Brassic Calls it a Day with Tarantino-Inspired Finale
Joseph Gilgun and Danny Brocklehurst are concluding on their humorous show about a tight-knit bunch of likable chancers causing chaos in a rural Lancashire town. You might expect the finale to be a greatest hits victory lap of alcohol, substances, and playful theft. However, the vibes are distinctly darker as Vinnie (Gilgun) and the gang hole up in a pub with criminal figure Davey MacDonagh for a final 50th installment seemingly influenced by the filmmaker Quentin Tarantino.
Dragons’ Den
8pm, BBC One
Ballet dancers leap into the den this week, as single mothers Laura and Stacey pitch their range of inclusive dancewear – and cause Peter Jones to become flustered. Next, an eye surgeon turned inventor has a smart device for misplaced tape edges.
The Series All Creatures Great and Small
9pm on Channel 5
The animal-related escapades are all fine, but this superior period drama proves its worth with emotional character development. A particularly affecting episode intertwines the tales of a injured draft horse and a vanished calf into a more serious storyline centring on the character Tristan, whose actions lead to a fraternal intervention.
The Drama The Hack
9pm on ITV1
The journey has been lengthy. Yet the penultimate episode of this initially sluggish but eventually gripping phone-hacking drama sees David Tennant’s Nick discovering details about the News of the World’s conduct that the rest of the media simply are forced to acknowledge. The situation improves for the character Dave, who has a unexpected new supporter.
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK
9pm, BBC Three
Jazz hands at the ready: it’s time to stage Peter Pansy – The Rusical! That means the stress increases for the drag performers to sing, dance, act and ultimately slay as they get ready for the show. And who better to guest judge than West End stage legend Mazz Murray, alongside Graham Norton, Michelle Visage and RuPaul.
The Series The Iris Affair
9pm on Sky Atlantic
Anyone afraid of insects will want to fast-forward as the sixth episode starts, before something of a Mexican (or rather Sardinian) standoff occurs, when Cameron compels Iris to exchange her journal for the hostaged Joy – else she’ll be “riddled with bullets” from the threatening drone controlled by Meski … How to get out of this one?
