TV Guide UK Tonight: Sun 27 Sept 2026 – The Split Up, The Blame & Eva Longoria: Searching for France

Published: 22 September 2026

Sunday 27 September 2026. Three dramas land on top of each other at 9pm and all three are worth your time: The Split Up on BBC One turns the fight over a Manchester law firm into a family argument, ITV1’s The Blame narrows its murder investigation to the police station itself, and BBC Two has Simon Reeve underwater in the Sea of Cortez. Earlier, Eva Longoria starts a new French food series at 7.15pm, and Channel 5 clears the evening for live NFL from Dallas. EastEnders isn’t on.

Quick Picks: Tonight’s Best

• The Split Up BBC One, 9pm. Dhruv overrides Aria in public and the firm stops being the point.
• The Blame ITV1, 9pm. A missing SD card and a very uncomfortable conclusion.
• An Inspector Calls BBC Four, 10pm. David Thewlis, and Priestley still landing punches.
• Live NFL: Ravens at Cowboys Channel 5, 9pm. Three and a half hours from Dallas.
• EastEnders is not on tonight — it returns Monday at 7.30pm.

Early Evening

A Taste for Murder – ITV3, 6pm

A double bill leading into Midsomer Murders at 8.05pm. ITV3 runs crime uninterrupted from teatime to midnight, which on a Sunday is either a lifeline or a warning.

Hidden Figures – Film4, 6.30pm

The story of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, the Black women whose mathematics put John Glenn in orbit while NASA made them use a different bathroom. Film4 has it early enough to watch with anyone, and it is the rare based-on-a-true-story film that does not need to invent a villain.

Enemy At The Door – Talking Pictures TV, 6pm

Wartime occupation drama set in the Channel Islands. Talking Pictures TV follows it with the 1955 Diana Dors picture A Kid for Two Farthings at 7pm.

Explore with Simon Reeve – Dave, 6pm

Dave repeats Reeve’s older travel films a few hours before BBC Two shows his new one. Not coordinated, but convenient.

The Yorkshire Auction House – Quest, 6pm

Angus Ashworth empties houses and sends the contents to sale. Quest then runs four straight episodes of The Repair Shop from 8pm.

Elizabeth II: The Unseen Photos – Channel 5, 6.30pm

Private photographs of the late Queen, most of them unpublished, before Channel 5 hands the night over to American football.

Countryfile – BBC One, 7pm

The team are on the River Trent this week, which means beavers, white storks and the slow argument about what farmland is actually for. Sewage discharge gets its usual mention. Countryfile is at its best when it lets the anger show a little, and river pollution is the subject that reliably does it.

Eva Longoria: Searching for France – BBC Two, 7.15pm

New series. Longoria has already eaten her way through Mexico and Spain, and she turns out to be a genuinely good travel host: curious, greedy in the best sense, and happy to admit her French is not up to it. She starts in Paris and Versailles with a multi-Michelin-starred dinner, then spends just as much time on a croque monsieur. The Stanley Tucci comparison is obvious and she can take it.

Sharpe – ITV4, 7.10pm

Sean Bean, a green jacket, and two hours of Napoleonic grudges on ITV4, before RoboCop at 9.20pm.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – ITV2, 7pm

The dark one, where the plot finally admits where it has been going. ITV2 uses it as a lead-in to the return of Big Brother.

The Box – ITV1, 7pm

A new entertainment format opening ITV1’s evening, ahead of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? at 8pm with Jeremy Clarkson still in the chair.

Prime Time

The Split Up – BBC One, 9pm ⭐

This is the pick. Abi Morgan’s original The Split was about a family of divorce lawyers; this successor moves the firm to Manchester and makes the generational fight the whole engine.

Tonight Dhruv (Sanjeev Bhaskar) does the thing that cannot be walked back: he overrides his daughter Aria (Ritu Arya) in front of a client, on a negotiation about a trust for an unborn grandchild, after she had already swallowed several smaller humiliations. Luke suggests she could simply leave the firm, then immediately undercuts it — he loves his family, he just could not work with them every day. That line does more work than most of the episode.

What Ursula Rani Sarma’s writing gets right is that a British Asian family business and a lucrative modern law practice want opposite things from the same people, and nobody in the room can say so directly. Bhaskar in particular is very good at being reasonable in a way that is unbearable. Full series on iPlayer.

The Blame – ITV1, 9pm

The signs have been accumulating for weeks: the workplace culture, the silence around it, the group chat Emma is pointedly not in. Tonight it becomes unavoidable. A missing SD card leaves very little room to argue that Sophie’s killer is anywhere other than inside the police station, and Emma — who tried to report a sexual assault and was targeted by the people meant to be handling it — becomes the problem to be managed.

Crime drama usually offers a spectrum of good coppers and bad ones, with the institution basically sound. This does not. It suggests the badge makes the misogyny more dangerous rather than less, which is a harder watch and a better programme. Continues tomorrow on ITV1 at 9pm.

Wilderness with Simon Reeve – BBC Two, 9pm

Reeve is beneath Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, which Cousteau called the world’s aquarium and which has been hammered since. There are bull sharks at uncomfortably close range. The reason it is not another hour of despair is that he keeps finding small fisheries that have recovered, and communities making a living from a sea they stopped stripping.

Apocalypse: Could You Survive? – Channel 4, 9pm

The survival format where the premise is rebuilding society and the reality is a slow slide into factions. Tonight the Westsiders have to deal with Brooke’s betrayal, the Eastsiders have lost track of a gun, and a new arrival leads a raid across the line. Nobody has eaten anybody yet. Channel 4 follows it with Gogglebox at 10pm.

Live NFL: Baltimore Ravens at Dallas Cowboys – Channel 5, 9pm

Three and a half hours of live American football, with Dermot, Sam and Osi presenting. A rebuilt Ravens side against a Cowboys team carrying the usual weight of expectation. It runs to half past midnight, so it is the night’s main commitment if you take it on.

Big Brother – ITV2, 9pm

Back again, with the week’s eviction line-up going to a public vote and Big Brother: The Group Chat following at 10pm to explain what you just watched.

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation – E4, 9pm

The one with the Vienna opera house, which remains the best-staged sequence in the series. E4 gives it a clear run to 11.40pm.

An Inspector Calls – BBC Four, 10pm

Priestley wrote it in 1945 and set it in 1912, which lets the audience know exactly what is coming for the Birlings while they congratulate themselves. David Thewlis plays Goole as quietly certain rather than theatrical, which is the correct choice and not the usual one. One by one the family are shown to have had a hand in a young woman’s death, and then the ending pulls the floor out. BBC Four follows it at 11.25pm with an archive evening with Priestley himself, filmed as he turned 80.

The Riviera: A History in Pictures – BBC Four, 9pm

How painters and early photographers effectively invented the Mediterranean coast as somewhere to go, before An Inspector Calls takes the rest of the night.

No Hard Feelings – Film4, 9pm

Jennifer Lawrence is hired by two wealthy parents to draw their withdrawn son out before college. Cruder than it needed to be and funnier than it had any right to be.

Silent Witness – Drama, 9pm

Two and a quarter hours of Lyell Centre pathology on Drama, after Sister Boniface at 8pm.

Assault on Precinct 13 – GREAT! Action, 9pm

Carpenter’s siege picture, made for almost nothing, still tense. GREAT! Action has it at 9pm; GREAT! TV counters with As Good As It Gets.

Bee Gees: One Night Only – Sky Arts, 8.30pm

The 1997 Las Vegas concert in full, after a documentary at 7.10pm. Sky Arts is having a Bee Gees night and it is a better one than the phrase suggests.

Bangers & Cash – Yesterday, 8pm

A double bill from Thornton-le-Dale on Yesterday, sandwiched between four hours of Canal Boat Diaries.

22 Kids & Counting – Channel 5, 8pm

A new run with the Radfords, before the NFL takes over.

Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny – Blaze, 9pm

Blaze pairs it with Pharaohs At War at 10pm.

Late Night

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde – BBC One, 10.30pm

Elle Woods goes to Washington to ban animal testing. Nowhere near the first film, but BBC One has now shown both in two nights, so somebody there has a plan.

RoboCop – ITV4, 9.20pm

Verhoeven’s 1987 satire about privatised policing in a collapsing Detroit, which has aged into documentary. Certificate 18.

Death Race – Legend, 9pm

Jason Statham, a prison yard, cars with guns bolted to them. Legend knows its audience.

Gogglebox – Channel 4, 10pm

The sofas on the week just gone, with Celebrity Gogglebox at 11pm. 4seven runs its own Gogglebox at 9pm if the timing suits you better.

Sport

Channel 5 has the night’s main event: live NFL from 9pm, the Baltimore Ravens at the Dallas Cowboys, running past midnight. That is unusual placement for Channel 5 and it means the channel’s own factual line-up stops at 9pm rather than continuing through the evening.

BBC Two carries highlights of the third and final England v Sri Lanka ODI at 11.55pm, the match itself having been on subscription during the day. Rugby union’s Leicester Tigers against Saracens was an afternoon fixture on ITV1, and the road race at the Cycling World Championships finished in Montréal earlier in the day.

Tonight by Channel

A channel-by-channel breakdown of Sunday 27 September 2026, so you can jump straight to the one you actually watch.

BBC One

• 7pm — Countryfile
• 8pm — Antiques Roadshow
• 9pm — The Split Up
• 10.30pm — Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

BBC Two

• 7.15pm — Eva Longoria: Searching for France
• 8pm — Pilgrimage: The Road Through North Wales
• 9pm — Wilderness with Simon Reeve

ITV1

• 7pm — The Box
• 8pm — Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
• 9pm — The Blame

Channel 4

• 7.45pm — Celebrity Pottery Throw Down
• 9pm — Apocalypse: Could You Survive?
• 10pm — Gogglebox

Channel 5

• 6.30pm — Elizabeth II: The Unseen Photos
• 8pm — 22 Kids & Counting
• 9pm — Live NFL: Baltimore Ravens at Dallas Cowboys

BBC Four

• 9pm — The Riviera: A History in Pictures
• 10pm — An Inspector Calls

Drama

• 8pm — Sister Boniface Mysteries
• 9pm — Silent Witness

Film4

• 6.30pm — Hidden Figures
• 9pm — No Hard Feelings

ITV2

• 7pm — Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• 9pm — Big Brother

ITV4

• 7.10pm — Sharpe
• 9.20pm — RoboCop

Quest

• 6pm — The Yorkshire Auction House
• 8pm — The Repair Shop

The Viewing Schedule

What’s On Streaming

BBC iPlayer — The Split Up (full series), Wilderness with Simon Reeve (full series), An Inspector Calls, Eva Longoria: Searching for France, Countryfile.

ITVX — The Blame (full series), Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Channel 4 — Apocalypse: Could You Survive?, Celebrity Pottery Throw Down, Gogglebox.

5 — 22 Kids & Counting, Elizabeth II: The Unseen Photos.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is EastEnders on tonight (Sunday 27 September 2026)?

No. EastEnders does not air on Sundays. The soap runs Monday to Thursday at 7.30pm on BBC One, so the next episode is Monday 28 September. The whole week lands on iPlayer as a boxset each Monday morning.

What time is The Split Up on tonight?

The Split Up is on BBC One at 9pm. Tonight Dhruv publicly overrides Aria’s negotiation over an unborn grandchild’s trust, and the argument about who runs the Manchester firm stops being professional. The full series is on iPlayer.

What’s the best thing to watch on TV tonight (Sunday 27 September 2026)?

The Split Up on BBC One at 9pm. It is the strongest of the three dramas in the 9pm hour, with The Blame on ITV1 and Wilderness with Simon Reeve on BBC Two both worth recording.

What channel is The Blame on?

The Blame is on ITV1 at 9pm. Tonight a missing SD card makes it very hard to argue that Sophie’s killer is anywhere but inside the police station. The full series is on ITVX.

What live sport is on TV tonight: Sunday 27 September 2026?

Channel 5 has live NFL from 9pm, the Baltimore Ravens against the Dallas Cowboys, presented by Dermot, Sam and Osi. BBC Two carries highlights of the England v Sri Lanka ODI at 11.55pm.

What’s on ITV1 tonight?

ITV1 runs The Box at 7pm, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? at 8pm and the drama The Blame at 9pm, with ITV News at 10pm.

Is Big Brother on tonight?

Yes. Big Brother is on ITV2 at 9pm, with the week’s eviction vote opening, and Big Brother: The Group Chat follows at 10pm.

What film is on TV tonight?

Film4 has Hidden Figures at 6.30pm and No Hard Feelings at 9pm. E4 shows Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation at 9pm, ITV4 has RoboCop at 9.20pm, and BBC One closes with Legally Blonde 2 at 10.30pm.

What time is Antiques Roadshow on tonight?

Antiques Roadshow is on BBC One at 8pm, from a clifftop lighthouse on South Tyneside. Fiona Bruce presents.

What is Eva Longoria: Searching for France?

A new BBC Two series starting tonight at 7.15pm in which Eva Longoria eats her way around France, beginning in Paris. It follows her earlier Mexico and Spain series.

Final Verdict

The 9pm hour is genuinely congested tonight and there is no way to be clever about it. The Split Up is the best of the three and the one that will be talked about, but The Blame is doing something braver with a more familiar genre, and Reeve’s diving hour is the one you will remember the pictures from.

If you want none of it, An Inspector Calls at 10pm on BBC Four is the strongest thing on the whole schedule. Eighty years old, ninety minutes, and still the most efficient argument about responsibility anyone has put on television.

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