TV tonight: Our highlights for Sunday, July 30
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On TV tonight, period drama World on Fire continues, there's more from A Spy Among Friends, and it's the last episode of Our Guy in Colombia. Here's what you shouldn't miss on TV Tonight.
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
World On Fire season 2, 9 pm, BBC One
We were treated to a sepia-tinted look at the war in North Africa during last year’s SAS Rogue Heroes, but World on Fire examines a different aspect of that struggle that had its fair share of heroic deeds. Tonight’s episode tells the story of an unlikely friendship forged between Sergeant Stan Raddings (Blake Harrison) and Indian officer Rajib (Ahad Raza Mir), who find themselves thrown together in a chaotic retreat through the desert when Rommel and his tanks advance on their position.
It’s a tense and perilous journey that changes each man and sees them learn what it means to march in the other’s boots.
★★★★ SMA
A Spy Among Friends, 9 pm, ITV
Following the reveal that Blunt might be ‘the fourth man’, Elliott is tailing him and is shocked by how far the trail leads. Meanwhile, Philby (Guy Pearce) meets old muckers Burgess and Maclean – Pearce wonderfully recreates the 1955 Pathé newsreel in which Philby denies knowing they were traitors at the start of this episode – and realises that being unquestionably accepted by the Russians is not so straightforward.
But what with all the coded messages and veiled comments, just who is working for which side is still a mystery – and why this spy series is so gripping. With friends like these…
★★★★ NT
Our Guy in Colombia, 9 pm, Channel 4
Let’s not forget that before he was a presenter, Guy Martin was a TT racer. And his daredevil side is very much in evidence as he tries ‘gravity racing’ (on special bicycles adapted to create maximum speed down mountain roads) and truck racing in a fuel tanker. But he’s also in Colombia to learn about its history of violence, and to that end, he meets a dealer aboard a drug-smuggling submarine and joins a police patrol through Bogota’s slums. Terrifying, for so many reasons.
★★★ NT
Two Doors Down, iPlayer
For fans of the popular BBC Scotland comedy, there’s only one thing better than hearing that another series began filming last month – the news that awful wine-swigging Cathy (Doon Mackichan) will be back. We won’t see the new episodes for a while, but all the previous series are available to watch on iPlayer and, if you’re moving house soon, they’re an excellent guide on how not to behave as a neighbour.
Beth (Arabella Weir) and Eric (Alex Norton) never seem to have a moment’s peace as all and sundry park themselves in their living room demanding tea (or wine, if you’re Cathy) and solutions to their problems. A little gem.
★★★★ JP
Best box set on TV tonight
The Bear season 2, Disney Plus
Jeremy Allen White won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of troubled yet brilliant chef Carmen ‘Carmy’ Berzatto last year, and Disney Plus are serving up a second serving of the acclaimed drama. After saving their off-beat Chicago sandwich shop following his brother’s suicide, Carmy and his team are hoping to revamp and relaunch the restaurant this year, but soon find true excellence requires real sacrifice.
Overflowing with stress-inducing drama, mouth-watering food, and some deeply tender moments, it’s a wonderfully shot examination of grief, friendship and hope that shows the first season was no flash in the pan.
★★★★★ SMA
Best film on TV tonight
Galaxy Quest, 6 pm, E4
It’s incredible that this fantastic spoof of Star Trek and the Trekkies is more than 20 years old (Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary, available on Prime Video, celebrated the film’s 20th anniversary in 2019). It homes in on the ‘crew’ (Tim Allen, Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver,) of a long-cancelled sci-fi show who are abducted by aliens while at a convention. They’re a spectacularly rag-tag group, but they’ll have you cheering by the end. Enormous fun.
★★★★ DW
If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…
Don't miss World on Fire on TV tonight.
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Happy viewing!
