All Creatures Great and Small season 3 finale and more TV picks for tonight

On TV tonight, we wrap things up with this season of All Creatures Great and Small, Gangs of London returns for more grisly action, and we take a look inside Aldi supermarkets.

• Our hand selected recommendations for what's on TV tonight include TV shows, a film, live sport and the latest trending need-to-binge-on-now box set

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What's on TV tonight

Our expert TV journalists have picked the best things on TV tonight...

Best TV shows on TV tonight

All Creatures Great and Small season 3, 9pm, Channel 5

We’ve watched with admiration as James (Nicholas Ralph) has gamely thrown his all into the bovine TB testing scheme, but in this week’s high-stakes finale, a positive result on a farm could have far-reaching consequences and brings the devoted vet his biggest challenge to date. Meanwhile, as the threat of World War Two casts an even darker shadow, everyone at Skeldale House — plus the ever-fabulous Mrs Pumphrey (Patricia Hodge) — is, understandably, on edge about the future and life-changing decisions are made… With tender emotion, plus a few wry smiles, this is the perfect ending to what has been another top-notch series.

★★★★★ CC

Gangs of London, 9pm, Sky Atlantic/NOW TV

As the hard-hitting crime drama returns, we pick up the action one year later to find all is not well with undercover cop Eliot Finch (Sope Dirisu), now working as an assassin for ‘the investors’. Back in London, Alex Dumani (Capture’s Paapa Essiedu) is heading up Dumani Finance, while his sister Shannon (Pippa Bennett-Warner), who grew close to Eliot, is still in jail.

And as we are introduced to a new Algerian gang, it transpires that someone is selling guns without the permission of the people who run the underworld. Waleed Zuaiter joins the cast as the terrifying enforcer Koba. The action scenes are violent but brilliantly choreographed.

★★★★ IM

DNA Journey, 9pm, ITV

Comedians Joel Dommett and Tom Allen bring a healthy sense of competition to their journey, with Joel setting the genealogy bar sky-high with his discovery about his great-great-grandfather, Jesse Crumpler. A Somerset farmer, Jesse went on to become an unsung hero of World War One, revolutionising the production of airplane wings and inventing a way to provide clean milk to sick children.

But while Joel has an impressive history, it’s Tom’s personal journey that provides this episode with its emotional kick. ‘I actually think for the first time in my life I make sense,’ reveals a genuinely moved Tom, as he travels to Ireland and makes a startling connection with his ancestors.

★★★★ JL

Aldi's Next Best Thing, 8pm, C4

There’s a foodie twist on Dragon’s Den in this series, which sees British food suppliers compete to win a contract supplying Aldi supermarkets for a year. Tonight, six hopefuls go head-to-head in the dinnertime category, with products ranging from ready meals for kids to a chip-shop chicken curry pie.

The most ingenious is an edible insect range of meal kits, which include burgers made out of crickets. Are Aldi’s customers ready for creepy crawlies in the supermarket’s aisles? Anita Rani and Chris Bavin host.

★★★ HD

Best box set to watch on TV tonight

Versailles, BBC iPlayer

If there’s a Bridgerton-shaped hole in your viewing, try this drama which formerly aired on BBC2. It follows ‘Sun King’ Louis XIV’s elaborate plan to base his court at Versailles, complete with a new palace. ‘A king without a castle is no king at all,’ his late mother warns Louis in a feverish dream. His ministers are aghast at being stuck in a ‘backwater’, not least because there’s always someone planning to kill Louis. You’ll have to concentrate at first as lots of the men look quite similar (a bit like the Cowardly Lion from The Wizard of Oz, which was obviously a look in 17th-century France) but thankfully George Blagden and Alexander Vlahos stand out as Louis and his brother Philippe.

★★★★ JP

Best film to watch on TV tonight

Loving, 10.55pm, BBC Four

The true story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple who were asleep one night when the police kicked down the door of their home and arrested them. Their crime? Marriage across the racial divide, an offence in 1960s Virginia. In a country styling itself as ‘the land of the free’, you couldn’t marry just whoever you wanted, a fact that seems almost unbelievable now, and that’s exactly how writer/director Jeff Nichols (Mud, Midnight Special) presents it. And in Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga he has two subtle performers who make the Lovings’ long fight to have the law overturned both believable and touching. ★★★★ SM

Live Sport

• Arsenal v PSV Eindhoven (Kick-off 6.00pm), BT Sport 1

Soaps on TV tonight

EastEnders, 7.30 pm, BBC One

Emmerdale, 7:30 pm, ITV

Hollyoaks, 6.30 pm, C4

Home and Away, 1:45pm, Channel 5

If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…

Don't miss All Creatures Great and Small to see the conclusion of this season of the beloved series.

Not found anything you want to watch on TV tonight? Check out our TV Guide.

Happy viewing!