Monty Don final Gardeners’ World episode and TV tonight, Digi Mart USA News: Monty Don hangs up his trowel for the final time this evening, closing more than two decades of presenting Gardeners’ World on BBC Two at 8pm. The episode is expected to carry a bittersweet tone, though the gardening calendar continues regardless, as Carol and Joe show with work from sowing to apple gathering.
Elsewhere on tonight’s schedule, BBC One’s 7.30pm slot features the Australia-set season three double bill of the crime drama in which artist Viktor Sevchenko is stabbed through the heart during a grisly performance piece at the Dolphin Cove art fair. Detective Mack, played by Anna Samson, investigates whether the death was a tragic accident.
On Channel 4 at 7.30pm, Darshna Soni examines the use of contract killers to silence whistleblowers, particularly those raising allegations of malfeasance linked to controversial government contracts in South Africa. She speaks to a former hitman and to families who have lost loved ones.
Sky One at 9pm reaches the finale of season three of the zombie spin-off, as former drinking buddies Dillard and Negan are on a collision course to confront one of the series’ most notorious villains.
Sienna Miller and Dominic West star in the divorce drama War, which approaches a courtroom showdown as the case involving Taylor and Byrne looks increasingly shaky. Molly suspects something is amiss, and Johnny’s world may be about to collapse once more.
At 10.40pm on BBC One, Graham hosts Judi Dench, who is promoting a memoir, Alan Cumming, returning to the stage, and Nicola Coughlan, promoting a new drama, with music from James Blunt.
Film pick: Lee Chang-dong’s Korean drama follows documentary-maker Ye-ji, played by Cho Yeo-jeong, as she prepares a film about factory workers dismissed after a strike was violently broken by the state. Her relationship with the guarded Ho-seok, played by Sul Kyung-gu, and his wife Mi-ok, played by Jeon Do-yeon, raises uncomfortable questions of class and exploitation, in a film that continues the director’s sharp eye from Burning.
Sport: Nations Championship rugby, Ireland v Argentina, is shown live on ITV1 at 7.15pm from the Aviva Stadium in Dublin.
