TV this night: Joanna Lumley vacations with a beer-brewing nun

Joanna Lumley’s Danube

9pm, ITV1
Joanna Lumley’s travelogues don’t have a tendency to be heavy on sociopolitical research however she’s just right corporate the entire identical. In this new sequence, she is travelling down the Danube River. It starts with a beer-brewing nun and an relaxing travel to the Wachau wine valley, earlier than she meets up with 2014 Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst for a excursion of Vienna. Phil Harrison

Alison Hammond’s Big Weekend

8.30pm, BBC One
Hammond is proving to be smartly suited to those long-form interviews, which might be deceptively lighthearted however no longer afraid to the touch on extra critical problems. Jimmy Carr is her significant other this time, speaking about his tax problems, his courting along with his mom and his reminiscences of the overdue, nice Sean Lock. PH

Hidden Treasures of the National Trust

9pm, BBC Two

For Tudor-era operator Thomas Sackville, it was once understanding “the right thing to say to the right person at the right time” that enabled him to shop for the sprawling Knole House in Kent. Here’s a romp round Knole as of late – which additionally homes a lifesize nude statue of 18th-century ballet dancer Giovanna Zanerini. Ali Catterall

Hacks

9pm, Sky Max
The biggest frenemy double act on TV continues to stroll the road between love and hate because the fourth season reaches its penultimate episode. Deborah and Ava’s talkshow hangs within the stability, however does that imply the pair will set their variations apart and paintings in combination? Don’t guess on it. PH

Austin

9.30pm, BBC One
If you’ll be able to convince Billie Piper to cameo in a low-key comedy, you take advantage of your day taking pictures together with her – so she reappears on this season finale. Autistic Australian-in-Britain Austin (Michael Theo) has run away, prompting his dad Julian (Ben Miller) to search out him – and meet Austin’s fave superstar. Jack Seale

Open House: The Great Sex Experiment

10pm, Channel 4
Three is the magic quantity: extra from the raunchy social experiment that encourages contributors to dip a toe into polyamory. Jonny and Sarah from Wales have had their collective head became via French fashion Marie, whilst Essex couple Claude and Amy sign up for the joys. Graeme Virtue

Film selection

The Wild Robot (Chris Sanders, 2024), 9.10am, 6.10pm, Sky Cinema Premiere
Chris Sanders’s pleasant circle of relatives animation attains Wall-E ranges of poignancy in its story of a shipwrecked robotic that learns the best way to really feel. Washed up on a far flung island populated most effective via animals, provider unit Roz (voiced via Lupita Nyong’o) reveals it has no person to serve. That is till it falls directly to a goose’s nest, killing all its occupants excluding runt of the muddle Brightbill (Kit Connor) – who imprints on Roz as his mom. Assisted via Pedro Pascal’s cynical fox Fink, the ever useful device reprogrammes itself to rear the gosling smartly sufficient so he can migrate with the opposite ducks. The Disney-style anthropomorphising is a little overdone, but it surely’s a movie filled with heat and wit. Simon Wardell