The Sunday Post (Inverness)

10 telly films

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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.

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