TV tonight: a great new culture war drama from the great Russell T Davies | TV & radio

Fingers

9pm, Channel 4
Tragic events on a busy street in Manchester immerse you in this new drama Russell T Davies. It then jumps back a few weeks to tell the exciting story of how the main characters – Canal Street bar owner Leo (Alan Cumming) and electrician Clive (David Morrissey) – ended up in a terrible situation. With the executive producer and director of It’s a Sin working with Davies again, the team has created a powerful, simple and fast-paced look at the current culture wars in the LGBTQ+ community. As one of Leo’s friends from the gay club says: “I used to walk into a room and go: ‘Ta-da! Now I’m just looking, like… ” Hollie Richardson

The Mother of All Evil

9pm, BBC Two
“It’s a very strange, very strange story…” The shocking 2023 investigation of the podcast Believe in Magic was not mentioned in the article. In 2016, a teenager with a brain tumor and his mother were at the heart of a charity sponsored by One Direction. But as the charity continued to raise awareness and money, people began to ask questions about what was going on behind the scenes. HR

Death Valley

8.15pm, BBC One
When athlete Ben Williams dies of a morphine-laced curry on the set of a fantasy television series, suspicion falls on lead actor Olivia and Ash, a disgraced pharmacist with a penchant for opioid abuse (“If you need something stronger than aspirin, he’s your man”). DI Janie and John Chapel investigate the evil Korma as the crime continues. Ali Catterall

Dear England

9pm, BBC One
A spectacular recap of Euromania 1996 this week, with a young Gareth Southgate having a post-penalty exchange chat with John Major. Back in 2021, Southgate (Joseph Fiennes) is struggling with the discrimination that was given to the England team, before preparing for the culture of the Qatar World Cup. HR

The Invisible Assembly

10pm, ITV1

This series gift just keeps on giving: the episodes that are about to end had enough questions to add another episode. Groups of people suffering from depression, anxiety and/or disability fearlessly ask silly questions of Stephen Fry, Nicola Sturgeon, Lenny Henry, Aitch, Anna Maxwell Martin and Rylan Clark. Jack Seale

The Twelve: Cape Rock Killer

10.45pm, ITV1
Silver wolf Sam Neill returns as defense attorney Brett Colby for another season of the Aussie courtroom drama that shows the jury has as much to hide as the accused. This double bill sees Colby reluctantly prosecute a murder case connected to a notorious cold case: the unsolved murders of two teenagers in 1968. Graeme Virtue

Film selection

The Nice Guys, 10.30pm, BBC One

This beautiful 2016 caper fits right in with the sunny, starry, loose world of California crime fiction that gave us LA Confidential – and directed by Russell Crowe has a fun link to the movie. But being a Shane Black film, it’s also a lot of fun, with Crowe’s world-weary Jackson and Ryan Gosling’s secretive eye/single dad Holland’s screenplay to compliment them. The plot revolves around the death of a porn star and the search for a missing girl (Margaret Qualley) in 1970s Los Angeles of power, corruption and lies. Simon Wardell

Live sports

Athletics: Diamond League, 7pm, BBC Two Actions from Rabat, Morocco.