Stevie Nicks: Rock a Little
8.15pm, Sky Arts
A must-watch for Nicks followers, right here’s the recording of her 1986 live performance held on the Purple Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. Fleetwood Mac bandmate Mick Fleetwood and singer-songwriter Peter Frampton be a part of her on stage for a set, with hits together with Desires, Fringe of Seventeen, Leather-based and Lace, and Rhiannon. Hollie Richardson
Gardeners’ World
7.30pm, BBC Two
With extra gardeners saving cash by rising meals, Monty Don types out some dinner staples: rocket is sown, whereas it’s time to reap tomatoes and chillies. Elsewhere, Frances Tophill visits a London haven the place sustainable gardening is paramount.Jack Seale
Gaming Music on the Proms
8pm, BBC 4
Giving video-game music its lengthy overdue time within the highlight, an electronically expanded Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performs the scores of Last Fantasy VIII, Kingdom Hearts and Battlefield 2042 on the Royal Albert Corridor. HR
Jane Austen’s Sanditon
9pm, ITV
“I lay awake all night time,” coos a glowing Alison (Rosie Graham). “Since dancing with Captain Carter I can not eat or sleep for pondering of him.” It’s a pity she’s oblivious to the truth that her captain (Maxim Ays) is wooing her below false pretences. By no means thoughts: she has additionally caught the eye of one other officer …HR
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
9pm, Channel 4
So profitable has this Countdown spin-off been that Jimmy Carr has sat beneath that big clock for longer than any precise host of the present correct, bar Richard Whiteley. Its addictively foolish strategy to numeracy and literacy will tonight stem from Alan Carr, Harriet Kemsley, Jonathan Ross and Maisie Adam. Alexi Duggins
Canada’s Drag Race
10.30pm, BBC Three
One other providing of roughly a billion Drag Race spin-offs, our Canadian cousins have just a few issues going for them. Tonight: a conflict-filled werkroom, Girl Increase Increase’s boom-boom and that common air of scrappy dedication.Ellen E Jones
Movie selection
13 Lives (Ron Howard, 2022), Amazon Prime Video
The plain information behind Ron Howard’s new movie are extraordinary, even with out their dramatisation. In 2018, 12 boys and their soccer coach turned trapped by flood waters in a cave system in Thailand. Because the monsoon threatened, a world operation – together with Thai Navy Seals and two UK cave rescuers – struggled to avoid wasting them. To his credit score, Howard tells the story with a minimal of fuss; the uptick in rigidity as the times cross and the intense claustrophobia of the underwater scenes are sufficient to make it gripping. There's star wattage from Colin Farrell and Viggo Mortensen because the British divers, however they're admirably understated, and the Thai folks concerned are given their due, too. Simon Wardell
The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953) 1.50pm, BBC Two
The age-gap romance between Fred Astaire’s on-the-slide
“song-and-dance man” Tony and Cyd Charisse’s ballet dancer Gabrielle isn’t the classiest of strikes, however this Vincente Minnelli-directed MGM musical continues to be one of many nice putting-on-a-show movies. The fraught creation of a modern-day Broadway remake of Faust is tempered by jolly songs corresponding to That’s Leisure and Triplets, and the jazzy, movie noir-spoofing dance piece Lady Hunt Ballet. Evidently, the hoofing is top-notch, with Charisse giving Astaire a run for his cash. SW
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron, 1991), 10.45pm, ITV
Simply as he did with Aliens, James Cameron took a cult basic – this time his personal The Terminator – and blew it up. Greater motion sequences, higher particular results (Robert Patrick’s liquifying T-1000 was a gamechanger) and a relatable mother-child setup, plus Arnold Schwarzenegger flipping to the great aspect, make his 1991 sequel a incredible watch to at the present time. Linda Hamilton, pumped up and intense, returns to guard her son (Edward Furlong) from a cyborg killer from the longer term. Arnie is, nicely, Arnie – making a advantage of his expressionless robotic character. SW
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