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MASTER QUIZZERS Jon Snow’s Very Hard Questions: The Final, 8pm, More4

THERE’S £5,000 waiting for the winner in the final, in which the two remaining teams try to answer very hard (and very long) questions from Jon Snow. Given the stakes, the pressure not to trade points for clues here will be even higher than usual.

FILM THRILLER The Wolf Hour, BT TV Store/Virgin Movies

ATMOSPHERI­C if not wholly satisfying psychologi­cal thriller about a tormented writer (Naomi Watts) in the hot New York summer of 1977.

WARTIME FOOTAGE Harry Birrell Presents Films Of Love & War, 9pm, BBC4

THIS documentar­y was shown last week on BBC Scotland, and now has a national premiere on BBC4. Harry Birrell was born in Paisley in 1918, and took his cine camera with him to film World War II, and plenty more besides.

CANADIAN COPS Rookie Blue, 9pm, 5 USA

IN THE Freeview premiere for the sixth and final season of the soapy Canadian police drama, the love life of Officer McNally (FBI’s Missy Peregrym) is about to get even more complicate­d after a surprise revelation from her boyfriend, Sam (Ben Bass). Meanwhile, the trail of a sex offender goes cold.

SMALL-TOWN DRAMA Sharp Objects, 9pm, Sky Atlantic

ANOTHER chance to see this HBO drama based on the debut novel by Gone Girl writer Gillian Flynn, which tells a story that slowly reveals the reality of a twisted family situation. Amy Adams stars as a broken-down reporter, dispatched to write about a murder in her home town.

INSPIRING STORY Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, Netflix

INSPIRATIO­NAL and eye-opening documentar­y that follows the story of a camp ‘run by hippies’ for disabled youths in the U.S. in the early Seventies.

DEADLY DUO Hitmen, 10pm, Sky One

DARK new comedy starring Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc (pictured) as assassins, the driving joke of which is that they’re barely competent and quite needy. Look out for some good guest stars, such as W1A’s Jason

Watkins and Fleabag’s Sian Clifford, and for the moments where the show’s darkness takes on a real sharpness.

GHOST INVESTIGAT­OR The Lowe Files, 10pm, Blaze

ROB LOWE (pictured) has seen a lot of ghost-hunting on TV (‘I love those shows’), and wants to know how much of it is fake. So, for this new-toFreeview series, the absurdly goodlookin­g actor goes on a road trip with his two sons to find out. They are joined by ‘spiritual intermedia­ry’ Shaman Jon. (Freeview 63, Sky 164, Freesat 162, Virgin 216)

FREEVIEW MOVIE White Mischief, 10.05pm, Talking Pictures TV

EXOTIC true-crime drama, set in colonial Kenya in the early Forties. Charles Dance stars as the bedswappin­g Earl of Erroll, with Greta Scacchi as his gold-digging lover.

FRENCH CINEMA Through The Fire, 11.15pm, Sky Premiere

DRAMA about a Parisian firefighte­r (Pierre Niney) who suffers devastatin­g, life-changing burns. The film follows his efforts to rebuild his life and his identity.

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