The article recommends a range of television highlights for the evening, led by ITV1’s new adaptation of John Grisham’s The Rainmaker. The glossy legal drama follows a young couple whose careers diverge after one is dismissed from a prestigious firm, setting up a rivalry between legal practices; the selection also includes music, gardening, comedy crime and animation.

Other choices include the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra’s Proms debut on BBC Four, performing Richard Strauss under Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and BBC Two’s Gardeners’ World, which offers advice on restoring gardens affected by summer heat. BBC One shows Fontaines DC’s Reading Festival set at 10.40pm, while the later schedule features a wedding-death mystery in a Brooke Shields comedy drama and the animated police parody Grimsburg, voiced by Jon Hamm.