TV tonight: a plucky period drama about sex, drugs and illicit clubs
Dope Girls
9.15pm, BBC One
A plucky period drama set in Soho’s heady underworld that has been pitched as the feminist “spiritual successor” to Peaky Blinders. It is the end of the first world war, and women refuse to give up the autonomy they’ve gained – so they establish themselves in the drug business growing in London’s illicit clubs. Kate (Julianne Nicholson) is a single mother who, by the end of this first episode, finds herself with blood on her hands. Hollie Richardson
Sarah Beeny’s New Life in the Country
6.15pm, Channel 4
It’s the last visit to the Beenys’ Somerset pile and, naturally, “build a vineyard” is the final thing on their to-do list. With hopes of one day cheering glasses of “chambeeny” wine, Sarah lays truckloads of compost, while Graham designs the labels. HR
Michael McIntyre’s Big Show
6.40pm, BBC One
Master wind-up merchant McIntyre wraps up the current run of his family-friendly comedy blowout with a little help from Little Mix’s Perrie Edwards and boybands McFly and Busted. Holly Willoughby is also on hand hoping she can put the right name to a face from her past in the “Remember Me?” segment. Graeme Virtue
Britain’s Got Talent
7pm, ITV1
It’s back: Simon, Amanda, Alesha and Bruno return to glower and grin as a new series kicks off the talent show’s 18th season. As before, there’s a £250,000 prize and a Royal Variety slot to bag. Guest judge KSI will be stepping in for three Blackpool audition days while Bruno films Dancing With the Stars. Ali Catterall
An t-Eilean (The Island)
9pm, BBC Four
This Hebrides-set, Gaelic-language thriller has been sturdy, involving fare. In this week’s double bill: the endgame as the pragmatic-to-a-fault DCI Halim looks to wrap up the case. Kat, however, is looking at Ruaraidh’s furtive behaviour with suspicion and wondering if all hasn’t yet been revealed. And she might just be right. Phil Harrison
The Jonathan Ross Show
9.30pm, ITV1
Former Ugly Betty star Vanessa Williams is currently playing scary fashion editor Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada in the West End – she joins Ross, along with Danny Dyer, who has a new film. Gordon Ramsay, Olympic star Keely Hodgkinson and Babygirl actor Harris Dickinson also appear. HR
Film choices
The Banshees of Inisherin, 9.15pm, Channel 4
“I just don’t like you no more.” With these words, Brendan Gleeson’s Colm sets in train an increasingly acrimonious series of events in Martin McDonagh’s witty, bitter yarn, set on an island off the Irish coast in the early 1920s. The recipient is his erstwhile best friend Pádraic (Colin Farrell). An easygoing man, Pádraic is generally acknowledged as a bit dull but a despairing Colm’s attempts to shun him turn surprisingly bloody. The civil war simmering away on the mainland is barely registered by the insular islanders, whose thwarted ambitions and dark secrets are given the weight of Greek tragedy by McDonagh. A superb cast also features Barry Keoghan and Kerry Condon. Simon Wardell
Thelma, 10.10am, 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere
Shifting smartly from delightful to distressing and back again, Josh Margolin’s debut feature centres on a spirited performance by June Squibb. She plays independent-minded 93-year-old grandmother Thelma, who is scammed out of $10,000 but then decides to hunt down the con artists herself. Co-opting the mobility scooter of her less gung-ho pal Ben (Richard Roundtree, in his final role), she pootles off across Los Angeles, raging against the dying of the light, in a comic paean to ageing on your own terms. SW
Godland, 10.40pm, BBC Four
Hlynur Pálmason’s elemental period drama is a fascinating study in opposites. Coloniser v colonised, civilisation v nature, faith v human fallibility – these problems assail late 19th-century Danish priest and amateur photographer Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove) as he treks across the big, bleak, beautiful landscape of Iceland one rainy summer to the site of his new church. His guide – and potential nemesis – is Ingvar Sigurdsson’s Ragnar, who resents the incomer but is drawn to his religion, though Lucas seems to care more for his camera than his flock. SW
Live sport
Champions Trophy Cricket: Australia v England, 8.30am, Sky Sports Main Event Jos Buttler leads an under-pressure England in their first Group B match. They continue against Afghanistan on Wednesday.
Premier League Football: Everton v Manchester United, 11am, TNT Sports 1 Followed by Aston Villa v Chelsea at 5pm on Sky Sports Main Event.
Six Nations Rugby Union: Wales v Ireland, 1.15pm, BBC One Followed by England v Scotland at 4pm on ITV1. Italy v France is on Sunday at 2.15pm on ITV1.
