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OUR PICKS OF THE WEEK’S BEST TV

Paul O’grady: For The Love Of Dogs

ITV, 8pm, Wednesday

The canine-loving comedian is back for a new run of the acclaimed documentary set at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home. Episode one features a Dachshund mum and her pups, who staff suspect have escaped from a puppy farm. Two have eye infections, they need to be separated from their mother and hand-reared.

Unsurprisingly, Paul soon falls in love with the youngsters.

Inside No 9 Live Special

BBC2, 10pm, tonight

Over the years this series has given us some of the most chilling, clever and downright bizarre half-hour stories any fan of spooky tales could wish for. And now Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith have penned Dead Line, a live show which, if we’re lucky, will prove as captivating as that other live Halloween classic, Ghostwatch from 1992.

It centres on Arthur Flitwick (Pemberton) who finds an old mobile phone in his local graveyard.

It seems like a good idea to try and contact the owner, but as the spookiest time of the year draws near, Arthur is soon immersed in a nightmare of his own making. Apparently no good deed can go unpunished, in this world or the next. Stephanie Cole guest stars.

Ariana Grande At The BBC

BBC1, 8pm, Thursday

Davina Mccall will be chatting to the beloved musician about her latest album, Sweetener. There will be a chance to hear some of her new music, as well as some of the tracks which helped make her one of the biggest recording artists in the world. She’s accompanied by her band and a full orchestra. In between songs, she also talks to Davina about her life and career.

Radio 2 I Concert: Paul Weller

BBC4, 10pm, Friday

After an amazing start in the 1970s, Paul Weller went underground in a town called Malice; found his way out of the wild wood during a long hot summer, and proceeded to create some of the greatest tunes of our lifetime.

Now there’s a chance to see the recent gig in which the Modfather performed for a thrilled audience at the BBC Radio Theatre in London.

The Devil Wears Prada

Film4, 6.35pm, Tuesday

Graduate Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) lands a plum job as second assistant to the fearsome Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), editor of Runway magazine.

Andy is unprepared for the challenges that lie ahead, catering to her tyrannical boss’s every whim.

Kaleidoscope

Film4, 11.20pm, Tuesday

Toby Jones stars in a tense psychological thriller which adopts a non-chronological narrative structure – hence the kaleidoscope of the title – to replicate the fractured mental state of the lead character.

Carl Woods (Jones) is released from prison and struggles to acclimatise to life on the outside.

The Witch

Film4, 9pm, Wednesday

In 17th Century America, English farmer William has been excommunicated by his Puritan Christian community.

He and his wife establish a new homestead, planting crops in time for the birth of a son, Samuel. Then a witch steals the baby. A thought-provoking and visually striking horror.

Saw

ITV4, 9pm, Wednesday

Imagine coming to in a smelly and dark room with no idea how you got there, your leg chained to the wall and a battered, bloody corpse only feet away. That’s the nightmare from which Dr Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) and Adam (Leigh Whannell) are unable to wake – and the worst is yet to come.

Pale Rider

ITV4, 9pm, Thursday

A group of impoverished prospectors are being terrorised by the henchmen of a businessman who wants to drive them out of the area.

In desperation, a terrified teenage girl prays for help, and her wish is granted when a mysterious preacher (Clint Eastwood) arrives out of the blue.

12 Years A Slave Film4, 10.45pm, Thursday

Solomon Northup, a free black man, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Vertigo

Film4, 11am, Friday

Alfred Hitchcock’s finest movie? Stars James Stewart and Kim Novak at the peak of their careers.