TV tonight: The Last Leg gang have a lot of drama to unpick

The Final Leg

10pm, Channel 4

It’s a welcome return to Friday-night telly for the Final Leg gang, who're again for season 24 after only a few weeks’ break from our screens. Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker shall be joined by movie star visitors to unpick the week that’s been – and, contemplating all the pieces that’s occurred of their quick absence, they've quite a bit to compensate for.Hollie Richardson

George Clarke’s Wonderful Areas

8pm, Channel 4

Clarke inspects one other assortment of nooks to see how imaginative Brits rework them into architectural Narnias: a Nineteen Twenties railway carriage is transformed right into a luxurious gymnasium and sauna by a 21-year-old health fanatic, whereas a Victorian girls’ lavatory turns into a romantic getaway. Ali Catterall

Demise in Paradise

9pm, BBC One

In tonight’s episode of the Caribbean detective drama, Florence’s (Joséphine Jobert) undercover position takes a harmful flip throughout a homicide investigation. Dealing with a race in opposition to time, Neville (Ralf Little) units out to unravel the crime. HR

A Discovery of Witches

9pm, Sky Max

Diana’s literary treasure hunt continues, prompting a neat one-off story because the mysterious TJ Weston, proprietor of a magic guide web page, is discovered. Whereas his issues gild the season’s total theme, a soppy deal with for followers looms when our heroine (Teresa Palmer) goes into labour with the twins.Jack Seale

New York: Murder – Homicide on the Met

9pm, Sky Crime

With its excessive tradition setting (Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera Home) and a show-stopping premise (a violinist goes lacking mid-performance), this true crime documentary has the makings of a Dan Brown novel because it untangles the mysteries of the night time in 1980 when Helen Mintiks was murdered.Henry Wong

The Graham Norton Present

10.35pm, BBC One

Director Pedro Almodóvar and Oscar-winning actor Penélope Cruz – who've joined up once more for upcoming drama Parallel Moms – be part of Norton for a chat, together with James McAvoy.HR

Movie selection

Inventive stuff: Joseph Cotten and Vincent Price in The Abominable Dr Phibes (1971).
Creative stuff: Joseph Cotten and Vincent Value in The Abominable Dr Phibes. Photograph: Mgm/Allstar

The Abominable Dr Phibes (Robert Fuest, 1971), 9.05pm, Speaking Footage TV
Vincent Value’s a hundredth movie is a nice instance of the grand guignol tendency in 70s British horror. Director Robert Fuest had made episodes of The Avengers, and this Nineteen Twenties-set chiller has components of the spy collection’ line in stagey murders. Value’s mute, scarred widower takes revenge on the docs he blames for his spouse’s loss of life by recreating the curses visited on Egypt within the Outdated Testomony. It’s creative stuff – kudos to the set and costume designers – even with a sadly diminished Joseph Cotten as one of many surgeons beneath menace. Simon Wardell

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