Where to watch the best tv tonight: Friday 29 August 2025
What’s on TV Tonight: Friday 29 August 2025
Looking for something to watch this evening? From comedy panel shows to gripping courtroom drama, here’s your guide to the very best of tonight’s television.
📺 8pm – BBC One: Would I Lie to You?
The nation’s favourite bluffing game returns as Rob Brydon takes the host’s chair once again, joined by regular team captains David Mitchell and Lee Mack. This week’s guests include singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor, actress Briony May Williams and comedians Loyiso Gola and Jason Manford. Expect an hour of quick-fire wit, outrageous claims and laugh-out-loud attempts to spot the truth from the lies.
📺 9pm – BBC Two: Miriam Margolyes Discovers New Zealand
The second and concluding part of Miriam’s journey across New Zealand sees her exploring both sides of the country’s character. From visiting a one-of-a-kind community gym in Auckland to coming face-to-face with a gang member in Wellington, Miriam dives deep into Kiwi culture. Crossing into the South Island, she encounters breathtaking landscapes and moving stories of resilience, loss and humanity.
📺 9pm – ITV1: The Fortune Hotel – The Final
The high-stakes competition reaches its nail-biting conclusion. The last three pairs are pushed to the limit with a taxing puzzle challenge in their hotel rooms before racing across the Caribbean in the dramatic Day Trip Challenge. Back at the hotel, tensions boil over as the all-important Night Cap begins. With Stephen Mangan presiding, only one pair will check out with the grand prize.
📺 9pm – Channel 4: The Jury: Murder Trial
The gripping courtroom experiment enters its final chapter. A dramatic new twist emerges as the defence reveals a last piece of evidence before both sides deliver their closing arguments. The jurors must now decide—but heated clashes and entrenched opinions threaten to derail the process. Will they reach a verdict, or end in deadlock?
📺 9pm – Channel 5: Lost in the Desert with Nick Knowles
Nick Knowles continues his intrepid adventure, swapping the sands of the Gobi for the peaks of western Mongolia before heading to Ulaanbaatar, the world’s coldest capital city. In a daring moment, he conquers his fear of heights by paragliding over the dramatic terrain, capturing the vast wilderness from above.