It’s finally June – time for sunny park picnics and hazy evening barbecues. Or, at least, it should be. Let’s be honest, this is the UK, and we’re just as likely to endure thunderstorms as we are a heatwave.
Thankfully, for those evenings when we are sequestered in our living rooms due to a downpour, there are plenty of programmes on television to keep us entertained. From World Cup coverage to the return of restaurant drama The Bear, to the fascinating cosiness of Who Do You Think You Are?, here are the best shows to watch this month:
Tip Toe
Alan Cumming plays the gay owner of a Canal Street bar in Russell T Davies’s ‘Tip Toe’ (Photo: Channel 4)
Russell T Davies returns to Channel 4 for the first time since his seminal Aids drama It’s a Sin in 2021. This time, the drama takes place in modern-day Manchester, where neighbours Leo (a gay owner of a Canal Street bar played by Alan Cumming) and Clive (David Morrissey as a gruff, disillusioned electrician) find their lives increasingly intertwined in both amusing and disturbing ways. It all culminates in a gut-wrenching act of violence – a clarion call that only a master of television such as Davies could get away with.
