Joe Lycett is opening an East End boozer in a bid to celebrate and save pubs, with the goings-on inside the Lycett Arms broadcast live for an hour every Friday on Channel 4. The new landlord welcomes celebrity managers and guests, as well as familiar punters, in a show that could go anywhere – Lycett failed to complete the exam needed to obtain an alcohol licence and issued a plea for help on Instagram.
Live From the Lycett Arms
10pm, Channel 4 – The comedian and aspiring landlord welcomes punters and celebrity guests to his brand new boozer. This could go anywhere – Lycett failed to complete the exam needed to obtain an alcohol licence and issued a plea for help on Instagram. Let the chaos begin!
Other TV highlights
Marin Alsop’s Pick of the Proms – 7pm, BBC Four. The American maestro, namechecked in Cate Blanchett’s Tár, talks about being the first female conductor to lead the Last Night of the Proms, in 2013, and discusses her favourite moment of this season: pianist Yunchan Lim’s opening-night performance of Ravel’s Piano Concerto.
You’re Killing Me – 8pm, U&Drama. Another fun murder mystery to solve with boomer Allie (Brooke Shields) and gen Z Andi (Amalia Williamson). When a car dealer is found dead in his garden, the crime-solving duo recognise similarities to a murder from Allie’s first novel.
The Marlow Murder Club – 9pm, BBC Two. The two-part mystery that began last week concludes. There’s clearly going to be another murder unless the team can prevent it, so Tanika takes a gamble and recruits a group of civilian advisers.
The Rainmaker – 9pm, ITV1. British actor Milo Callaghan leads this US legal drama. This week sees Rudy discover some unlikely evidence for the wrongful death suit, before a courtroom showdown opposite ex-boss Leo (Mad Men’s John Slattery).
Grimsburg – 12.15am, Sky One. When useless nepo baby Otis is forced into the force after pressure from the mayor, a horrified Flute (Jon Hamm) concocts a series of ever more extreme schemes to “crush a rich kid’s dreams”.
Film choice and live sport
Harvest (Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2024), 11.05pm, BBC Two. Tsangari’s adaptation of Jim Crace’s novel is shot like a homage to 1970s British folk horror films, but the horror turns out to be more economic and social than supernatural. In an unnamed rural Scottish village, Master Kent (Harry Melling) rules benignly over the agricultural workers, but then Kent’s cousin (Frank Dillane) arrives with plans to enclose the common land and raise sheep.
Women’s Super League Football: London City v Man United, 6pm, Sky One. The season kicks off at Copperjax Community Stadium, with London’s star signings including two-time Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas.
