TV tonight: tributes to Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II – The Longest Reign

8.30pm, ITV

As a part of the protection following the Queen’s loss of life, Jonathan Dimbleby presents this tribute, charting her historic 70-year reign. By archive, the characteristic size documentary exhibits the position that Elizabeth performed in all areas of her life, together with at house and on the worldwide stage. Hollie Richardson

Passion Man

8pm, Channel 4

In his final try to discover a interest this season, Alex Brooker invitations Andi Oliver to Yorkshire. They present a stunning quantity of enthusiasm at York’s Nationwide Rail Museum, then head over to the Yorkshire Gliding Membership close to Thirsk – the place Oliver declares: “That was among the best issues I’ve ever achieved!” HR

Fish tales … Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse.
Fish tales … Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse. Photograph: Owl TV/BBC

Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing

9pm, BBC Two

The rod squad – Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer – returns for a fifth season. In tonight’s opener, they journey to the River Exe in Devon searching for the grilse, often known as the “summer season silver”. HR

Gogglebox

9pm, Channel 4

Celebrities are all very effectively, however nobody calls it like it's higher than the couch savants of Gogglebox’s authentic, unusual people. Collection 20 sees the return of favourites such because the Siddiqui household and Lee and Jenny, after Jenny’s hospital keep. Welcome again previous pals. Ellen E Jones

Canada’s Drag Race

9pm, BBC Three

Poutine on the glitz: season three of the Canadian RuPaul spin-off reaches its climax, with ice-hockey Olympic gold medallist Sarah Nurse on board as visitor decide. The queens are tasked with writing and recording their very own verse for a very fierce remix of the nationwide anthem. Graeme Advantage

Munich Video games

9pm, Sky Atlantic

This month marks 50 years because the Palestinian terrorist group Black September killed 12 individuals on the 1972 Munich Olympic Video games. On this multi-language, six-part political thriller, a pleasant soccer match between an Israeli and a German crew is deliberate to commemorate the assault. Nevertheless, this prompts one other menace of terrorism. Mossad agent Oren Simon (Yousef “Joe” Sweid) groups up with no-nonsense German police officer Maria Köehler (Seyneb Saleh) to hint who has been making cyber threats. From the off, tonight’s double invoice is full of pressure, distrust and motion – with a bonus pinch of raunch. HR

Martin Compston’s Scottish Fling

9.30pm, BBC Two

A brand new collection by which Line of Responsibility’s Martin Compston and pal Phil MacHugh take a street journey round Scotland, beginning with a journey alongside the west coast: loopy golf and ice-cream within the seaside city of Dunoon, cliff-jumping on the Knoydart peninsula and the “final selfie” in Loch Lomond. Ali Catterall

Movie alternative

Nicole Kidman and Jude Law in Cold Mountain.
Real love … Nicole Kidman and Jude Regulation in Chilly Mountain. Photograph: Cattleya Movies/Allstar

Chilly Mountain (Anthony Minghella, 2003), 8pm, Sky Cinema Greats
Anthony Minghella nailed the type of epic drama that was frequent Hollywood foreign money with this 2003 historic romance. Jude Regulation performs Inman, a Accomplice soldier who deserts to return to his real love, Ada (Nicole Kidman), in North Carolina’s Appalachians. A well-off preacher’s daughter, Ada struggles to work her farm alone after her father’s loss of life, till the no-nonsense Ruby (a boisterous, Oscar-winning Renée Zellweger) turns as much as set her proper. A movie of luxurious landscapes and sweeping feelings, with distinct Homeric overtones. Simon Wardell

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