Channel 5's revival of the famed Play for Today strand continues with Wild, a comedy drama about an ill-fated annual camping trip. The episode stars Amit Shah, Joel Fry and Daniel Mays as three university friends whose wild camping excursion becomes the setting for midge attacks, lost phones and festering grievances.
A platform for standalone drama
The characters are broadly drawn and their mishaps predictable, but the episode remains refreshing in tough TV times to see a channel maintaining a platform for standalone original drama.
Other highlights this evening
Elsewhere, George Clarke's Amazing Spaces: First Home airs at 8pm on Channel 4, following the presenter's quest to find British people who have improvised because normal houses are unaffordable. A young couple plan to live in a converted bus, while in Cornwall, old toilets are considered as potential homes.
At 8pm on U&Drama, You're Killing Me concludes its first season with Brooke Shields as a murder-solving novelist on an impulsive road trip to find the missing mom of sidekick Andi (Amalia Williamson). The Thelma and Louise vibes are scuppered by an undercover assassin in hot pursuit.
The Walking Dead: Dead City at 9pm on Sky One sees Maggie relocate to Manhattan, inside the Statue of Liberty's nose, while Negan zones out playing Gears of War 2. Wall drawings Maggie discovers suggest the semi-peace is about to be horribly interrupted.
At 10pm on Channel 4, Live from the Lycett Arms continues with Joe Lycett keeping drinks, comedy and shenanigans flowing in his newly opened pub, joined by a pair of celebrity guests – one to run the bar, the other to lean on it.
The Graham Norton Show returns at 10.40pm on BBC One with Tom Cruise, Florence Pugh, Lolly Adefope and John Bishop on the couch, plus a musical performance from Emeli Sandé.
Film and live sport
The film choice is 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (Nia DaCosta, 2026) at 9pm on Sky Cinema Premiere. For the second instalment of the post-pandemic horror trilogy, DaCosta takes over from Danny Boyle for a poignant yet surprisingly funny tale that shuns rabid terror in favour of pathos and a sliver of hope. Teenager Spike (Alfie Williams) is captured by Jack O'Connell's disturbed cult leader Jimmy, while Dr Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) develops a bizarrely moving relationship with an infected man, Samson (Chi Lewis-Parry).
Live sport includes Premiership rugby union: Northampton v Newcastle at 7pm on TNT Sports 1 from Franklin's Gardens.
