wardell

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