Teresa Palmer and Jim Sturgess star in Mix Tape, The Great British Sewing Bee is back for a new run, there's the bizarre story of the Balloon Boy, and the sheer stupidity of the Sycamore Gap two . . .
Pick of the Day
Mix Tape, 9.00pm, BBC Two
Irish Production company Subotica’s new award-winning drama stars Teresa Palmer and Jim Sturgess. It's adapted from the acclaimed novel of the same name by Jane Sanderson.
The four-part series follows Daniel and Alison, moving between their teenage romance in Sheffield back in 1989 and the modern-day reality of their adult relationships living on opposite sides of the world.
The pair reconnect through a song from their shared past and explore their burning curiosity to understand if this is the love, and the life, they were meant to have.
The series was the winner of the SXSW 2025 TV Spotlight Audience Award and was filmed entirely on location in Dublin and Sydney.
New or Returning Shows
The Great British Sewing Bee, 9.00pm, BBC One
Sara Pascoe (below) presents season 11 of the show as a dozen new sewers show off their talents, first of all proving their ability to create shapes in a pattern challenge to make a tie-front blouse.
The made-to-measure round tests their skills with pleats as they design a perfectly shaped dress, and in the transformation challenge, judges Esme Young and Patrick Grant ask them to reimagine a circle skirt as a new garment.
Sycamore Gap: Britain's Lost Landmark, 10.45pm, UTV
I remember reading about this and wondering why anyone would commit this really stupid and pointless act.
In the early hours of the morning of September 28, 2023, two best friends took a chainsaw to a remote spot in Northumberland and chopped down one of Britain’s best-known and much-loved trees.
Extraordinarily, they filmed themselves committing a crime that shocked the world.
As Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers are sentenced for the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree, Tom Barton tells the full story of what happened that night.
He hears from people whose biggest life events involved the tree, those who were responsible for caring for it, and the police officer who cracked the case.
New to Stream
Trainwreck: Balloon Boy, Netflix
On October 15, 2009, a father in Fort Collins Colorado calls 911, claiming that his home-made flying saucer has escaped from the back yard, carrying his six-year-old son inside.
This stranger-than-fiction claim is backed up by footage from a news helicopter, which catches up with the balloon and is live-streaming the chase.
What starts as a local emergency quickly escalates into a national one, as everyone - from the National Guard to the Sheriff, and Homeland Security - struggles to come up with a plan to safely rescue 'Balloon Boy’.
As the balloon softly lands, people pray for a miracle reunion - but instead they discover no boy inside. What appears to be a tragedy takes a sharp turn into something else.
Public sympathy quickly turns into righteous outrage, as Balloon Boy quickly becomes one of America’s most infamous, and bizarre news stories.
Don’t Miss
Grey's Anatomy, 10.35pm, RTÉ2
Things look pretty lively over in Seattle this week!
Chaos erupts at Grey Sloan after a store shooting, Ben struggles with emergency protocols, Owen faces romantic complications, and Amelia and Winston clash over a child's surgery.
Bake Off: The Professionals, 8.00pm, Channel 4
As the contest reaches the quarter-final, the teams create 24 savoury sweet desserts.
The goal is to harness all the natural sweetness from their ingredients, alongside 24 desserts that feature one ingredient throughout their flavours and textures.
In the second challenge, things get eerie as the pairs have just five hours to create extraterrestrial-themed showpieces with jelly art desserts.
The Couple Next Door, 9.00pm, Channel 4
As season 2 continues, Charlotte tries to distance herself from Mia following their night out, while Jacob has to step in when a patient is sexist towards Mia, although her response disturbs everyone.
At the fundraising ball, Leo and Jacob's mutual dislike is palpable, and Mia encourages Charlotte to reconnect with Jacob.
But it soon becomes clear she has her own agenda and is manipulating the couple to ensure she gets exactly what she wants.
In the Footsteps of Killers, 10.00pm, Channel 4
Emilia Fox and David Wilson investigate the unsolved murder of lovers Brian Price and Susan Tetrault, who were axed to death as they slept on a summer's evening in London 1986.
Was their slaying linked to an international drug conspiracy?
The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain, 9.00pm, BBC Four
Dr Lucy Worsley (below) examines how George II had to adapt to a growing middling rank in society - who were no longer content with being subjects.
Affairs of the state began to be openly discussed in coffee houses, and the king and his ministers were mocked in satire - with George becoming an easy target due to his frequent absences.
His wife Caroline went on to popularise a medical breakthrough against smallpox, but it was their son Frederick Prince of Wales who had the popularity the monarchy needed to survive in the modern era.
The Death of Yugoslavia, 10.00pm, BBC Four
Up to episode three of this superb 1995 documentary series exploring the demise of Yougoslavia.
Because it was made shortly after the main events, most of the principal players are interviewed, which makes for a fascinating view.
This edition looks at how, two days after Croatia and Slovenia's declarations of independence, war in Yugoslavia commenced.
Witnesses testify that central to promoting the internecine conflict was Gojko Susak, Croatia's uncompromising former Minister of Defence.
The final two episodes follow at 10.50pm and 11.40pm.
