10 telly films
Doctor Who
BBC1, 7pm, tonight
The Doctor gets Ryan, Yaz and Graham safely back home to 21st-century Sheffield, only to find a mystery unfolding. Something strange is happening to all the spiders in the city – but before the Doctor can save Yorkshire from an eightlegged invasion, she has to get through her first encounter with Yaz’s family.
Chris Noth (Sex and the City) and Shobna Gulati (Coronation Street) guest star alongside Jodie Whittaker and Bradley Walsh.
Black Earth Rising
BBC2, 9pm, Monday
In Rwanda, Alice languishes in custody, while in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kate fights hostile locals as well as international forces as she seeks the truth about her history. Back in London, Michael delves into an intricate political and financial conspiracy. Can he expose it in time, as Kate fights for her life?
Concluding episode of the thriller starring Michaela Coel, John Goodman, Noma Dumezweni and Abena Ayivor.
The Little Drummer Girl
BBC1, 9pm, tonight
Spy drama based on John le Carre’s novel opens in Germany, in 1979.
When a bomb explodes in the diplomatic quarter of Bonn, senior Israeli intelligence agent Martin Kurtz investigates.
In London, struggling actress Charlie and her theatre troupe are sent on a rehearsal jaunt to Greece. When she encounters a mysterious stranger on the beach, her life changes forever.
The Great British Bake Off: The Final
C4, 8pm, Tuesday
It really is anyone’s game as the three remaining bakers prepare to battle it out for the title.
First, they’ll tackle a doughnut-based signature challenge. Then they will be given a deceptively simple technical with a twist – they won’t be baking it in the tent.
Finally, they will be creating intricate, edible landscape showstoppers in a bid to prove they should be crowned Bake Off champion.
Deepwater Horizon
Channel 4, 9pm, tonight
Engineer Mike Williams (Mark Wahlberg) boards a helicopter to the drilling platform Deepwater Horizon, 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana. Soon after, a massive blowout tears through the 121-metre-long rig and crew members race against time to lower lifeboats into the water.
The Ring
Strangers
ITV, 9pm, Monday
For the past seven weeks, millions have been hooked on this John Simm drama.
Now the loose threads are finally tied up in the finale, and the one question British professor Jonah Mulray never thought he’d answer is finally resolved – did his marriage to Megan ever amount to anything more than a lie? As the repercussions from her lethal car crash are still reverberating, it remains to be seen whether the truth is enough to lay his grief to rest.
The Yorkshire Vet
C5, 8pm, Tuesday
Julian Norton has 50 little goats to disbud, so they don’t injure themselves or each other, but Doris the kid is playing hide-and-seek.
In Skeldale, Peter Wright has to operate on border terrier cross Poppy. Bone cancer has spread through one of her legs, and the only hope of saving her is to remove the limb. Owners Brian and Carole want to give her every chance to live, but can she recover?
Last in the series.
BBC2, 11.00pm, tonight
Reporter Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) hears stories of a videotape, which supposedly kills the viewer exactly seven days after they have seen it. Sceptical, Rachel soon comes to believe in the myth when her teenage niece passes away after watching the tape.
Viewing it herself, Rachel becomes aware of strange forces.
Imitation Of Life
Film4, 11am, Monday
Hollywood legend Lana Turner produces the best performance of her turbulent career.
Two women, one a white actress (Turner), the other her black maid (Juanita Moore) struggle through life’s difficulties while raising their young daughters. Trouble brews when the maid’s light-skinned daughter tries to pass herself off as white.