TV Guide UK Tonight: Sun 6 Sept 2026 – Vigil, Trigger Point & Reckless

Published: 2 September 2026

Sunday 6 September 2026. BBC One has the night’s biggest event: Vigil returns for the first of two consecutive nights, following an Antiques Roadshow repeat with a royal guest and Countryfile from Cumbria. ITV1 answers with Trigger Point at 9pm running straight into the new Australian remake of Guilt, Reckless. Channel 4 closes out its Luton ambush story on 24 Hours in Police Custody, and Arsenal host Chelsea in the day’s big match. EastEnders isn’t on Sundays.

Quick Picks: Tonight’s Best

• Vigil BBC One, 9pm. Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie, night one of two.
• Trigger Point ITV1, 9pm. Vicky McClure’s bomb disposal thriller returns.
• Reckless ITV1, 10.15pm. New Australian remake of Guilt, straight after Trigger Point.
• Antiques Roadshow BBC One, 8pm. The Eden Project episode with Queen Camilla, repeated.
• EastEnders is not on tonight — it returns Monday for a double wedding.

Early Evening

Countryfile – BBC One, 7pm

John Craven and Anita Rani are in Cumbria this week, talking to farmers about how they’ve coped with a summer of record-breaking heat. Grass has burned off early in places, water has had to be trucked in for livestock, and one farmer explains why a “good” summer for people on holiday can be the opposite for someone trying to grow winter feed.

American Classics at the Proms – BBC Two, 6pm

Marin Alsop leads the Philharmonia through a programme recorded on 24 August that leans hard into 20th-century American music: Copland’s Appalachian Spring, Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, and a version of Rhapsody in Blue with jazz pianist Marcus Roberts and his trio sitting in. BBC Two at 6pm.

Live Snooker: British Open Final – Channel 5, 6.45pm

Live coverage of the final from Cheltenham, the last match of a week that started with a much bigger field. Channel 5 has carried the tournament all week and takes it through to the trophy.

Steel Magnolias – Film4, 6.40pm

A cast that reads like a list of the best actresses of a generation — Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, Dolly Parton, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis — packed into one small-town Louisiana beauty salon. It’s a weepie by design, and it earns it: the jokes are sharp enough that the ending still catches you off guard. Film4 at 6.40pm.

F1 Italian GP Highlights – Channel 4, 6.30pm

The edited-down version of round 13 from Monza for anyone who had other plans during the live race on Sky Sports F1 earlier in the afternoon. See the Sport section below for the full live schedule.

Prime Time

Antiques Roadshow – BBC One, 8pm

Tonight’s episode is a repeat recorded during a visit to Cornwall’s Eden Project, filmed in 2022 and first shown in 2023, and it’s an unusual one: Queen Camilla, then still Duchess of Cornwall, arrived with a small silver snuffbox and an old edition of Thomas Gray’s poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard for the experts to look over. She also sat in on Fiona Bruce’s mystery-object round, having a guess at what a lump of rock crystal and an ornate silver plaque, etched with eyes and arrow motifs, had originally been made for. Watching a royal genuinely stuck for an answer is more entertaining than you’d think.

How the Tudors Lost Their Heads – National Geographic, 8pm

A new series from Dan Snow and Suzannah Lipscomb that takes a clever angle on Tudor history: start at the execution and work backwards to ask how someone ended up there. The opener is Mary Queen of Scots, using her intercepted coded letters and the note she wrote in the small hours before her death to weigh up how much of what happened to her she brought on herself. All six episodes are on Disney+ from today if you’d rather binge it.

Pilgrimage: The Road Through the Alps – BBC Two, 8pm

A mixed group of celebrities with very different relationships to faith walk a historic pilgrim route together, this time through Alpine passes rather than the usual flat coastal paths. The format only works because the disagreements are real, not staged, and this series finds a fresh set of them among the mountains.

Martha Argerich at the Proms – BBC Four, 8pm

She’s 85 now, first played the Last Night six decades back, and still has a touch most pianists half her age would envy. Tonight it’s Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with Lahav Shani conducting the Munich Philharmonic and Katie Derham and Petroc Trelawny presenting. BBC Four at 8pm.

Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA – E4, 8pm

Another struggling American restaurant, another kitchen full of problems Gordon Ramsay didn’t cause but is determined to fix before the owners run out of money entirely. The format hasn’t changed in years because it doesn’t need to.

Vigil – BBC One, 9pm ⭐

This is the one to build your Sunday around, and Monday too, because it doesn’t resolve tonight. Vigil returns for the first of two consecutive nights, picking up on the Arctic research base after a death in the hub sees Kirsten taken into custody as the prime suspect. There isn’t a single camera covering the site, and whoever’s really responsible clearly knows it.

Amy flies north with her partner’s freedom on the line, leaving her mother holding things together at home, and quickly discovers the stakes reach well beyond one body in the hub — a diplomatic situation involving Svalbard that Russia could use as an excuse for something far worse. Her warning to Kirsten to keep out of sight doesn’t hold, and by the time the power cuts out and weapons start turning up, this has stopped looking like an investigation and started looking like a stand-off.

Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie were the reason the first series worked as well as it did, and putting them back together in a location this isolated is the smart move. Two nights is the right length for this story — long enough to build real dread, short enough that it won’t outstay its welcome. Watch it live if you can, because by Tuesday everyone will be talking about how it ends.

Trigger Point – ITV1, 9pm

Lana Washington is straight back into the field, and the writers haven’t eased her in gently. Three bombs are planted around the capital in quick succession, hostages get taken, and the City of London effectively shuts down for the night. A previously unmentioned evacuation protocol, Code 17, kicks in, supposedly to get senior counter-terror staff out of danger, but it’s the kind of tidy official explanation this show usually spends an episode unpicking. DS Helen Morgan and Commander Nia Quentin are both caught in the middle of it, and Lana’s therapy sessions suggest this isn’t the first crisis she’s carrying home with her.

24 Hours in Police Custody: the Ambush – Channel 4, 9pm

The conclusion of last week’s case from Luton, and a genuinely tough watch. A teenager badly hurt in a roadside attack remains critically injured and unconscious in hospital while detectives trace what happened back to a violent falling-out between two rival local drug gangs. This strand earns its reputation for treating real police work seriously rather than turning it into entertainment, and tonight’s ending doesn’t offer an easy resolution.

The Terror: Devil in Silver – Sky Atlantic, 9pm

A double-episode finale that ties off every thread at once: Dorry is left with nothing, Anand deals with the fallout of decisions he can’t take back, and Dr Walter and Pepper finally have the confrontation the whole run has been building towards.

Celebrity Gogglebox – E4, 9pm

Famous faces on their own sofas, watching the same television as everyone else and saying the things regular Gogglebox families are usually too polite to say out loud.

Rob and Rylan’s Passage to India – BBC Two, 9pm

Rob Rinder and Rylan Clark keep travelling across India, and the appeal is entirely in how mismatched they are: one plans everything, the other wanders off, and somehow the trip works better for it.

Late Night

Reckless – ITV1, 10.15pm

A new Australian version of Neil Forsyth’s Guilt, and the change of setting does more than just relocate the accents. Siblings June, a solicitor, and Charlie run down an elderly man on a quiet street late at night, panic, and stage the scene so it reads as a natural death rather than call for help. The comedy is still there, but the series also digs into Australia’s racial politics directly: part of what keeps the pair silent is their fear that officers simply won’t take the word of two Indigenous suspects. It’s a sharper hook than the original had, and worth staying up past ten for. ITV1 again at 10.15pm, full series on ITVX.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – BBC Two, 10pm

Paul Newman and Robert Redford as outlaws whose charm runs out along with their luck, fleeing to Bolivia when home stops being an option. Still one of the best double acts a western has ever put on screen.

A Taste of Honey – BBC Four, 10.15pm

The 1984 television revival of Shelagh Delaney’s 1958 play, and it still lands harder than most things written decades later about class and race in Britain. A pregnant teenager moves in with a gay art student while her own mother drifts in and out of her life. Peter Egan, who plays the wealthy older lover in the story, introduces the broadcast beforehand and talks about why the play has stayed on school syllabuses for so long.

United 93 – Channel 5, 11.05pm

Paul Greengrass’s 2006 film reconstructs one of the four hijackings of 11 September 2001, and it airs this week 25 years on from the attacks. Real air traffic controllers and flight crew play versions of themselves alongside professional actors, which gives the whole thing an unsettling authenticity that a fully scripted cast couldn’t manage. Greengrass has always said he wanted the film to stand for what the world became after that day, not just a record of the day itself.

Gogglebox – Channel 4, 11pm

A late repeat slot for this week’s episode, for anyone who missed Friday’s series return and wants the families’ verdicts on the week’s television before Monday resets everything.

Sport

Arsenal host Chelsea in the Premier League this afternoon, kick-off 4.30pm on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League — the champions’ first London derby of the new season. The Italian Grand Prix, round 13 of the Formula One calendar, is live from Monza on Sky Sports F1, with the race starting at 2pm following qualifying build-up from 12.30pm; Channel 4 carries highlights at 6.30pm for anyone without a subscription. Day eight of the US Open at Flushing Meadows runs on Sky Sports Tennis from 3.30pm, moving to Sky Sports Main Event from 7pm as the later matches get underway.

The Viewing Schedule

What’s On Streaming

• BBC iPlayer: Vigil (from tonight), Antiques Roadshow, Countryfile, Pilgrimage: The Road Through the Alps, American Classics at the Proms, Martha Argerich at the Proms, A Taste of Honey
• ITVX: Trigger Point, Reckless (full series)
• Channel 4 streaming: 24 Hours in Police Custody: the Ambush, Gogglebox
• Disney+: How the Tudors Lost Their Heads (all six episodes)
• NOW: The Terror: Devil in Silver
• 5 streaming: United 93

Frequently Asked Questions

Is EastEnders on tonight (Sunday 6 September 2026)?

No. EastEnders runs Monday to Thursday on BBC One at 7.30pm, so there’s no episode on Sundays. The next one is Monday 7 September, and it’s a double wedding.

What time is Vigil on tonight?

Vigil is on BBC One at 9pm. It’s the first of two consecutive nights, with part two following on Monday at the same time.

What’s the best thing to watch on TV tonight (Sunday 6 September 2026)?

Vigil on BBC One at 9pm is the pick of the night, with Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie back for a two-night murder mystery on an Arctic research base. ITV1’s Trigger Point and Reckless double bill from 9pm is the strongest alternative.

What live sport is on TV tonight: Sunday 6 September 2026?

Arsenal host Chelsea in the Premier League, kick-off 4.30pm on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League. The Italian Grand Prix from Monza is live on Sky Sports F1 from 2pm, with highlights on Channel 4 at 6.30pm. Day eight of the US Open is on Sky Sports Tennis from 3.30pm and Sky Sports Main Event from 7pm.

What’s on ITV1 tonight?

ITV1 runs Trigger Point at 9pm, in which bomb disposal officer Lana Washington faces three devices and a hostage situation in the City of London, followed straight after by the season premiere of Reckless at 10.15pm, a new Australian remake of Guilt.

What channel is Trigger Point on?

Trigger Point is on ITV1 at 9pm, with Vicky McClure back as Lana Washington. The full series is on ITVX.

Does Vigil continue tomorrow night?

Yes. This week’s story runs across two consecutive nights, so Vigil continues on BBC One at 9pm on Monday 7 September. The full series is also on iPlayer.

What is Reckless on ITV1 about?

Reckless is a new Australian version of Neil Forsyth’s Guilt, on ITV1 at 10.15pm. Solicitor June and her brother Charlie kill an elderly pedestrian in a late-night accident and disguise it as a natural death rather than report it, with the story also digging into Australia’s racial politics.

Which royal appeared on Antiques Roadshow tonight?

Tonight’s 8pm episode is a repeat of the Eden Project special filmed in 2022 and first shown in 2023, in which Queen Camilla brought along a small silver snuffbox and an old edition of Thomas Gray’s poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, then took part in Fiona Bruce’s mystery-object round.

What film is on TV tonight?

United 93 is on Channel 5 at 11.05pm. Director Paul Greengrass’s account of what happened aboard one of the four hijacked planes on 11 September 2001 lands on the schedule in the same week as the 25th anniversary.

Final Verdict

Vigil is the reason to be in front of BBC One at 9pm, and the fact it doesn’t wrap up tonight only makes it a better watch live — you’ll want to talk about it before Monday’s conclusion. Trigger Point into Reckless gives ITV1 a genuinely strong two-hour block, and the new Australian setting makes Reckless worth staying up for on its own merits. Antiques Roadshow‘s royal repeat at 8pm is a pleasant surprise for a Sunday evening, and United 93 is a heavy but worthwhile way to end the night if you’re still awake at 11.05pm. EastEnders returns Monday at 7.30pm.

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