“Neighbours… everybody needs good neighbours…” Not any more, they don’t – or at least Channel 5 (which has part-financed the once all- conquering Aussie soap since 2008) doesn’t, having axed the show after 37 years “for business reasons”. Breakout stars Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan have returned as Charlene and Scott for tonight’s double-episode swan song, which also features Toadie and Melanie’s wedding. It’s followed at 10.05pm by Neighbours Made Me A Star: From Ramsay Street To Hollywood, a documentary featuring not just Kylie and Jason but also former Erinsborough residents Guy Pearce and Margot Robbie.

9.15am, 1.45pm and 7pm, BBC One; 1pm and 6pm, BBC Two

Jason Mohammad and Holly Hamilton present live coverage of the opening session of the 22nd Commonwealth Games, taking place in Birmingham and across the West Midlands, including gymnastics, swimming and triathlon. Hazel Irvine hosts the afternoon’s coverage, which includes the women’s and men’s team pursuit finals.

7pm, Channel 5, and 8pm, BBC Two

A horticultural double bill for those nimble with the remote control. First up, Carol Klein investigates one of our richest plant habitats – watery wetlands – and celebrates the iris family. Gardeners’ World meanwhile has Monty Don demonstrating how to deal with drought and taking fuchsia cuttings, while Advolly Richmond visits Longleat to reveal the role trees have played in gardens throughout history.

Georgia Mann introduces this week’s televised Prom from the Royal Albert Hall, as Andrew Manze conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a nautically themed Prom. Doreen Carwithen’s powerful and vivid overture evokes the harsh, cold Atlantic waters battering Bishop Rock, 30 miles off Land’s End. Grace Williams’ “Sea Sketches”, inspired by her hometown of Barry in south Wales, capture the sea’s effervescent personality. And Vaughan Williams’ majestic A Sea Symphony – featuring multiple choirs together with soloists Elizabeth Llewellyn and Andrew Foster-Williams – rounds things off.

Another chance to see this episode from the engaging series that uses rarely seen photographs of stars as a springboard into stories about different stages of their lives. The episode about Taylor begins with a black-and-white childhood snap taken in England in the 1930s, before her American parents whisked her off to the States at the start of the Second World War and concludes with the actress four weeks after a brain tumour operation.

Jimmy Carr returns to host the combination of the comedy panel show and the long-running words-and-numbers quiz, with Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont taking on Richard Ayoade and Joe Wilkinson. Regular Countdown mathematician Rachel Riley and lexicographer Susie Dent are on hand to adjudicate, with Dictionary Corner guest Finlay Christie.

Swimming takes centre stage in Birmingham, with the tastiest contest of the night being the men’s 200m freestyle final, with England’s Tom Dean and Scotland’s Duncan Scott expected to go head-to-head having won gold and silver respectively at the Tokyo Olympics. Superstars Chad Le Clos of South Africa and Australia’s Emma McKeon are also expected to be going for gold.

Jürgen Klopp’s Reds were within a whisker of a quadruple last season, but had to settle for League and FA Cup victories (their first since 2006), while Pep Guardiola’s relentless Blues bagged the league title. England’s two most consistent clubs promise a spiky contest, especially with their costly new purchases on show: Liverpool’s Darwin Núñez (£85m) and Man City’s beast of a striker Erling Haaland (a “snip” at £51m).

“I could still go to her now and press the right buttons… I’d love to,” enthuses former pilot Bill Gould, aged 95, about the Lancaster bomber in this exceptional documentary about the Second World War aircraft. It is full of candid testimony from the last surviving crew members (with observations such as: “I realised what I did was fundamentally wrong” and “The first thing you think about is how am I going to find a pilot who’ll get me through the war?”) blended with remastered archive material and extraordinary aerial footage of the RAF’s last airworthy Lancaster. Responsible for some of the most famous and infamous missions in Second World War history, from the “extremely dangerous” Dambuster raids (“Was it worth it? I wonder”) to the destruction of Hamburg (“The Germans were actually shattered”) and the controversial bombing of Dresden, the Lancaster would help turn the tide of war. A wonderful, devastating document.

The adroit use of “Running Up That Hill” in Stranger Things has given the wonderfully idiosyncratic Kate Bush a new lease of life. Tonight, BBC Two celebrates one of our greatest musical talents, starting with this compilation of the singer’s performances at the BBC’s studios between 1978 and 1994, featuring gems such as “Wuthering Heights”, “Babooshka”, “Running Up that Hill” and “Hounds of Love”. It is followed by a doc exploring Bush’s career and concludes with her compelling BBC performance in 1979. “And if I only could/I’d make a deal with God/And I’d get him to swap our places…”

From The Returned to Wayward Pines, there is hardly anything better – sci-fi wise – than watching some unfortunates being trapped in an odd small town. The “trapped” in this case are the Matthews family, whose road trip takes a petrifying turn when they take a detour to a nightmarish town in middle America, populated by unwilling residents striving to stay alive and desperate for a way out. To make things worse, the townsfolk are plagued by nocturnal creatures from the surrounding forest. At least they have Harold Perrineau’s sheriff and de facto mayor on hand.

The three younger actors who play Sam’s daughters – Mikey Madison, Hannah Riley and Olivia Edwards – deserve a shout-out before Pamela Adlon’s wonderfully deft parenting comedy concludes its final season. The trio bring an unactorly naturalness to their roles that helps to make Adlon’s scripts a relatable masterclass in the pleasures and pains of mothering teenage girls. Some mothers probably wouldn’t want their daughter emulating Max (Madison), however, as she seeks an abortion without Sam’s knowledge. Elsewhere, there is a glimpse of the airport-style security at US high schools, as Sam volunteers to read to a class. Plus, Xander brings Duke home after their holiday together in Mexico.

Once you get used to such quintessentially British actors as Roger Allam and Patricia Hodge playing French characters – and that the dialogue often has the slightly stilted quality of being dubbed (it isn’t) – these murder mysteries are lightly enjoyable and suitably sunny fare for a summer Sunday evening. The latest murder is that of a documentary-maker whose new film is about organised crime on the Côte d’Azur. Is that the reason he has landed up dead on the driveway of his country retreat? The talented cast also features Melanie Gutteridge, Samuel Barnett and Damola Adelaja.

Clive Myrie is at the Royal Albert Hall to present a concert in honour of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, featuring music written for royal occasions by British composers over the past 500 years. Highlights include Handel’s coronation anthem “Zadok the Priest”, Parry’s “I Was Glad”, which ushered the Duchess of Cambridge down the aisle, and even a song written by Henry VIII. It is followed at 10pm by Janet Baker – In Her Own Words.

Set in a Melbourne TV newsroom in January 1986, this entertaining new Australian drama series centres on ambitious reporter Dale (Sam Reid), who is desperate for a chance to read the news, and established co-anchor Helen Neville (the excellent Anna Torv from Mindunter), who is sick of playing second fiddle to a veteran male colleague. The global success of Crocodile Dundee actor Paul Hogan is the top news story of the time – until the Challenger space shuttle disaster throws Dale and Helen together and gives them both the breaks they have been craving.

The Bake Off judge concludes his busy whistlestop culinary tour with a look at the origins of chocolate, and pays a visit to the most extraordinary, and dangerous, fireworks festival on Earth. He also discovers why Mexican cola is becoming increasingly fashionable in the US while exploring the role sugary drinks can play in health (not good, needless to say), before visiting one of Mexico’s most celebrated mezcal distillery and enjoying a night of merriment in a traditional cantina. Sounds like he’ll need a holiday after all that.

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