The creators Joseph Gilgun and Danny Brocklehurst are concluding on their humorous show about a tight-knit bunch of likable chancers running riot in a rural Lancashire town. One could anticipate the finale to be a nostalgic highlight reel of alcohol, substances, and playful theft. But, the atmosphere turns much more somber as Vinnie (Gilgun) and the gang hole up in a bar with gangster Davey MacDonagh for a final 50th installment apparently inspired by Quentin Tarantino.
Dragons’ Den
8pm on BBC One
Dancers from the ballet world enter the den this week, as mothers Laura and Stacey pitch their range of adaptive dance attire – and send Peter Jones into a spin. Next, an ophthalmologist turned innovator has a smart device for lost tape ends.
All Creatures Great and Small
9pm, Channel 5
The animal-related escapades are all fine, but this superior period drama proves its worth with emotional character development. A particularly affecting episode intertwines the tales of a lame shire horse and a vanished calf into a more serious storyline 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 at first slow-moving but eventually gripping series about phone hacking sees David Tennant’s Nick discovering details about the actions of the News of the World that the other media outlets simply can’t ignore. The situation improves for the character Dave, who has a unexpected new supporter.
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK
9pm on BBC Three
Prepare for enthusiastic gestures: it’s time to stage Peter Pansy – The Rusical! That means the pressure is on for the drag performers to sing, dance, act and finally impress as they get ready for the show. And what better guest judge than West End stage legend Mazz Murray, alongside the panel including Graham Norton, Michelle Visage, and RuPaul.
The Iris Affair
9pm, Sky Atlantic
Anyone afraid of insects will want to skip ahead as episode six begins, before something of a Mexican (or rather Sardinian) standoff ensues, when Cameron compels Iris to swap her diary for the captured Joy – else she’ll be “riddled with bullets” from Meski’s menacing drone … What escape plan can they devise?
