Avoidance
10.40pm, BBC One
“How come you don’t actually have any buddies dad?” Children say the funniest issues. However, typically they are saying wounding issues too. As this charmingly melancholic comedy continues, Jonathan (Romesh Ranganathan) is making an attempt to rekindle his misplaced youth after his son Spencer’s harmless however devastating burn. However sambucas with an infuriatingly insistent workmate quickly discover him eager for the security of the sofa. In the meantime, again at dwelling, a well-intentioned tech-free night time is setting thumbs twiddling. Light, understated and all of the extra convincing for it. Phil Harrison
One Query
8pm, Channel 4
One other spherical of the fiendish quiz, wherein the thing is to decide on the one proper reply to a single query (from 20 potential solutions). Tonight finest buddies Louis and Connor from London, and husband and spouse Scott and Kiaya from Berkshire try and get their arms on £100k. Ali Catterall
Movie star Gogglebox
9pm, Channel 4
Judi Love’s TV style is infallible, however the identical can’t be mentioned of this collection’ different movie star Goggleboxers, together with Shaun Ryder, Joanna Lumley and Invoice Bailey. Nonetheless, they take to the couch, crisp bowl in hand, to provide unfiltered opinions and emotional reactions. Ellen E Jones
British Planes that Received the Struggle With Rob Bell
9pm, Channel 5
Think about an plane that doesn’t want a runway to take off or land. An airforce would now not be susceptible to enemy bombing raids and will even function from jungle clearings. In 1967, the ingenious designers of the Harrier jump-jet realised that fanciful notion, and revolutionised warfare within the course of. EEJ
Rig 45: Homicide at Sea
9pm, More4
In case you loved Vigil, this Swedish whodunnit set on a North Sea oil rig has equally claustrophobic vibes. With the physique rely rising whereas a storm rages outdoors, the skeleton crew are beginning to unravel. Graeme Advantage
The Lateish Present With Mo Gilligan
9pm, Channel 4
Gilligan’s Friday-night chatfest is nice at conjuring a celebration environment, and this dwell particular to spherical off the collection presumably all of the extra so. TV presenters Jonathan Ross and AJ Odudu visitor together with comic Guz Khan and boyband Blue. The actual enjoyable, although, is within the video games performed with the viewers, and the questions posed to visitors by the general public. Jack Seale
Movie selection
Brightburn (David Yarovesky,2019),11.05pm, Film4
The “what if Superman was evil?” trope has been completed to demise recently, due to The Boys, Invincible and a handful of Superman films. However nothing has interrogated the premise fairly like 2019’s Brightburn. Produced by James Gunn, it options loads of beats that will probably be acquainted to anybody with even a passing curiosity in Superman (an alien baby crash lands on Earth, the couple who uncover him select to boost him), besides every little thing is performed for horror. The boy rapidly turns into a monster, and an unstoppable one at that. And, actually, isn’t that the extra reasonable end result? Stuart Heritage
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