Terrestrial First Night of the Proms BBC2, 8pm The Proms opens with Walton's Portsmouth Point overture and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The excellent conductor and broadcaster Charles Hazlewood is your host for the evening. Alan Titchmarsh must be busy.
Lenny Henry: So Much Things to Say BBC1, 10.35pm The problem with Lenny Henry is a simple one. His innate likeability doesn't make up for the quality of his material. This one-man show at least demonstrates a greater measure of ambition than he usually offers, dealing as it does with the impact of the Iraq war on an Anglo-Caribbean family in Willesden.
The Shield Five, 11pm Still by some distance the best of Five's many, many imported crime dramas. That's because, unlike Law & Order and the various CSIs, it actually feels more than just a race to get from credit sequence to credit sequence. And Michael Chiklis eats up the scenery as detective Vic Mackey. It is a symptom of all that's wrong with Hollywood that it puts him in the Fantastic Four, a kids' superhero movie. That's just so wrong.
T in the Park Highlights BBC2, 11.35pm You know the drill. Lots of clips from last weekend's hoedown at Balado featuring all the bands who are playing at every other festival this summer. The efforts of Lily Allen, Arctic Monkeys, Scissor Sisters and the Fratellis are all on show in this two-hour grab-bag of highlights fronted by Lauren Laverne and Zane Lowe.
Digital Green for Danger Film4, 3.05pm Wallow in this hugely entertaining comedy thriller ("perhaps the most perfect comic thriller in the language" according to film historian Matthew Sweet). A murder mystery set in a wartime hospital, it stars the great Alastair Sim and is the work of producer-director team Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, who at their 1940s peak matched Hollywood for class. Have you seen I See a Dark Stranger? If anything, it's even better than this. There's an Edinburgh Film Festival retrospective in Launder and Gilliat's work, I reckon. Any chance, Ms McGill?
Arena: Encountering Bergman BBC4, 8.30pm An introduction to a two-part interview with the great Swedish director which begins at 10.30pm (just after a screening of Journey into Autumn).
Top marks to BBC4 for putting this on (though we could ask why it's not on BBC2, where more people would have a chance to see it). It's good to see that not everyone has given up on the glories of arthouse cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. Can someone at BBC4 now look out Alan Yentob's fantastic two-part Arena interview with Orson Welles, please?
Logan's Run TCM, 11.20pm End your day with this very silly, very 1970s sci-fi thriller, in which Michael York finds himself on the run from a future society in which everyone who turns 30 is terminated. Dumb fun, nothing more. But it does feature Jenny Agutter in a short dress. That should keep many of you awake, I would have thought.
Radio BBC Proms 2007: The First Night of the Proms Radio 3, 7.30pm With Petroc Trelawny live from the Royal Albert Hall. In the Twenty Minutes interval, discussion centres on Beethoven's work for the double bass.
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