From the personal to the political … Elon Musk. A new documentary series, The Elon Musk Show: The Next Chapter, airs tonight on BBC Two at 9pm. Only two-and-a-half years have passed since the BBC's original documentary series examined the world's most famous billionaire, but there is a great deal to catch up on in this sequel. The program focuses on the Twitter/X takeover and Musk's endorsement of Donald Trump before publicly falling out with him. Former school friends, colleagues, associates, and insiders provide deeper insight into a man at the forefront of the culture wars.
Other TV Highlights Tonight
Race Across the World: The Final
At 8pm on BBC One, the teams have traveled 11,000km across Europe and Asia, and now face the final hurdle. To reach the Hatgal finish line, they can either take a shorter off-road route or use public transport on a slightly longer one. Who will make the right call and win the £20,000 prize?
Classic Movies: The Story of Three Days of the Condor
On Sky Arts at 8pm, Ian Nathan leads a dissection of Sydney Pollack's 1975 spy thriller, starting with the memorable early sequence where Robert Redford returns from lunch to find all his co-workers shot. The film's paranoid tone is influenced by Vietnam, Watergate, and the 1970s oil crisis.
Taskmaster
Channel 4 at 9pm. After 21 series, Taskmaster often feels like a comfortingly familiar gameshow, but it still has potential for weirdness. This week, Kumail Nanjiani tells a story about herpes, and Joel Dommett has far too much fun with socks.
The Hardacres
Channel 5 at 9pm. Mary pushes ahead with her new adult education classes, while Lady Imelda quietly threatens the rags-to-riches success of the Hardacres in this quality period drama. What is her agenda in inviting Ma for a game of bridge?
Prisoner
Sky Atlantic at 9pm. Amber is reunited with Olly and baby Mia, while Tibor, with handcuffs newly severed, reunites with his estranged, shotgun-wielding mother, Carla. "By the time I was 16, I'd killed three men," he tells her. "That's what you made me." Then Olly makes a terrible mistake, and all hell breaks loose.
Film Choice
Glory (Edward Zwick, 1989), 11.40pm, Film4. The film that earned Denzel Washington his first Oscar highlights the history of the 54th Massachusetts infantry regiment, one of the first Black Union army units of the civil war. The drama is told through the eyes of its white commander, Col Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick), but gives valuable time to African American enlisted men, including Washington as the prickly recruit Trip and Morgan Freeman as his wiser sergeant major Rawlins.
