Sky Arts TV Guide — Saturday, 18 July 2026

Documenting an intimate gig the band played for a handful of fans in the rehearsal studio while preparing for the Dig Out Your Soul tour in 2008, featuring some of their biggest hits as well as newer songs from the album

The story behind Nirvana's 1991 album Nevermind, which catapulted the Seattle trio from relative obscurity to superstardom. It examines the effect their music had on the record industry and the band themselves, and provides a glimpse into frontman Kurt Cobain's acclaimed songwriting skills. Featuring contributions by bassist Krist Novoselic, drummer Dave Grohl and producer Butch Vig

Arabella Lennox-Boyd is the doyenne of horticulrural designers and has been laying out a garden for 40 years at Gresgarth Hall in Lancashire

Ian Nathan examines Richard Attenborough's biopic of silent film actor, writer and director Charlie Chaplin, which starred Robert Downey Jr in the title role

Lise Lindstrom stars in Andrei Serban's Royal Opera House production of Puccini's tale of disguised identities, riddles, ritual executions and triumphant love

A businessman ignores valuable advice and invites a woman up to his hotel room, where he finds himself in trouble

A woman persuades a naive writer to buy her lunch at her fiance's restaurant. Drama, starring Gayle Hunnicutt and Bosco Hogan

Three aristocratic ladies are reunited by the death of a woman who once served their families. They invite the deceased's niece to lunch, but she proves a surprising guest

A doctor is distraught when his wife disappears, but he finds life has its own surprises. With John Duttine, Susan Penhaligon and Brenda Blethyn

Three close friends discover an elixir of youth, but there is only enough for two of them. Drama, starring Dick Smothers and Sharon Gless

A commissioner of recreation and parks receives three life-threatening letters in one week, complaining about the method by which art is selected for museum display. Later, an unsuccessful artist is believed to be behind bomb threats. However, this proves to be a diversion tactic concealing a novel scheme to steal the artworks. Drama, starring Donnelly Rhodes and Lou Jacobi

An actor threatened by Satan worshippers agrees to star in a new film so long as no one knows where he goes upon leaving the studio each day. Drama, starring Christopher Lee and Gia Scala

Performances by Kelsea Ballerini, Kameron Marlowe, 49 Winchester and Ashley Cooke at the home of country music in Nashville, Tennessee

A look at the life and career of the American actor, who shot to fame in The Godfather, before starring in Serpico, Scarface and Scent of a Woman, for which he won an Academy Award

A staging of the traditional dance show based on Irish folklore, the last in Flatley's Lord of the Dance series