Yahoo Finance TV tonight: wedding celebrations and a divorce party – pre-Covid life at a Liverpool hotel
The Grand Party Hotel
8pm, BBC One
Indulge in a slice of pre-Covid opulence in this new series, documenting the hectic lives of the staff and guests at Liverpool’s Shankly hotel. It is famed for its “affordable luxury” and chaotically decorated party rooms hosting up to 24 people, and tonight we meet Laura, who is checking in with friends to celebrate her recent divorce, as well as brides-to-be Trudie and Danielle, who are putting their big day together with the help of the hotel’s wedding planner. Although it could all go wrong because of a leak in the roof that no one has noticed. Ammar Kalia
Inside Culture with Mary Beard
7.30pm, BBC Two
Beard follows up her Lockdown Culture stint with a trip to Stonehenge, a place that has fascinated her since she was a child. There she meets the Turner prize-winning king of rave, Jeremy Deller. She also asks the question: which forms of culture won and lost during the pandemic? Hannah Verdier
Saving Lives at Sea
8pm, BBC Two
The adrenaline-fuelled series about the brave exploits of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution volunteers continues. This week, an unusual stranded body awaits the boat crews of the Wirral: a porpoise trapped by the outgoing tide. In Cornwall, the station receives a harrowing call that a fishing boat with a crew onboard is ablaze. AK
World War II & Cinema
8pm, Sky Arts
Used to boost morale, as well as to push propaganda, cinema was a key cultural export during the second world war. This three-part series explores how attendance during the conflict increased as audiences were desperate for a dose of escapism, and how wartime output has inspired film-makers ever since. AK
London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year
9pm, ITV
When London Zoo was closed for three months during lockdown, the animals – more than 20,000 of them – were kept going thanks to the efforts of a skeleton staff of zookeepers and vets facing unprecedented challenges. When a lion called Indi falls ill, her carers are concerned: could it be coronavirus? Ellen E Jones
She the People: Votes for Women
9pm, Smithsonian
A look back at the fight for women’s right to vote in the US, with an emphasis on artefacts. Among the treasures immortalising the struggle are the table on which the first call for suffrage was written and, at the other end of the story, the pen used to ratify the 19th Amendment. Jack Searle
Film choice
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 2014), 4pm, Sky Cinema Greats
Ferocious New York music teacher Mr Fletcher (JK Simmons) takes aspiring drummer Andrew (Miles Teller) under his wing in a film that tips the caring mentor movie firmly on its head. Never mind syncopation – Fletcher’s method is all about subjugation in Damien “La La Land” Chazelle’s bruising drama. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Uefa Super Cup: Bayern Munich v Sevilla 7pm, BT Sport 1. Head to head from Puskas Arena.
EFL Cup football 7.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event. Coverage of Lincoln v Liverpool’s third round match.
PGA Tour Golf 10.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event. Opening day of the 2020 Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship.
