TV Guide UK Tonight: Tues 14 Apr 2026 – Sort Your Life Out Finale, Sam & Ade Go Birding & Missed Call
Tuesday delivers a proper clash of schedules. Sort Your Life Out closes its sixth series on BBC One at 8pm, going head-to-head with Sam and Ade Go Birding — a three-part Channel 5 series that pairs Samuel West and Adrian Edmondson for a tour of the British countryside’s birds. At 9pm, Missed Call reaches its second episode on Channel 5, with Joanna Scanlan still searching for her daughter in France and getting nowhere fast. On BBC One, Babies arrives at its series finale at 9pm — the conclusion to what has been one of the better dramas of this spring. And for anyone keeping one eye on a laptop, Liverpool host PSG on Amazon Prime at 8pm needing to overturn a two-goal deficit in the Champions League quarter-final second leg.
Quick Picks: Tonight’s Best
- Sam and Ade Go Birding ⭐ — Channel 5, 8pm — Series premiere. Samuel West and Adrian Edmondson in West Cornwall. Warm, funny, and better than it sounds
- Missed Call — Channel 5, 9pm — Episode 2. Joanna Scanlan presses on in France with nothing going right
- Babies — BBC One, 9pm — Series finale. Has it earned the ending? Find out tonight
- Sort Your Life Out — BBC One, 8pm — Series six finale. Stacey Solomon’s most reliable show signs off for another year
- Liverpool v PSG — Amazon Prime Video, 8pm — Two goals down. Anfield will need to be very loud indeed
- EastEnders — BBC One, 7:30pm — Vicki’s situation escalates. Oscar’s avoiding Josh. Bea’s got her eye on Honey
Early Evening
EastEnders – BBC One, 7:30pm
The fallout from the stag do is still spreading. Vicki’s situation escalates tonight — exactly where things land with the blackmail that arrived on Monday is the question, and the soap is in no rush to let anyone off the hook. Elsewhere, Oscar is making himself scarce around Josh, which tells you something is building there, and Bea has started eyeing Honey with the kind of attention that never leads anywhere peaceful in Albert Square. Three separate threads, none of them resolved, and Tuesday is usually where EastEnders likes to complicate things before the midweek episode can tidy them up. It won’t be tidying them up. Catch up via BBC iPlayer.
Prime Time
Emmerdale – ITV1, 8pm
ITV’s soaps power hour opens with Emmerdale’s 30-minute slot. The village continues its run of complicated decisions and conversations people should probably not be having. Catch up via ITVX.
Sort Your Life Out with Stacey Solomon – BBC One, 8pm (SERIES FINALE)
Six series in and Stacey Solomon’s decluttering programme has outlasted most things that were commissioned the same year, which tells you something about what it does right. The format is simple enough: a family whose home has filled up past the point of manageability gets the full treatment — every object pulled out, categorised, judged, and either kept or let go. The bit that makes it work is what the stuff actually means to the people — a lamp that belonged to someone’s nan, a drawer of letters nobody could throw away. Solomon gets that part right, and always has.
The series finale closes out a run that has been broadly consistent — some families more compelling than others, some transformations more dramatic, but the core of it has stayed reliable. The team are good at what they do, and the last episode tends to carry a bit more weight simply because it’s the last one. Whether there’s a seventh series likely depends on whether the BBC still believes in the Tuesday 8pm slot for this kind of thing, which recent scheduling suggests they do. Catch up via BBC iPlayer.
Sam and Ade Go Birding ⭐ – Channel 5, 8pm (SERIES PREMIERE)
The Mortimer and Whitehouse shadow looms over this kind of programme, which is inevitable when the format is two friends going somewhere and having a slow time on purpose. But Samuel West and Adrian Edmondson are not Bob and Paul, and the thing they’ve gone to do — birdwatching — is sufficiently specific that the series earns its own space fairly quickly.
West has been seriously into birds for more than two decades. Edmondson is a complete beginner, and genuinely so rather than performing incompetence for television. The three-part series from Frank Films takes them across the British Isles — North Norfolk for geese, Somerset for bitterns and kingfishers, and tonight, West Cornwall for Cornish choughs. The chough, if you haven’t encountered one, is a red-billed, red-legged black crow with a very strong claim to being the finest-looking bird in the UK. West clearly agrees. Edmondson is mainly just trying to find it with the binoculars.
What makes it work beyond the wildlife is what the format always promises: two people who actually like each other, talking without anywhere particular to be. Edmondson, in an interview about the series, said he’d lost several friends in recent years and that making a new one had felt welcome. That’s in the programme, in the way these things tend to get into a programme when nobody’s performing for it. Three episodes. Worth your Tuesday evenings. Catch up via My5.
Coronation Street – ITV1, 8:30pm
The second half of ITV’s soaps hour. Jodie continues to help herself to things that aren’t hers, and the fallout is widening. Will Driscoll gets another unpleasant surprise, which is becoming something of a habit for him. Catch up via ITVX.
9pm: Two Ways to Go
Babies – BBC One, 9pm (SERIES FINALE)
This is it for Stefan Golaszewski’s six-part drama, and it arrives having built up more goodwill than most BBC One dramas manage in a full run. Paapa Essiedu and Siobhán Cullen have been the reason to watch throughout — not because the writing has been poor, but because the writing gave them something real to do with and they did it. The series has been about grief and two people trying to hold it together, and it hasn’t rushed to make anything neat.
What the finale needs to do is honour what came before rather than tidy it away. Whether it manages that is the only question that matters tonight. The full series remains on BBC iPlayer if you need to catch up before 9pm — and you should, because episode six will not make sense without what preceded it. Catch up via BBC iPlayer.
Missed Call – Channel 5, 9pm
Episode two of five, and the five-part thriller format lives or dies on this one. The opening episode of Missed Call set up the situation cleanly enough: Sarah’s daughter Katie is missing somewhere in rural France, the host family is not behaving normally, and the local gendarmerie has taken a look at the case and concluded it doesn’t particularly need solving. Sarah, played by Joanna Scanlan, is now left with a hotel room, a phone, and fewer allies than she arrived with.
The second episode is where a series like this either reveals what it’s actually about beneath the plot mechanics or settles for being a competent missing-person thriller. Scanlan is good enough to make either version watchable, but the first episode suggested ambitions beyond the straightforward. How the French setting is used matters here — there’s a particular kind of European thriller unhurriedness in episode one that the second episode either sustains or abandons for momentum. Three more nights after tonight. Catch up via My5.
Sport
Football: Liverpool v PSG – Amazon Prime Video, 8pm (k/o 8pm)
UEFA Champions League Quarter-Final, Second Leg. Liverpool host Paris Saint-Germain at Anfield having lost the first leg 2-0 at the Parc des Princes — goals from Desire Doue and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia did the damage. To go through, Liverpool need to score at least twice without conceding, or score three if PSG get one. Anfield has produced bigger European nights than this, and Liverpool have done it before, but PSG are the reigning champions and didn’t look troubled in Paris.
It’s on Amazon Prime Video with kick-off at 8pm, which means anyone also wanting to watch Sort Your Life Out or Sam and Ade Go Birding will need a second screen or a decision. Amazon Prime subscription required.
The Viewing Schedule
| Time | Channel | Programme |
|---|---|---|
| 7:30pm | BBC One | EastEnders |
| 8:00pm | ITV1 | Emmerdale |
| 8:00pm | BBC One | Sort Your Life Out (SERIES FINALE) |
| 8:00pm | Channel 5 | Sam and Ade Go Birding (SERIES PREMIERE) |
| 8:00pm | Amazon Prime Video | Liverpool v PSG (k/o 8pm) |
| 8:30pm | ITV1 | Coronation Street |
| 9:00pm | BBC One | Babies (SERIES FINALE) |
| 9:00pm | Channel 5 | Missed Call (Ep 2) |
What’s On Streaming
BBC iPlayer: EastEnders, Sort Your Life Out, Babies
ITVX: Emmerdale, Coronation Street
My5: Sam and Ade Go Birding, Missed Call (full series airing Mon–Fri)
Amazon Prime Video: Liverpool v PSG (subscription required)
Frequently Asked Questions
Is EastEnders on tonight (Tuesday 14 April 2026)?
Yes, EastEnders is on BBC One at 7:30pm tonight. The situation with Vicki escalates — the blackmail fallout from Monday’s stag do continues, and Oscar is making himself scarce around Josh while Bea turns her attention to Honey. It’s shaping up to be a busy midweek on the Square. Catch up via BBC iPlayer.
What time is Sort Your Life Out on BBC One tonight?
Sort Your Life Out with Stacey Solomon is on BBC One at 8pm tonight (Tuesday 14 April 2026). It’s the series six finale — the last home transformation of the run. Catch up via BBC iPlayer.
What time is Sam and Ade Go Birding on Channel 5 tonight?
Sam and Ade Go Birding starts on Channel 5 at 8pm tonight (Tuesday 14 April 2026). It’s the series premiere of the three-part factual series with Samuel West and Adrian Edmondson. Episode one heads to West Cornwall to find Cornish choughs. Catch up via My5.
What time is Missed Call on Channel 5 tonight?
Missed Call is on Channel 5 at 9pm tonight (Tuesday 14 April 2026). It’s episode 2 of the five-part thriller with Joanna Scanlan as Sarah, who remains in France with dwindling options as she tries to find out what happened to her daughter. Catch up via My5.
Is the Liverpool v PSG Champions League match on TV tonight?
Yes. Liverpool v PSG is live on Amazon Prime Video tonight (Tuesday 14 April 2026), kick-off 8pm. It’s the Champions League quarter-final second leg at Anfield. Liverpool lost the first leg 2-0 in Paris and need a significant turnaround to go through. An Amazon Prime subscription is required.
What’s the best thing to watch on TV tonight (Tuesday 14 April 2026)?
Sam and Ade Go Birding on Channel 5 at 8pm is the best new thing starting tonight — Samuel West and Adrian Edmondson in West Cornwall, warm and unhurried in the way only a good factual series about birds can be. If you’re following the dramas, Babies on BBC One at 9pm reaches its finale, and Missed Call on Channel 5 at 9pm hits episode two. For sport, Liverpool v PSG on Amazon Prime Video at 8pm is the night’s biggest event by some distance.
Final Verdict
Sam and Ade Go Birding is the pick of the night, or at least the most pleasant surprise. It could so easily have been a tired format with a different set of names attached, and the first episode earns its place quickly. Samuel West in West Cornwall looking for choughs, with Adrian Edmondson doing his best with a pair of binoculars, is better company than most Tuesday nights provide.
Babies at 9pm on BBC One deserves your time for the finale. It has been one of the better BBC One dramas of the year and the conclusion will tell you whether Stefan Golaszewski knew how to end it as well as he knew how to begin it. Worth seeing through.
Missed Call continues at 9pm on Channel 5 — Joanna Scanlan remains excellent and episode two will establish whether the series has real momentum or is coasting on a strong opening. Keep watching for now.
And if you have an Amazon subscription and any interest in European football, Liverpool v PSG at Anfield at 8pm is the kind of match that Anfield was built for. Two goals down against the holders. You never quite know.
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