There's The British Soap Awards 2025, crime drama Traces arrives on RTÉ One, Tires and Ginny & Georgia return, Classic Movies looks at The Story of Billy Liar, while this week’s Ambulance features an abusive 999 caller . . .
Pick of the Day
The British Soap Awards 2025, 8.00pm, Virgin Media One & UTV
It’s that time of the year again, as Jane McDonald hosts the annual ceremony from London's Hackney Empire, honouring the last 12 months in soap on British TV.
It was an year which saw Helen Worth (below), better known as Coronation Street's Gail Platt, bid farewell to the cobbles after 50 years.
BBC soap EastEnders celebrated its 40th anniversary, Hollyoaks had a dramatic leap into the future, and Emmerdale featured a crash into a frozen lake.
Aside from highlights of those events, guests will present awards across key categories, including those voted for by the UK public - Villain of the Year, Best Comedy Performer, Best Leading Performer, and Best British Soap.
Also up for grabs are Best Dramatic Performance, Best Newcomer, Best Storyline and more. Plus, one star will receive the Outstanding Achievement Award.
New or Returning Shows
Traces, 11.15pm, RTÉ One
Crime drama - previously on Alibi and then BBC One, if it seems familiar - by Amelia Bullmore, based on an original idea by Val McDermid, starring Molly Windsor, Laura Fraser, Martin Compston and Jennifer Spence.
Emma Hedges' return to Dundee to start a new job brings her mother's unsolved murder into sharp focus as she fights to bring the killer to justice.
But before she has the opportunity to make the journey back to her home town, a fatal fire in a nightclub proves ominous.
New to Stream
Tires, Netflix
Season two of this US comedy sees Will (Steven Gerben), the nervous and unqualified heir to an auto repair chain, continue his attempts to turn his father’s business around despite constant torture from his cousin and now employee, Shane (Shane Gillis).
Barracuda Queens, Netflix
This Swedish drama series returns for a second run.
It opens in 2000 and Lollo is back in Stockholm after her studies in Paris.
The rest of the girls have been quite bored, adapting to a normal lifestyle. They all still live at home, but Lollo’s return quickly has them consider moving out.
But how will they find the money to make it happen?
They’ve also promised Lollo’s mother Margareta not to do more robberies. Maybe there are other ways? After all, the girls are professionals and they have really missed that thrill.
They know that there is a lot of money in the art world and for Barracuda Queens nothing seems impossible.
Ginny & Georgia, Netflix
As season 3 of this comedy/drama opens, Georgia has just been arrested for murder during her wedding - ruining her fairy tale ending and putting the spotlight on the Millers like never before.
It's always been Ginny and Georgia against the world, but the world has never come for them quite like it is this time.
Now, Ginny needs to see where she stands when push comes to shove - Is the two of them against the world something Ginny really wants to sign up for?
Don’t Miss
Classic Movies: The Story of Billy Liar, 9.00pm, Sky Arts
Streaming on NOW
This week, film critic Ian Nathan looks at the story behind the celebrated 1963 British New Wave film, Billy Liar.
Starring Tom Courtenay (above, right) as the daydreaming protagonist Billy Fisher and Julie Christie (above, left) as Liz, his free-spirited love interest, the film is seen as some to represent a pivotal moment in British cinema.
Billy lives a humdrum existence in the north of England but hopes to leave it all behind one day for brighter lights elsewhere.
Ambulance, 9.00pm, BBC One
This episode would make you wonder if there’s any hope for the human race.
Instead of the usual accident and emergency matters, it concerns a sexually abusive caller who rings 999 seven times in an hour.
Emergency call coordinator Jude does all he can to stop the caller, but as the abuse is coming from a withheld number, it's impossible to trace the calls.
As a result, Jude has no choice but to support his team as they fall victim to a barrage of constant abuse.
Meanwhile, in south-west London, a call comes in for a patient who has been stabbed in the chest in Croydon.
Working in Wimbledon, crewmates Astrid and Lydia are dispatched to an 85-year-old female with an open ankle fracture after falling down the stairs.
Taskmaster, 9.00pm, Channel 4
The halfway point of this latest run sees the competitive streak start to show in all the contestants.
Sadly, this is mainly at the expense of administrator Alex Horne, who's poked with a snooker cue by Fatiha El-Ghorri, repeatedly dunked by Mathew Baynton and aggressively pursued by a bearded Stevie Martin.
Taskmaster Greg Davies (above) does his best to keep a lid on things as Rosie Ramsey impersonates a teacher and an unhinged Jason Mantzoukas causes havoc in the previously harmonious Taskmaster House.
Marie Antoinette, 9.00pm, BBC Two
As this lavish period drama continues, a high-profile arrest and the leak of the king's new tax plan risks the royal couple's reputation, delighting their enemies, both rivals and republicans. Drama, starring Emilia Schüle and Louis Cunningham.
Ending Today
Britain Under the Nazis: Forgotten Occupation, 8.00pm, Channel 4
Here’s the second and final part of this fascinating documentary recounting the German occupation of the Channel Islands - Guernsey, Jersey and Alderney - during the Second World War.
Two years into the occupation, life under Nazi rule took a darker turn as mass deportations of islanders to German prison camps began.
Thousands of slave workers were brought in to transform the islands into a series of fortresses.
Food supplies ran desperately short, while acts of resistance grow bolder even though resisters faced severe consequences if caught, including possible execution.
Then on D-Day, the islanders' dreams of liberation were cruelly dashed.
