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TV tonight: an Emmy-nominated US period drama finally lands on UK TV

Fellow Travelers 10pm, Channel 4 From the makers of Homeland , this suave, weighty, Emmy-nominated period drama finally lands on UK telly. It is both a romance and a thriller, following Hawk (Matt Bomer) and Tim (Jonathan Bailey) who meet i

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October 14, 2026
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Fellow Travelers 10pm, Channel 4 From the makers of Homeland , this suave, weighty, Emmy-nominated period drama finally lands on UK telly. It is both a romance and a thriller, following Hawk (Matt Bomer) and Tim (Jonathan Bailey) who meet in Washington DC during the height of McCarthyism, and develop a sexual relationship across the next three decades. Hollie Richardson The Repair Shop: Beyond the Barn 8pm, BBC One More emotional tales from inside the workshop and across the UK. Will a record player with a connection to three continents be brought back to life? And is there any hope for a 1950s Rolleiflex camera that once snapped portraits of the royals, but is now in need of a highly delicate restoration? Hannah J Davies Portrait Artist of the Year 2026 8pm, Sky Arts Louis Theroux and Stephen Mangan take a closer look at an artist’s painting. Photograph: Chris Lobina/Chris Lobina / Sky Louis Theroux is the first brave celebrity to sit for his portrait in this week’s competition. “If you do splotches, that will be fine,” he assures them. Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci and actor Joanna Scanlan also take a seat. As is becoming tradition, there will be tears for one of them. HR The Book That Changed My Life 9pm, BBC Two Queen Camilla inherited a love of reading from her father, who found comfort in literature while held in a German prisoner-of-war camp. In this one-off documentary, she shares more about her passion for books before meeting four people whose lives have also been changed by stories. HR Winter 9pm, ITV1 Overblown presentation chafes against a bog-standard whodunnit as Bristol cops look into the double shooting of a couple in their own home, but Richard Armitage’s brilliant eponymous pathologist provides all the breakthroughs. Humdrum secrets and betrayals are treated as if they’re intense psychodramas. Jack Seale Grand Designs 9pm, Channel 4 Twenty-five years ago, Chris and Gill took on a 19th-century woollen mill near Huddersfield, restoring its historic shell while packing the inside with steel, glass and enough exorbitant hi-tech gadgetry to rival a Bond villain. Now Kevin McCloud returns to say “Hmmm”. Does the couple’s radical approach still look cutting-edge – or simply very, very 2001? Ali Catterall Live sport Track cycling: World Championships, 11.30am, TNT Sports 1 Day one from Shanghai, China, with Emma Finucane due to feature. Uefa Champions League football: Lask v Liverpool , 5pm, TNT Sports 2 Man City v PSG is on TNT Sports 1 at 7pm. Aston Villa v Fenerbahçe is on TNT Sports 2 at 7.45pm.

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