The Comedy Series Brassic Ends Its Run with Tarantino-Inspired Last Episode
Joseph Gilgun and Danny Brocklehurst are concluding on their comedy series about a close-knit group of likable chancers causing chaos in a countryside town in Lancashire. One could anticipate the last episode to be a nostalgic highlight reel of alcohol, substances, and playful theft. However, the atmosphere turns much more somber as Vinnie (Gilgun) and the crew barricade themselves in a pub with criminal figure Davey MacDonagh for a final 50th installment seemingly influenced by the filmmaker Quentin Tarantino.
Dragons’ Den
8pm on BBC One
Dancers from the ballet world enter the den this week, as single mothers Laura and Stacey present their line of adaptive dance attire – and send Peter Jones into a spin. Next, an eye surgeon turned inventor has a clever gadget for misplaced tape edges.
All Creatures Great and Small
9pm, Channel 5
The veterinary adventures are generally good, but this excellent historical series proves its worth with tender character work. An especially moving installment intertwines the tales of a injured draft horse and a missing young cow into a deeper plotline centring on the character Tristan, whose actions lead to a fraternal intervention.
The Drama The Hack
9pm, ITV1
The journey has been lengthy. But the penultimate episode of this initially sluggish but ultimately compelling series about phone hacking sees David Tennant’s Nick uncovering information about the News of the World’s conduct that the other media outlets simply are forced to acknowledge. The situation improves for Dave, who has a unexpected new supporter.
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
9pm on BBC Three
Jazz hands at the ready: it’s time to present Peter Pansy – The Musical! That means the pressure is on for the drag performers to sing, dance, act and ultimately slay as they prepare for the production. And what better guest judge than renowned West End star Mazz Murray, together with Graham Norton, Michelle Visage and RuPaul.
The Series The Iris Affair
9pm, Sky Atlantic
Those with a phobia of creepy crawlies will want to fast-forward as the sixth episode starts, before something of a Mexican (or rather Sardinian) standoff ensues, when Cameron forces Iris to swap her diary for the captured Joy – else she’ll be “riddled with bullets” from the threatening drone controlled by Meski … How to get out of this one?
