TV tonight: popular sheep-herding family and more
Channel 4 airs 'Our Farm Next Door' about a shepherd family, while PBS America offers a documentary on Agatha Christie. Also tonight: 'Gardeners’ World', 'Celebrity Gogglebox', and 'TFI Friday Unplugged'.
Tonight, July 3, television viewers have a varied lineup. On Channel 4 at 8pm, 'Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids' will be shown. Yorkshire shepherd Amanda Owen, after discovering her daughters have doodled on freshly plastered walls, quickly packs marshmallows and takes them on a camping trip to Boggle Hole. While the farmhouse conversion dries, her ex-husband Clive and son Miles work to tidy up the grounds.
On PBS America at 7.50pm, the documentary 'Agatha Christie’s England' traces the author’s lifelong journey through England, visiting Torquay, Timperley, and rural Oxfordshire, and speaking with family members to explore how these places influenced her writing.
BBC Four at 9pm presents 'Gardeners’ World': Adam Frost plants shrubs, builds a path, and creates a potted herb garden, while Jamie Butterworth offers delphinium growing tips. A lovely flower garden in Devon is also featured.
'Celebrity Gogglebox' on Channel 4 at 9pm highlights Julian Clary and Nigel Havers as the standout new pair of commentators. Both newcomers and regulars struggle to find something to watch that isn’t the World Cup or Wimbledon.
Later, Channel 4 at 11.05pm airs 'TFI Friday Unplugged' – Chris Evans continues his transferred-from-YouTube, essentially a radio show version of the 1990s classic. Its recent trial run boosted Channel 4’s 11pm ratings, leading to six new episodes.
In the early hours at 3.45am, Channel 4 shows 'Iris Prize Best British Shorts', a series of LGBTQ+-themed short films. One is 'Meat Raffle', a funny, eccentric story about a closeted dad who fears he might make his son gay and tries to prove his manhood by rigging a pub’s Christmas turkey draw.
The film choice tonight is Werner Herzog’s 1979 'Nosferatu the Vampyre' on Talking Pictures TV at 12.40am. Starring Klaus Kinski and Isabelle Adjani, the film features 11,000 live rats and mummified corpses from an 1833 cholera epidemic.
Sports events: Formula 1 British Grand Prix practice and sprint qualifying on Sky Sports Main Event (noon and 3.35pm), and T20 Blast cricket between Notts Outlaws and Lancs Lightning (6.30pm).
