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- Team dsm-firmenich PostNL roster for the 2024 Tour of Switzerland:

Tobias Lund Andresen (DEN)
 Pavel Bittner (CZE) Sean Flynn (GBR)
 Chris Hamilton (AUS)
 Gijs Leemreize (NED)
 Oscar Onley (GBR)
 Frank van den Broek (NED)

- Team dsm-firmenich PostNL coach Pim Ligthart: "The Tour de Suisse is really tough this year with six out of the eight stages finishing uphill and two time trials which open and close the race. With Oscar coming back after injury and fresh down from altitude, we will take it day-by-day with him and see what is possible in terms of GC and stage results. Next to Oscar, we have a well balanced team where we have chances in the possible sprint on the second stage and we can also look to go for stage results from the bigger breakaways with the likes of Frank, Gijs and Chris later in the race."

- Soudal Quick-Step roster for the men's 2024 Tour de Suisse:

Ayco Bastiaens (BEL) Gil Gelders (BEL) Yves Lampaert (BEL) William Junior Lecerf (BEL) Fausto Masnada (ITA) Louis Vervaeke (BEL) Jordi Warlop (BEL)

- Soudal Quick-Step sports director Wilfried Peeters: "We are going to this hard race with a nice team who is very motivated and capable of fighting for some good results. We’re curious to find out what William can do in the general classification, but we won’t put any pressure, and instead just take it day by day and see where he ends up in the standings."

- Mattias Skjelmose (Trek-Segafredo) won the men's 2023 Tour de Suisse. Marlen Reusser (SD Worx) won the women's 2023 Tour de Suisse Féminin.

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Men's Race - June 9 - 16

Stage 1 ITT - Sunday, June 9 Start at 14:08 CET, 8:08am ET Finish at 17:00 CET, 11:00am ET

Stage 2 - Monday, June 10 Start at 12:45 CET, 6:45am ET Finish at 17:00 CET, 11:00am ET

Stage 3 - Tuesday, June 11 Start at 13:10 CET, 7:10am ET Finish at 17:00 CET, 11:00am ET

Stage 4 - Wednesday, June 12 Start at 12:30 CET, 6:30am ET Finish at 17:00 CET, 11:00am ET

Stage 5 - Thursday, June 13 Start at 13:05 CET, 7:05am ET Finish at 17:00 CET, 11:00am ET

Stage 6 - Friday, June 14 Start at 12:00 CET, 6:00am ET Finish at 16:00 CET, 10:00am ET

Stage 7 - Saturday, June 15 Start at 14:20 CET, 8:20am ET Finish at 17:30 CET, 11:30am ET

Stage 8 ITT - Sunday, June 16 Start at 13:38 CET, 7:38am ET Finish at 17:00 CET, 11:00am ET

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Stage 3 - Monday, June 17 Start at 13:30 CET, 7:30am ET Finish at 17:00 CET, 11:00am ET

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Men's Race - June 12 - 19

Stage 1 - Sunday, June 12 Start at 12:50 CET, 6:50am ET Finish at 17:20 CET, 11:20am ET

Stage 2 - Monday, June 13 Start at 12:10 CET, 6:10am ET Finish at 17:20 CET, 11:20am ET

Stage 3 - Tuesday, June 14 Start at 12:50 CET, 6:50am ET Finish at 17:20 CET, 11:20am ET

Stage 4 - Wednesday, June 15 Start at 12:40 CET, 6:40am ET Finish at 17:20 CET, 11:20am ET

Stage 5 - Thursday, June 16 Start at 12:30 CET, 6:30am ET Finish at 17:20 CET, 11:20am ET

Stage 6 - Friday, June 17 Start at 11:30 CET, 5:30am ET Finish at 16:30 CET, 10:30am ET

Stage 7 - Saturday, June 18 Start at 11:00 CET, 5:00am ET Finish at 16:20 CET, 10:20am ET

Stage 8 ITT - Sunday, June 19 Start at 13:07 CET, 7:07am ET Finish at 16:20 CET, 10:20am ET

Women's Race - June 18 - 21

Stage 1 - Saturday, June 18 Start at 19:30 CET, 1:30pm ET Finish at 20:43 CET, 2:43pm ET

Stage 2 ITT - Sunday, June 19 Start at 10:11 CET, 4:11am ET Finish at 12:45 CET, 6:45am ET

Stage 3 - Monday, June 20 Start at 14:00 CET, 8:00am ET Finish at 17:20 CET, 11:20am ET

Stage 4 - Tuesday, June 21 Start at 14:20 CET, 8:20am ET Finish at 17:20 CET, 11:20am ET

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Tour de Suisse 2023 – Stage 6

If you thought the hard stages were gone, you are mistaken. Tomorrow is no easy task either.

Starting off with Albulapass – going the opposite way of today (the descent is being used the other way around). Then the descent which was the ascent today. The straight into the Lenz climb. A tough start.

Then it eases off for a bit before the hilly finale which we will take a deeper look at.

This is the finale. It is difficult but not that difficult.

The Pilgerweg is the first climb, 55 km from the line. A Swiss wall.

Closer to the line, what they call the Islisberg. It has 400m at the center that goes above 14%. From the top there is 9 km left.

Last hill is the one to the finish line. A long drag. Perfect for a late move.

Expect a rainy day in the first half before a dry race to the line. A calm 2 m/s wind from the NW which means a headwind throughout the day.

How will the stage unfold?

Starting with Trek-Segafredo, I think they will be fairly happy seeing a break go up the road. No need to anything. It is AG2R and UAE who must control the breakaway if they want a stage win. Both of their leaders already have one.

The early climbing makes it ideal for the breakaway to form. It will be very tough to control the beginning, you will have to burn a lot of domestiques early on. To me, this stage is just suited for the breakaway. We will likely see GC action with in the last 10 km or so too.

Updated 21:20.

Schachmann – It seems that after nearly two poor seasons he is on his way back. 10th on stage 3 and 22nd today is a very good sign going into the next two stages that suit him very much. If feels like ages ago we saw him at his very best and finally, it looks to be a something for the near-future.

Wout van Aert – how many matches did he burn today? I think he stands a better chance at stage 7 or the time trial to be fair. The terrain near the end is better for him tomorrow, still, he is here to prepare for the Tour de France.

Gregoire – let’s see what he can do! The finish suits him tomorrow, he is more of a puncheur than a climber. He has also had good results the last three stages, showing he got the legs to fight for a stage win.

Pidcock – first INEOS rider. Sheffield with a nasty crash means the rest of them should be allowed up the road. Where are the legs we know he sometimes has? Take a dice, roll it. Odd numbers mean he goes well and even means he will underperform. Jokes aside, he can also win this from a reduced GC sprint. The terrain in the finale 55 km is also much better suited for him.

Narvaez – climbing well enough to get in the early breakaway. He likes the shorter segments compared to the mountains. I think he will be up there tomorrow, either from the breakaway or helping Pidcock to some degree.

Ben Tulett – climbing very well just now. We saw him briefly bringing Pidcock back, or trying to, then he sat up. He won Tour of Norway, he should still have good enough legs to challenge for a win. He is some puncheur. He goes very well on steep gradients.

Aranburu – lost a lot of time today, I think he fancies his chances from the break tomorrow. He is a good enough climber to get in the morning breakaway, otherwise he will try to bridge on the descent(s). In an uphill sprint, is this too difficult? I don’t think so.

Søren Kragh – needs a Tour de France spot. He has been saving himself all week for the next two stages. Expect fireworks.

Gall – good in an uphill sprint from a GC group.

Skjelmose – same goes for Mattias.

Ayuso – he came out of nowhere today, seems he just needed a few more stages in the legs.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ben Tulett ⭐⭐⭐ SKA, Aranburu ⭐⭐ Skjelmose, Ayuso, Pidcock ⭐ Narvaez, Gall, Wout van Aert, Schachmann

Who will win?

I think we will see the win from the breakaway or a late attack. I will take a win from the young Brit, Ben Tulett, he has impressed me a lot in the past month.

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Tour de Suisse Route, Stages and Results 2023

2023 Tour of Switzerland (Tour de Suisse) World Tour

86th edition: june 11 - june 18, 2023.

Tour of Switzerland podium history | 2022 edition | 2024 edition | Start list Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 | Stage 4 | Stage 5 | Stage 6 | Stage 7 | Stage 8

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Sunday, June 18: 8th & Final Stage, St. Gallen - Abtwil 25.7 km individual time trial

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Juan Ayuso on his way to winning the stage. Sirotti photo

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Weather at the finish city of Abtwil at 2:00 PM, local time: 27C (80F), partly cloudy, with the wind frm the northwest at 10 km/hr (6 mph). There is just a 1% chance of rain.

The race: First rider scheduled to start is Pavel Bittner (Team DSM) at 2:27.

Here's the report from stage winner Juan Ayuso's UAE Team Emirates:

Juan Ayuso took another strong victory today on stage 8 of the Tour de Suisse from St. Gallen to Abtwil (25.7km), blitzing the course in a time of 32:25.

The 20 year old talent clocked an average speed of 47.5kmph to win the stage and came within a whisker of taking the overall title. Finally he would concede it to yellow jersey Mattias Skjelmose (Trek-Segafredo) by just 9’’.

Nevertheless the result is very promising for the rising Spanish star as he takes the 33rd win of the year for UAE Team Emirates.

GC winner Mattias Skjelmose with his trophy. Sirotti photo

Ayuso : “I’m happy because I won the stage, it’s my second time trial win of the year so I’m happy to be improving in this discipline. I’m a little disappointed not to take the GC win by such a small margin but Mattias was really strong and I offer him my congratulations. I would like to dedicate the stage victory to Gino (Mader). Everybody here gave their best for him these days to try and honour his memory.”

Complete results:

25.7 kilometers raced at an average speed of 47.568 km/hr

• GC winner: Mattias Skjelmose (Trek-Segafredo)
• Mountains classification winner: Pascal Eenkhoorn (Lotto Dstny)
• Points classification winner: Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma)
• Best young rider: Mattias Skjelmose (Trek-Segafredo)
• Teams classification winner: Ag2r-Citroën

902.9 kilometers raced at an average speed of 42.412 km/hr. The distance of the neutalized sixth stage is not included.

Stage 8 map & profile:

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Stage 8 profile

Saturday, June 17: Stage 7, Tübach - Weinfelden, 183.5 km

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Weather at the finish city of Weinfelden at 1:30 PM, local time: 25C (77F), fair, with the wind from the northwest at 6 km/hr (4 mph). No rain is forecast.

The race: Three teams did not start: Bahrain Victorious, Tudor Pro Cycling and Intermarché-Circus-Wanty. These racers from other teams also did not start:

Michael Schär (Ar2r-Citroen) Tom Scully (EF Education-EasyPost) Julius van den Berg (EF Education-EasyPost) Stefan Küng (Groupama-FDJ) Arnaud Démare (Grouama-FDJ) Miles Scotson (Groupama-FDJ) Rohan Dennis (Jumbo-Visma) Mauro Schmid (Soudal Quick-Step) Matis Louvel (Arkéa-Samsic) Daniel McLay (Arkéa-Samsic) Quinn Simmons (Trek-Segafredo) Marc Hirschi (UAE Team Emirates) Daryl Impey (Israel-Premier Tech) Krists Nielans (Israel-Premier Tech) Nicholas Schultz (Israel-Premier Tech) Lennert Van Eetvlet (Lotto Dstny) Syylvain Moniquet (Lotto Dstny)

That left 113 riders in the race, which will continue.

The race organizer posted this update today:

• Race will happen as planned on normal course and with the normal schedule
• Time for GC will be taken at the 25km to go mark
• No bonus seconds will be awarded at the Tissot sprints and no bonus seconds will be awarded at the finish line
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Here's the report from stage winner Remco Evenepoel's Team Soudal Quick-Step:

Remco Evenepoel paid tribute to Gino Mäder at the end of stage seven, pointing his finger to the sky as he crossed the line in Weinfelden. It was a touching moment at the end of a sombre and emotionally wearing day in the saddle, which the peloton raced as one until with 25 kilometers to go, when the GC times were taken.

On the last climb, Ottenberg, some squads upped the pace and soon a small group took off, among those there being also the World Champion, who rode away with 17 kilometers to go and opened a solid gap over the others. Evenepoel kept pushing in the closing part of the stage, increasing his advantage, and arrived alone at the finish, where he took his 44th pro victory.

“Friday evening was a very difficult one for all of us, we didn’t know what we were going to do and how the race would continue. In the end, after talking between us, we decided to have a neutralized stage today until 25 kilometers to go, and from there on, whoever wanted to race was free to do that without any time gaps in the general classification.”

“In my opinion, this was the best way to honour Gino and who he was, to pay a tribute to him and show my respect to his family in these difficult moments. This win and this trophy are for them. It doesn’t change anything, but I want them to know that all of us in the peloton, in our small world, are thinking of them”, said after the stage Remco, who remains fourth overall going into the individual time trial in Abtwil.

183.5 kilometers raced at an average speed of 45.672 km/hr

• GC leader: Mattias Skjelmose (Trek-Segafredo)
• Mountains classification leader: Pascal Eenkhoorn (Lotto Dstny)
• Points classification leader: Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma)
• Teams classification leader: Ag2r-Citroën

Stage 7 map & profile:

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Stage 7 profile

Friday, June 16: Stage 6, La Punt - Oberwil Leili, 215 30 km

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Team Bahrain Victorious ride in the neutralized procession in homage to their lost teammate. Sirotti photo

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The race: Following the death of Gino Mäder who died after crashing in stage five, the stage is neutralized. The riders will ride the final 30 kilometers to Oberwil-Leili in a procession in homage to Mäder.

• Teams classifiction leader: Ag2r-Citroën

693.7 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 41.469 km/hr

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Thursday, June 15: Stage 5, Fiesch - La Punt, 211 km

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Juan Ayuso wins stage five. Sirotti photo

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Weather at the finish city of La Punt-Chamues-ch at 1:50 PM, local time: 16C (61F), mostly cloudy, with the wind from the north-northwest at 11 km/hr (7 mph). There is just a 1% chance of rain.

The race: Not starting: George Bennett (UAE Team Emirates). After about 50 kilometers Marius Mayhofer (Team DSM) abandoned.

Juan Ayuso took a spectacular solo victory today on stage 5 of the Tour de Suisse from Fiesch to La Punt (211km) .

The 20 year old talent launched himself in pursuit of the breakaway on the final climb with -14km on a mission to ride away to glory.

The others in the group including race leader Felix Gall (Ag2r-Citroen) had no response to the attack as he bridged across to and passed the breakaway group over the top of the climb.

Ayuso had time to celebrate as he put his hands in the air to take his second victory of the season.

Mattias Skjelmose is back in yellow. Sirotti photo

Ayuso: “I’m so happy with this victory. Yesterday I had no legs and I just suffered through. Today as the pace started increasing I starting feeling better and better. We’re going to try and challenge for GC, it’s going to be hard but I’ll try until the end. It’s going to be a big fight all the way until Sunday and anything can happen along the way.”

Tomorrow the Tour de Suisse continues with Stage 6 from La Punt to Oberwil-Lieli (215.3km).

211 kilometers raced at an average speed of 39.193 km/hr

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Wednesday, June 14: Stage 4, Monthey - Leukerbad, 152.5 km

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After being away for than 20 kilometers, stage winner Felix Gall gets his reward. Getty photo

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Weather at the finish city of Leukerbad at 2:00 PM, local time: 20C (68F), fair, with the wind from the northwest at 14 km/hr (9 mph). There is a 7% chance of rain.

The race: Riders who did not start: Alexey Lutsenko & Vadim Pronskiy (both Astana Qazaqstan) and Cedric Beullens (Lotto Dstny)

Here's the report from second-place Remco Evenepoel's Team Soudl Quick-Step.

Remco Evenepoel showed a lot of character and fighting spirit on the toughest stage of the race so far, just 152.5 kilometers between Monthey and Leukerbad, taking his 14th top three placing of the year, a result which cemented his place on the overall podium of the competition.

Taking in five climbs, including Crans Montana, the fourth day of the Tour de Suisse was a wild one in the last 40 kilometers, when the attacks started coming from the GC men. Soudal Quick-Step tried to keep things under control, but then the race exploded with more than 20 kilometers to go and it soon was every man for himself. Felix Gall (AG2R Citroen) went clear, forcing a response from behind; the pace went up in the chasing group and Evenepoel got dropped, but showed remarkable resilience to make his way back in the small bunch.

On the penultimate ascent, the World Champion continued to suffer, dangling at the back and being close to getting dropped, but he gritted his teeth and rode smartly, latching on and making it over the top with the other favourites. Having overcome the difficult moment faced on the Höhenweg, the rainbow jersey remained calm as the road began again to rise to the finish in Leukerbad, where he waited for the last 100 meters to get out of the saddle and sprint to a strong runner-up spot which came with six bonus seconds that helped the 23-year-old Soudal Quick-Step rider reduce the gap to the overall leader to just 16 seconds.

“I’m not in my best shape at the moment and I feel that I need to ride at my own pace on these climbs. Today wasn’t easy, but as the race progressed and we got closer to the finish, my legs began feeling better and better. Considering everything, second isn’t bad, I think it was the maximum I could get out of this stage. But I keep my focus and confidence, and hope that I will overcome Thursday’s stage, which is going to be another difficult one”, explained Remco, who is now third on the general classification.

152.5 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.148 km/hr

• GC leader: Felix Gall (Ag2r-Citroën)
• Mountains classification leader: Lilian Calmejane (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty)
• Best young rider: Felix Gall (Ag2r-Citroën)
• Teams classification leader: INEOS Grenadiers

482.7 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.602 km/hr

Stage 4 map & profile:

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Stage 4 profile

Stage 4 photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

Peter Sagan before the stage start.

World Road Champion Remco Evenepoel

Looks like Trek-Segafredo pulling the pack with INEOS Grenadiers just behind them.

Another shot of the peloton racing across Switzerland.

Felix Gall crossing the finish line a minute ahead of his nearest chaser.

Remco Evenepoel was second.

Mattias Skjelmose was third, 1min 3sec behind Felix Gall, costing him the race lead.

Cian Uijtdebroeks was fourth across the line.

Fifth place Wilco Kelderman

Romain Bardet was seventh

New GC leader Felix Gall

Tuesday, June 13: Stage 3, Tafers - Villars sur Ollon, 143.8 km

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A soggy Mattias Skjelmose wins the stage and takes over the GC lead. Sirotti photo

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Weather at the finish city of Villars-sur-Ollon at 2:10 PM, local time: 17C (63F), mostly cloudy, with the wind from the west at 11 km/hr (7 mph). There is a 69% chance of rain, dropping to 24% at 5:00 PM.

The race: Here's the stage three report from Remco Evenepoel's Team Soudal Quick-Step.

Remco Evenepoel kept his second place on the general classification of the eight-day race following the first of the week’s two summit finishes. Villars-sur-Olon, a 9.7km climb averaging 7.6% saw the World Champion put in a brave attack, more than six kilometers from the top, after Mattia Cattaneo and James Knox – both who had done an excellent job driving the peloton – peeled off the front.

Joined by two other riders, Remco pulled hard to help this newly-formed group stay away, but when the others surged clear in the final two kilometers he couldn’t follow and was soon caught by the chasers. Despite the big effort he had put in up until that point, Evenepoel still had enough left to finish a strong fourth and remain in contention at the Tour de Suisse, where just 17 seconds separate him from yellow jersey Mattias Skjelmose.

“The team did a great job today. Then I attacked and we got a good gap, but had a bad moment at one point and lost contact with the others. Despite this, I kept fighting and doing my best. I feel I’m not in top shape yet and I still need to make some progress after all this time without racing, but I hope to feel better and better in the coming days”, explained the rainbow jersey after finishing Tuesday’s stage.

143.8 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.236 km/hr

• Mountains classification leader: Nickolas Zukowsky (Q36.5 Pro Cycling)

330.2 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 43.398 km/hr

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Stage 3 map

Stage three photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

Looks like some of Biniam Girmay's Eritrean countrymen came to the race.

GC leader Stefan Küng before the stage start

Mattias Skjelmose wins stage 3.

Second-place Felix Gall

Juan Ayuso was third.

Remco Evenepoel finsihes fourth with Cian Uijtdebroeks right behind him.

Wilco Kelderman (right) finishes seventh and Rigoberto Uran is eighth,

Romain Bardet was tenth.

Stefan Küng in his last moments in yellow.

Nickolas Zukowsky is the King of the Mountains

Wout van Aert leads the points classification.

Mattias Skjelmose is the new GC leader.

Monday, June 12: Stage 2, Beromünster - Nottwil, 173.7 km

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Biniam Girmay wins stage two.

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Weather at the finish city of Nottwil at 2:15 PM, local time: 25C (77F), sunny, with the wind from the northeast at 13 km/hr (8 mph). There is just a 1% chance of rain.

The race: Here's the report from third-place Wout van Aert's Team Jumbo-Visma.

Wout van Aert has finished on the podium for the second consecutive day at the Tour de Suisse. After his third place in the time trial, the Jumbo-Visma rider finished third in the second stage. He only had to beat Biniam Girmay and Arnaud Demare in the bunch sprint.

With Van Aert wearing the black points jersey, the peloton set off from Beromünster to Notwill for a 174-kilometre stage. Two riders decided to attack early and opened up a four-minute lead. The duo was caught about 20 kilometres from the finish, and the sprinters' teams took control.

Mick van Dijke propelled Van Aert to the lead in the last kilometres. The Belgian set up the sprint early but in the last metres, Girmay and Demare passed him. With the four bonification seconds he gained, Van Aert closed the gap on race leader Küng to six seconds.

"It was a chaotic sprint. In the final kilometre, I was too far behind, but due to Mick, I was still able to make up some ground. When I saw the gap, I went for it, but it proved too early. In the end, I couldn't hold on. If I had read the situation better, I could have won the stage", Van Aert reflected on his sprint.

The Belgian rider intends to help Wilco Kelderman as much as possible in the coming days. The Dutchman has been appointed leader of Team Jumbo-Visma in Switzerland. "Wilco is in good shape and has set his sights on a good classification. I want to help him and I will try to keep the black points jersey."

Koen Bouwman crashed hard but managed to finish the stage.

173.7 kilometers raced at an average speed of 44.612 km/hr

• GC leader: Stefan Küng (Groupama-FDJ)
• Mountains classification leader: Nickolas Zukowsky (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team)
• Best young rider: Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step)
• Teams classification leader: Soudal Quick-Step

186.4 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 45.255 km/hr

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Stage 2 profile

Sunday, June 11: Stage 1, Einsiedeln 12.7 km individual time trial

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Stefan Küng finishing his stage winning ride. Photo: Sam Buchli

Weather at the race city of Einsiedeln at 2:45 PM, local time: 22C (71F), partly cloudy, with the wind from the north at 11 km/hr (7 mph). There is a 24% chance of rain.

The race: First rider off is Connor Swift (INEOS Grenadiers) at 2:25 PM.

Here's the report from stage winner Stefan Küng's Team Groupama-FDJ:

This time, there was no one to upset Stefan Küng. On the opening time trial of the Tour de Suisse, the Groupama-FDJ rider proved to be the best in front of his home crowd. To get the better of his main rivals Remco Evenepoel and Wout Van Aert, he still had to cover the 12,7-kilometer course at an average speed of 56.3 km/h. The Swissman beat the Belgian champion, his runner-up, by six seconds, and thus brought the team its first WorldTour victory of the season. On Monday, “King Küng” will head to Nottwil with the yellow jersey on his shoulders.

The Critérium du Dauphiné was barely over than another WorldTour race started on Sunday, on the other side of the Alps. An individual time trial was therefore set to launch the Tour de Suisse in Einsiedeln, where a 12.7-kilometer coursewas to crown the first winner. “The course was very fast, essentially flat, with a final hill of 400 meters, so you needed to keep some energy to make a last big effort”, explained Anthony Bouillod, team coach. “There were a few curves, but the specialists could take them in position without any problem. The only thing we needed to take into account todaywas the wind, because it changed during the day. We then decided to spread out our specialists a bit, and that’s why we chose to put Romain rather at the start“.

Among the first to set off, the recent winner of the 4 Jours de Dunkerque Romain Grégoire actually made an impression. He indeed granted himself the best provisional time, in 14’06, and was only beaten half an hour later by the Italian time trial champion Matteo Sobrero. The young Frenchman remained on the provisional podium for a while, then gradually lost positions with some outsiders finishing, just like Miles Scotson, who first came with the fifth provisional time. “It’s a very good time trial for Romain (19th), especially for his first one at the WorldTour level”, said Anthony.

Shortly after 4:30 p.m., Magnus Shefflied took the best provisional mark, but the big favorites were only about to start. Behind the European champion Stefan Bissegger, Stefan Küng was expected at 4:51 p.m., two minutes before Wout Van Aert and four before Remco Evenepoel. This time slot was therefore going to decide the day’s outcome. At the intermediate checkpoint, the Groupama-FDJ rider passed just one second behind the American, but one second ahead of the Belgian champion and four ahead of Van Aert. “With the wind’s change of direction, we adapted the plan a little”, added Anthony Bouillod. “Initially, with the headwind on the way out and tailwind on the way back, the plan was to push a little harder on the way out. We decided to do the opposite and not to go too hard in order to be able to put an extra notch with the headwind. This small detail could make the difference.”

It it precisely in this second portion that Stefan Küng made the most of all his power. On the line he first beat Sheffield by eleven seconds with a time of 13’31, and then waited for the Belgian riders to join the line. Van Aert lost ten seconds, Evenepoel six, and the Swiss rider then screamed his joy, as he knew the main competitors were out of the way.

A few minutes later, Stefan Küng was officially declared winner of the stage, his third career victory in the Tour de Suisse, and his second this season. “It’s such a relief to win, even more here with the home crowd, my family, my wife, my son”, said Stefan. “It was a short time from the Giro to the Tour de Suisse. I did an altitude camp, I worked very very hard and I felt really tired on Wednesday evening. So, I just focused on my recovery, and even though I wasn’t 100% confident, seeing all my friends and family definitely gave me extra motivation. I knew I could do well, but I didn’t want to have too high expectations. Anyway, I always go full-has, and today it paid off. There was some strong competition today, and with the last Remco’s displays on the Giro, it wasn’t written that I could win. I’m so glad I did it after coming so close so many times.” “We are very happy for Stefan, because he came close so often”, confirmed Anthony. “We also know how much he commits to this discipline. It’s reassuring to see that it’s paying off. For his motivation, it is also a good thing for him to see that he is able to win even against the best in the world, as was the case today. I think it will do him good.”

On Sunday evening, Stefan Küng also took the leader’s yellow jersey, which he will proudly wear tomorrow in a stage suited to the sprinters. “I want to honour the jersey and give mybest”, he added. “I think I can defend it tomorrow and then we’ll see soon enough how things go in the mountains. I can’t promise anything, but I will fight for sure.” “We couldn’t dream of a better start”, concluded Anthony. “It will put the team on the right track, and we have a versatile squad that will be able to have a role throughout the whole week”.

12.7 kilometers raced at an average speed of 56.375 km/hr

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Tour de Suisse 2024 Route stage 6: Ulrichen - Blatten

The riders clip into their pedals in Ulrichen, where they originally would have descended the Nufenen Pass. The highest paved mountain pass in Switzerland peaks at 2,478 metres above sea level. A safe crossing is not possible due to large amounts of snow, so the climb is skipped, and racing starts at its base.

The riders now follow the Rhône downstream for 35.6 kilometres and then tackle a 6.9 kilometres climb at 9.3% to the mountain village of Blatten.

Starting at kilometre 38, the Golden Kilometre offers two opportunities to gain time bonuses of 3, 2, and 1 seconds. The first three riders at the finish line take 10, 6, and 4 seconds.

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TV Guide - Where and When to watch Tour de Suisse 2023

From the 11th to the 18th of June the World Tour peloton races Switzerland's main race. It is the Tour de Suisse , which features eight stages that fits all types of riders and is the final main race before the Tour de France. Here's where and when to watch it.

Here we let you know where and when you will be able to see it both online and on television. Of course, immediately after each day, you will have the recaps and reactions from all the day's protagonists, right here on Cycling UpToDate.

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You will be able to follow the race within the traditional channels, online via the GCN+, Discovery+ and Eurosport Player subscriptions. Additionally, you will find the race also in the following broadcasts:

Depending on the country you are in, you will be able to see it through the following chains:

Czech TV - Czech Republic

DirecTV - Latin America (except Brazil)

ELTA - Taiwan

SRG SSR - Switzerland

RTS - Switzerland

ESPN Brazil - Brazil

ESPN - Central America, Mexico, Caribbean

ETB - Spain

Eurosport/GCN - Europe and UK

FloBikes - USA, Canada, Australia

AMC - Hungary

RTVS - Slovakia

Sky New Zealand - New Zealand

Supersport Sub-Saharan Africa

TV3 - Spain

TV2 Denmark - Denmark

Profiles & Route Tour de Suisse 2023

Departure and arrival times (estimated CET) of the stages

- June 11 - Stage 1: Einsiedeln - Einsiedeln, 12.7km. From 2:25 p.m. to 5:20 p.m.

- June 12 - Stage 2: Beromünster - Nottwil, 173.7km. From 1:05 p.m. to 4:50 p.m.

- June 13 - Stage 3: Tafers - Villars-sur-Ollon, 143.8km. From 1:40 p.m. to 5:20 p.m.

- June 14 - Stage 4: Monthey - Leukerbad, 152.5km. From 12:40 p.m. to 4:35 p.m.

- June 15 - Stage 5: Fiesch - La Punt, 211km. From 10:43 a.m. to 4:35 p.m.

- June 16 - Stage 6: La Punt - Oberwil-Lieli, 215.3km. From 10:48 a.m. to 4:20 p.m.

- June 17 - Stage 7: Tübach - Weinfelden, 162.7km. From 12:15 p.m. to 4:35 p.m.

- June 18 - Stage 8: St.Gallen - Abtwil, 25.7km. From 1:45 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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20 days to Paris Olympics 2024: Tracking India's top 10 medal hopes

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The Paris Olympics are fast approaching and we're just 20 days from the start of the world's biggest sporting carnival. Keeping up with ESPN India's weekly update, here's a look at the top 10 Indian medal prospects and their preparations for the showpiece event.

Neeraj Chopra

Javelin superstar Neeraj Chopra will strive to make history by becoming the first Indian athlete to win back-to-back gold medals.

Chopra was last in action at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, Finland, on 18 June. With a best throw of 85.97m, he won the gold medal there. This week's Paris Diamond League is not part of his competition calendar, meaning the next time he takes the field will be at the Olympics.

Talking to ESPN this week, he spoke about how he has chosen to prioritise fitness over competitions ahead of Paris Olympics.

Vinesh Phogat

Phogat will be in action soon when she competes in the Spain Grand Prix. Training in Bengaluru, she sought help from the Sports Ministry on Tuesday to help speeden her visa process and duly received the visa a few hours later. After the event in Spain, she will be off to France for a 20-day training stint in preparation for the Olympics.

She was last in action at the Budapest Ranking series in June, where she lost to China's Jiang Zhu 5-0 in the 50kg quarterfinals.

Path to Paris: Vinesh has already won the battle of her life. Now she faces the battle of her career

Sindhu is currently training with her coach Agus Dwi Santoso and her team in Saarbrucken, Germany.

She has not been in action since the Indonesia Open last month and hasn't been in prime form in her recent tournaments - losing in the early rounds of both Indonesia and Singapore Open events - but remains among India's brightest medal hopes. If she medals in Paris, she would become India's most successful Olympian with three medals.

Path to Paris: Forget form, forget everything... it's time for big-game PV Sindhu

Nikhat Zareen

Nikhat, already a two-time world champion, will aim for greater glory in Paris where she will be making her Olympic debut.

She was last in action at the Elorda Cup in May where she took top honours. At the moment, Nikhat along with five other boxers, are on a month-long training at the Olympic Centre in Saarbrucken, Germany. She will be there till July 22 and will then head to Paris.

Path to Paris: Why Nikhat Zareen wants that Olympic medal - and has a good shot at it

Mirabai Chanu

Mirabai is looking to get on the Olympic podium once again in Paris after her scintillating performance in Tokyo earned her a silver medal. It has not been an easy journey for Mirabai since the Tokyo glory as she endured a tough period due to injuries. Nevertheless, she's one of the strong favourites in her category in Paris as believes she can climb the podium if she lifts in the range of 200-210kgs.

She has been training at the NIS Patiala and will be heading to France next week to acclimatise to the conditions before her big competition.

Path to Paris: Mirabai Chanu goes back to basics for a shot at second Olympic medal

Sift Kaur Samra

Sift, the Asian Games gold medallist, made it to the Paris squad in women's 50m rifle 3 positions after outstanding performance in the four-stage Olympic selection trials.

She was in action at the Munich World Cup earlier last month where she won the bronze medal, missing silver by only 0.1 point to Han Jiayu of China. She had recently finished a national camp in France and will be seen next at the Olympics.

Path to Paris: Sift Kaur gave up medical studies for sport but now has the chance to heal Indian shooting's scars

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty

Satwik and Chirag haven't competed since the Singapore Open, where they lost in the first round. This has also affected their ranking as they dropped to world no. 3 from the top spot.

In a recent interview with PTI, Chirag said they have 'cracked' the service variation challenge and are focussing on "comprehensive physical and mental conditioning". The duo had narrowly missed out on a quarterfinal berth in the last Olympics despite winning two of their three group matches.

Path to Paris: After historic 2023, 'hungry' Sat-Chi embrace pressure, master the mind games

Lovlina Borgohain

Lovlina was recently in action at the Grand Prix tournament in the Czech Republic. She lost two bouts and won once, which was enough for her to win silver.

Along with Nikhat, she is also in Saarbrucken, Germany, for a month-long training camp. After finishing the camp on July 22, Lovlina will head to Paris in search of her second Olympic medal.

Path to Paris: The spotlight, and Olympic history, beckon Lovlina Borgohain

Men's hockey team

Head coach Craig Fulton had recently named the final squad that will travel to Paris. As expected, Harmanpreet Singh will lead the side and PR Sreejesh will be the only goalkeeper in the team.

The men didn't have a great run in the Europe leg of the Pro League, which saw them finish seventh, only above Spain and Ireland.

The team is currently training in Bengaluru and will fly to Switzerland soon for a team bonding camp. They are also expected to play a few friendlies before reaching Paris.

Path to Paris: Indian hockey picks control over chaos in bid for Olympic glory

Aditi Ashok

Aditi will represent India for the third time at the Olympics. Her participation was never in doubt but was confirmed recently via Olympic Golf Rankings. Aditi, ranked 60th in the world, qualified for the Games as she was placed 24th.

She has not been in great form as she failed to secure a top-10 finish this season but she'll be hoping to repeat her Tokyo heroics and also go a step further in terms of clinching a medal.

Path to Paris: Aditi Ashok has form and experience, can she shake off big-event bogey?

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Tour de France: Dylan Groenewegen wins stage 6 photo finish at the line in Dijon

Jasper Philipsen relegated from second, moving Biniam Girmay to runner-up and Fernando Gaviria to third in tight bunch sprint

Dylan Groenewegen (Jayco AlUla) delivered a stunning sprint to win stage 6 of the Tour de France in a photo finish, beating the later relegated Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) narrowly to the line in Dijon. 

A hectic run for home saw Alpecin-Deceuninck bring back their best lead-out from 2023 with World Champion Mathieu van der Poel delivering Philipsen in the ideal position to launch for the line. But exploding with more speed out of Arnaud De Lie’s (Lotto Dstny) wheel behind him was Groenewegen, who held off the Belgian with a top bike throw.

However, as Groenewegen was launching his sprint on the left, Philipsen closed Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) to the barriers on his inside, reminiscent of the first sprint stage at the 2023 Tour and was then relegated to 107th position for an irregular sprint after the stage.

Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty) moved up to second place, maintaining his top sprinting form with third initially at the line in the green jersey but he lacked the top-end speed to match the bigger man Groenewegen. Fernando Gaviria (Movistar) slotted into third due to Philipsen's relegation.

This was the Dutchman Groenewegen's first win at the Tour since stage 3 of the 2022 race and his sixth career win at the French Grand Tour. It was also his first win after getting back in the Dutch national champion's jersey in June.

“I'm really happy. The feeling is so amazing, in the red white and blue jersey - before I said it would be a beautiful picture but it was that close that I couldn’t celebrate on the finish line,” said Groenewegen who celebrated past the last with his teammates when it was confirmed he’d won.

“In the end, we grabbed it and the team worked so hard, also the last days. Yesterday I was disappointed in myself because the team did a really good job. Today we nailed it again. In the final kilometres, we stayed calm and went at the right moment. Then I got into the slipstream and I actually don't know what happened but I was first.”

Uno-X Mobility were the best-placed team in the final kilometre after a frantic final approach saw Asatan Qazaqstan and Mark Cavendish washed out of contention for stage number 36, until Alpecin moved up with Van der Poel and Philipsen. But last year’s top sprinter at the Tour didn’t have enough for the powerful Dutchman.

“It slowed down just a little bit. It was Uno-X and Alpecin fighting for position, then I went and I think it was Philipsen was on the right and we were sprinting next to each other. I love these sprints next to each other and I beat him just on the finish line, so that's good,” said Groenewegen.

“Yesterday I was really disappointed in myself. I didn't even sprint. Now today we have a victory. A victory in the first week means a lot to me and also for the team. The sprint field is really strong, all the lead-out teams are really strong. I'm so proud of how we did today and hopefully, we can do it once more again.”

After a day which posed constant threats of echelons en route heading from Mâcon in the crosswinds, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) arrived safely in the bunch after another chaotic finale, despite being isolated earlier in the day in one of the splits.

It exposed a weakness in UAE’s climbing-heavy roster, as the yellow jersey rode alone in the front group until racing came back together 70km from the line, with Visma-Lease a Bike and Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe dominating the echelons. No damage was done to the top 10 but Visma will like what they saw in the fight for overall victory as Juan Ayuso and João Almeida struggled on the flat.

How it unfolded

On the third proposed sprint stage at the 2024 Tour de France, kilometre zero once again brought no action, but not because the terrain didn’t suit a break as on stages 3 and 5, but because the parcours and morning’s forecast of crosswinds threatened to bring echelons.

This led to a cagey start through both the day’s first and only categorised climb, the Col du Bois Clair and the early intermediate sprint into Cormatin. Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X Mobility) was the most active, mopping up the singular point and kicking on momentarily with Axel Zingle (Cofidis), who lives locally to the route towards the sprint point.

They weren’t fully committed, however, and allowed the peloton to reel them back in and fight it out for the 20 green jersey points on offer. Philipsen put in an ominous long sprint to take maximum gain in the points classification ahead of Girmay and a bandaged-up Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek).

The following 60km of racing saw no breaks and no attacks but the pace remained high as the peloton was forced into a state of constant focus just in case anyone decided to split things in the wind en route from the department of Saône-et-Loire to Côte-d'Or in Burgundy.

Flags of all nations and regions lined the route and their movement signalled just what the 174 remaining riders at the Tour were so scared of. But as the group dipped through towns and open, exposed roads on the route north from Mâcon to Meursault, the speeds weren’t quite fast enough.

That was until 95.5km to go, with an important change of direction approaching in 20km, Lotto Dstny fired the first shot and tried to split things. The Belgian squad had little success but with the GC teams on high alert, the peloton headed through Chagny and began to split.

Visma-Lease a Bike and Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe positioned their leaders best as the peloton raced for the right-hand turn which would open the race up to a tailwind and for UAE, it was panic stations with Pogačar all alone and isolated in yellow.

Pogačar himself was strong in yellow, swapping turns with Van der Poel in the rainbow jersey as the splits formed, but it exposed a vulnerability in the rouleur department of UAE’s super climbing squad.

GC men Juan Ayuso, João Almeida (both UAE Team Emirates) and Simon Yates (Jayco AlUla) were among those who missed it, alongside sprinters Groenewegen and Pedersen, as the gap grew past 20 seconds.

The stress stayed at maximum until the 70km to go mark, where the teams in front knocked off the fury and allowed the chasing group and Pogačar’s teammates to return.

Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan) also returned not long after this after an untimely mechanical and double bike change.

But the danger wasn’t up, with a left-hand turn through Pouilly-sur-Saône with under 45km to go putting the race back heading north and into the crosswinds. Speeds rose past 60kph when they reached the turn with Ineos, Red Bull and Visma best positioned again, but no on fancied kicking on past the turn itself.

A small crash occured at the back as the peloton narrowed into the turn, with Uno-X and Bahrain-Victorious worst affected. Thankfully, everyone was quickly back on their bikes and uninjured.

Small flashpoints of action came in the final 35km, with tricky corners, changing wind conditions and narrowings of the road keeping the nervousness high all day long. But with no overly long exposed sections left, the splits stopped forming in the run for DIjon.

Astana Qazaqstan looked to make it back-to-back wins for Cavendish and held position for the final 10km until they lost each other through a few sharp corners, leaving the Brit unable to contest the finale.

As they faded into the washing machine of the bunch, Uno-X Mobility and Alpecin-Deceuninck showed their strength in numbers and hit the front through the final key kinks in the road with 2km to go.

The Norwegian side started to falter and the well-oiled Belgian train being led by Van der Poel, was showing signs of its dominant best in 2023. That was until Philipsen’s kick didn’t have the same effect it was having last season and he was unable to match Groenewegen’s run to the line.

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James Moultrie is a gold-standard NCTJ journalist who joined Cyclingnews as a News Writer in 2023 after originally contributing as a freelancer for eight months, during which time he also wrote for Eurosport, Rouleur and Cycling Weekly. Prior to joining the team he reported on races such as Paris-Roubaix and the Giro d’Italia Donne for Eurosport and has interviewed some of the sport’s top riders in Chloé Dygert, Lizzie Deignan and Wout van Aert. Outside of cycling, he spends the majority of his time watching other sports – rugby, football, cricket, and American Football to name a few.

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What’s on TV tonight: End of Summer, Euro 2024: England v Switzerland, The French Dispatch and more

Saturday 6 july.

End of Summer

BBC Four, from 9pm

Not another Scandi crime drama, you might well think. But this one’s different enough, with plenty of twists and turns, to make it worth a watch. For one thing, it’s more psychological thriller than the usual murky police procedural. Julia Ragnarsson takes the lead as the rather complicated Vera, a psychologist working as a grief therapist in a Stockholm community clinic. Her life has been dominated by two family tragedies: the disappearance of her younger brother, Billy, at five years of age, from the family farm some 20 or so years before; and the suicide, not long after, of her mother.

When a troubled young man, Isak (Erik Enge), turns up at one of her group therapy sessions grieving over the death of his adoptive mother, Vera begins to suspect the impossible. Could Isak actually be her missing brother? Thrown into a state of confusion, it’s a situation made even more complex by Vera’s precarious position at work and the layers of buried pain that make family members resist her suspicions. It’s a bit of a slow burn but tonight’s opening episodes cover a lot of ground, especially regarding Vera’s claustrophobic family relationships, while cleverly building tension. GO

Ainsley’s National Trust Cook Off

ITV1, 11.40am

Ainsley Harriott is joined by chefs Daniel Galmiche and Ruby Bhogal at the Wimpole Estate in Cambridgeshire, where they dig up potatoes for a quick flatbread pizza, add a French touch to a pork chop and celebrate Ruby’s Indian heritage with spiced lamb kebab rolls.

Euro 2024 : England v Switzerland

BBC One, 4pm/ITV1, 7pm

After keeping us on the rack for 95 minutes and snatching victory from the jaws of humiliation last week, we get to go through it all again tonight as England take on Switzerland in the quarter-finals. Kick-off is at 5pm for what’s sure to be a rollercoaster. Then it’s over to the Netherlands v Turkey in Berlin.

Edward & Sophie: 25 Years Together

Channel 5, 9pm

A re-edited version of a film about the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh previously aired under the titles Edward & Sophie: The Reluctant Royals and Edward & Sophie: The Reliable Royals, focusing on how they met and survived the ups and downs of royal life over the years – the couple celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in June.

Prince & His Songs at the BBC

BBC Two, 10pm

A new compilation of performances by one of the geniuses of pop includes a selection from artists who covered him, including Beyoncé, Alicia Keys and Sinéad O’Connor. Followed, at 11pm, by a 2011 documentary on how Prince revolutionised black American music and, at midnight, by a Grammy-nominated film recorded during his 1985 Purple Rain tour.

Stax: Soulsville USA

Sky Documentaries, 10pm

The concluding part of this excellent series about the hugely influential Memphis-based record label explores the boom-and-bust that brought about Stax’s demise in the 1970s – and revival in the 2000s as a heritage label.

Marty Feldman: No, But Seriously: One Pair of Eyes

BBC Four, 10.55pm

A remarkable slice of social and comedic history, this 1967 episode from a series commissioned by David Attenborough features comedian Marty Feldman musing on the purpose and power of comedy with the likes of Dudley Moore, Peter Sellers and Barry Took. Other, now largely forgotten, comics also feature, offering a glimpse into how comedy was evolving and migrating from stage onto TV at the time. 

The Wizard of Oz (1939) ★★★★★

5Select, 5.50pm  

Few films are more fun to watch than The Wizard of Oz, and few have such a charming message either. Judy Garland stars as young Dorothy, who’s bored with her drab, literally black-and-white existence in Kansas, and desperate to escape to “somewhere over the rainbow”. But once she gets there and colour pours into her world, she discovers that there’s more to life than selfish pleasures. Still sublime, especially the beautiful music and sets.

Dream Horse (2020) ★★★

Channel 4, 6.45pm  

Euros Lyn’s fictionalised tale of the early life of Dream Alliance, a chestnut gelding raised in an impoverished south Wales mining village who went onto achieve racing glory, is like a equine spin on Billy Elliot or The Full Monty. Toni Collette is terrific as a supermarket worker who decides to start up a racing syndicate with the help of lazy husband Brian (Owen Teale) and business partner Howard (Damian Lewis).

Film of the Week: The French Dispatch (2020) ★★★★★

Channel 4, 9pm

Wes Anderson’s extraordinary 10th feature film feels like four films in one, and contains enough ideas for at least another six. It features all of the director’s usual aesthetic quirks – a hyper stylised, pastel-hued palette, meticulous use of vintage props, artefacts and costumes, as well as the kind of packed cast made up of Hollywood actors that we’ve come to expect from his movies. Set in the 1960s in the fictional Gallic commune of Ennui-sur-Blasé, the film arranges itself around the doings of The French Dispatch, an eccentric and pretentious New Yorker-like magazine founded and edited by Bill Murray’s Arthur Howitzer Jr, a blustery Kansas expat (and fond send-up of The New Yorker’s own co-founder Harold Ross). Four of his star writers are our main characters: Owen Wilson’s hilariously chaotic travel guide; Tilda Swinton’s snooty art critic; Frances McDormand’s self-righteous politics correspondent; and, finally, Jeffrey Wright’s exacting food critic. It’s no All the President’s Men or Spotlight-esque love letter to journalism, but an alluring blend of crime fiction, comedy and romance. It’s also worth checking out the excellent soundtrack, by Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker.

Eileen (2023) ★★★

Sky Cinema Premiere, 10pm  

Centring on an affair between Anne Hathaway’s stylish doctor and Thomasin McKenzie’s prison lackey, both stationed in a troubled juvenile detention facility, William Oldroyd’s modern noir doesn’t quite have the same jaw-dropping depth as his Lady Macbeth (which made a star of Florence Pugh). Adapted from Ottessa Moshfegh’s 2015 mystery novel, Eileen tries hard to ramp up the mystery (and sex) factor, but the plot feels contrived.

Training Day (2001) ★★★★

BBC One, 11.20pm  

Antoine Fuqua’s blistering action drama asks a difficult question: is criminality ever justified? It stars Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke as LAPD narcotics officers tasked with cleaning up gang-ridden, drug-plagued Los Angeles neighbourhoods. Critics were divided on the screenplay, which can veer too often into stereotype, but Washington is excellent – he won a Best Actor Oscar for the role. Eva Mendes, Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg co-star.

Sunday 7 July

Guy Martin’s Lost WW2 Bomber 

On June 13, 1943, a British Lancaster bomber, ED603, was shot down by Nazis over the Dutch lake of IJsselmeer. The bodies of four crew members washed ashore, but three airmen were never found. Their remains are assumed to still be in the wreckage of the plane. In this extraordinary documentary, presenter Guy Martin travels to the Netherlands to follow the Dutch government’s efforts to raise the bomber from the depths. According to the engineers involved, the endeavour (part of a national €15 m plane-wreck rescue fund) is gratitude to the Allies for freeing the Netherlands from Nazi occupation.

The operation itself is an engineering marvel. The Dutch – no strangers to building dams – construct an enormous one around the crash site. This drains the surrounding water – creating a neat square of dry land in the middle of a lake – slowly revealing the charred wreckage of ED603. The story of what happened to the plane is fascinating, of course. Yet what really makes this sing is Martin’s infectious enthusiasm for the lives and sacrifice of the three missing airmen. It makes the search for their remains all the more important – if only so that their families can visit their graves. SK

Songs of Praise

BBC One, 11.30am; Wales, 11.40am 

This morning’s Songs of Praise celebrates the centenary of Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral. Rev Kate Bottley is given a tour and meets Christians such as Ghanaian Albert, who has been invited to live in the cathedral community as part of an initiative to make amends for Liverpool’s role in the transatlantic slave trade.

Richard & Judy: Our Best Bits: In Our Own Words

Channel 5, 7pm

Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan reflect on their reign as the king and queen of 1990s daytime TV. They speak with candour about blazing rows while filming This Morning and their bungled 1996 interview with OJ Simpson. There is also the infamous matter of Judy’s costume mishap at the National Television Awards.

Bake Off: The Professionals 

Channel 4, 8pm

Tonight’s semi-finals are a sweet treat. Guest judge Nicolas Houchet, executive pastry chef at The Savoy, sets the first task: perfect his version of the peach Melba. The second challenge asks the four remaining bakers to create an array of edible fairy-tale scenes. Tune in tomorrow night for the final, in which one pro will get the sweetest happily ever after.  

The Turkish Detective

BBC Two, 9pm

A stylish new entry in the fish-out-of-water detective genre. This time it’s British detective Mehmet (Ethan Kai), who arrives in Istanbul to join a homicide unit led by the eccentric Inspector Ikmen (Haluk Bilginer). Tonight, they bond over the murder of a student who was living a double life. The second episode airs tomorrow night.

The Night Caller  

Robert Glenister stars in this atmospheric four-part thriller about a Liverpool taxi driver who develops an obsession with a charismatic late-night radio DJ (a purring Sean Pertwee). It is a superbly performed study in loneliness and influence, inevitably resulting in tragedy. The series continues tomorrow and Tuesday, concluding Wednesday night.

Ibiza Narcos 

Sky Documentaries, 9pm

Having explored the drug trades of Dublin and Liverpool, the third instalment in Sky’s Narcos series braves the dark underbelly of Ibiza. Tonight’s opener tells the story of how gangsters transformed a sleepy Mediterranean island into the drug-dealing capital of the world. In the words of one charmer: “It’s a very nice place to kill somebody.” 

Shark Tale (2004) ★★★★

ITV1, 1.40pm   

Will Smith, Robert De Niro, Renée Zellweger, Jack Black and Angelina Jolie (as well as director Martin Scorsese) provide the voices in this gangster spoof about a Mafia shark family and a little wrasse (Smith) who becomes a hero after he encounters the fishy Mob. It’s not as good as Finding Nemo, but there are plenty of gags for grown-ups, too, and a terrific lead song from Christina Aguilera.

Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) ★★★

ITV1, 7.25pm  

Patty Jenkins’s follow-up to her sharp, stylish 2017 comic-book hit is longer, cornier and wobblier, but just the thing if you crave an unchallenging blockbuster. We rejoin our hero, Diana Prince/Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), in 1980s Washington DC, where she must pause her museum work to take on a Donald Trump-esque baddy played with a madcap glint by Pedro Pascal. Well, eventually. The action is great, the story is slow.

Pavarotti (2019) ★★★

BBC Four, 10pm  

Ron Howard’s documentary tracks the acclaimed opera singer and his remarkable career. It opens with him in the Amazon, demanding to perform on a stage in the jungle that once hosted Enrico Caruso. It’s an interesting rehash of Pavarotti’s life, but it lacks critical voices and interesting insight, and glosses over too many crucial aspects of his artistry and personality to be regarded as a fully rounded portrait.

Vice (2018) ★★★★★

BBC Two, 11.45pm  

Adam McKay’s fantastic film about the former US Vice President Dick Cheney is a ferocious Molotov cocktail of biopic, documentary and black comedy, with a thrillingly short fuse. It spans the half-century from Cheney’s drink-driving conviction at the age of 21 to his heart transplant at 71; he is played by Christian Bale, whose face is reshaped by eerily plausible prosthetics. Tyler Perry and Steve Carell co-star.

Monday 8 July

BBC Two, 10pm; NI, 11.05pm

Two years after her extraordinary, idiosyncratic debut The Baby, Michelle de Swarte returns with another supremely confident and stylishly executed series, featuring probably the best soundtrack of the year. Drawing in part on her own experiences, De Swarte plays Mia, a catwalk model whose profligacy has left her facing bankruptcy. Forced to return home to London from New York, she finds her friends and family have moved on in her absence: her best pal (Amanda Wilkin) is engaged and a vulnerable teenager from the estate has moved into her old bedroom with her mum (Juliet Cowan). Modelling jobs, meanwhile, prove to be a rarity for a forty-something with few contemporary contacts, but Mia can’t bring herself to face the shame of admitting failure and resorts to sofa surfing.

Amid the well-tuned farce – a dogging encounter, inadvertent dogsitting – is an important and pertinent examination of midlife drift and the poverty trap at a time when too many are falling through the cracks. For all that Mia’s desperate predicament is largely self-imposed, De Swarte’s astute writing and subtle lead performance ensures she never loses our interest or sympathy. GT

House of the Dragon

Sky Atlantic, 2am & 9pm

“A king must always be prepared for war,” we were promised and, with the Battle at Rook’s Rest looming, war is almost here. Episode four promises more shocking revelations for Alicent (Olivia Cooke) and some spectacular dragon action to boot.

Long Lost Family

Continuing to tug at the heartstrings with ruthless efficiency, Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell return for a 14th series of detective work and family reunions. They begin with two women, one searching for the daughter she was forced to give up for adoption and the other looking for the brother from whom she was separated as a baby.

Help! We Bought a Hotel

Blending the home makeover with fly-on-the-wall hospitality doc and property hunt (three surefire winners in a crowded field) this series follows entrepreneurs as they renovate old properties – among them a derelict Welsh mansion, a historical palazzo and a French boarding house – and turn them into working hotels.

Channel 4, 10pm & 11.10pm

This gleefully irreverent drama is showing signs of running out of steam; and this third series is its last. Still, there is much to enjoy in Nicholas Hoult’s both-barrels performance as the buffoonish, psychotic Peter III, who marks surviving his wife Catherine the Great’s (the excellent Elle Fanning) assassination attempt with some marriage counselling while alliances shift around them – in one case, with fatal consequences.

The Sympathizer

Sky Atlantic, 10.10pm

The final episode of this excellent drama – entitled, with heavy irony, Endings Are Hard, Aren’t They? – finds the Captain (Hoa Xuande) Bon (Fred Nguyen Khan), and Claude (Robert Downey Jr) preparing to depart for Vietnam, where true horror awaits along with a muted yet satisfying conclusion to this exhilaratingly weird trip of a miniseries.

We Hunt Together

BBC One, from 10.40pm; Wales, from 11.30pm

Mismatched cops Mendy (Babou Ceesay) and Franks (Eve Myles) saddle up for a second run of Alibi’s unsettling crime serial, targeting a suspected killer (Nico Mirallegro) with links to their sinister nemesis, Freddy Lane (Hermione Corfield) – a quest complicated by the involvement of an internet troublemaker (Tamzin Outhwaite). 

Manodrome (2023) ★★

Sky Cinema Premiere, 4.25pm  

Director John Trengove attempts to make a Fight Club for the incel age, but winds up with a hollow rumination on masculinity. It’s an intriguing project for The Social Network’s Jesse Eisenberg, but he hardly plays against type as a man riddled with anxiety. His character is Uber driver Ralphie, skint and with a baby on the way, who gets recruited by Adrien Brody’s men’s rights activist.

Evening (2007) ★★★

Great! Movies, 6.35pm  

Lying on her deathbed, Ann Grant Lord (Vanessa Redgrave) recalls memories of her one true love, Harris Arden (Patrick Wilson). They met, decades before, at a friend’s wedding and had a brief, intense affair, but it ended when he left her to marry another woman. As Ann regales her daughters (Toni Collette and Natasha Richardson) with stories, they must try to come to terms with her imminent death. Lajos Koltai directs.

Dirty Harry (1971) ★★★★

5Action, 9pm  

“You’ve gotta ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?” In 1971, the world was introduced to “Dirty” Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) – a renegade San Francisco police inspector adept at bending the rules in the name of justice. It’s fast and brutal, but smart too, with a streak of moral ambiguity at its heart. The film had four sequels, but Don Siegel’s original neo-noir remains the most stylised and thrilling.

Tuesday 9 July

BBC Four, 10pm & 11pm

First shown on Amazon Prime Video in 2022, this atmospheric access-all-areas documentary follows life behind the scenes at one of the world’s top racing stables. The focus of the four-part series is Park House Stables at Kingsclere in Hampshire, where trainer Andrew Balding (brother of broadcaster Clare Balding) stables and trains some of the best thoroughbreds in the world for some of the sport’s wealthiest owners. It is a huge operation with around 200 horses at any given time being prepared for racing greatness by dedicated, hard-working staff who are expected to give their all, and then some. “We have accommodation for 79 on site, so it’s intense” says Andrew’s wife, Anna Lisa, and that intensity comes across in every scene.

One of the series achievements is the sense it conveys of the bond that exists between them all, from the apprentice grooms who do the mucking-out to the stable’s champion jockey, Oisin Murphy, who delivers the wins. The latter’s 2021 brush with the racing authorities over alleged drug-taking adds a frisson of jeopardy to tonight’s opening two parts, though it hardly needs it. For racegoers, it’s more than irresistible enough already. GO

Our Great Yorkshire Life

It’s a big day for florist Sarah Richardson, who’s arranging the showcase flower display at Newby Hall for the annual Harrogate Autumn Flower Show. And local news anchor Christa Ackroyd has a new assignment – tracing the county’s horseracing history at the St Leger Festival in Doncaster.

The Yorkshire Vet: Wedding Bells & Cow Bells

Channel 5, 8pm

There’s a change of scene as the vets head off to the Dordogne for colleagues David and Megan’s wedding day. But first, a bovine caesarean is on the cards for a cow who’s produced a calf so big it won’t come out any other way, and Peter operates on a sheep dog who’s broken his leg.

Secrets of the London Underground

Yesterday, 8pm

Tonight, we’re at Paddington, one of the best-connected stations on the network, with a wealth of oddities below ground. While loveable ferroequinologist Tim Dunn explores the mini “mail rail” line that used to transport post to sorting offices across the capital, his partner-in-trainspotting Siddy Holloway, bizarrely, unearths a forgotten airport luggage carousel.

Super Surgeons: A Chance at Life

In the last episode of the series, at London’s Royal Marsden hospital, Prof Asif Chaudry tries pioneering robotic surgery for the first time to treat a rare form of cancer and Prof David Nicol prepares for a challenging operation that poses an exceptionally high risk of haemorrhaging.

Traitors to Hitler

BBC Four, 9pm

Following the failure of a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944, the culprits were hunted down and hanged. To savour his revenge, Hitler ordered their trials and deaths to be filmed. This chilling Inside Story, first shown on the BBC 45 years ago and featuring the original footage, explores why the audacious plot failed.

The Spy in the Bag: New Revelations

Channel 5, 10pm

Re-examining the results of a recent review into the death of Gareth Williams, the MI6 spy found dead in a padlocked duffel bag in his London flat in 2010. Despite the bizarre circumstances, the review concurred with the police view that Williams acted alone, but new interviews suggest many of those close to the investigation remain unconvinced. 

The Cat from Outer Space (1978) ★★★★

Talking Pictures TV, 5.50pm  

Norman Tokar’s sci-fi comedy (and final film) is still a hoot. A UFO captained by an extraterrestrial cat (voiced by Ronnie Schell) is intercepted by the US military. The spacecraft’s pilot reveals to his captors that he must locate a substance called “Org 12” (also known as gold, here on Earth) to reunite with his mothership. Ken Berry plays the scientist who comes to his aid.

Inception (2010) ★★★★

Sky Cinema Greats, 8pm   

Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending psycho-caper stars Leonardo DiCaprio as the ultimate thief: he steals ideas by sneaking into the subconscious of his victims. His latest task, however, involves doing the reverse: he must plant an idea deep in an unsuspecting mind. The dream-within-a-dream plotting is bewildering, but it looks dazzling, and the cast (Cillian Murphy, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy) is equally starry.

Ordinary Love (2019) ★★★

BBC Two, 11.05pm  

The lives of Joan (Lesley Manville) and Tom (Liam Neeson) are rocked by a cancer diagnosis. Thanks to the powerful performances of the leads, the simple nature of this story becomes its strength, but the modest virtues of the piece could have resonated profoundly had more been done to shake up the stifling minimalism. Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn direct; Owen McCafferty wrote the screenplay.

Wednesday 10 July

Resembling a Black Mirror episode spun out to the length of a series, Katie Robbins’s 10-part fable is, on the basis of its opening two episodes, something of a curate’s egg. Flirting with futureshock horror and conspiracy thriller, laced throughout with mordant humour, its protagonist is Suzie (Rashida Jones), an American in Kyoto whose husband and son are seemingly killed in a plane crash. Thanks to her husband’s job in robotics, she is gifted a “HomeBot” named Sunny by way of consolation. Initially less than impressed and indeed irritated by its solicitousness, she comes to rely increasingly on her new friend. Yet, as indications mount of foul play regarding her family and with stories appearing of malfunctioning HomeBots, her new attachment could prove perilous.

With its themes of technology gone wrong and the inherent dangers of a surveillance society, Sunny has a few familiar plot beats. Yet it rides these out with some well-judged moments of culture clash and very persuasive world building: tech is present and admired without being flaunted. Jones, meanwhile, offers a low-key masterclass in grief, confusion and the stubborn refusal to give in to either. GT

Davante Adams, Justin Jefferson, George Kittle, Deebo Samuel and Amon-Ra St Brown are household names in the US as five of the NFL’s leading pass catchers. This follow-up to Netflix’s series on quarterbacks follows their lives.

Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken

The link between troubadour and outlaw has been present for centuries, and was made explicit by Johnny Cash when he played to the inmates of Folsom Prison. This powerful, mournful two-part documentary sees Melissa Etheridge crafting a song out of letters written to her by five prisoners in a Kansas prison, all of them affected in various ways by addiction – as indeed was Etheridge herself, her son having died from opioid addiction in 2020.

Mike Tyson denounced this 2022 biopic series from Steven Rogers (I, Tonya) for not seeking his involvement, but also, perhaps, for the deeply unflattering portrayal of a gifted, troubled man capable of unspeakable behaviour both inside and outside the ring; Mike’s primary interest clearly rests on the latter. It begins with his hardscrabble formative years before cycling through his rapid rise, shocking fall, conviction for rape and ongoing rehabilitation in the public eye; Moonlight’s Trevante Rhodes is as sensational as the material is sensationalist.

Loyalty Cards: Are They A Rip Off?

Alexis Conran – a loyalty card naysayer – considers whether supermarkets’ canniest promotional wheeze is simply a ruse to access our data, and if so what precisely becomes of the information we so willingly offer up in exchange for discounts.

Battle of the Bagpipes

Sky Arts, 9pm

This surprisingly gripping series steps up a gear with the World Pipe Championships just one week away, and the leaders of our three featured piping groups intensify the demands on their bands.

GF Newman Remembers Law and Order

BBC Four, 10pm

Not to be confused with the venerable US procedural, GF Newman’s magnificent 1978 miniseries took four interlinked perspectives of a police investigation and its aftermath: the detective, the villain, the brief and the prisoner. The first three air tonight, preceded by the writer recalling its creation. 

Hidden Figures (2016) ★★★★

Film4, 6.25pm  

Theodore Melfi’s life-affirming film highlights a trio of black female Nasa employees’ contributions to the Space Race via a heavyweight line-up of Taraji P Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe. Henson tops the bill as Katherine G Johnson; Spencer plays “computer” Dorothy Vaughan, and Monáe holds her own as engineer Mary Jackson. You’ll certainly be doffing your hat to the women they’re playing, too.

Gravity (2013) ★★★★★

BBC One, 10.50pm  

Alfonso Cuarón’s film is a heart-aching reflection on the miracle of motherhood, and the billion-to-one odds against any of us being here, astronauts or not. It’s also a totally absorbing, often overpowering spectacle – a $100 million action movie (whose production was littered with disasters) in which Sandra Bullock and George Clooney play two spacefarers, fighting for their lives 375 miles above the Earth. Also on Tuesday, same time, same place.

The Rolling Stones: Rock and Roll Circus (1996, b/w) ★★★★

Sky Arts, 11.35pm  

In 1968, the Rolling Stones staged a TV concert in a circus tent and invited their best mates, including John Lennon and Eric Clapton. Mick Jagger dressed as the ringmaster and they even hired a trapeze artist. The result is this bunch of sensational live performances, as well as circus interludes that are positively Fellini-esque in their weirdness. Michael Lindsay-Hogg directs.

Thursday 11 July

The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning

Swedish Death Cleaning – or dostadning – is a variation on the ongoing decluttering craze, its founding principle concerning why one should keep only truly valued possessions to avoid burdening your heirs in the event of your death. Although, as Amy Poehler’s pathologically perky narration underlines: “This is not a show about death, it is a show about life.” Sending three empathetic but unsentimental Swedes into the frequently sappy world of US reality television (this is made by NBC’s streaming spin-off Peacock) is a smart move, and the culture clashes prompt both jovial humour and frank, emotional truth-telling.

First up for designer Johan, psychologist Katarina and organiser Ella is 75-year-old Suzi, a brashly charming “turkey vulture” (20 years older than a “cougar”) who is finding her attachment to the past is stopping her from engaging with the present or imagining a future. Yet who else, she wonders, could possibly want her many photos from her past as a singing waitress, or walk-in wardrobe of sequins and gold lame? The Swedes find answers to all the above and more over the course of a genuinely life-affirming hour. GT

Mastermind: to Think Like a Killer

The FBI’s pioneering behavioural science specialist Dr Ann Burgess – the inspiration behind Netflix’s psychological thriller Mindhunter – is profiled over three gripping episodes, which reveal how her focus on the victims as much as the perpetrators helped the former find closure and the latter be brought to justice.

Tom Kerridge Cooks Britain

ITV1, 8.30pm; UTV/Wales, 10.45pm; not STV

Having long ago taken his role of good egg seriously enough to start resembling one, Tom Kerridge is back on the road in his food truck to champion British ingredients. This week he visits the Pennines in search of British beef to make a lip smacking steak Diane. His next stop is Lancashire for tomatoes to help comprise a tomato and feta flatbread – another appealing combo of technological boundary-pushing and down-home cooking.

Los Angeles: Stories from the City

PBS America, 8.55pm

Hollywood, with its promises of escape and riches, is as good an emblem as any for the illusions and realities of the American Dream. This solidly informative two-parter explores how the myths underpinning LA were established centuries earlier when it was just a dusty outpost, seized from Spain by Mexico after the latter won its independence.

Douglas Is Cancelled

After two episodes of sharp satire, Steven Moffat’s comedy-drama takes a gut wrenching swerve into the latter with a flashback: three years prior to Douglas’s (Hugh Bonneville) gaffe, Madeline (Karen Gillan, superb) has an encounter in a hotel room which does much to explain what we have seen so far.

So Help Me Todd

The second and final series of CBS’s amiably unchallenging legal procedural begins with wily attorney Margaret (Marcia Gay Harden) and her firm’s loose-cannon PI, Todd (Skylar Astin), dealing with the unexpected reappearance of her ex-husband (Mark Moses) and a murder on the local morning news.

While Steven Moffat’s latest series continues on ITV1, BBC Two shows an episode from the second series of his most successful sitcom. Dismissed by some as a watered-down “British Friends”, this episode, with Richard Coyle’s Jeff to the fore, is a reminder of its excellence. 

Vanished into the Night (2024)

Netflix  

Renato De Maria’s Italian crime thriller follows a desperate father (Riccardo Scamarcio) as he embarks on a dangerous mission following the abduction of his children. Annabelle Wallis is his American ex-wife who is convinced a shady group of loan sharks is responsible. What ensues is a tale of how far ordinary people will go to protect those they love; like Taken, with the spires of Paris swapped for Puglia’s sprawling green hills.

The Lodge (2019) ★★★

Film4, 10.50pm  

Richard Armitage stars in the sort of knotty, atmospheric thriller that has made him a mainstay of British TV (Fool Me Once, The Stranger). When his ex-wife Laura (Alicia Silverstone) kills herself, he and new girlfriend Grace (Riley Keough) are handed custody of their kids. But then an idyllic Christmas getaway goes horrifically wrong, and Grace’s murky past threatens to wreck all of their lives.

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) ★★★★

ITV1, 11.15pm  

Christopher Lee steals the show as Scaramanga in this classic Bond film, director Guy Hamilton’s last. Roger Moore’s 007 must pursue him with the help of sidekick Mary Goodnight (Britt Ekland); they head off to the villain’s island to prevent him harnessing the power of the Sun. Moore and Lee’s duels are crackling; this certainly isn’t the pinnacle of Bond, but Lulu’s theme song is still great fun.

Friday 12 July

Sunny Canadian optimism meets pitch-black Irish cynicism in this charming, if slight sitcom (all episodes available now). It follows the unrelentingly upbeat Sare (Sarah Goldberg), who has just found out that her late father was not her actual father. The real deal was an Irish busker who her mother met while backpacking around Ireland. Cue a flight from Toronto to Dublin to track him down – a trip that brings her into contact with Suze (Susan Stanley), the hard-drinking half-sister she never knew she had.

It is fairly broad stuff. Ireland is introduced to the sounds of Dirty Old Town by The Pogues. While Suze’s mother, Sheryl (Sophie Thompson), is the quintessential caricature of the eccentric Irish “mammy”. Take the scene in which Sare turns down a sausage roll because she’s Jewish, leading to Sheryl sighing: “Haven’t the Jews suffered enough?” SisterS’ strength is the chemistry between Goldberg (best known for Barry) and Stanley, both of whom are co-creators. There is a wit and warmth in their characters’ unlikely relationship, which thaws over the course of a road trip from Dublin to Galway – undertaken, of course, in the crumbling wreck of an ice cream van. SK

Dolly Parton at the BBC  

BBC Four, 9pm 

From 9 (but sadly not to 5), it’s Dolly Parton night. First up is this collection of BBC archive performances, which is then followed by a re-airing of 2019 documentary Dolly Parton: Here I Am. Make sure to stick around for Parton’s euphoric 2014 Glastonbury set. Another BBC archive compilation, Country at the BBC, is at 12.40am.

Sister Boniface Mysteries 

Great Slaughter Cricket Club are facing rivals Stowington in the county final, which obviously means that there’s been a murder – their star player has been found dead, crushed by a fallen sight screen. Lorna Watson’s sleuthing nun suspects foul play – the kind that is just not cricket.

The Sommerdahl Murders

Tonight’s double-bill of the Danish detective drama is a two-part mystery about a playboy millionaire who is found dead in his hot tub. Could it have been a misadventure? Not likely, considering that his accountant has also been reported missing. The brooding Detective Sommerdahl (Peter Mygind) and his partner, Flemming (André Babikian), must track them down if they want to solve the case.

BBC Two, 10pm 

BBC Two’s classic comedy repeat tonight is a hilarious 2006 episode of Ricky Gervais’s showbiz sitcom. It features a teenage Daniel Radcliffe playing a womanising parody of himself – a gag which inevitably leads to the former boy wizard accidentally flicking a condom onto the head of unimpressed acting great Diana Rigg.

Celebrity I Literally Just Told You 

Channel 4, 10pm 

Jimmy Carr hosts this special edition of TV’s most chaotic game show – the memory quiz where the questions are written in situ. The contestants tonight are Jonathan Ross, Josie Gibson, Oti Mabuse, Chico Slimani and Rylan Clark. Can you guess which one is eliminated for not being famous enough?

TRNSMT Festival

BBC One, 12.10am; BBC Scotland, 10pm; not Wales 

Shereen Cutkelvin hosts highlights from the first day of the music festival, taking place on Glasgow Green. Liam Gallagher is tonight’s headliner, but you will also be able to catch performances by alt-rockers Garbage, pop royalty Sugababes and current indie darlings The Last Dinner Party. 

The Iron Claw (2023) ★★★★

Amazon Prime Video  

Who would’ve thought that the star of Disney’s 2006 smash-hit High School Musical had this much gravitas as an actor? All-American boy Zac Efron plays wrestling champion Kevin Von Erich, part of the Texan wrestling dynasty plagued by tragedy and unmanageable pressure from father Fritz (Holt McCallany). The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White and British actor Harris Dickinson star alongside Efron as the other brothers.

Descendants: The Rise of Red (2024)

Disney+  

The fourth instalment in the mega-successful, musical franchise, which follows the dastardly offspring of Disney villains such as Maleficent and the Evil Queen. This latest spin-off follows the daughters of the Queen of Hearts and Cinderella as they enrol at fairytale boarding school Auradon Prep. Kylie Cantrall and Malia Baker take the lead, while China Anne McClain and Melanie Paxson resume their roles from the original films.

The Nun II (2023) ★★★

Sky Cinema Premiere, 8pm   

Internationally, the biggest hit to date in the Conjuring franchise is a spin-off: The Nun (2018), which was the fifth film, and one of the silliest. It grossed $366 m worldwide from a mere $22 m budget, proof that scary nuns drum up cracking business overseas. This sequel involves much of the same demonic terror and religious allegory, with Taissa Farmiga as holier-than-thou Sister Irene and Bonnie Aarons as her demonic counterpart.

I Give It a Year (2013) ★★★

BBC One, 10.40pm  

This cheerfully abrasive British comedy (directed by Sacha Baron Cohen’s regular writing partner, Dan Mazer) offers a fresh twist on a tested format, starting with a happy ending and asking what comes next. Rose Byrne and Rafe Spall crackle with chemistry to play two newlyweds whose first year of marriage is more testing than the whirlwind romance that preceded it. In support are Olivia Colman and Minnie Driver.

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