TV this night: an impressive movie about George Floyd’s homicide

Backlash: The Murder of George Floyd

9pm, BBC Two
A visceral, involving documentary recalling the worldwide turmoil prompted through the homicide of George Floyd in May 2020. It explores the occasions themselves, the protests and counter-protests that adopted. But it manages some extent of intimacy, too, listening to from Khady Gueye, a Black girl who grew up in rural Gloucestershire who recollects the casually racialised discourse that was once a continuing backdrop to her early life. Phil Harrison

The Repair Shop at the Road

8pm, BBC One
The gang depart the large shed in the back of and take their repairing abilities on excursion. They start in Dumfries and Galloway, the place they meet firefighter Rodger who was once some of the first responders at the scene of the Lockerbie assault. Can they retain his valuable e-book of images commemorating the sufferers of the tragedy? PH

Location, Location, Location

8pm, Channel 4
Kirstie and Phil courageous the imply streets of Surrey, the place their shoppers this week are younger households with difficult expectancies. One set of fogeys can’t get their out-of-budget dream space out in their minds, whilst the opposite have too many great puts to choose between, the deficient loves. In each instances, the correct deal must be struck. Jack Seale

Race Across the World

9pm, BBC One

We’ve reached the midway level within the race, and the foothills of the Himalayas anticipate. The subsequent checkpoint is McLeod Ganj, a fantastic hill station house to the Dalai Lama. However, the distance between the leaders and stragglers is rising and the contributors of 1 workforce are suffering with homesickness. PH

Britain’s Most Expensive Houses

9pm, Channel 4
This display is like Selling Sunset, handiest British, and with all of the drama of the talking clock. Still, in the event you’re nosy, you may in finding it interesting – no longer least when the brokers fling open the doorways of an obscenely large nation pad constructed within the 1850s and a “James Bond-style” Cornish bolthole christened Bargesi. Hannah J Davies

David Frost Vs

9pm, Sky Documentaries
Lulu, Paul Gambaccini, Guardian critic Alexis Petridis, Sarah Ferguson and this version’s topic, Elton John, are a few of the speaking heads reflecting at the not going four-decade friendship between urbane interlocutor Frost and the incessantly chaotic Rocket Man. Vintage clips – particularly a revealing 1991 interview – illustrate the pair’s sturdy however spiky bond. Graeme Virtue

Film selection

Tommy (Ken Russell, 1975) 7.55am, Sky Cinema Greats

The Who’s bombastic rock opera album will get the bombastic celluloid remedy it merits courtesy of – who else? – British cinema’s wild guy Ken Russell. Singer Roger Daltrey performs Tommy, a boy who loses his sight, listening to and speech after witnessing his mom’s adultery. But the traumatised child displays a skill for pinball that conjures up a messianic motion. The movie has dated badly in puts, however for sheer chutzpah and verve there’s little that compares to it – from Tina Turner’s devilish Acid Queen to Elton John and his sky-high boots because the Pinball Wizard. Simon Wardell

Live game

Europa League Football, Tottenham v Man United, 6pm, TNT Sports 1
The ultimate from San Mames, Bilbao.

Live Women’s International T20 Cricket, England v West Indies, 6pm, Sky Sports Main Event
The first T20 within the three-match collection from Canterbury. The 2d is at 6.30pm on Friday from Hove.