TV Guide UK Tonight: Tues 7 Apr 2026 – Ligas, Babies & Britain’s Murder Map

Published: 3 April 2026

Tuesday night television has snapped into shape. The big new arrival is Ligas on Sky Atlantic at 9.05pm — a glossy Italian legal drama that makes a strong first impression — while Babies continues on BBC One at the same time, building to what feels like something unavoidable. Arsenal are in Champions League action on Prime Video, Pilgrimage: The Road to Holy Island reaches its series finale on BBC Two, and Britain’s Murder Map launches on Sky History with Vicky McClure. A proper Tuesday night.

Quick Picks: Tonight’s Best

• Ligas ⭐ — Sky Atlantic, 9.05pm — Milan, morally bankrupt lawyers, a murder case nobody expects to win. New series, worth your time
• Babies — BBC One, 9pm — The wheels are fully coming off. One of the year’s best dramas and tonight it gets brutal
• Arsenal v Sporting CP — Prime Video, 8pm (k/o 8pm) — Champions League quarter-final first leg. Could go anywhere
• Britain’s Murder Map — Sky History, 8pm — Vicky McClure on Burke and Hare. New series, better than the title suggests
• André Is un Idiot: Storyville — BBC Four, 10pm — The funniest film about dying you’ll see. That’s not a gimmick, it earns it
• Pilgrimage: The Road to Holy Island — BBC Two, 9pm — Series finale. Ashley Banjo has been the unexpected standout

Early Evening

Great British Menu – BBC Two, 7pm

The London and South-East heat gets underway with four newcomers: Abbie Hendren, Dana Choi, Josh Hughes and Vincent Smith. They’ve got a lot to live up to — it was only last year that Horsham’s Jean Delport became just the third chef in the show’s 20-year run to land two courses at the final banquet. Their dishes tonight take inspiration from the British film industry, which is the kind of brief that can go brilliantly or embarrassingly wrong depending on the chef.

Judging them is Michelin-starred Aktar Islam, who has a reputation for honest scoring and doesn’t seem bothered by making that uncomfortable. The two who make it through to Thursday’s edition will then face guest judge Simon Callow — Four Weddings and a Funeral, A Room with a View — who may or may not be more forgiving. Catch up via BBC iPlayer.

Prime Time

Sort Your Life Out with Stacey Solomon – BBC One, 8pm

Seven vans. That’s a show record, apparently — seven removal vans needed to shift everything out of Brian and Sharon’s three-bedroom semi in Twickenham so the SYLO team could work through it. Brian has a habit of ordering things online and not opening the packages when they arrive, which means boxes stacked everywhere containing things nobody is entirely sure about. His family call him Inspector Gadget. It’s affectionate, but you can see the problem.

The emotional side of the hoarding runs deeper than a shopping habit, and the programme handles that with its usual lightness of touch. Stacey Solomon calls in her sister when the scale of the job becomes clear. The transformation is substantial, and daughter Holly’s reaction at the end — she’s autistic and can be overwhelmed by change, but this one lands differently — is the moment the episode is building towards. Catch up via BBC iPlayer.

Our Welsh Chapel Dream – Channel 4, 8pm

Two years ago, potter Keith Brymer Jones and his partner Marj Hogarth stumbled across a crumbling Grade II-listed chapel in Pwllheli, north Wales, and decided to make it their home. The fact they are now actually doing it is less a testament to ambition than to the fact that these two are the sort of people who mean what they say. There is still a considerable amount of restoration left to do, and to raise funds they are selling off possessions — including Marj’s substantial collection of vintage clothing.

It’s the kind of programme that works not because of the building but because of the people. They’re warm, community-minded and seem incapable of being unlikeable. Catch up via Channel 4 streaming.

Britain’s Murder Map – Sky History, 8pm

Vicky McClure and her husband Jonny Owen are making a crime series together, which sounds like it could go either way, but the first episode is better than you might expect. The show’s angle is that they’re not just revisiting famous cases but digging into what the official record gets wrong — or leaves out entirely.

Burke and Hare are the opening subject, and the key reframe is that they were not, as is often assumed, body-snatchers. They were serial killers who murdered 16 people over ten months in 1828 Edinburgh, selling the corpses to an anatomy school surgeon who asked no questions he didn’t want answered. Irvine Welsh appears to put this in context as a story about class and exploitation — about who in Edinburgh got to benefit from the poor and the marginalised. It’s satisfyingly dark. Catch up via Now.

Babies – BBC One, 9pm

Amanda knows something about Dave that is going to cause serious damage to a marriage that is barely holding together as it is. She tells Lisa, who — understandably — doesn’t sit on the information. What follows is the episode the series has been building towards: Lisa asking her husband to step up and say something, and Stephen weighing the loyalty he owes his friend against the loyalty he owes his wife.

The male banter scenes — the constant deflection, the conversations that refuse to become actual conversations — have been one of the series’ running observations, and tonight they collide with real consequences. When Stephen and Dave finally have the exchange that the show has been deferring for weeks, it doesn’t go well. Paapa Essiedu and Siobhán Cullen are extraordinary throughout. Full series on BBC iPlayer.

Ligas ⭐ – Sky Atlantic, 9.05pm

Milan defence attorney Lorenzo Ligas does not operate like most TV lawyers. In the opening episode, rather than simply cross-examining a key prosecution witness who is lying through her teeth, he sleeps with her. It’s not a legal strategy. It’s what happens when someone with no instinct for self-preservation is also very good at winning arguments. His idealistic intern Marta, played by Marina Occhionero, watches all this unfold with the expression of someone who has just realised the job is going to be more complicated than the interview suggested.

The first case involves a rock star whose career is finished and who has been charged with murder — a brief that looks hopeless until Ligas finds the angles. Luca Argentero plays the lead with the right amount of controlled chaos: you can see the intelligence in him, but you can also see all the ways he is going to make things worse. A second episode follows at 10pm. Both catch up via Now.

Pilgrimage – The Road to Holy Island – BBC Two, 9pm (SERIES FINALE)

The seven pilgrims are on the final stretch — Whitby to Lindisfarne, and the last day is not easy. The weather has not improved. The hills have not flattened out. And the basic accommodation has not got more comfortable. But something has shifted in the group over the course of this walk that you don’t always get on celebrity travel shows, where the point is usually the destination rather than what happens on the way.

Ashley Banjo has been the unexpected standout — thoughtful, self-aware, and actually interested in other people’s experiences of faith rather than using the pilgrimage as a platform. Hasan Al-Habib and Hermione Norris have been strong companions throughout. Whether this ends with a religious epiphany or simply the relief of reaching Lindisfarne, it’s a series that has earned whatever emotional note it lands on. Full series on BBC iPlayer.

Spymasters – the Great Spy Writers – Sky Arts, 9pm

Tonight’s episode settles into its subject better than last week’s opener, helped by a strong selection of film clips from post-war spy movies — including a sequence from Where Eagles Dare that will ring bells for anyone who spent a Sunday afternoon watching it on ITV in the 1980s. The main focus is John le Carré, and specifically how the work connects to the life: his time in British intelligence, the painful childhood, the particular moral ambiguity that separates his fiction from the cleaner certainties of Alistair MacLean. Worth an hour of anyone’s time. Catch up via Now.

Sport

Champions League – Arsenal v Sporting CP – Prime Video, 8pm

Quarter-final first leg. Arsenal away at the Estádio José Alvalade in Lisbon, which is not an easy place to go, and Sporting CP have been one of the more impressive Portuguese sides in Europe this season. The away goal rule is gone, so Arsenal need to manage the tie over two legs rather than chasing the perfect result tonight. Live on Prime Video from 8pm.

Champions League – Real Madrid v Bayern Munich – TNT Sports 1, 7pm (k/o 8pm)

The other quarter-final first leg is the one that gets the pulse going: Real Madrid at the Bernabeu against Bayern Munich. Two of the most successful clubs in European football history, both with realistic expectations of going all the way this year. Build-up from 7pm on TNT Sports 1.

Late Night

André Is un Idiot: Storyville – BBC Four, 10pm

André Ricciardi is a San Francisco advertising man who was diagnosed with stage four cancer after skipping a colonoscopy in his fifties — a decision he describes at the start of this documentary with the energy of a man doing a tight five at a comedy club. The film follows him over three years of treatment and slow decline, and the reason it works is that the humour is never a coping mechanism being observed from the outside. It is simply how André is. “I prepared for chemotherapy by making sure I had hangovers for a good 35 years of my life,” is one of the milder lines.

It is the funniest film about dying you are likely to see, and that is not a qualifier — the comedy is what makes it devastating. A proper Storyville. Catch up via BBC iPlayer.

Also Worth Noting

François Bourgeois and Chris Harris: We Saved a Train (Quest, 9pm) — The trainspotter and the journalist attempt to get a decommissioned locomotive back in service. Niche subject, but Bourgeois is an oddly compelling screen presence.

Miss Scarlet (U&Alibi, 9pm) — Moses is back from Paris and trying to sell a rare diamond. The period detective series carries on doing what it does with reliable good humour.

I Made it at Market (BBC One, 3.45pm) — Dominic Chinea meets fellow craftspeople earlier in the afternoon.

The Viewing Schedule

What’s On Streaming

BBC iPlayer: Babies, Pilgrimage: The Road to Holy Island, Great British Menu, Sort Your Life Out with Stacey Solomon, André Is un Idiot: Storyville
Now: Ligas, Britain’s Murder Map, Spymasters: the Great Spy Writers
Channel 4 streaming: Our Welsh Chapel Dream
My5: China with Ben Fogle
Prime Video: Sporting CP v Arsenal (live)

Frequently Asked Questions

Is EastEnders on tonight (Tuesday 7 April 2026)?

Yes, EastEnders is on BBC One tonight. Tuesday is a normal broadcast day — the soap runs Monday to Thursday. Catch up on any episodes you missed via BBC iPlayer.

What time is Ligas on Sky Atlantic tonight?

Ligas starts at 9.05pm on Sky Atlantic tonight (Tuesday 7 April 2026), with a second episode following at 10pm. It’s a new Italian legal drama starring Luca Argentero as a morally questionable Milan defence attorney taking on a murder case nobody expects him to win. Both episodes catch up via Now.

What time is the Champions League on TV tonight?

Two Champions League quarter-final first legs tonight. Sporting CP v Arsenal is live on Prime Video from 8pm (kick-off 8pm). Real Madrid v Bayern Munich is live on TNT Sports 1 with build-up from 7pm and kick-off at 8pm.

Is Pilgrimage The Road to Holy Island on tonight?

Yes — tonight is the series finale of Pilgrimage: The Road to Holy Island, BBC Two at 9pm. The seven celebrities complete the final leg of their walk from Whitby to Lindisfarne. The full series is available on BBC iPlayer.

What is Britain’s Murder Map and who presents it?

Britain’s Murder Map is a new series starting tonight on Sky History at 8pm. Vicky McClure and her husband Jonny Owen present it, revisiting historic British crimes to separate fact from the myths that have built up around them. The first episode is about Edinburgh killers Burke and Hare. Catch up via Now.

What’s the best thing to watch on TV tonight?

The new show worth your time is Ligas on Sky Atlantic at 9.05pm — a slick Milan legal drama where the lawyer is at least as dangerous as his clients, and Luca Argentero makes it immediately watchable. If you want BBC One drama, Babies at 9pm continues as one of the best things on television at the moment. And if sport is the priority, Arsenal are in Champions League action on Prime Video at 8pm.

Final Verdict

Ligas is the arrival of the night. Sky Atlantic has a good track record with subtitled European drama and this one has a strong hook — a lawyer who is brilliant and self-destructive in equal measure, a murder case that looks unwinnable, and a Milan setting that looks exactly as you’d want it to look. Two episodes tonight to get started.

Babies on BBC One at 9pm is still the drama of the week. Tonight is the episode where the deflection runs out, and the show has built to it carefully enough that the collision lands hard.

For sport, Arsenal v Sporting CP on Prime Video is the Champions League draw of the night — away tie, no home comfort, plenty at stake in the second leg.

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