TV Guide UK Tonight: Mon 2 Mar 2026 – Small Prophets, DTF St Louis & The Lady

A Monday that punches well above its weight. Small Prophets on BBC One at 10pm continues to build its case as one of the shows of 2026 — Mackenzie Crook’s comedy is already being talked about the way Detectorists was — quietly, devotedly, word of mouth. Over on Sky Atlantic at 9pm, DTF St Louis arrives as a darkly witty new drama from Steven Conrad, with David Harbour, Linda Cardellini and Jason Bateman tangled in a love triangle that gets very complicated very quickly. ITV1 wraps up The Lady at 9pm, with Mia McKenna-Bruce’s compelling Jane Andrews finally standing trial. And BBC One gives us the Industry series four finale at 10:40pm, where characters find new and creative ways to disappoint. Between Panorama investigating whether robots are coming for your job and Silent Witness pulling bodies from rivers, there’s barely a dull moment tonight.

Quick Picks: Tonight’s Best

• Small Prophets — BBC One, 10pm — Mackenzie Crook’s brilliant new comedy continues with muggings, alchemy and Michael Palin
• DTF St Louis — Sky Atlantic, 9pm — NEW SERIES: David Harbour, Jason Bateman and Linda Cardellini in a twisted love triangle
• The Lady — ITV1, 9pm — LAST EPISODE: Mia McKenna-Bruce as Jane Andrews stands trial for murder
• Industry — BBC One, 10:40pm — SERIES FINALE: Series four ends with caviar, chips and moral bankruptcy
• Panorama: Will Robots Take My Job? — BBC One, 8pm — Backflipping humanoids and the AI threat to British jobs
• Handcuffed: Last Pair Standing — Channel 4, 9pm — NEW SERIES: 18 people handcuffed in pairs for £100,000

Early Evening

Press Gang — Rewind TV, 1:05pm & 6:30pm

The series finale of the ITV children’s drama that launched a thousand careers. Well, two significant ones — Julia Sawalha went on to Ab Fab and Dexter Fletcher became a proper film director. But it was Steven Moffat who benefited most: the sharp, rapid-fire dialogue he honed in the Junior Gazette newsroom became the template for Sherlock and Doctor Who. A show that treated its young audience as intelligent. Smart, funny, and never once patronising. If you’ve never seen it, there’s worse ways to spend an afternoon.

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip — BBC One, 4:30pm

Hayley Tamaddon and Will Mellor — both soap alumni, both game for a rummage — hit the road in search of antiques bargains. The usual format: two celebrities, an expert each, a boot full of ceramics and the quiet hope that something they’ve paid thirty quid for might be worth thirty-five.

Mastermind — BBC Two, 8pm & University Challenge — BBC Two, 8:30pm

The BBC Two quiz double bill. Clive Myrie presides over the black chair on Mastermind at 8pm, followed by Amol Rajan’s University Challenge at 8:30pm. The Monday evening knowledge workout for people who like shouting answers at the television and being wrong roughly 60% of the time.

Prime Time

Will Robots Take My Job? — Panorama, BBC One, 8pm

Part of the BBC’s AI Unpacked Week, and the question in the title is not rhetorical. Panorama examines the cutting edge of robotics and artificial intelligence, including footage of backflipping and kung-fu-performing humanoids from the Chinese New Year gala that are simultaneously impressive and deeply unsettling. The programme investigates which British jobs are most at risk, speaking to workers whose roles have already been automated. Are these machines a threat or a benefit? The answer, as with most things, is probably both. Note: none of the programme’s copy was constructed using ChatGPT, which feels like a claim that shouldn’t need making but apparently does. 8:30pm in Northern Ireland; 10:40pm in Wales.

Silent Witness — BBC One, 9pm

Nikki and Jack have relocated to Oxford — which is odd, given they only recently moved to Birmingham, but the security services apparently don’t care about your domestic arrangements. The body of a young woman originally from Hong Kong has been pulled from the river, and the spooks are unusually interested. Information arrives in shreds of redacted truth, which is exactly how intelligence agencies like to share things — give you enough to be confused, not enough to be useful. There’s a complicated exchange about chemicals between Nikki and Harriet that will either fascinate you or send you reaching for your phone. The series concludes tomorrow at 9pm.

AI Confidential with Hannah Fry — BBC Two, 9pm

The episode is called “Death by Driverless Car,” which gives you a fair idea of the tone. Autonomous taxis are already common in parts of the US and are coming to UK streets soon. Hannah Fry takes her first Waymo ride, and what starts as a breezy tech-demonstration piece leads to a darker story of AI-related highway horrors. The safety and ethical issues are genuine and important, though the programme is notably one-sided — manufacturers don’t get much of a chance to respond, which rather undermines the argument. Compelling viewing nonetheless. The full series is on iPlayer.

The Lady — ITV1, 9pm (LAST EPISODE)

The conclusion. Police have finally tracked down Jane Andrews after her lover was stabbed to death and she fled. “Denying it, claiming it was an accident — the story was all over the place from the start, but when in doubt, claim it was self-defence,” shrugs DCI Douglas (Philip Glenister), delivering the line with exactly the kind of weary cynicism Glenister does better than almost anyone. Andrews stood trial in 2001 for murder, and the testimony was shocking, contradictory and frequently hard to square with the person in the dock.

Mia McKenna-Bruce gives the performance of the series. The drama resists the urge to tell you what to think, but if you were sitting on that jury, you’d struggle to believe her innocent. Glenister, meanwhile, brings understated authority to every scene he’s in, which is what happens when you’ve spent two decades playing coppers. The full series is on ITVX.

Handcuffed: Last Pair Standing — Channel 4, 9pm (NEW SERIES)

A very Channel 4 proposition. Take 18 strangers, pair them off, handcuff them together, and offer the last couple standing a share of 100,000 pounds. Jonathan Ross hosts, though he’s largely peripheral to the action — the real entertainment comes from the pairings themselves, which have a Blind Date quality about them. The best pairing so far is plain-speaking bartender Tilly manacled to millionaire car collector Anthony, a combination that sounds like a rejected sitcom pitch but actually produces some genuinely funny friction. Continues tomorrow. Catch up via Channel 4 streaming.

DTF St Louis — Sky Atlantic, 9pm (NEW SERIES)

The title stands for something we can’t print in a family TV guide, but the show itself is worth the awkward Google search. Steven Conrad, who created the cult spy drama Patriot, brings the same off-kilter sensibility to this new series. Floyd (David Harbour) is destined to die soon from what appears to be a heart attack, though law enforcement have their doubts. We jump back to the recent past, where Floyd’s wife Carol (Linda Cardellini) and his best mate Clark (Jason Bateman) are becoming two sides of a twisted love triangle.

It’s darkly witty — the fun really kicks in when Clark suggests downloading an app for couples who want to “spice it up” — and the three leads are superb. Harbour brings his usual hangdog intensity, Cardellini is excellent as a woman caught between loyalty and desire, and Bateman does that thing where he plays a perfectly reasonable-sounding man who is doing something deeply unreasonable. Catch up via Now. Also available at 2am early Monday for the truly committed.

Will and Ralf Should Know Better — Dave, 9pm

Will and Ralf continue to grow old disgracefully. Tonight’s childhood throwbacks include devouring as many pancakes as physically possible — fun at eight, a blur of bloated discomfort at forty-something — and going back to school for a creative writing lesson with Year 10 students. The latter proves unexpectedly triggering for Will, who confronts long-held demons about his school years. What starts as bland banter ends with Will talking about his school years in a way that’s unexpectedly candid. Series 1 and 2 are on U.

Late Night

Small Prophets — BBC One, 10pm (11pm Northern Ireland) ⭐

Mackenzie Crook’s benevolent worldview radiates through every scene of this new comedy, which is quietly becoming one of the best things on television. Tonight, Michael (the endearing Pearce Quigley) anticipates another roasting from his work antagonist Brigham (Ed Kear) and is later mugged in a back alley. Neither confrontation goes remotely the way you’d expect, which is the show’s great trick — it keeps wrongfooting you with kindness.

Michael also practises alchemy in his shed, and events there become increasingly surreal, brought to life with lovely hand-made effects and not a pixel of CGI in sight. His colleague Kacey (the first-rate Lauren Patel) shares their back stories over a beer in the garden, and it’s unforced and human and you don’t want it to end.

Even John Cleese congratulated Michael Palin on his performance as Michael’s dad Brian via social media, which, given their history together, is meaningful praise. Beautifully paced, carefully crafted and immaculately acted. One of the shows of 2026, and if you’re not watching it yet, start now. The full series is on iPlayer.

Industry — BBC One, 10:40pm (11pm Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland) — SERIES FINALE

Series four bows out by doing what Industry does best: wrong-footing absolutely everyone. The insidious twists pile up and characters find new and imaginative ways to be disappointing. Harper’s team ordering caviar and chips after their big bet pays off is the perfect distillation of this show’s moral universe — a grotesque celebration dressed as casual indulgence. Meanwhile, Tender’s champions are fleeing headlines like “App-solute disgrace.”

Would any other drama include a line about “neoliberalism’s decades-long project of gutting the moral architecture of how we govern”? Almost certainly not, but in this context, delivered by these characters, it makes absolute sense. Industry has always been a show that trusts its audience to keep up, and the finale doesn’t hold your hand. Catch up via iPlayer.

The X-Files — Channel 5, 10pm & 11:05pm

Channel 5 kicks off a week of curated X-Files episodes with the pilot and the genuinely chilling Squeeze. If you somehow missed these first time round — or if you were too young to hide behind the sofa in 1993 — David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson’s chemistry is there from the very first scene. Squeeze, featuring Doug Hutchison as liver-eating contortionist Eugene Tooms, remains one of the most unsettling hours of television ever broadcast. A proper double bill.

Sport

Football: Championship — Birmingham City v Middlesbrough on Sky Sports Main Event/Football from 7:30pm (kick-off 8pm).

Golf: TGL — Los Angeles v New York in the Technology Golf League on Sky Sports Main Event/Golf from midnight.

Baseball: MLB Spring Training — Detroit Tigers v Atlanta Braves on TNT Sports 2 from 6pm (start 6:05pm).

The Viewing Schedule

What’s On Streaming

BBC iPlayer: Small Prophets (full series), Industry (full series), Silent Witness, Panorama, AI Confidential with Hannah Fry (full series), Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
ITVX: The Lady (full series)
Channel 4 streaming: Handcuffed: Last Pair Standing
Now: DTF St Louis
U (UKTV Play): Will and Ralf Should Know Better (series 1 and 2)
Sky Sports: Birmingham City v Middlesbrough, TGL golf

Frequently Asked Questions

What time is Small Prophets on BBC One tonight?

Small Prophets is on BBC One at 10pm tonight (Monday 2nd March 2026). Mackenzie Crook’s new comedy continues as Michael (Pearce Quigley) faces his work antagonist Brigham and is later mugged — neither encounter goes the way you’d expect. The full series is available on BBC iPlayer.

What time is DTF St Louis on Sky Atlantic tonight?

DTF St Louis premieres on Sky Atlantic at 9pm tonight (Monday 2nd March 2026). The new drama from Steven Conrad (creator of Patriot) stars David Harbour, Linda Cardellini and Jason Bateman in a darkly comic love triangle. Catch up via Now.

Is EastEnders on TV tonight?

Yes, EastEnders airs on BBC One on Mondays, typically at 7:30pm. It broadcasts Monday to Thursday. Check your local listings for the exact time tonight (Monday 2nd March 2026). You can catch up on any episodes via BBC iPlayer.

What time is The Lady on ITV1 tonight?

The last episode of The Lady is on ITV1 at 9pm tonight (Monday 2nd March 2026). Mia McKenna-Bruce stars as Jane Andrews, who stands trial for the murder of her lover. Philip Glenister co-stars as DCI Douglas. The full series is available on ITVX.

What’s the best thing to watch on TV tonight?

Our top pick for Monday 2nd March 2026 is Small Prophets on BBC One at 10pm — Mackenzie Crook’s beautifully crafted comedy is one of the shows of 2026. DTF St Louis premieres on Sky Atlantic at 9pm with David Harbour and Jason Bateman. The Lady reaches its last episode on ITV1 at 9pm, and Industry’s series four finale airs on BBC One at 10:40pm. Earlier, Panorama investigates AI and robotics at 8pm on BBC One.

What’s on BBC One tonight?

BBC One tonight (Monday 2nd March 2026) includes EastEnders at 7:30pm, Panorama: Will Robots Take My Job? at 8pm, Silent Witness at 9pm, Small Prophets at 10pm, and the series finale of Industry at 10:40pm.

Is there football on TV tonight?

Yes, Birmingham City v Middlesbrough is live in the Championship on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Football tonight (Monday 2nd March 2026). Coverage starts at 7:30pm with kick-off at 8pm.

Final Verdict

Small Prophets on BBC One at 10pm is the best thing on tonight, despite the late slot. Mackenzie Crook’s new comedy is operating at a level that almost nothing else on television can match right now. Pearce Quigley is wonderful as Michael, the hand-made effects in the alchemy shed are a joy, Lauren Patel is first-rate, and the whole thing has a warmth and craft that reminds you comedies don’t need an agenda to matter. When John Cleese is congratulating Michael Palin on social media, you know the show is doing something right. One of the shows of 2026, and it’s not even close.

The 9pm slot is stacked. DTF St Louis on Sky Atlantic is a distinctive, darkly funny new drama — David Harbour, Linda Cardellini and Jason Bateman are superb, and Steven Conrad’s writing has the same off-kilter brilliance that made Patriot a cult favourite. The Lady on ITV1 wraps up with a compelling final episode, Mia McKenna-Bruce proving she can carry a drama with real authority, and Philip Glenister doing what he does best. Industry on BBC One at 10:40pm bids farewell with a finale that wrong-foots everyone and includes a line about neoliberalism that somehow works.

Earlier, Panorama at 8pm tackles the AI question with backflipping robots that are equal parts thrilling and terrifying, while Silent Witness at 9pm pulls a body from an Oxford river and tangles Nikki and Jack up with the security services. Handcuffed: Last Pair Standing on Channel 4 at 9pm is very Channel 4 — 18 strangers handcuffed in pairs for £100k — and it’s oddly compelling. Late-night viewers should not miss The X-Files double bill on Channel 5 at 10pm — the pilot and Squeeze hold up as well as anything from that decade.

Football fans have Birmingham City v Middlesbrough in the Championship on Sky Sports from 7:30pm, plus TGL golf from midnight and MLB spring training on TNT Sports 2. The 9pm slot alone requires a decision.

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Clint Edgar

Clint is a writer and self-proclaimed professional binge-watcher who treats the "Skip Intro" button with the suspicion it deserves. When he isn't dissecting plot holes or getting emotionally invested in fictional characters, you can find him scrolling through streaming queues or arguing about why The Office is a masterpiece. Clint lives in London with a dangerously comfortable couch and a remote control that he guards with his life.