What to Watch Tonight: Tuesday 2 September 2025
Looking for the best TV to curl up with this evening? From tense documentaries and crime drama to lighthearted competition shows, here are the highlights across the main channels.
The Great British Sewing Bee
📺 BBC One & iPlayer, 9pm
It’s movie magic in the sewing room tonight, as the contestants face three challenges inspired by the silver screen. First, they must follow a tricky pattern to create a jacket reminiscent of Tippi Hedren’s iconic look in Hitchcock’s The Birds. Then comes the Transformation task, with red cinema curtains and tiebacks repurposed into glamorous Hollywood partywear. Finally, in the Made to Measure round, the sewers let loose with designs fit for a horror movie character. Expect drama, creativity and a few frayed nerves.
Football’s Financial Shame: The Story of the V11
📺 BBC Two & iPlayer, 9pm
This powerful documentary explores the downfall of a group of ex-Premier League players, known as the V11, who claim to have lost tens of millions of pounds through poor financial advice. Now, they face additional pressure as they’re pursued for huge tax bills linked to those same investments. With stories of ruined marriages, lost homes, and shattered futures, the programme exposes the devastating human cost behind the headlines.
Midsomer Murders
📺 ITV1 & ITVX, 8pm
Life in Lower Blissingham turns sour when an organic bakery opens in the restored Larkton’s Mill, causing resentment among local traders. Tensions rise as the Highwayman Inn’s landlady leads a protest, backed by fellow business owners. But things take a darker turn at a Midsummer’s Eve celebration, when partygoers are dosed with hallucinogens—and soon after, a farmer is found dead. Barnaby and Winter are on the case in this classic rural whodunnit starring Neil Dudgeon and Nick Hendrix.
The Great British Bake Off
📺 Channel 4, 8pm
The tent is back, the bunting is up, and it can only mean one thing—Bake Off season has returned. Noel Fielding and Alison Hammond welcome a brand-new batch of bakers ready to face Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith’s exacting standards. To kick off the series, it’s Cake Week: Swiss rolls with inlay designs for the Signature, mystery fondant fancies for the Technical, and ambitious landscape cakes for the Showstopper. One baker will rise to become the first Star Baker, while another will see their journey cut short.
Prince Andrew: On Trial
📺 Channel 5, 9pm
Channel 5 stages an unusual courtroom experiment: can a legal debate settle whether Prince Andrew has been a liability to the monarchy? Two barristers argue the case before a real judge and jury in Chelmsford’s historic Shire Hall. The proceedings revisit his connections with Jeffrey Epstein, allegations made by Virginia Giuffre, and wider questions about his role within the Royal Family. A provocative watch.