{"id":167043,"date":"2025-06-08T07:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T07:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167043\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T07:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T07:38:09","slug":"tv-tonight-gripping-heist-thriller-the-gold-returns-as-the-hunt-for-the-brinks-mat-bullion-heats-up-television-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167043\/","title":{"rendered":"TV tonight: gripping heist thriller The Gold returns as the hunt for the Brink\u2019s-Mat bullion heats up | Television & radio"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gold<\/strong><\/p>\n

9pm, BBC One
<\/strong>The Bafta-nominated 80s crime drama based on the wild true story of the Brink\u2019s-Mat robbery returns. The police hunt for the other half of the stolen \u00a326m gold bullion is the longest and most expensive investigation in the Met\u2019s history. This second series is inspired by theories of what happened to it, starting in Tenerife, where John Palmer (Tom Cullen) has started a timeshare business. The top cast is back, including Stephen Campbell Moore and Hugh Bonneville, and look out for Jack Lowden in a later episode. Hollie Richardson<\/p>\n

Vienna Philharmonic: Spring in Paris<\/strong><\/p>\n

7.30pm, BBC Four
<\/strong>A fittingly opulent concert to mark the 150th birthday of the Palais Garnier opera house in Paris. Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin conducts classical greats including music from Carmen and La Traviata, featuring the big-name voices of bass-baritone Bryn Terfel and soprano Sonya Yoncheva. HR<\/p>\n

Death Valley<\/strong><\/p>\n

8.20pm, BBC One<\/strong><\/p>\n

Timothy Spall and Gwyneth Keyworth in Death Valley. Photograph: PHOTOGRAPHER:\/CREDIT LINE:BBC\/BBC Studios\/Simon Ridgway<\/p>\n

Kiell Smith-Bynoe guest stars as an unbearable groom who is using his wedding day as a \u201cdigital marketing super event\u201d (guests are from LinkedIn, not Lincoln). When his best man\u2019s body is found outside the church, real detective Janie (Gwyneth Keyworth) once again calls on TV detective John (Timothy Spall) for help. HR<\/p>\n

Our Guy in Vietnam<\/strong><\/p>\n

9pm, Channel 4
<\/strong>Grimsby\u2019s tea-loving speed demon wraps up his latest travelogue by heading south to the Mekong delta. There, he cheerfully mucks in selling mangoes from a floating stall and irrigating rice on a sustainable farm. This being Guy Martin, he also sniffs out a race, joining a 50-strong squad of Buddhist rowers on a dragon boat. Graeme Virtue<\/p>\n

I Kissed a Boy<\/strong><\/p>\n

9pm, BBC Three
<\/strong>The penultimate episode of the Dannii Minogue-hosted dating show is when emotions hit their peak. In the wake of the Daisy Duke party the night before, and with the final Kiss-Off looming, there are big decisions to be made. Plus, the bubble of the Italian masseria is broken by the arrival of the contestants\u2019 loved ones. Jack Seale<\/p>\n

The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/strong><\/p>\n

10pm, Channel 4
<\/strong>A pivotal episode in the hard-hitting dystopian drama\u2019s final season, as loyalties shift and characters face the show\u2019s central dilemma: keep working to defeat totalitarianism, or preserve whatever personal happiness you can salvage? June and Nick have choices to make about their future, but big secrets are about to spill. JS<\/p>\n

Film choice<\/p>\n

Ocean With David Attenborough (Keith Scholey, Toby Nowlan, Colin Butfield, 2025), 8pm, National Geographic\/Disney+<\/strong><\/p>\n

A sheepshead wrasse in a kelp forest in California. Photograph: National Geographic\/PA<\/p>\n

As David Attenborough passes his 99th birthday, here\u2019s another landmark documentary to add to his collection \u2013 and one that\u2019s more polemical than usual. His lucid message here is \u201cIf we save the sea we save our world\u201d, as he talks us through what humanity has done to the Earth\u2019s oceans and how we can protect them. Awe and anger intermingle \u2013 there are glorious images of aquatic life, such as the remote submarine seamounts that are \u201cpitstops\u201d for migrating fish or the kelp forests in coastal waters that capture carbon. But it\u2019s the underwater footage of indiscriminate dredging by trawlers that has the most emotional impact \u2013 a picture of devastation that\u2019s also a call to arms. Simon Wardell<\/p>\n

Julius Caesar (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1953), 2pm, BBC Two
<\/strong>There aren\u2019t many Shakespeare plays with more quotable lines than his Roman power play, from \u201cIt was Greek to me\u201d to \u201cLet slip the dogs of war\u201d. And in Joseph L Mankiewicz\u2019s slick take it\u2019s Marlon Brando as Mark Antony who gets the best: his \u201cI came to bury Caesar not to praise him\u201d speech is a masterclass in rhetorical rabble-rousing. And Brando has to raise his game, what with seasoned stage stars James Mason (Brutus), Louis Calhern (Caesar) and, particularly, John Gielgud (Cassius) immersing us eloquently in portents and plots, murder and mayhem. SW<\/p>\n

Live sport<\/p>\n

Men\u2019s International T20 Cricket: England v West Indies, 2pm, Channel 5 <\/strong>The second match from Bristol.<\/p>\n

Men\u2019s International Football: FA Nations League Final, 7.30pm, ITV1 <\/strong>Portugal take on Spain at Allianz Arena, Munich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gold 9pm, BBC OneThe Bafta-nominated 80s crime drama based on the wild true story of the Brink\u2019s-Mat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-167043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114646608154237929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}