TV Guide UK Tonight: Tues 28 Apr 2026 – Half Man, MasterChef & PSG v Bayern

Published: 22 April 2026

Tuesday 28 April 2026. The cultural event of the night arrives late: Half Man, Richard Gadd’s follow-up to Baby Reindeer, starts at 10:40pm on BBC One — but episode 1 is already on BBC iPlayer if you’d rather not wait. MasterChef and Interior Design Masters hold BBC One’s prime time, Secret Service continues on ITV1 at 9pm, and the Champions League semi-final — PSG v Bayern Munich — kicks off at 8pm on Prime Video.

Quick Picks: Tonight’s Best

• Half Man ⭐ — BBC One, 10:40pm — Richard Gadd’s Baby Reindeer follow-up. Jamie Bell co-stars. Episode 1 already on iPlayer
• MasterChef — BBC One, 9pm — Fish finger sandwich chaos. Six cooks, alumni judges, Grace Dent and Anna Haugh
• Secret Service — ITV1, 9pm — Episode 2. Tom Bradby appears as himself. Robert Peston also on screen
• Football: Champions League — Prime Video, 8pm — PSG v Bayern Munich, semi-final first leg
• Murder in Shetland: Trial by Jury — Channel 5, 9pm — Concluding episode. Verdict tonight
• Sam and Ade Go Birding — Channel 5, 8pm — Last in series. Somerset bittern. Murmuration finale

Early Evening

EastEnders – BBC One, 7:30pm

Monday’s episode landed heavily — Ross Kemp back as Grant Mitchell, Paul Bradley in Nigel Bates’s exit arc, all three Mitchell siblings together for the first time in years. Tonight’s episode continues that storyline. The details of Tuesday’s specific scenes weren’t confirmed before broadcast, but the Grant, Phil, Sam and Nigel arc runs through the week. Catch up via BBC iPlayer.

The Martin Lewis Money Show Live – ITV1, 7:15pm

Martin Lewis with live financial tips before ITV’s evening soaps hour. If you’ve been putting off dealing with your energy bills or savings rate, this is the one to have on in the background. Catch up via ITVX.

Michael Portillo in Stockholm – Channel 5, 7pm

The lemon-yellow-beanie-wearing Portillo revisits Sweden in a revised 2024 edition and, as usual, arrives with a set of assumptions that the country quietly dismantles one by one. He eats meatballs (expected), tours the royal palace’s grand banqueting hall being prepared for a state dinner honouring French President Macron (less expected), and ends up negotiating the etiquette of Swedish sauna culture, ultimately opting for swimming trunks while everyone around him does not. He’s very game, which is the whole point. Catch up via 5 streaming.

Sport

Football: Champions League – PSG v Bayern Munich – Prime Video, 8pm (k/o 8pm)

The first leg of the first semi-final. Paris Saint-Germain host Bayern Munich at the Parc des Princes, kick-off 8pm, live exclusively on Prime Video. This is the big one — the match that will dominate football conversation for the next week. An Amazon Prime subscription is required to watch.

Snooker: World Championship – BBC Two, from 10am

Quarter-finals begin at the Crucible today. BBC Two carries play at 10am, 2:15pm and 7pm. TNT Sports 1 covers from 10am, 2:30pm and 6:30pm. Every frame available on BBC iPlayer.

Football: Championship – Southampton v Ipswich Town – Sky Sports, 7:30pm (k/o 7:45pm)

A promotion six-pointer at St Mary’s. Two sides with a lot to play for, kick-off 7:45pm on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Football.

Prime Time

Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr – BBC One, 8pm

Nine designers head to Peckforton Castle in Cheshire — a Victorian Gothic pile that serves as a hotel — and are tasked with turning its bedrooms into romantic retreats for guests celebrating special occasions. The briefs that come back include gold-sprayed room dividers, new headboards, at least one chandelier resembling an octopus, and various degrees of Alice in Wonderland inspiration. Guest judge this week is Linda Boronkay alongside regular Michelle Ogundehin, who continues to be the one asking where exactly you’d hang a coat in all this. Alan Carr circles the castle being encouraging and occasionally baffled. BBC iPlayer.

Sam and Ade Go Birding – Channel 5, 8pm (LAST IN SERIES)

The final trip takes Samuel West and Adrian Edmondson to the Somerset Levels in search of the bittern — a bird that makes a point of not being found. Sam turns out to collect things, though he’s careful about what. Ade reflects that he’s always had a melancholy streak and jokes that he spent most of his career “dicking about” — which anyone who watched Bottom or The Young Ones will recognise as self-deprecation of the highest order. The series closes with a starling murmuration over the levels, which is exactly the right way to end a programme about why paying close attention to the natural world is worth the early mornings. Catch up via 5 streaming.

9pm: Three to Choose From

MasterChef – BBC One, 9pm

The fish finger sandwich is a test of confidence more than technique, which is why it apparently produces chaos among six perfectly competent home cooks. Grace Dent and Anna Haugh watch this with the particular expression of judges who expected better. The signature dishes that follow include pork six ways — cooked by someone whose stated reason is simply “I like pork”, which is admirable clarity — and a lasagne that replaces pasta sheets with plantain. Dent makes a joke about a portion size and her back. The final task is cooking for a group of MasterChef alumni: finalist Omar Foster, former winner Steven Wallis and former winner Chariya Khattiyot. The stakes feel genuine. BBC iPlayer.

Secret Service – ITV1, 9pm (Episode 2)

Monday’s premiere set up the mole, the marriage, and the uncomfortable proximity of Westminster to the intelligence community. Episode two adds a layer that no other spy drama could quite manage: Tom Bradby appears as himself delivering News at Ten, Robert Peston also turns up, and a Good Morning Britain sequence puts fictional Foreign Secretary Ryan Walker (Mark Stanley) in front of Susanna Reid and Ed Balls. The effect of real media faces interrogating a made-up politician is quietly unsettling, which is clearly the point. Full series on ITVX.

Murder in Shetland: Trial by Jury – Channel 5, 9pm (CONCLUDING EPISODE)

Monday’s first part laid out what happened to Claire Leveque and what Aren Pearson said on that 999 call. Tonight, Pearson takes the stand. His defence is amnesia — he claims no memory of the stabbing itself, the 999 call, or driving his car into the sea directly afterwards. His counter-claim: that Claire inflicted the original wound herself and he struck her in response. After three hours of jury deliberation, the verdict is reached. The series has treated Claire Leveque’s family with consistent care, and the concluding episode maintains that. Catch up via 5 streaming.

Also at 9pm

Better Date than Never – BBC Three, 9pm and 9:35pm

The Australian dating series continues with a double bill — episodes 1 and 2. Nirvali builds a genuine connection with an archaeologist; Charles is working methodically on the nerves that have held him back; Liv needs this to go well enough that her actual wedding plans can go ahead. Families are involved throughout, but the series is careful about how: encouraging, but not overbearing. The whole thing is warmer than you’d expect. Full series on iPlayer.

National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood – Sky Arts, 9pm

The National Theatre’s 2021 post-lockdown production of Dylan Thomas’s verse play, directed by Lyndsey Turner. Michael Sheen and Siân Phillips lead a production that Turner opened up by commissioning new material from Welsh playwright Sian Owen. The staging relocates the action to a care home while keeping Thomas’s poetic structure intact — a choice that sounds risky and largely works. Catch up via Now.

Miss Scarlet – U&Alibi, 9pm (LAST IN SERIES)

Series 6 ends with Eliza and Alexander toasting “to our last case”, which turns out not to be entirely accurate. Miss Scott (Lindsay Bennett-Thompson) arrives with a commission — the murder of a government minister — on the condition it’s handled completely off the books, and that Eliza and Alexander end their romantic relationship. A seventh and final series has already been confirmed, so the goodbye has limits. Moses, Clarence, Ivy and Barnabus are given unusually prominent roles. Catch up via Now.

Late Night: The One to Stay Up For

Half Man ⭐ – BBC One, 10:40pm (NEW SERIES, Episode 1)

Richard Gadd wrote Baby Reindeer. Half Man is what comes next — and it arrives with the same refusal to make things comfortable.

The setup: Niall (Jamie Bell) and Ruben (Richard Gadd) have been in each other’s lives for 25 years. The relationship makes no clean sense from the outside and apparently very little from the inside either. Gadd’s territory is the same as Baby Reindeer — the way shame and co-dependency can lock two people together long past the point where any reasonable assessment would have ended things — but this is larger in scale and darker in what it’s willing to show.

Bell plays Niall as someone trying hard to be mild-mannered, which is its own kind of tension. Gadd’s Ruben is the force that keeps arriving. The 25-year timeframe means the series isn’t just about what’s happening now but about what has been sustained, accepted, and avoided for decades. That’s a more difficult thing to dramatise than a single event, and episode one makes a strong case for Gadd as someone capable of doing it.

The late broadcast time (10:40pm, later in Northern Ireland and Wales) is genuinely odd given this is clearly BBC One’s most significant drama of the spring — but episode 1 is already available on BBC iPlayer, and episode 2 arrives this Friday. There is no reason to wait.

The Viewing Schedule

What’s On Streaming

BBC iPlayer: Half Man episode 1 (available now), MasterChef, Interior Design Masters, EastEnders, Better Date than Never (full series), Snooker
ITVX: Secret Service (full series from launch), The Martin Lewis Money Show
5 streaming: Murder in Shetland: Trial by Jury, Sam and Ade Go Birding
Prime Video: PSG v Bayern Munich (live, subscription required)
Now: National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood (Sky Arts), Miss Scarlet (U&Alibi)
Channel 4 streaming: Virgin Island, Made in Chelsea: Sam Vanderpump’s Story

Frequently Asked Questions

Is EastEnders on tonight (Tuesday 28 April 2026)?

Yes. EastEnders is on BBC One at 7:30pm. Monday’s episode saw Ross Kemp return as Grant Mitchell and Paul Bradley reach the final stages of the Nigel Bates exit arc. Tonight’s episode continues the Mitchell family storyline. BBC iPlayer.

What time is Half Man on BBC One tonight?

10:40pm on BBC One — but episode 1 is already available on BBC iPlayer, so there’s no need to wait. It’s the new drama from Richard Gadd (Baby Reindeer), with Jamie Bell playing Niall opposite Gadd’s Ruben. Episode 2 arrives on iPlayer this Friday. (11:10pm N Ireland; 11:40pm Wales.)

What time is MasterChef on BBC One tonight?

MasterChef is on BBC One at 9pm. Grace Dent and Anna Haugh are judging six remaining cooks through a fish finger sandwich challenge, signature dishes, and a final cook for MasterChef alumni including Omar Foster, Steven Wallis and Chariya Khattiyot. BBC iPlayer.

What time is Secret Service on ITV1 tonight?

Secret Service episode 2 is on ITV1 at 9pm. Tom Bradby appears as himself; Robert Peston and Susanna Reid also feature. Full series on ITVX.

What time is PSG v Bayern Munich on TV tonight?

Kick-off is 8pm. The Champions League semi-final first leg is live exclusively on Prime Video. Amazon Prime subscription required.

What time is Murder in Shetland: Trial by Jury on Channel 5 tonight?

Channel 5 at 9pm, the concluding episode. Aren Pearson takes the stand and the verdict is returned after three hours of jury deliberation. Catch up via 5 streaming.

What is Half Man about on BBC One?

Half Man is Richard Gadd’s follow-up to Baby Reindeer. Jamie Bell plays Niall and Gadd plays Ruben — two men whose relationship spans 25 years and covers themes of male shame, co-dependency and denial. Episode 1 is on BBC iPlayer now; it broadcasts on BBC One at 10:40pm.

What’s the best thing to watch on TV tonight (Tuesday 28 April 2026)?

Half Man on BBC One at 10:40pm — or on BBC iPlayer right now. Richard Gadd’s follow-up to Baby Reindeer with Jamie Bell is the most significant drama the BBC has launched this spring. For earlier in the evening: MasterChef at 9pm on BBC One, Secret Service episode 2 at 9pm on ITV1, and PSG v Bayern Munich on Prime Video at 8pm.

Final Verdict

Half Man is the reason tonight matters. Richard Gadd has followed Baby Reindeer with something more ambitious and more uncomfortable, and Jamie Bell makes it work in ways you won’t fully anticipate from the premise. The 10:40pm slot is a frustration for a drama this significant, but iPlayer makes that a non-issue. Watch it tonight.

MasterChef at 9pm on BBC One is the pick for earlier in the evening. The fish finger sandwich challenge alone confirms that Grace Dent and Anna Haugh have no interest in letting anyone coast.

Secret Service episode 2 on ITV1 at 9pm keeps Tom Bradby’s spy thriller ticking — the decision to cast real journalists alongside fictional politicians is an unusual move that pays off. PSG v Bayern Munich on Prime Video at 8pm is the sporting occasion of the week.

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