TV tonight: from Charli xcx to Cat Burns, who will win this year’s Mercury prize? | Television & radio




Mercury Prize 2024: Album of the Year

8pm, BBC Four
A sense of mounting disarray surrounds the music awards this year – expect a scaled-down event at Abbey Road studios (no sponsor has been forthcoming) and the usual sense of mild confusion about what exactly is being celebrated. The do is being filmed and broadcast live, with this year’s leading contenders including Charli xcx (for the summer-defining Brat), Corinne Bailey Rae (for Black Rainbows), Cat Burns (above, for Early Twenties) and Beth Gibbons (for Lives Outgrown). Annie Macmanus and Huw Stephens host the ceremony. Phil Harrison

Don’t Hate Your House With the Property Brothers

8pm, U&W
With fewer people moving house, this series gets people to fall back in love with their homes. In the first show, property whiz twins Drew and Jonathan Scott help sweet-natured parents Herme and Angie transform their kitchen and living space to accommodate their ageing family. Nicole Vassell

Michael Mosley: Wonders of the Human Body

Poignant … Michael Mosley in Wonders of the Human Body. Photograph: Storyboard Studios

8pm, Channel 5
It is poignant to see the late Michael Mosley in his element, making health knowledge accessible, in the last episode of this series. His knack of putting himself at the centre of health experiments shines bright as he explains what is going on inside the human body. This time, he swallows a “pill camera” to show his intestines. Hannah Verdier

Who Do You Think You Are?

9pm, BBC One
The former EastEnders actor, Strictly Come Dancing winner and deaf rights campaigner Rose Ayling-Ellis dives into her family history. She starts with her great-great-great grandmother – a Birmingham pub owner, whom the actor imagines was like Peggy Mitchell, the erstwhile landlady of the Old Vic. But what was her real story? Hollie Richardson

Emma Willis: Delivering Babies

9pm, U&W
Willis is so warm and relatable as she trains to be a maternity support worker that it’s easy to forget she is a celebrity. After 18 months away from the hospital, she is straight into action, supporting a woman whose labours are speedy, and admits to feeling like “the most amateur person” in the operating theatre. HV

Couples Therapy

10pm, BBC Two
A throuple walk into Dr Orna Guralnik’s therapy room to kick off the fourth season of this addictive fly-on-the-wall series. Aryn joined Josh and Lorena’s relationship six years in and the trio are navigating polyamory. Then we meet Rex and Joey, who have been married for 10 months – despite Joey hiding the relationship from her mother for six years. HR

Film choice

Jim Lovell in an image from Apollo 13: Survival, Peter Middleton’s documentary on the near-disastrous space mission. Photograph: Courtesy of Netflix

Apollo 13: Survival (Peter Middleton, 2024), Netflix
Apollo 13 has been the subject of a fictional treatment, courtesy of Ron Howard and Tom Hanks, but the crew recordings in Peter Middleton’s documentary give this take on the near-disastrous 1970 Nasa moon mission a level of tension it is hard to recreate. “Houston, we’ve had a problem,” says the lead astronaut, Jim Lovell, matter-of-factly, as he, his fellow crew and mission control deal with an explosion 200,000 miles from home. The effect on the families is not forgotten as the survival time ticks down. Simon Wardell



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Posted: 2024-09-05 06:41:52

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