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Crufts 2026
2.30pm, Channel 4
Claudia Winkleman knows a thing or two about keeping a glossy black mane, and she joins Clare Balding for day two of reporting from the nation’s biggest dog show. Highlights will include best utility and toy dogs, and the nimble heelwork to music dogs taking part in the international freestyle competition. The Scruffts are also being awarded to crossbreeds, with categories including most handsome and golden oldie. Hollie Richardson
Gladiators
8pm, BBC One
This revival of the 90s teatime classic surprised everyone when it bounded back a couple of years ago, but it’s a family favourite again, in line with a trend for sport and entertainment blurring into each other. Bradley and Barney Walsh preside as the contest reaches the last of the quarter-finals. Jack Seale
Bill Bailey’s Vietnam
9pm, Channel 4
It’s the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam war and for Bill’s second leg of his adventure he is travelling to Ho Chi Minh City – the most populous in the country – to explore the most profound changes. Wartime tunnels and metal music are on the itinerary, as he’s guided on the back of a scooter with guide KK. HR
The Three Kings of 1936
9pm, Channel 5
To lose one king may be regarded a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness. But that’s what happened nine decades ago as George V’s death led to the Liz Truss-like reign and abdication of Edward VIII, before George VI took the throne. This film re-examines that turbulent year via archive footage and insight from royal watchers. Graeme Virtue
The Jonathan Ross Show
9.45pm, ITV1
Ross has long since fallen behind Graham Norton in the fight to attract the biggest Hollywood stars, but that hasn’t made these sofa chats redundant: the more eclectic lineups can be a bonus. This week he talks to actors Kurt Russell and Tim Roth, and also welcomes David Byrne, Sara Pascoe and Maggie Aderin-Pocock. JS
The Walsh Sisters
10pm, BBC One
Louisa Harland is heartbreaking as Anna, who is sinking in grief and guilt after the crash with Aidan. As the family rally round her, she looks for answers and shifts the blame on to alcoholic sister Rachel, who still doesn’t believe she should be in rehab. More turbulent family drama from the world of Irish novelist Marian Keyes. HR
Film choice
Worldbreaker, out now, Prime Video
In a post-climate breakdown future, humanity is assailed by Breakers, insectoid creatures that have appeared from beneath the Earth’s surface and infected or killed most of the population, with men particularly susceptible. Luke Evans and Billie Boullet play a father and 15-year-old daughter who hide out on an island while Mum (Milla Jovovich) fights on with her all-female army. Making a virtue of a limited budget, director Brad Anderson focuses on the coming-of-age angle, with Evans’s Welsh lilt giving a bardic feel to the survival story. Simon Wardell
Brief History of a Family, 10.40pm, BBC Four
Lin Jianjie’s delicious Chinese psychological drama has hints of Parasite but this tale of a cuckoo in the nest of a middle-class family is even more unsettling and ambiguous. Xilun Sun plays Yan Shuo, a reserved boy befriended by his sporty but less academically gifted classmate Tu Wei (Muran Lin). Wei’s mother (Keyu Guo) and father (Feng Zu) see in Shuo the son they wanted – attentive, cultured, smart – but is his escalating presence in their lives just an attempt to escape from an apparently abusive father or something more sinister? SW
Live sport
Winter Paralympics, 8am, Channel 4 On day one in Italy, Neil Simpson defends his super-G title from Beijing.
Women’s World Cup Football: England v Iceland, noon, ITV1 A Group A3 qualifier in Nottingham.
Six Nations Rugby Union: Scotland v France, 1pm, BBC One Italy v England is at 3.35pm on ITV1.
FA Cup Football: Wrexham v Chelsea, 5.30pm, BBC One A fifth-round tie. Mansfield v Arsenal is at 11am on TNT Sports 1, with Newcastle v Man City at 7pm.
Formula One : Australian Grand Prix, 3.55am, Sky Sports Main Event The first round from Melbourne.
