TV Guide UK Tonight: Tues 1 Sept 2026 – The Game, The Jury & Celebrity MasterChef

Published: 29 August 2026

Tuesday 1 September 2026. Channel 5 brings back The Game, one of the better British thrillers of recent years, and puts it directly against Channel 4‘s re-enacted murder trial. BBC One starts the last week of Celebrity MasterChef heats and sends the Sewing Bee after a deerstalker. EastEnders is on at 7.30pm.

Quick Picks: Tonight’s Best

• The Game Channel 5, 9pm. Series two, and Patrick has found Huw.
• The Jury: 14 and on Trial for Murder Channel 4, 9pm. Twelve strangers, one real transcript.
• The Great British Sewing Bee BBC One, 8pm. Literary Icons Week.
• I Am Martin Parr BBC Four, 11pm. The maverick with the saturated colour.
• EastEnders is on tonight — BBC One, 7.30pm.

Early Evening

Nigellissima – BBC Two, 7pm

Nigella Lawson on a yogurt pot cake and a lighter tiramisu she has christened tiramisini, which is either charming or unbearable depending on the day you have had.

EastEnders – BBC One, 7.30pm

The Hawkins family waste no time making themselves felt in Albert Square, and Ravi decides he has waited long enough to find out what Priya was doing while he was away.

Race Against the Tide – BBC Two, 7.30pm

Six teams, six hours, and a beach that is going to be underwater regardless. The theme this week is marine, so there are dolphins, hermit crabs and a mythical kelpie that splits the judges, plus one towering piece that falls over. The whole format runs on the fact that nothing anybody builds will survive the evening. On the St Andrews sand, which the programme has decided to call the St Andrews Riviera.

Emmerdale – ITV1, 8pm

DS Ramsden is enjoying herself rather too much, a flashback fills in more of what happened during wedding week, and Nicola has a breakthrough. Coronation Street follows at 8.30pm, where Todd carries out Celeste’s last wishes and Jodie faces the consequences of assaulting Sarah.

The Great British Sewing Bee – BBC One, 8pm

Literary Icons Week, and the pleasure here is the same as ever: a made-to-measure challenge that sounds achievable until you watch someone attempt it. Sherlock Holmes’s deerstalker comes first, then a second-hand school uniform has to become something a grown-up Matilda might actually wear, and finally a Regency outfit built on Jane Austen. Anyone who has ever had to produce a costume for a school book week will recognise the low panic.

Saving Lives at Sea – BBC Two, 8pm

The charge that this series is essentially an RNLI fundraiser is not entirely unfair, and it does not matter much when the volunteer crew are this good company. Chris is a retired IT worker, Seb an architectural designer, Joe a swimming teacher. Tonight they go out to three children swept off on an inflatable dinghy, and later a walker caught by a landslide near Lyme Regis. One of the crew, a butcher called Dave, delivers the line of the episode about Mother Nature paying a visit.

The Dog House – Channel 4, 8pm

Cockapoo twins Milo and Mabel arrive to test whether the Bodley family can match them, and Floyd, a stray lurcher, mostly needs feeding.

Prime Time

The Game – Channel 5, 9pm ⭐

Series one left Huw Miller on a hospital trolley covered in blood, watching the serial killer he had been obsessing over — his own neighbour, the Ripton Stalker — being arrested. He was right about Patrick Harbottle all along, and being right has cost him everything. Now retired, he has moved to a remote spot on the coast with his wife Alice, who is determined to protect the family whatever it takes.

Prison has not slowed Patrick down at all. Robson Green plays him as a man for whom manipulation is simply the most interesting available activity, and he has found a route back into Huw’s head. The lever is a grieving widow who believes her husband was Patrick’s first victim, and who needs Huw’s help. He cannot say no. Tom Grieves has written a proper knot of a thriller, but it is the two lead performances that make it land, and Jason Watkins in particular is very good at showing a clever man losing an argument with himself. Continues tomorrow at 9pm.

The Jury: 14 and on Trial for Murder – Channel 4, 9pm

Two brothers killed their stepfather in a frenzied attack. They admit it. What they dispute is what it means: diminished responsibility and loss of control, which would take murder down to manslaughter. Can sustained provocation and being 14 years old excuse an act that violent?

The construction is what makes this series remarkable. Actors speak the words from an original trial transcript, with names and details altered, while twelve members of the public — different backgrounds, different lives, exactly as a real jury would be — listen and then deliberate on camera. Opinions swing, tempers fray, and one juror says out loud that it is extraordinary how quickly a first impression can be turned inside out. It is a genuine experiment rather than a format, and it will make you wonder how you would vote. Continues tomorrow at 9pm.

Celebrity MasterChef – BBC One, 9pm

The final week of heats, and by now the shape of the thing is entirely familiar: a signature dish with proper attention to plating, the humiliation of the palate test, and a masterclass with Giorgio Locatelli at a speed nobody can follow. YouTuber Max Fosh provides a running dry commentary as he moves from disaster to disaster, and Melvin Odoom and Una Healy get off to an uneven start. Paralympian Lauren Steadman and Sue Cleaver both do something genuinely good, and Cleaver is congratulated for a salad Locatelli rates above his own version — a compliment she accepts with the observation that she can at least now get work in a salad bar.

Emergency 24/7 – BBC Two, 9pm

For anyone who can take the grim end of hospital documentaries, this is the class of the field, and the editing is more merciful than most. Tonight retired engineer John has burns severe enough that damaged skin has to be cut away so it does not restrict his blood vessels, and healthy skin taken to patch him up. Watching surgeons peel and re-lay it is not easy. The other case — a young father with a clot on the brain who needs specialist treatment quickly — is the one that stays with you.

The Sugar Daddy Murder – ITV1, 9pm

A true crime film on the killing of Peter McMahon by a former partner for money. ITV1 at 9pm.

How the Celts Saved Britain – BBC Four, 9pm

Dan Snow’s argument, briskly made, that Irish missionaries carried literacy and technology back into a post-Roman Britain that had largely mislaid both. BBC Four at 9pm.

PopMaster TV – More4, 9pm

Five more contestants against Ken Bruce in heat five. More4 at 9pm.

Elsewhere at 9pm: Quest has Johnny Vegas stripping parts off an RAF plane at the Newark Air Museum, ITV3 has Vera from 8pm with Lewis at 10pm, Film4 shows The Rock, and Legend has the western Shoot Out.

Late Night

Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing – BBC Two, 10pm

The last of the series, on Lough Corrib. Still the gentlest programme on television and still, underneath it, about mortality.

9/11: The Unseen Footage – Channel 5, 10pm

A repeat of Saturday’s film, built from Reuters material that has never been broadcast. Channel 4 has the equally strong 9/11: 102 Minutes That Changed America at 10pm, so if you missed either at the weekend the whole evening is available.

I Am Martin Parr – BBC Four, 11pm

At a time when any photographer with ambitions worked in black and white, Parr was pointing a saturated colour camera at British people at the seaside. He was written off for years as a maker of glorified saucy postcards, which he has always denied and which this film comfortably disproves — look closely and there is a great deal more sympathy in the frame than the reputation suggests. Lee Shulman directed a tender portrait of him last year; this is the fuller account of a career that reshaped how British documentary photography looks. Grayson Perry is among the admirers.

Creed – BBC One, 10.40pm

Michael B Jordan talks Rocky Balboa out of retirement, and the fight scenes are shot with more craft than the franchise ever managed before.

The Godfather Part III – BBC Two, 11.05pm

BBC Two finishes what it started on Sunday. Not the equal of the first two, and better than everyone remembers.

Sport

Stoke City host Norwich City in the Championship, kick-off 8pm, coverage from 7.30pm on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Football. Day three of the US Open at Flushing Meadows is on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Tennis from 3.30pm. Stage 10 of La Vuelta, a hilly 184.7km from Alcaraz to Elche de la Sierra after the rest day, is live on TNT Sports 1 from 1.30pm with highlights on Channel 5 at 7pm. Day two of the British Open snooker from Cheltenham is on Channel 5 from 12.30pm.

The Viewing Schedule

What’s On Streaming

• BBC iPlayer: EastEnders, The Great British Sewing Bee, Celebrity MasterChef, Race Against the Tide, Saving Lives at Sea, Emergency 24/7, Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, I Am Martin Parr
• ITVX: Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Millionaire Hot Seat, The Sugar Daddy Murder
• Channel 4 streaming: The Jury: 14 and on Trial for Murder, The Dog House, 9/11: 102 Minutes That Changed America, Hollyoaks
• 5: The Game, 9/11: The Unseen Footage, Motorway Cops
• U: ‘Allo ‘Allo!, Would I Lie To You?

Frequently Asked Questions

Is EastEnders on tonight (Tuesday 1 September 2026)?

Yes. EastEnders is on BBC One at 7.30pm as usual on a Tuesday, before The Great British Sewing Bee at 8pm and Celebrity MasterChef at 9pm. The Hawkins family make their presence felt in Albert Square and Ravi presses Priya about what happened while he was away. It’s on iPlayer straight afterwards.

What is The Game on Channel 5 about?

The Game starts a second series on Channel 5 at 9pm. Retired detective Huw Miller (Jason Watkins) has moved to a remote coastal house with his wife Alice after the events of series one, but Patrick Harbottle (Robson Green), the serial killer he helped convict, has found a way to carry on the psychological duel from inside prison. Tom Grieves writes. It continues tomorrow at 9pm.

What is The Jury: 14 and on Trial for Murder?

It’s on Channel 4 at 9pm. Two brothers, one of them 14 at the time, admit killing their stepfather in a frenzied attack but plead diminished responsibility and loss of control, which would reduce the charge to manslaughter. Actors speak the words from a real trial transcript while twelve members of the public sit as a jury, and we watch their deliberations. It continues tomorrow at 9pm.

What live sport is on TV tonight: Tuesday 1 September 2026?

Stoke City v Norwich City in the Championship kicks off at 8pm on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Football, coverage from 7.30pm. Day three of the US Open is on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Tennis from 3.30pm. Stage 10 of La Vuelta is live on TNT Sports 1 from 1.30pm with highlights on Channel 5 at 7pm, and day two of the British Open snooker is on Channel 5 from 12.30pm.

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

The Game on Channel 5 at 9pm. The Jury: 14 and on Trial for Murder on Channel 4 is directly opposite and is the more unsettling of the two, so one of them needs recording. Both continue tomorrow night.

Who is on Celebrity MasterChef tonight?

Celebrity MasterChef is on BBC One at 9pm and starts the final week of heats with five new celebrities. YouTuber Max Fosh keeps up a dry running commentary, Radio 1’s Melvin Odoom and The Saturdays’ Una Healy have a patchy start, and paralympian Lauren Steadman and Coronation Street’s Sue Cleaver both produce something the judges rate highly.

What’s on the Great British Sewing Bee tonight?

It’s Literary Icons Week on BBC One at 8pm. The remaining sewers recreate Sherlock Holmes’s deerstalker, turn a second-hand school uniform into a grown-up Matilda outfit, and make a Regency outfit inspired by Jane Austen.

What time is Coronation Street on tonight?

Coronation Street is on ITV1 at 8.30pm, after Emmerdale at 8pm and before The Sugar Daddy Murder at 9pm. Both soaps are on ITVX afterwards.

What’s on BBC Two tonight?

BBC Two has Nigellissima at 7pm, Race Against the Tide at 7.30pm, Saving Lives at Sea at 8pm, Emergency 24/7 at 9pm, the last Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing at 10pm, Newsnight at 10.30pm and The Godfather Part III at 11.05pm.

Final Verdict

The Game returning is the best news of the night, and Watkins against Green is a match-up worth clearing an hour for. The Jury: 14 and on Trial for Murder is the more provocative programme and the one you will still be arguing about on Thursday — record whichever you don’t watch, because both run again tomorrow. The Great British Sewing Bee and Saving Lives at Sea carry the earlier evening, and I Am Martin Parr is a proper treat at 11pm. EastEnders is on at 7.30pm.

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