The Comedy Series Brassic Calls it a Day with Influenced by Tarantino Last Episode
The creators Joseph Gilgun and Danny Brocklehurst are concluding on their comedy series about a tight-knit bunch of endearing rogues causing chaos in a countryside town in Lancashire. One could anticipate the last episode to be a greatest hits victory lap of booze, drugs and cheeky thievery. However, the atmosphere turns much more somber as Vinnie (Gilgun) and the gang hole up in a bar with gangster Davey MacDonagh for a climactic 50th episode seemingly influenced by the filmmaker Quentin Tarantino.
Dragons’ Den
8pm on BBC One
Ballet dancers leap into the den this week, as single mothers Laura and Stacey present their line of adaptive dance attire – and send Peter Jones into a spin. Then, an ophthalmologist turned innovator has a clever gadget for misplaced tape edges.
The Series All Creatures Great and Small
9pm, Channel 5
The veterinary adventures are all fine, but this excellent historical series proves its worth with tender character work. A particularly affecting episode intertwines the tales of a injured draft horse and a vanished calf into a deeper plotline centring on Tristan, whose behaviour prompts a brotherly confrontation.
The Hack
9pm, ITV1
The journey has been lengthy. Yet the second-to-last episode of this initially sluggish but ultimately compelling series about phone hacking sees Nick, portrayed by David Tennant uncovering information about the News of the World’s conduct that the rest of the media simply are forced to acknowledge. Things are also looking up for the character Dave, who has a unexpected new supporter.
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
9pm, BBC Three
Prepare for enthusiastic gestures: it’s time to stage Peter Pansy – The Rusical! That means the stress increases for the queens to perform vocally, dance, and act and finally impress as they prepare for the production. And who better to guest judge than renowned West End star Mazz Murray, together with Graham Norton, Michelle Visage and RuPaul.
The Series The Iris Affair
9pm on Sky Atlantic
Anyone afraid of insects will want to fast-forward as the sixth episode starts, before a tense standoff, reminiscent of a Mexican or Sardinian scenario occurs, when Cameron compels Iris to swap her diary for the captured Joy – else she’ll be “shot repeatedly” from Meski’s menacing drone … How to get out of this one?