TV tonight: Our highlights for Thursday, August 3
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On TV tonight, Tom Kerridge visits 'The Beefy Boys' in The Hidden World of Hospitality, LGBTQ+ favorite Heartstopper returns to Netflix, The Supervet helps more poorly pets and Vanishing Act tells the story of Australian con artist, Melissa Caddick. 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
The Hidden World of Hospitality with Tom Kerridge, 8 pm, BBC Two
As Tom Kerridge’s series about the hospitality industry continues, he looks at businesses that have not only survived Covid-19 and the cost-of-living crisis but which are looking to expand. Since opening their first burger joint in Hereford in 2016, The Beefy Boys have gone from strength to strength and are now about to open a third restaurant. But as well as keeping some of the fittings from the previous operator, they’re also taking on their staff and will be paying their salaries while the refurb goes ahead. There’s also a visit to Finn Lough luxury retreat in Northern Ireland to find out how the owners have come up with ingenious solutions for recruiting problems and a competitive expansion.
★★★★ JP
Heartstopper season 2, Netflix
The long-awaited second season of this uplifting LGBTQ+ teen drama finally arrives today, after viewers fell in love with the slow-burn romance between introverted Charlie (Joe Locke) and sporty Nick (Kit Connor) last year. As the story resumes, the boys are blissfully happy and planning to publicly come out as a couple, but Nick’s confidence is shaken when his bullying older brother David (Jack Barton) comes home from university. With an eagerly anticipated school trip to Paris just around the corner, however, the city of love seems like the perfect setting for Nick and Charlie to make their relationship official…
★★★★★ SP
The Supervet, 9 pm, Channel 4
More cases for Noel Fitzpatrick, this week including a custom-made plate for a one-year-old Border terrier, plus a hip replacement for a young Maine Coon cat. Bouncy Border terrier Charlie is in pain from a bone that healed at the wrong angle – can Noel’s proposed surgery get him back on his feet? And when Maine Coon Lexie appears to have a genetic disease causing bone degeneration, her owners decide on a total hip replacement.
★★★ JP
Australian financial adviser Melissa Caddick, aka ‘the con artist of the century’, swindled friends, family and rich clients out of millions to fund her high-rolling lifestyle in Sydney’s glitzy eastern suburbs. Now the story of her deception and the mystery surrounding her subsequent disappearance is dramatised, starring Wentworth’s Kate Atkinson as the glamorous swindler. It starts with the grisly discovery of Caddick’s training shoe (complete with her disembodied foot) on a New South Wales beach before going back in time to tell her story. The documentary The Real Vanishing Act is also available on ITVX.
★★★ HD
Best box set on TV tonight
Silo is set in a tragic, toxic future, Rebecca plays Juliette, or Jules, an independent and hardworking engineer. Jules lives in a community in a giant silo hundreds of stories deep, which is the only way to survive on a planet where the air is poisonous. The survivors are forced to follow the strict rules they believe are meant to protect them. However some rebel against the regulations and dare to hope and dream for a better future.
These people are considered to be dangerous and the punishment for breaking the rules is simple — they are forced outside to "clean". And that’s a task they won’t survive.
NC
Best film on TV tonight
Mean Girls, 10.45 pm, Film4/Channel 4 On Demand
With the release of the Mean Girls Musical film on the horizon (did so fetch ever happen?), here’s a chance to catch up with the original film from 2004. Tina Fey wrote the screenplay, adapting Rosalind Wiseman’s book Queen Bees & Wannabes, and played teacher Ms Norbury (she also scripted the new film and reprises her role in it). Lindsay Lohan is a new pupil who falls in with the school’s popular – but mean – girls clique of Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert and, in her first film role, Amanda Seyfried.
★★★★ JP
Soaps
EastEnders, 7.30 pm, BBC One
Emmerdale, 7.30 pm, ITV1
Hollyoaks, 6.30 pm, Channel 4
Home and Away, 6 pm, 5Star
Live Sport
FIFA 2023 Women's World Cup, 10.45 am, BBC Two
The Hundred Live, from 2.30 pm, Sky Sports Main Event
Netball World Cup 2023, 8 am, BBC Two
If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…
Don't miss Heartstopper on TV tonight.
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Happy viewing!
