Friday’s best TV: Euro 2016 Love, Nina and Mum (original) (raw)
Euro 2016: France v Romania
7.15pm, ITV
Close the curtains, get the cans in, here it is: the opening game of Euro 2016. No one expects that Romania will match the class of the 1994 World Cup team. France, meanwhile, have a strong young team with a decent chance on home soil of winning the trophy they previously won in 1984 and 2000. They also, however, have a history of choking at big tournaments. Will they tonight? David Stubbs
The Millionaire’s Holiday Club
9pm, BBC2
The BBC makes its contribution to the weirdly popular genre of programming encouraging both resentment of the rich, and a sense of superiority at their gaucheness. The titular club is a Chester travel agency that specialises in the organisation of bespoke holidays for people who have never compared the rates of different bureaux de change. The overwhelming impression is one of desperate, dreary vapidity. Andrew Mueller
Love, Nina
9.30pm, BBC1
Nina has taken up yoga: “I can’t tell you how awful it is …” The theme is thus set for an episode that constantly returns to the theme of “sex and sexual parts” due to yoga’s forcing of intimacy with strangers. What a carry on. Nick Hornby’s script is a delight, contrasting the surface coolness of the intelligentsia with the mess of family life. Jonathan Wright
Mum
10pm, BBC2
Stefan Golaszewski – the brains behind the excellent Him & Her – writes this similarly low-key sitcom starring Lesley Manville. There are shades of Mike Leigh – a woman in her 50s comes to terms with bereavement – but the way Golaszewski has fun with vain people while backing the good eggs is all his own. Tonight, Kelly worries about Jason while Mike and Cathy’s compatibility is hard to ignore. John Robinson
The Last Leg
10pm, Channel 4
The self-proclaimed “three guys with four legs” are back with a new series – and a special guest interviewee in the shape of Jeremy Corbyn. As with Nick Clegg last year, will Alex Brooker be reaching for his “Bullshit” buzzer much – or will Josh Widdicombe be chiming in with his own “That’s true, actually” button? Given the government’s record on disability issues, the leader of the opposition is almost certainly among friends here. Ali Catterall
Hoff The Record
10pm, Dave
Final spin of Hasselhoff’s record in the current series, and a move upmarket for the star as a European arthouse flick beckons. What price credibility? Well, it does mean slumming it in remote Romania at the behest of a brutally eccentric director from the Herzog school (played by Kevin Eldon). Not only that, but there’s an anti-flounce clause in the contract that would fine the Hoff the equivalent of the film’s entire production budget if he tries to make a hasty exit. Mark Gibbings-Jones
Banshee
10pm, Sky Atlantic
Some fans are muttering that Banshee has lost its pulpy mojo in its fourth and final season, but this episode features a ne’er-do-well being pulled in half by a pickup truck and a certain bowtie-loving enforcer revving up a chainsaw. These spirit-raising sights are arguably offset by the tedious serial killer storyline but there are also hints that antiheroes Hood and Job are ready to shake off their respective funks to wreak some good old-fashioned vengeance. Graeme Virtue
Film choice
Greta Gerwig and Lola Kirke in Mistress America. Photograph: Allstar/Fox
Mistress America (Noah Baumbach, 2015) 2.15pm, 11.45am, Sky Movies Premiere
Baumbach’s hilarious, hyperactive comedy lets a brilliantly odd couple of girlfriends loose in New York. Lola Kirke is Tracy, a lonely aspiring writer and first-year college student; Greta Gerwig (who also co-wrote, as she did for Baumbach’s Frances Ha) is Brooke, her stepsister-to-be, more mature, and surfing the hip city on a wave of limited creativity and self-belief. It’s an utterly winning combination, particularly when they visit the Manhattan mansion of the “friend” who stole Brooke’s big idea, her boyfriend, and her cats. Paul Howlett
Source Code (Duncan Jones, 2011) 12.10am, Channel 4
A sci-fi whodunnit with a helping of Groundhog Day from Jones, whose Warcraft is bursting into cinemas now. Jake Gyllenhaal is an army captain who, through the wonders of future technology, enters the mind of one of the victims of a train bombing, re-running his last eight minutes repeatedly in order to unveil the culprit and prevent a larger act of terrorism, while falling for cute fellow passenger Michelle Monaghan. Intelligent and gripping. PH
Live sport
Test Cricket: England v Sri Lanka The second day of the third Test at Lord’s. 10.30am, Sky Sports 2
Rugby Union: South Africa A v England Saxons Coverage from the Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein. 5.30pm, Sky Sports 3
Rugby League: Warrington Wolves v Hull FC Live from the Halliwell Jones Stadium. 7.30pm, Sky Sports 1