TV Guide UK Tonight: Wed 27 May 2026 – A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, Falling Ep 4 & MasterChef

Published: 21 May 2026

Wednesday 27 May 2026. A genuinely stacked evening. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder launches on BBC Three at 9pm — the new series, the Radio Times cover, Emma Myers back on British screens. Football fans have the Conference League Final on TNT Sports at 8pm, Crystal Palace against Rayo Vallecano in Leipzig. Falling reaches episode 4 on Channel 4 at 9pm and things are getting darker. EastEnders at 7:30pm as always on a Wednesday.

Quick Picks: Tonight’s Best

• A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder ⭐ — BBC Three, 9pm — NEW SERIES. Emma Myers as Pip. Holly Jackson’s sequel. Two episodes tonight
• Conference League Final — TNT Sports 1, k/o 8pm — Crystal Palace v Rayo Vallecano. Leipzig. South London in Europe
• Falling — C4, 9pm — Ep 4. Phil and David in prison. Anna back to the convent. Getting very dark
• Surgeons: at the Edge of Life — BBC Two, 9pm — Peter’s body drained of blood. Heart stopped. Machine keeps the brain alive
• Amandaland — BBC One, 9pm — Amanda versus Elspeth’s house. Gifts, catsitting, ulterior motives

Sport

Football: Conference League Final – Crystal Palace v Rayo Vallecano – TNT Sports 1, 6:30pm (k/o 8pm)

Crystal Palace in a European final. That sentence alone is enough. The south Londoners take on Rayo Vallecano in Leipzig tonight, and if you’d offered anyone at Selhurst Park a Conference League final five years ago they’d have grabbed it with both hands. Coverage on TNT Sports 1 from 6:30pm, kick-off 8pm. Subscription required.

Tennis: French Open Day 4 – TNT Sports 1 & 4, 9:30am

Day four at Roland Garros. The second round gets going on the clay and TNT Sports have it from 9:30am. Subscription required.

Cycling: Giro d’Italia Stage 17 – TNT Sports 3, 10:45am

A hilly 202km from Cassano d’Adda to Andalo. Stage 17. The kind of stage that sorts the climbers from everyone else. TNT Sports 3 from 10:45am. Subscription required.

Men’s Test Cricket: Ireland v New Zealand – TNT Sports 2, 11am

Men’s Test cricket live from 11am. TNT Sports 2. Subscription required.

Early Evening

Natural History Museum: World of Wonder – Channel 5, 7pm

The series wraps up tonight with fossil-hunting in Morocco, bison in Kent, and what might be a newly identified wasp species. The Natural History Museum does these series well. 5 streaming.

The Future with Hannah Fry – BBC Two, 7:30pm

This week Fry turns to the death of privacy. AI spreading misinformation. Propaganda. Doxxing — which the show defines as maliciously revealing someone’s home address or contact details to people who might wish them harm. Some of the LLM material feels like it was written in 2023, because it was, but the broader concerns haven’t dated. BBC iPlayer.

EastEnders – BBC One, 7:30pm

Wednesday is a standard EastEnders night, Mon through Thurs. A soap that’s been running since 1985 and still turns out reliably watchable melodrama in Walford E20. BBC iPlayer.

Inside the Tower of London – Channel 5, 8pm

New details about a German spy executed at the Tower. Yeoman Sergeant AJ Clark oversees the Ceremony of the Keys, one of the oldest military ceremonies still performed nightly in Britain. 5 streaming.

MasterChef – BBC One, 8pm

Eight semi-finalists head to York for a banquet marking the 200th anniversary of the railways. Anna Haugh designed the menu, and she’s not known for going easy on anyone. The invention test has contestants working with cod, venison or rhubarb. By the end of the week the final four will be confirmed. BBC iPlayer.

Location, Location, Location – Channel 4, 8pm

Kirstie and Phil are in west London with a £1m budget and one couple to find a home for. They’re about to get married, it’s their first property, and west London at a million pounds is a very specific kind of property problem. C4 streaming.

Prime Time

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder ⭐ – BBC Three, 9pm (also BBC One, 10:40pm)

This is the one tonight. Holly Jackson’s sequel novel Good Girl, Bad Blood gets the adaptation treatment, and the central question going in is whether Emma Myers — known mostly for Wednesday — can carry something that sits in a very different register to that show. Two episodes in, the answer looks like yes.

Pip Fitz-Amobi is back as a true-crime podcaster and reluctant sleuth. She’s still carrying the psychological weight of whatever happened in the first case — the show doesn’t rush to explain it, which is the right call — and is genuinely trying to stay out of anything similar. Then Jamie Reynolds goes missing. Posters everywhere. And Pip starts spotting inconsistencies the police haven’t noticed, which is both her greatest skill and her worst habit.

What Jackson said about the book applies here too: justice in the real world is rarely neat, tidy or comforting. The series seems to understand that. Full series on BBC iPlayer. Two episodes on BBC Three tonight from 9pm, then again on BBC One from 10:40pm in some regions.

Surgeons: at the Edge of Life – BBC Two, 9pm

Retired photographer Peter needs a synthetic tube to replace a length of damaged blood vessels running between his heart and his brain. The operation requires stopping his heart entirely and draining his body of blood, with a machine keeping circulation going to the brain alone. Vascular surgeon Orwa Falah describes the patient as “dead on the table” during this window. He’s a Muslim, and the episode gives him time to reflect on what being alive actually means — for him, the soul is where the line sits, not the heartbeat. BBC iPlayer.

A Taste for Murder – ITV1, 9pm

The cosy Capri mystery has taken a turn. What started as sun-drenched food and slow-burn romance has a gang subplot now, with mobsters in the restaurant and Joe’s daughter Angelica in genuine danger from her boyfriend Daniele. Joe had been making progress with Daria — some small movement through grief after his wife’s death — and Angelica’s situation has cancelled all of that for the evening. Final episode tomorrow at 9pm. ITVX.

Falling – Channel 4, 9pm

Episode 4, and the scene everyone who’s seen it is talking about: Phil (David Dawson) and David (Paapa Essiedu) during a prison visit. Phil is brutish and David is trying to hold something in, and the anger between them doesn’t stay contained. Meanwhile Anna (Keeley Hawes) has a bruising encounter with a stranger — the kind of accidental confrontation that strips away everything you’ve been telling yourself — and finds herself heading back to the convent. “Is God still on their side?” is the question the episode ends on. Full series on C4 streaming.

Amandaland – BBC One, 9pm

Amanda (Lucy Punch) has identified her next project: Elspeth (Pam Ferris), a reclusive neighbour with an enormous beautiful house she’s planning to leave following some health difficulties. Amanda’s approach involves gifting a copy of Radio Times, offering kind words, taking on the catsitting despite a major allergy she has apparently decided to ignore, and positioning herself as first in line for the eventual sale at something resembling a reasonable price. “Immoral? Yes. Impractical? Certainly.” Elspeth gives nothing away. BBC iPlayer.

Richard Madeley: inside the World’s Mega Prison – Channel 5, 9pm

CECOT in El Salvador is the largest prison in the Americas by some measures, housing the country’s most dangerous gang members. Madeley visits — following Louis Theroux, Trevor McDonald, Piers Morgan and Werner Herzog into the prison-doc tradition. Steel bunks, artificial lights that never switch off, skin more tattoo than flesh on many of the inmates. He’s taken into solitary confinement and tries to describe the smell, struggles for a moment, then lands on “fear”. One word. Enough. 5 streaming.

Only Child – BBC One, 9:30pm

Ken (Gregor Fisher): “Why does everything have to happen through a bloomin’ phone? It’s all digital nowadays. But I’m not.” His solution is to drag son Richard (Greg McHugh) all the way to Aviemore because he needs someone to operate the QR code scanner at the ticket barrier. What was presented as a straightforward day trip becomes something else entirely. Jennifer Saunders reappears as Richard’s agent Sally, with news on the panto audition front. BBC iPlayer.

Late Night

A Very Peculiar Practice – BBC Four, 10pm and 10:50pm

Episode 3 gives Timothy West the kind of role he did so well in the 1980s — the Professor Furie of the title is superficially distinguished but deeply wrong in some way you can’t immediately place. The mood swings land just inside Peter Davison’s Daker’s radar without ever crossing the line that would justify confrontation. Bob Buzzard (David Troughton) is already counting future private consultation fees from a drug trial he hasn’t yet run. Two episodes from 10pm. BBC iPlayer.

The Viewing Schedule

What’s On Streaming

• BBC iPlayer: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (full series), EastEnders, MasterChef, Amandaland, Only Child, Surgeons: at the Edge of Life, The Future with Hannah Fry, A Very Peculiar Practice
• Channel 4 streaming: Falling (full series), Location, Location, Location
• ITVX: A Taste for Murder
• 5 streaming: Richard Madeley: inside the World’s Mega Prison, Inside the Tower of London, Natural History Museum: World of Wonder
• TNT Sports / discovery+: Conference League Final, French Open, Giro d’Italia, Men’s Test Cricket (subscription required)

Frequently Asked Questions

Is EastEnders on tonight (Wednesday 27 May 2026)?

Yes — BBC One at 7:30pm. EastEnders runs Monday to Thursday, so Wednesday is a standard night for it. Catch up via BBC iPlayer.

What time is A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder on BBC Three tonight?

BBC Three at 9pm and 9:50pm (Wednesday 27 May 2026). Emma Myers plays Pip Fitz-Amobi in this adaptation of Holly Jackson’s sequel novel Good Girl, Bad Blood. A new disappearance — Jamie Reynolds — pulls Pip back in despite herself. The full series is available immediately on BBC iPlayer, and BBC One picks it up from 10:40pm in some regions.

What time is Falling on Channel 4 tonight?

Channel 4 at 9pm (Wednesday 27 May 2026). Episode 4. Phil (David Dawson) and David (Paapa Essiedu) face each other in a prison visit that doesn’t go well. Anna (Keeley Hawes) ends the episode heading back to the convent. Full series on C4 streaming.

What time is the Conference League Final on TV and what channel?

Coverage starts at 6:30pm on TNT Sports 1, kick-off at 8pm. Crystal Palace play Rayo Vallecano in Leipzig. A TNT Sports subscription is required.

What’s the best thing to watch on TV tonight (Wednesday 27 May 2026)?

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder on BBC Three at 9pm — the new series has been well-received, Emma Myers is a genuine asset to it, and the full series is already on BBC iPlayer if you want to keep going. If it’s football tonight, the Conference League Final on TNT Sports is the biggest game of the week. Falling on Channel 4 at 9pm is essential if you’ve been following the series. And Surgeons: at the Edge of Life on BBC Two at 9pm is extraordinary television if you can stomach it.

Final Verdict

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder on BBC Three at 9pm is the obvious recommendation. Emma Myers carries Holly Jackson’s sequel with real conviction, the podcasting framework works well on screen, and the full series is on iPlayer the moment broadcast ends. Before it, MasterChef‘s York railway banquet and Location, Location, Location run comfortably back-to-back. Football fans are covered by the Conference League Final from 6:30pm. And Surgeons: at the Edge of Life on BBC Two at 9pm is the one worth not missing — Peter’s operation is as extraordinary as anything this series has done.

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