The Pet Shop Boys are the subject of an Imagine special, Danny Dyer finds out How to Be a Man, there's Alan Carr's semi-autobiographical comedy Changing Ends, and Barcelona face PSG in the Champions League . . .
Pick of the Day
Imagine... Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now, 10.40pm, BBC One
Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, are the most successful duo in the history of British pop music.
They have sold more than 50 million records, produced over forty Top 40 singles, four UK number ones, performed in several world tours, and they are still making new music together.
Maintaining their privacy and mystique has kept cameras at bay for decades but now for the first time they have allowed backstage access here.
Alan Yentob and the imagine crew accompany them on their global Dreamworld tour - filming rehearsals in London and backstage in Helsinki.
2024 sees the release of their latest album, Nonetheless, which comes 40 years after the original release of their timeless hit West End Girls.
Imagine is given a sneak preview of the new album and talks to Tennant and Lowe about its creation and their creative evolution over the past four decades.
Contributors include fellow musicians Brandon Flowers, Jake Shears, Olly Alexander and Marc Almond, music journalist Miranda Sawyer, and creative collaborators Stuart Price, James Ford, Es Devlin, Javier De Frutos, Tom Scutt and Mark Farrow.
This is an intimate look inside the world and creations of Pet Shop Boys with Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe unguarded, poignant and – apparently - hilarious.
New or Returning Shows
Second season of the prison drama anthology series, this time focusing on the experiences of three female convicts who arrive at Carlingford prison on the same day.
Single mother Orla is fighting to keep her children out of care, heroin addict Kelsey is presented with a life-defining decision, and tough lifer Abi is haunted by a secret that puts her safety at risk.
The excellent cast includes Jodie Whittaker, Tamara Lawrance and Bella Ramsey.
Danny Dyer: How to Be a Man, 10.00pm, Channel 4
In this new series Danny Dyer travels around Britain exploring the contentious subject of modern masculinity.
He’ll be questioning whether men have lost their sense of identity and what it means to be male in 21st-century Britain. So expect bulging biceps from the start . . .
Along the way, he tries to get to the bottom of toxic masculinity and find out why so many young men are struggling with their mental health and relationships with women.
Danny sets out to find out whether there's a rise in toxic masculinity in society and, if there is, why?
He meets up with his brother Tony, before tackling controversial influencer Ed Matthews, meeting teenage boys at a London school, and speaking with Mansfield MP Ben Bradley, who's a champion of men's issues.
He also meets male victims of domestic abuse, and in Brighton, he chats to members of the Brighton Gay Men's Chorus about overcoming prejudice.
Keepers of the Lough, 8.00pm, UTV
Back for a third run, Patrick Kielty shares stories about the people and places of Strangford Lough, taking viewers on a journey of discovery about this part of the Northern countryside.
He meets the people taking care of fluffy baby owls and an enthusiastic puppy begins its guide dog training.
It's Showtime! 9.00pm, UTV
Documentary telling the story of a group of working-class men from the north-east of England who got drunk one night and bought a racehorse - a decision that would change their lives forever.
Changing Ends, 8.30pm, UTV
Alan Carr's semi-autobiographical comedy set in 1980s Northampton, where the football manager's son-turned- comic grew up against the harsh backdrop of Thatcher's Britain.
Having a father who's the football manager of a Fourth Division club is never going to be easy, but when you're being dropped by your friends for being camp Alan decides to take things into his own hands.
Should he go against his own instincts and become a footballer himself?
Shaun Dooley and Alan Carr (above) are among the cast.
Don’t Miss
The Cult Next Door, 11.30pm, BBC Four
The extraordinary story of a strange cult that came to light in 2013, when three women emerged from a small flat in Brixton, south London, after decades in captivity.
The documentary traces the group back to its roots in the 1970s, when Aravindan Balakrishnan, who believed in an international communist revolution, created a tiny political sect that followed the teachings of China's Chairman Mao.
But this collective then evolved into a pseudo-religious cult, in which members were controlled, threatened and brainwashed so that they were too terrified to leave.
Ending Today
Mary and George, 9.00pm, Sky Atlantic
Streaming on NOW
As the historical drama concludes, George develops an outrageous plan to ease English and Spanish tensions and unite Europe.
He and Charles travel in secret to Spain and arrange for Charles to marry The Infanta: Maria Anna, the young Spanish Catholic Princess.
But negotiations prove more difficult than expected and George must use all the lessons he’s learned to help turn the tide.
Back in England, Mary has suffered a devastating loss and is consumed by rage and revenge. She attempts one last throw of the dice to ensure absolute power.
With their backs against the wall, and despite being further apart than ever before, will Mary & George join forces for one last time.
Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies, 9.00pm, BBC Four
Jim Al-Khalili explores the largest known cosmic structures, including a vast cloud of solar plasma which surrounds and protects the solar system.
Then there's the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way (above), which emits the lowest note ever heard in the cosmos, and the giant arc, a collection of galaxies which spans more than three per cent of the observable universe.
Sport
It’s Barcelona v Paris Saint-Germain (KO 8pm) as Darragh Maloney (below) hosts coverage of the quarter-final second-leg tie at Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys.
Barcelona edged a thrilling first leg 3-2 to make them clear favourites to progress to the last four, but PSG created a number of opportunities and will feel they are still very much in contention if they can do so again.
Analysis is by Dietmar Hamann and Kevin Doyle.
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