TV highlights 19/06/2012

Euro 2012 Live: England v Ukraine | Great Ormond Street | Joely Richardson On Shakespeare's Women: Shakespeare Uncovered | Mad Men | All In The Best Possible Taste With Grayson Perry | Hit & Miss

Euro 2012 Live: England v Ukraine
7pm, ITV1

The final group game of the qualifying stages. Both teams are vying for the points that will secure their progress in a tight group. Will England be looking to turn on the attacking style with the return of Wayne Rooney? Will an ageing Ukraine side be inspired to new heights, having the wind of home support at their backs? ITV provides the coverage here, so best to catch this in a pub where the commentary will be drowned out. David Stubbs

Great Ormond Street
9pm, BBC2

It has been a gruelling, unflinching journey, but Great Ormond Street concludes with a look at experimental surgeries and the ethical issues inseparable from invasive, rarely conducted procedures. In these cases, the chances of death are almost too high to contemplate. A new trachea is grown in a lab – using stem cells – for a girl whose own has failed her, while two infants who share a rare respiratory condition undergo radical chest-widening surgery. Ben Arnold

Joely Richardson On Shakespeare's Women: Shakespeare Uncovered
9pm, BBC4

The first of three programmes in which actors and directors look at Shakespeare's work. Tonight, Joely Richardson examines the female roles in Twelfth Night and As You Like It. Combine all the narratively precipitous cross-dressing with the fact that the roles were originally written to be played by boys, and you've got yourself a heap of confusion. Richardson ropes in her mum, Vanessa Redgrave, as they look back on her portrayal of Rosalind in the RSC's 1961 As You Like It. Julia Raeside

Mad Men
9pm, Sky Atlantic

Mad Men isn't the sort of show you can just dip into, unless you just like looking at the nice clothes. Everything major that happens in the show these days has impact because the story and character seeds have been planted long ago. Starting this week, the whole thing is being rerun on Sky Atlantic; it's the only place to go for latecomers who can't figure out why a lying, cheating phoney like Don Draper has become such an iconic figure. Phelim O'Neill

All In The Best Possible Taste With Grayson Perry
10pm, Channel 4

In tonight's final instalment, the amiable artist moves among the posh to explore the flavour of upper-class taste with his brain-tongue. He starts in the Cotswolds with the polo set and moves on to one crumbling pile after another, discussing the foibles of new and old money. The best thing about this series has been Perry's genuine journey. He thinks aloud while we're watching; deciding what to make of it all as he goes along. He also unveils the final two tapestries in his take on The Rake's Progress. Brilliant. JNR

Hit & Miss
10pm, Sky Atlantic

Sky's homegrown drama is tempting TV critical fate with that title, and so it has proven. The notion of Chloë Sevigny as Irish assassin Mia stretches credence enough but for her to be playing a transsexual represents a loss of nerve in casting, not so very far from the old days of Laurence Olivier blacking up to play Othello. There are real transsexuals out there, you know. That said, there's lots to commend Hit & Miss, with fine cinematography capturing the cheerless rural landscape in which the action takes place, and the sense of a family-style unit, fractured yet tightly bound. Tonight, Riley struggles with the trauma of last week's shooting and Mia must steel herself for another assignment. DS

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