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Ponies

9pm, Sky Atlantic
A starry, fashionable and even enjoyable chilly struggle thriller. Bea (Emilia Clarke) is a extremely educated Russian-speaking secretary. Twila (Haley Lu Richardson) is a really street-smart girl – the type who calls a neighborhood a “bitch” for promoting cracked eggs. Together, they make a great crew as Ponies – that’s “persons of no interest” – to learn how their husbands have been actually killed in Moscow. Adrian Lester and Harriet Walter additionally star. Hollie Richardson

World’s Biggest Curry Restaurant

8pm, Channel 4
It takes 150 workers to run the most important Pakistani and Indian curry home on the planet – the Royal Nawaab in Stockport, Greater Manchester. How does proprietor Mahboob Hussain handle such an operation seven days per week? He invitations the cameras behind the scenes to seek out out, as cooks race to feed 1000’s of visitors scrumptious meals night time after night time. HR

Hidden Treasures of the National Trust

9pm, BBC Two
A juicier episode of the Toby Jones-narrated cultural conservation sequence. A scandalous society portrait reveals the story behind a love triangle and, together with different objects, exhibits how the legacy of the Grand Tour nonetheless shapes the UK’s nice homes immediately. HR

Smoggie Queens

10pm, BBC Three

‘Am I making myself clear?’ … Mam (Mark Benton, left) and Coach (Harry Mett) in Smoggie Queens. Photograph: BBC/Hat Trick Productions

More enjoyable with Phil Dunning’s daring, brash and hilarious comedy. The queens assist – or, extra precisely, hinder – Stewart (Elijah Young) together with his first ever date, as they head to the identical restaurant to listen in on how issues are going. Cue some cracking strains and close to disasters. HR

Hacks

10.05pm, Sky Atlantic
The good comedy reaches its penultimate episode, having happy followers on this fifth and ultimate season by hating on AI and throwing some crimson meat in direction of viewers who need Deborah (Jean Smart) and Ava (Hannah Einbinder) to turn out to be a barely unlikely couple. There are at all times, nonetheless, the same old arguments available and jokes to be written. Jack Seale

St Denis Medical

11.40pm, BBC One
A double invoice of the amiable – if retro – US mockumentary. Alex’s makes an attempt at altruism backfire when she by chance donates $1,000 as a substitute of $100 to a fundraiser for Parker’s canine. And Joyce’s boyfriend visits the hospital, having swallowed a marble from a youngsters’ board recreation in a determined bid for her consideration. Hannah J Davies

Film alternative

Ghoul energy … Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale in The Bride! Photograph: Niko Tavenise/AP

The Bride! (Maggie Gyllenhaal, 2025), 9.50am, 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere
An unholy splicing of Bonnie and Clyde and Baz Luhrmann (with a realizing wink to Mel Brooks), Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Thirties gothic horror is a riot from begin to end. Chicago gangster’s cohort Ida (a stupendously energetic Jessie Buckley) is possessed by the spirit of Mary Shelley, then dies and is resurrected – on the behest of Frankenstein’s monster, Frank (Christian Bale) – as a punky insurgent. Frank’s love of movie musicals is the thread that ties collectively a wild fantasy of girl-power rage and outsider romance. Simon Wardell


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