ENGLAND'S Euros 2024 campaign begins tonight, but don't worry if you're not a footie fan as there's plenty else to enjoy on TV. This includes Dick and Angel Strawbridge concluding their travels around France, and their final episode has a real fairy-tale feel to it. They head deep into the country's rural heartland - the volcanic area of the Auvergne.
It's one of France's least-populated regions, with very few visitors, but its rugged beauty is breathtaking. Here are TV Mag's six telly picks for Sunday 16 June 2024..
. Secret France with Dick and Angel (7pm C4) The Strawbridges are in the Auvergne in midwinter, so the snowy setting adds a magical touch tonight. In the city of Clermont-Ferrand, a volcanic labyrinth beneath its streets houses an oh-so-French cellar bar, which is by appointment only.
In Thiers, a hillside town known as the capital of cutlery, Dick and Angel are welcomed into an atelier where one-off pocket knives are made. And in the historic spa town of Vichy, the pair take the waters and are transported to the Roaring Twenties thanks to the opulence on display. Magnifique .
Euros 2024: Serbia v England (7pm BBC1) England’s latest attempt to lay the ghosts of 1966 to rest begins against Serbia at the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen in tonight's Euro 2024 match. Gareth Southgate’s star-studded squad should have too much for the Serbs, who are managed by Red Star Belgrade legend Dragan Stojkovic, but the group stages have thrown up bigger shocks in the past. Lo.