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Today — 1 June 2024Main stream

TV tonight: the uplifting story of Welsh miners and Pride activists

A moving documentary celebrates how two beleaguered communities changed history. Plus, a deep and meaningful chat with Juliette Binoche. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, Sky Documentaries

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© Photograph: Simon Ridgway

Yesterday — 31 May 2024Main stream

TV tonight: zombie apocalypse meets epic love story in The Walking Dead

After a five year hiatus, Michonne is back along with Rick who is trying to escape the Civic Republic Military. Plus: will love blossom for the Nevermets? Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, Sky Max
Yet another spin-off from the zombie apocalypse franchise (six and counting), this one is set to be an, erm, “epic love story”, picking up five years after the conclusion of the original series. Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira reprise their roles as Rick Grimes and Michonne Hawthorne, with Rick trying to escape the Civic Republic Military. Hollie Richardson

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© Photograph: AMC/2024 AMC Film Holdings LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Before yesterdayMain stream

We Are Lady Parts series two review – brilliant punk TV that’ll leave you in tears

30 May 2024 at 17:35

It’s brimming with confidence, bursting with enthusiasm and totally anarchic. What other show could go from quoting Marxist Pakistani poets to covering nu-metallers Hoobastank?

In the three years since this all-female, all-Muslim punk-band sitcom first aired, We Are Lady Parts has very much lived up to the creative, reproductive connotations of that title. Writer-director Nida Manzoor has further spawned a well-received debut feature, the kung fu coming-of-ager Polite Society, and star Anjana Vasan’s fruitful career has produced the Bafta-winning Black Mirror episode Demon ’79, an Olivier-winning stage turn opposite Paul Mescal in A Streetcar Named Desire, and a starring role in Brit-com flick, Wicked Little Letters. These are busy women, but they’ve managed to get the band back together anyway, and Lady Parts are once more ready to rock your living room.

We find them in the tour van, rounding off “a magical summer of gigs” and planning to “lay down our legacy” by recording an album with legendary producer, Dirty Mahmood (Anil Desai). First, though, they’ve got to find the money for studio time and that won’t be easy, with band manager Momtaz (Lucie Shorthouse) struggling to book paying gigs and punk-purist Saira (Sarah Kameela Impey) determined not to sell out.

We Are Lady Parts series two aired on Channel 4 and is available online

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TV tonight: a rollicking return for the all-female Muslim punk band comedy

Lady Parts head for the recording studio – but new rivals are waiting in the wings. Plus: haunting memories resurface in The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Here’s what to watch this evening

10pm, Channel 4
Nida Manzoor’s rollicking comedy about an all-female Muslim punk band – complete with original bangers – is back for a second season, and Lady Parts have just finished a summer of touring. With a growing fanbase behind them, it’s time to put an album together, but the £200 profit they made won’t cover the studio time. However, bassist and newly qualified doctor Amina (Anjana Vasan) is in her “villain era” so can make anything happen. Then a rival band come to the fore with the undeniably cool name of Second Wife. Lady Parts, of course, support the sisterhood – and there’s room for more than one band of Muslim women in the industry … right? Great fun. Hollie Richardson

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© Photograph: Peacock/Saima Khalid/WTTV Limited/Universal International Studios/Channel 4

TV tonight: Park Chan-wook’s adaptation starring Hoa Xuande and Robert Downey Jr

Sandra Oh is also among the cast of The Sympathizer, based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer-winning novel. Plus: D-Day 80: We Were There. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, Sky Atlantic
Park Chan-wook’s adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel follows a French Vietnamese communist spy, the Captain (Hoa Xuande). Held in a North Vietnamese re-education camp, he writes his story – from his time in the special police before the fall of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) to being a refugee in the US, all while reporting to the people keeping him captive. It’s an ambitious production, which also stars Sandra Oh and Robert Downey Jr. Hollie Richardson

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© Photograph: HBO

TV tonight: Rob Rinder and Rylan Clark enjoy soul-searching and macaroni in Rome

Rob and Rylan conclude their funny, tender and insightful grand tour. Plus, more angst for Martin Freeman’s embattled night cop in The Responder.

9pm, BBC Two
It has been a total treat joining Rob Rinder and Rylan Clark on their cultural odyssey, which along the way has turned into a tender journey of soul-searching and friendship. They finish in Rome, where Rylan opens up about what it all means to “a ginger kid from a council flat in Stepney Green” who was expected to “stay in his lane”. There’s lots of fun on the agenda, too: dressing as a macaroni comes more easily to Rylan than Rob. Hollie Richardson

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© Photograph: Lana Salah/BBC/Rex TV/Zinc Media

TV tonight: a new host joins the BBC’s Sewing Bee

Kiell Smith-Bynoe presents the popular haberdashery challenge. Plus, gymnastics-based intrigue and a surprising tale from Norway

9pm, BBC One
It’s the 10th series of Sewing Bee and time for a new host: Kiell Smith-Bynoe of Ghosts fame, who is making the role permanent after helming the Christmas special. To celebrate the passing of the baton, the latest batch of contestants are tasked with making 12 dolls of the original presenter, Claudia Winkleman. No, not really: it’s a repeat of the first challenge ever set on the show – making an A-line skirt with denim and contrast thread (to sneakily catch out any “wibbly wobbly” lines). Hollie Richardson

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© Photograph: James Stack/BBC/Love Productions

TV tonight: the absurd true-crime story about a man who faked his death

A man in Glasgow woke from a coma to find US cops calling his identity into question. Plus, how DNA has reactivated cold sex cases, and Blue Lights concludes

9pm, Channel 4
Strap in for an utterly absurd true-crime story. An eccentric man known locally in Glasgow as Arthur Knight woke up from a Covid coma in 2021 and found himself surrounded by police. US authorities claimed his real identity was Nicholas Rossi who, after several rape charges, faked his own death. This four-parter follows the countless shocking reveals as, over two years in court, he and his English wife, Miranda, continued to insist he was Knight. It also speaks with journalists, legal figures involved and the women Rossi allegedly assaulted. The case led to a judge ruling that he is, in fact, Rossi, and he is now facing charges in the US – but the journey needs to be seen to be believed. Hollie Richardson

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