What’s on TV tonight: Monday 24 June, from Long Lost Family to Dua Lipa
IT’S one of the most emotive shows on TV, and when Long Lost Family producers followed up one of their cases to discover what happened next, the tears once again flowed.
And with the general election a matter of days away, it’s the big one for Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer as Sun readers put their questions to the party leaders live with Harry Cole.
Here are TV Mag’s picks of the six best shows to watch on Monday 24 June 2024…
Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace – What Happened Next (9pm ITV1)
Millions have been moved to tears by the stories Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell bring us on Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace, as they help foundlings make sense of their troubled starts in life.
But when Caroline Harris-Gray’s tale went out, it struck a chord with one viewer in particular.
Jan was the police officer called to the Tottenham hospital in 1968 where newborn Caroline was left in the matron’s office.
Jan had kept photos of baby Caroline, never imagining they’d one day be reunited.
So it’s an emotional moment when she shares her precious keepsakes.
In the previous programme Caroline was brought together with members of her late father’s family.
And as the series concludes, there’s more big news, as the team make their most significant breakthrough yet in her case.
Never Mind The Ballots: Election Showdown, thesun.co.uk, YouTube and other Sun social channels
We’ve already seen Sunak and Starmer face interrogation from the usual suspects.
But here an audience made up of Sun readers put the Prime Minister and Labour leader under pressure, posing their own questions in a special hosted by our political editor, Harry Cole.
Never Mind The Ballots has been setting the agenda since the election was announced, interviewing the likes of James Cleverly, Wes Streeting, Nigel Farage and Liz Truss. But this is the big one, 10 days before we go to the polls.
“It’s time for the leaders to meet the readers – and I bet the readers won’t pull their punches,” reckons Harry.
Renovation Nation (4pm C4)
The series that sees renovators take on the trickiest of challenges to transform buildings from wrecks into dream homes returns, and two of today’s sets of renovators certainly have their work cut out restoring structures that are hundreds of years old.
While Graham and Jodie grapple with their 250-year-old Cumbrian glasshouse, Matthew and Michelle want to put the heart back into their 200-year-old home in South Wales by installing an ambitious farmhouse kitchen.
Continues weekdays.
Undercover A&E: NHS In Crisis: Dispatches (9pm C4)
Dispatches is doing what it does best – this time secretly planting a reporter inside an NHS Accident and Emergency Department to investigate the brutal reality of what’s said to be happening up and down the country.
And what they uncover makes for startling viewing, from seriously ill patients being forced to sleep on chairs due to bed shortages, to out-of-control ambulance queues.
NHS In Crisis? The Debate, hosted by Krishnan Guru-Murthy, follows straight afterwards.
Dua Lipa: My Glastonbury (10.10pm BBC2)
This year she’s one of Glastonbury’s headline acts, and pop sensation Dua Lipa has been counting down to this moment for a long time.
In this one-off, the singer charts her memories of the iconic music festival, from donning her wellies to watch the likes of Dolly Parton and Stormzy, all the way up to her eventual debut in 2016.
Euro 2024: Croatia v Italy (7.30pm BBC1)
World Cup runners-up in 2018, Croatia are international football’s perennial dark horses, regularly defying expectations.
The current side – which features Real Madrid’s evergreen midfield maestro Luka Modric and Manchester City’s impressive defender Josko Gvardiol in its line-up – have found themselves in Euro 2024’s Group of Death, alongside Spain, Albania and tonight’s opponents Italy.
But can they find a way to emerge unscathed at Leipzig’s Red Bull Arena?