TV Guide UK Tonight: Sun 15 Feb 2026 – Lord of the Flies, Betrayal & MasterChef: The Professionals

Tonight’s Freeview TV guide for Sunday 15th February 2026 offers a strong mix of drama, sport and entertainment. BBC One’s Lord of the Flies returns with its second episode, which delves into the psyche of Jack and features a breakout performance from Lox Pratt. Betrayal reaches its penultimate chapter on ITV1, while MasterChef: The Professionals stages its first quarter-final at the slightly earlier time of 7pm. Factor in the Winter Olympics on Day 10, Wales versus France in the Six Nations, and the arrival of Yellowjackets on ITVX, and it is a Sunday packed with options.

TV Guide UK: Quick Picks

• Wales v France – BBC One, 3:10pm – Six Nations rugby from the Principality Stadium
• MasterChef: The Professionals – BBC One, 7pm – First quarter-final with the king prawn invention test
• Call the Midwife – BBC One, 8pm – Series 15 continues
• Lord of the Flies – BBC One, 9pm – Episode 2: Jack’s obsessive hunting threatens the group
• Betrayal – ITV1, 9pm – Shaun Evans’s MI5 thriller reaches its penultimate episode
• Yellowjackets – ITVX/ITV1, 10:15pm – Award-winning survival horror arrives in the UK

Daytime Highlights

Julia Bradbury’s Frozen South – ITV1, 12:45pm (New Series)

Julia Bradbury swaps her walking boots for sea legs in this ambitious new three-part series charting an epic voyage from the Falkland Islands all the way to Antarctica. Her first port of call is the Falklands, where she gets stuck into the territory’s most celebrated export: its brilliant white wool. That means trekking through towering tussock grass and getting hands-on with sheep shearing — not quite the glamorous Antarctic expedition you might have pictured. From there, she sails onwards to South Georgia, where the colossal iceberg A23a lurks nearby — twice the size of Greater London and drifting steadily northward since calving from Antarctica four years ago. As opening episodes go, this strikes a fine balance between Bradbury’s warm travelogue style and genuinely jaw-dropping scenery. Catch up via ITVX.

Winter Olympics 2026 – BBC One/BBC Two, Various Times

Day 10 from Milano Cortina. Medal events today include women’s super-G alpine skiing, men’s snowboard cross, figure skating, and short track speed skating. The BBC has free-to-air coverage across BBC One and BBC Two, with Discovery+ and Eurosport carrying the full schedule. The Games continue until 22nd February.

Afternoon Sport

Wales v France – BBC One, 2:30pm (kick-off 3:10pm)

Six Nations rugby returns to BBC One with a blockbuster fixture from the Principality Stadium in Cardiff. Wales host France in what promises to be a fiercely contested encounter. Coverage begins at 2:30pm ahead of a 3:10pm kick-off. Also available on S4C.

FA Cup: Arsenal v Wigan Athletic – TNT Sports 1, 4pm (k/o 4:30pm)

FA Cup fourth round action from the Emirates Stadium as Arsenal host Wigan Athletic. A classic big-versus-small cup tie with echoes of Wigan’s famous 2013 FA Cup final victory over Manchester City. Arsenal are heavy favourites but the magic of the cup always keeps things interesting. Also available on Discovery+.

Cricket: India v Pakistan T20 World Cup – Sky Sports Cricket, 1pm

One of the biggest fixtures in world cricket as India face Pakistan in the T20 World Cup Group A clash from the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. Start time 1:30pm GMT. Pakistan reversed their planned boycott to confirm participation, adding extra edge to an already combustible rivalry.

Early Evening (5pm – 8pm)

Gladiators – BBC One, 5:35pm

Series 3 of the revived Saturday night (now Sunday, thanks to the rugby) hit continues with Bradley and Barney Walsh presenting. More contenders take on the Gladiators in a series of physically demanding challenges. If you missed last week’s episode due to the FA Cup, welcome back.

Countryfile – BBC One, 6pm

A powerful episode marking the 30th anniversary of the Sea Empress oil spill. On 15th February 1996, 72,000 tonnes of crude oil flowed into the sea from a grounded Texaco tanker at Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire. Datshiane Navanayagam and Hamza Yassin return to the scene of the disaster to meet those who led the emergency response and discover how the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park has recovered. The environmental impact was devastating at the time – thousands of seabirds, invertebrates and marine plants were killed – making this a sobering but important piece of programming.

The 1% Club – ITV1, 6pm

Lee Mack hosts as 100 contestants attempt to answer questions that only a certain percentage of the population can get right. The prize pot builds as the percentages drop, and the final question – answerable by just 1% of people – separates the genuinely sharp from the merely hopeful.

The Dog House – Channel 4, 6:50pm

Series 8 continues at Woodgreen Pets Charity, where the team match hopeful owners with rescue dogs in need of a new home. Reliable, heartwarming Sunday evening viewing.

MasterChef: The Professionals – BBC One, 7pm

Series 18, Episode 3. Note the earlier time slot for the Sunday edition. This is the first quarter-final, and the chefs face an invention test demanding they do something magical with king prawns. After a strong opening week in which Matt Tebbutt proved himself a worthy addition to the judging panel alongside Marcus Wareing and Monica Galetti, the competition now steps up a gear. The pressure is real: a poor prawn dish at this stage means going home.

The Floor – ITV1, 7pm

Rob Brydon hosts the quiz battle royale as the field narrows. Contestants face off in head-to-head duels on a giant LED floor divided into 81 squares, each representing a different category of knowledge. The winner takes the loser’s square and knocks them out of the game. Brydon brings amused detachment to proceedings, guiding players and viewers through the rules with a light touch.

Weight Loss Scams: Don’t Get Caught Out – Channel 5, 7pm

New documentary examining the alarming rise in weight loss scams, from AI-generated fake celebrity endorsement videos to unlicensed jabs sold over WhatsApp. With the weight loss drug market booming, fraudsters are targeting vulnerable people with products that are at best useless and at worst dangerous.

The Great Pottery Throw Down – Channel 4, 7:50pm

Series 9 continues. Siobhan McSweeney hosts as the remaining potters face another demanding set of challenges. After last week’s terracotta tagines and the chiminea drama, the competition is heating up – quite literally – as the field narrows and the judges become less forgiving.

Prime Time (8pm onwards)

Eurovision Classical Concerts – BBC Four, 8pm

No sequined jumpsuits or nul points here — this Eurovision is the sophisticated classical cousin of the song contest, touring Europe’s finest orchestras. Tonight’s stop is Cologne’s Philharmonic Hall, where British conductor Nicholas Collon guides us through a programme performed by the WDR Symphony Orchestra under its groundbreaking first female conductor, Marie Jacquot. The evening opens with Anatoly Lyadov’s 1909 tone poem The Enchanted Lake, a shimmering, dreamlike miniature from a composer so legendarily idle that his procrastination inadvertently launched one of the great careers in music — his pupil Igor Stravinsky got the commission Lyadov was too slow to accept. Stravinsky’s exhilarating Petrushka ballet score dominates proceedings. Catch up on iPlayer.

Call the Midwife – BBC One, 8pm

Series 15, Episode 6. The Nonnatus House team support a young father as he comes to terms with a life-threatening diagnosis – a storyline handled with the show’s characteristic sensitivity and emotional directness. Meanwhile, Trixie uncovers a mystery illness in a female wrestler, adding an unexpected dimension to an already moving episode. The 1971 Poplar setting continues to provide a rich backdrop for stories that resonate well beyond their period.

Ant & Dec’s Limitless Win – ITV1, 8pm

Ant and Dec host as pairs of contestants work together to answer questions and climb the Limitless Ladder. The format is simple but effective: answer correctly and the prize pot grows, with theoretically no upper limit. The tension comes from knowing when to cash out. Ant and Dec’s chemistry remains the show’s greatest asset.

22 Kids & Counting – Channel 5, 8pm

Series 8, Episode 3: Man’s Best Friend. The Radford family – Britain’s biggest family – return with another instalment of their chaotic but affectionate home life. Sue and Noel navigate the latest dramas with their trademark good humour.

Lord of the Flies – BBC One, 9pm

Episode 2: Jack. If last week’s premiere established the rules of William Golding’s island, this second episode shows what happens when someone decides to break them. Jack’s obsessive determination to hunt a pig leads him to abandon his shared duties, jeopardising the group’s chance of rescue in the process. We see the vulnerability behind his bravado and how the coldness of his upbringing formed his character.

Lox Pratt’s performance as Jack is the episode’s standout – a star in the making, delivering the kind of maturity and subtlety that makes Jack a psychologically coherent individual rather than a cardboard villain. Director Marc Munden continues to give the production a confident, cinematic quality, and Jack Thorne’s adaptation remains faithful to the source material while finding fresh angles. A flashback to the moments before the plane crash adds a haunting new dimension. All four episodes are available on BBC iPlayer if you want to binge.

Betrayal – ITV1, 9pm

Episode 3. Shaun Evans’s beleaguered MI5 agent John Hughes reaches the business end of his investigation in this penultimate instalment. As pressure from inside MI5 intensifies, John’s suspicions turn inward and the case starts to expose uncomfortable truths. While trying to track down an elusive Iranian general, he becomes increasingly convinced that he is being deceived both at work and at home – and the distinction between those two worlds is collapsing.

Evans delivers a raw, emotional and occasionally funny performance as a spy who is about as far from James Bond as it is possible to get. The third episode motors along with satisfying momentum. The full series is available as a box set on ITVX for those who cannot wait for next week’s finale.

Mock the Week – TLC, 9pm

The topical panel show that refused to stay dead continues its resurrection on TLC, having been axed by the BBC back in 2022. Dara O Briain remains firmly in the captain’s chair, and this week he is joined by Rhys James and Sara Pascoe for the usual mix of quickfire gags, set-piece rounds and the kind of sharp political comedy that made the show a staple of BBC Two for nearly two decades. Whether TLC proves a long-term home remains to be seen, but for fans who mourned its cancellation, this is still a welcome return.

Secret Genius – Channel 4, 9pm

Episode 4. Alan Carr and Susie Dent continue their quest to find Britain’s hidden geniuses – ordinary people with extraordinary minds that may have been overlooked by the education system. Contestants take on a series of intelligence tests and games based on the challenges Mensa uses to measure IQ. The hosts remain watchable, though the format still struggles to generate genuine excitement.

Rich House, Poor House – Channel 5, 9pm

Series 12, Episode 2. Two families from opposite ends of the income scale swap homes, budgets and lives for a week. The format is well-worn by now, but the individual stories continue to surprise – and occasionally move.

Late Night

Gisele Pelicot: Newsnight Interview – BBC Two, 10pm

Essential, sobering television. Gisele Pelicot became known around the world after the harrowing details of her case emerged in a French courtroom: for nearly a decade, her husband Dominique drugged her and recruited dozens of men, strangers found online, to rape her while she was unconscious. What transformed an already appalling criminal case into something historically significant was Pelicot’s extraordinary decision to waive her right to anonymity and insist the trial be held in open court. She did so, she said, so that shame would change sides — falling not on victims but on perpetrators. Her quiet, unwavering dignity made her an icon of the movement against sexual violence. Newsnight secures what is one of the most important interviews of the year.

Yellowjackets – ITV1, 10:15pm

The award-winning survival horror drama arrives on UK free-to-air television for the first time, with ITVX streaming both series 1 and 2 in full from today. Yellowjackets follows a team of talented high-school girls’ football players whose lives are shattered when their plane crashes in the remote northern wilderness. What begins as a fight for survival descends into something far darker as the group splinters into savage, competing clans. The series intercuts their ordeal with the fractured adult lives they attempt to rebuild 25 years later.

Created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, the show boasts a powerhouse cast including Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci and Tawny Cypress. If you missed it first time around, this is well worth catching up on. Two episodes air back-to-back tonight on ITV1, with series 1 and 2 available on ITVX. Series 3 is currently airing on Paramount+ for subscribers.

Sport Summary

Rugby: Wales v France in the Six Nations at 3:10pm on BBC One, live from the Principality Stadium in Cardiff.

Winter Olympics: BBC One and BBC Two have Day 10 coverage from Milano Cortina, with medal events in alpine skiing, snowboard cross, figure skating and short track. Full coverage on Discovery+ and Eurosport.

Football: FA Cup fourth round — Arsenal v Wigan Athletic (k/o 4:30pm, TNT Sports 1 and Discovery+). Match of the Day: The FA Cup follows the news at 10:30pm on BBC One.

Cricket: India v Pakistan T20 World Cup from Colombo (start 1:30pm GMT, Sky Sports Cricket).

The Viewing Schedule

What’s On Streaming

BBC iPlayer: Lord of the Flies (all four episodes), Call the Midwife, MasterChef: The Professionals, Eurovision Classical Concerts, Gisèle Pelicot: Newsnight Interview, Countryfile, Gladiators, Winter Olympics coverage

ITVX: Betrayal (full series box set), Yellowjackets (series 1-2 in full; series 3 on Paramount+), Julia Bradbury’s Frozen South, The Floor, Ant & Dec’s Limitless Win, The 1% Club

Channel 4 streaming: The Great Pottery Throw Down, Secret Genius, The Dog House

Channel 5 streaming: Rich House Poor House, 22 Kids & Counting, Weight Loss Scams: Don’t Get Caught Out

Discovery+: Winter Olympics 2026 (full coverage)

Frequently Asked Questions

What time is Lord of the Flies on TV tonight?

Lord of the Flies is on BBC One at 9pm tonight (Sunday 15th February 2026). This is episode 2, titled Jack, featuring Lox Pratt in a standout performance. All four episodes are available on BBC iPlayer.

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

Our top pick is Lord of the Flies on BBC One at 9pm – the second episode deepens the psychological drama with a breakout performance from Lox Pratt as Jack. For spy thriller fans, Betrayal continues at 9pm on ITV1. And MasterChef: The Professionals at 7pm stages its first quarter-final with a king prawn invention test.

What time is Betrayal on TV tonight?

Betrayal is on ITV1 at 9pm tonight (Sunday 15th February 2026). This is episode 3 of the four-part MI5 thriller starring Shaun Evans. The full series is also available as a box set on ITVX.

What time is Call the Midwife on TV tonight?

Call the Midwife is on BBC One at 8pm tonight (Sunday 15th February 2026). This is series 15, episode 6, featuring a young father’s life-threatening diagnosis and Trixie investigating a mystery illness.

What rugby is on TV today?

Wales v France in the Six Nations kicks off at 3:10pm on BBC One today, live from the Principality Stadium in Cardiff. Coverage begins at 2:30pm.

What time is MasterChef The Professionals on tonight?

MasterChef: The Professionals is on BBC One at 7pm tonight (Sunday 15th February 2026) – note the earlier time for the Sunday episode. This is the first quarter-final, featuring an invention test with king prawns.

Final Verdict

Lord of the Flies takes tonight’s top billing with its second episode – Lox Pratt’s portrayal of Jack is a genuine revelation, bringing psychological depth to a character who could easily have been a one-note antagonist. Marc Munden’s direction remains cinematic and assured, and Jack Thorne’s adaptation continues to justify its existence alongside the novel and previous film versions. If you are only watching one thing tonight, this is it.

Betrayal on ITV1 at 9pm is the penultimate episode, and Shaun Evans’s raw performance as a spy whose professional and personal lives are simultaneously unravelling continues to anchor the series. MasterChef: The Professionals at 7pm raises the stakes with its first quarter-final, and Call the Midwife at 8pm delivers another moving instalment.

For sport, the Wales v France Six Nations clash on BBC One promises fierce competition from the Principality Stadium, the Winter Olympics enters its second week with plenty of medal action, and India v Pakistan in the T20 World Cup on Sky Sports is one of cricket’s most combustible fixtures. Gisèle Pelicot: Newsnight Interview at 10pm on BBC Two is essential, sobering television. And for those discovering it for the first time, Yellowjackets arriving on ITVX is a genuinely compelling box-set binge. A packed Sunday.

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.