TV Guide UK Tonight: Mon 1 Jun 2026 – Dear England Series Finale, EastEnders Returns & Tip Toe Ep 2

Published: 28 May 2026

Monday 1 June 2026. It’s a big night by any measure. EastEnders is back after the weekend with one of the bigger single-episode storylines it’s had in a while, Springwatch is on BBC Two at 8pm, and then 9pm brings a genuine clash: the Dear England series finale on BBC One, Tip Toe episode 2 on Channel 4, and Emma Barnett’s endometriosis documentary on BBC Two all start at the same time. Record two of them. You’re going to have to pick one live.

Quick Picks: Tonight’s Best

• Dear England ⭐ BBC One, 9pm. Series finale. Fiennes as Southgate, Whittaker as Pippa Grange. This is the one.
• EastEnders BBC One, 7:30pm. Back after the weekend. Max proposes to Cindy. Denise’s cancer diagnosis. Big night for Walford.
• Tip Toe Channel 4, 9pm. Episode 2. Alan Cumming and David Morrissey tightening the screws further.
• Emma Barnett: Fighting Endometriosis BBC Two, 9pm. Personal, candid and genuinely important.
• Springwatch BBC Two, 8pm. Packham and Strachan at Crom estate. Otters and red squirrels.
• Monolith Film4, 9pm. Lean 2022 sci-fi one-hander. Worth your time if the other 9pm options are on series link.
• Euphoria finale Sky Atlantic, 9pm. HBO’s Gen-Z drama ends its run. 93 minutes. Subscription required.

Sport

Tennis: French Open – TNT Sports 1, from 9:30am

Day nine at Roland Garros, Paris. Fourth-round matches on the clay. Subscription required via TNT Sports.

Cycling: Women’s Giro d’Italia Stage 3 – TNT Sports 3, 2:30pm

A 156km stage from Bibione to Buja in north-east Italy, stage three of nine in this year’s race. Subscription required.

Early Evening

Narrow Escapes – Channel 4, 4pm

A third series following life on Britain’s canals gets under way. Retiree Michelle is giving her narrowboat a bit of a makeover in Lancashire, and what begins as a practical project turns into something more personal. Catch up via Channel 4 streaming.

Great Continental Railway Journeys – BBC Two, 6:30pm

Michael Portillo’s train takes him through Hungary this week, covering some of the country’s darker history alongside its more obvious charms. He visits Budapest’s Keleti station (properly spectacular platform architecture, if you haven’t seen it) and learns about the 1989 peace demonstration in the northwest of the country that allowed over 600 East Germans to slip across the border before the Wall came down. There’s also a stop at what’s apparently the most ornate café in the world, the New York in Budapest, for a drink. Portillo dials back his usual love of fancy dress here, which turns out to suit the material. BBC iPlayer.

Two’s Company – Rewind TV, 7pm

Rewind TV has been quietly surfacing forgotten British sitcoms, and this one from the 1970s is worth your attention. Elaine Stritch plays Dorothy McNab, a successful American novelist who has set herself up in Chelsea and needs a proper English butler to run the place. Donald Sinden is that butler, Robert Hiller, a man of refined sensibilities who finds his employer’s brash American ways comprehensively baffling. The chemistry between Stritch and Sinden is exactly what the premise needs: two people who are genuinely getting on each other’s nerves, and both having the time of their lives doing it. Keep an eye out for Penelope Keith in a guest role later in the run, appearing just before her own sitcom stardom arrived. Freeview Play.

EastEnders – BBC One, 7:30pm

EastEnders is back tonight after the weekend break, and the soap has been promising all week that this set of episodes is going to change things. Tonight the story picks up with the aftermath of Vicki and Ross’s wedding (Alice Haig and Alex Walkinshaw). The reception is where the drama is: George Knight (Colin Salmon) makes a decision to protect his family that probably isn’t going to end well, and Max Branning (Jake Wood) chooses a wedding reception to propose to Cindy Beale (Michelle Collins), which takes some brass neck given the occasion.

The storyline to pay attention to is Diane Parish’s. Denise Fox tells her family about a blood cancer diagnosis tonight, and Parish is one of EastEnders’ best performers when the scripts give her something real to work with. BBC iPlayer has it if you miss the transmission.

Prime Time

Springwatch – BBC Two, 8pm

Packham and Strachan are back at Crom, the National Trust estate on Lough Erne in County Fermanagh, for the latest from the new series. The wildlife updates continue: otters, red squirrels, pine martens still on the target list. BBC iPlayer.

The Brokenwood Mysteries – U&Drama, 8pm

The most pressing question in Brokenwood tonight isn’t actually about the murder. Reverend Greene appears to have installed a hairpiece, and the general consensus is that its arrival coincides suspiciously with that of the charismatic new Canon Zach Mantell, whose congregation has not been immune to his charms. Whether Greene’s domestic life with Dr Plummer survives this infatuation is soon overtaken by a more pressing problem: Canon Zach’s wife turns up dead, and Greene finds himself upgraded from the usual role of moral commentator to actual suspect. Catch up via U.

Dear England ⭐ – BBC One, 9pm (SERIES FINALE)

Here it is. The last episode of James Graham’s four-part adaptation of his Olivier Award-winning stage play, and it lands with the weight you’d hope for.

The drama has spent three episodes getting inside Gareth Southgate’s head, watching Joseph Fiennes quietly dismantle the idea that the England manager job is just about tactics and selection. Tonight, with the 2024 Euros three months away, the pressure from every direction has accumulated into something close to breaking point. Southgate knows exactly what the country expects of him, and what it’s prepared to do to him if he falls short.

The best exchange in the episode is the one that tells you everything about the series. Southgate looks out over an empty pitch on a clear day and asks Pippa Grange (Jodie Whittaker) why England can’t simply win. Her answer: what England needs to learn isn’t how to win. It’s how to lose. It’s the kind of line that a lesser script would strain to deliver, but Graham earns it.

Since we all know how Southgate’s tenure as manager ended, the fact that this finale still manages to be genuinely gripping and moving right through to the final minutes is a real achievement. Fiennes is exceptional throughout. All episodes on BBC iPlayer.

Tip Toe – Channel 4, 9pm (EPISODE 2)

If you caught Alan Cumming in The Traitors US recently, episode 2 of Tip Toe is a good reminder that he has a whole other register. As Leo, a Canal Street bar owner in Russell T Davies’ five-part thriller, he’s not commanding a room, he’s rattled in his own home.

Tonight, Leo takes the questionable decision to hire his neighbour Clive (David Morrissey) to sort out the electrics at his bar. Clive’s mild homophobia hasn’t vanished overnight, and the professional arrangement does nothing to ease the tension between them. There’s also a dinner with Leo’s ex Curtis (Charlie Condou) that opens up some old scars, and Leo’s best friend Steph (Elizabeth Berrington) is struggling to stay upbeat about the state of the world in general. Episode 2 is where the series moves from unease into something more specific and harder to shake. Both episodes 1 and 2 are on Channel 4 streaming.

Emma Barnett: Fighting Endometriosis – BBC Two, 9pm

Endometriosis affects more than 1.5 million women of reproductive age in the UK. It’s as common as diabetes. NHS waiting lists are long, the medical profession doesn’t fully understand it, and research funding remains thin. Those facts alone would justify a documentary.

What makes this one different is that Emma Barnett, the BBC journalist and presenter, has had the condition for years and knows the reality of it from the inside. She travels around the UK talking to fellow sufferers, and the conversations are candid rather than performed. No studio doctors, no easy resolutions. Barnett has said she hopes the film pushes a generation of researchers to finally work out what endometriosis actually is. Given the scale of the problem, that’s not an unreasonable thing to want. BBC iPlayer.

Monolith – Film4, 9pm (15)

Australian director Matt Vesely made this in under a fortnight in 2022, and you wouldn’t necessarily know it. Lily Sullivan plays a journalist who’s working alone in a remote house, producing a clickbait podcast, when she stumbles onto a story about a strange black brick that seems to have turned up in the hands of people all over the world. Her reports go viral. The story gets stranger. Sullivan holds the whole thing together, and the film’s tight budget becomes a virtue, focusing all the tension on her performance and the mystery itself. Rated 15. Catch up via Channel 4 streaming.

Euphoria – Sky Atlantic, 9pm (SERIES FINALE)

HBO’s third season of Sam Levinson’s provocative drama concludes tonight in a 93-minute finale. Zendaya’s Rue has been navigating recovery through this run; Sydney Sweeney’s Cassie and Jacob Elordi’s Nate round out the splintered friendship group that’s been the series’ beating heart, or lack of one. Levinson’s show has never been short of controversy and this finale, by all accounts, will add to the pile. Subscription required via Now.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit – Sky Witness, 9pm

ADA Carisi (Peter Scanavino) is at his most fired up tonight, and the issue at the centre of it is a non-disclosure agreement that employees at what looks like an exclusive Manhattan social club are being routinely asked to sign. When it turns out that the NDA is keeping victims silent about something considerably darker than routine workplace behaviour, the question of whether money and status can insulate the privileged becomes very pointed. SVU has revisited this territory before, but it never stops feeling relevant. Available on Now.

The Viewing Schedule

What’s On Streaming

• BBC iPlayer: Dear England (all episodes), EastEnders, Springwatch, Emma Barnett: Fighting Endometriosis, Great Continental Railway Journeys
• Channel 4 streaming: Tip Toe (eps 1 & 2), Monolith (Film4), Narrow Escapes
• Now: Euphoria (Sky Atlantic), Law & Order: SVU (Sky Witness)
• U: The Brokenwood Mysteries
• Freeview Play: Two’s Company (Rewind TV)

Frequently Asked Questions

What time is the Dear England series finale on BBC One tonight?

Dear England reaches its series finale tonight on BBC One at 9pm. It’s the last of James Graham’s four-part adaptation, with Joseph Fiennes as Gareth Southgate and Jodie Whittaker as psychologist Pippa Grange. All four episodes are also available on BBC iPlayer if you need to catch up first.

Is EastEnders on Monday 1 June 2026?

Yes, EastEnders is back tonight at 7:30pm on BBC One after the weekend. There’s a lot happening: the fallout from Vicki and Ross’s wedding, Max Branning proposing to Cindy Beale at the reception, George Knight making a dangerous decision to protect his family, and Denise Fox (Diane Parish) telling her loved ones about a blood cancer diagnosis. Catch up via BBC iPlayer.

What time is Tip Toe episode 2 on tonight?

Tip Toe episode 2 is on Channel 4 at 9pm tonight (Monday 1 June 2026). Russell T Davies’ five-part thriller continues, with Alan Cumming as Leo and David Morrissey as his neighbour Clive. Both episodes 1 and 2 are also on Channel 4 streaming after broadcast.

What is Emma Barnett: Fighting Endometriosis?

It’s a BBC Two documentary at 9pm tonight in which journalist Emma Barnett, who has lived with endometriosis herself, speaks to women across the UK about the condition. The film makes the case for far more research funding into a condition that affects over 1.5 million women in the UK and is as common as diabetes, but receives relatively little medical attention. BBC iPlayer after broadcast.

What’s the best thing to watch on TV tonight (Monday 1 June 2026)?

The Dear England series finale on BBC One at 9pm. James Graham’s script holds up right through to the final scene, and Joseph Fiennes has been exceptional throughout the run. It’s the kind of prestige drama BBC One doesn’t always commission, and this is the payoff. If you’ve been following Tip Toe from last night, episode 2 is also on Channel 4 at 9pm and it’s very good. EastEnders at 7:30pm has a strong episode tonight too, with Diane Parish at the centre of a genuinely affecting storyline.

Final Verdict

Monday nights don’t usually come with this many genuinely good options fighting for the same hour. The Dear England series finale at 9pm on BBC One is the pick, and it’s not a close call: James Graham’s script earned the right to this ending, and Fiennes and Whittaker deliver it. Before that, EastEnders at 7:30pm has more going on than a typical Monday episode, with the Denise Fox storyline in particular worth watching. At 8pm, Springwatch on BBC Two is its reliable self. And if you end up with two 9pm programmes to catch up on afterwards, Tip Toe episode 2 on Channel 4 is worth the extra hour.

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