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END OF TERM The Worst Witch, 4.30pm, CBBC
ETHEL (Jenny Richardson, pictured) is on top of tthe world iin the finale: tthe evil Cackle sister is in charge, sshe’s head girl, and her elder sister has been robbed of hher powers. That’s what she wanted, isn’t it? This episode isi a soaring send-off, but it’s not the end — there will be a second series. FIGURE SKATING
World Championships, 5.30pm, Eurosport 1
THE Canadian pair Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford are the defending champions in the short programme event in this evening’s competition from Helsinki in Finland.
SCI-FI TALE Timeless, 9pm, E4
THE season one finale is set in 1954 — the paranoid era of McCarthyism — and addresses the romantic tension between Lucy and Wyatt in a nifty way. There are plenty of plot developments, too, but this is one of those episodes that works more on the heart than on the head, and is all the better for it.
LANDED GENTRY Secrets Of Althorp: The Spencers, 9pm, PBS America
EARL SPENCER provides intriguing insight into his childhood at Althorp, the family home for more than 500 years. The Earl remembers his sister, the future Princess Diana, tap-dancing in the entrance hall — her dream was to become a dancer.
SPY SPIN-OFF The Blacklist: Redemption, 9pm, Sky 1
THERE’S no Blacklist this week, but this new, stand-alone spin-off is a fair replacement. Famke Janssen (pictured) stars as the quirkily brutal mum of Tom (the husband of Liz in the parent show); she runs a Mission: Impossiblestyle firm, which her son is secretly investigating.
FREEVIEW MOVIE High-Rise, 9pm, Film4
A DIZZYING brew, based on a J.G. Ballard novel, that ascends to wanton, decadent chaos. Tom Hiddleston is a doctor living in a surreal tower block, with Luke Evans as one of his neighbours.
GALLIC DRAMA Valley Of Love, 9.45pm, Sky Premiere
ISABELLE HUPPERT and Gerard Depardieu are magnificent to watch in this otherwise aimless drama. They’re a former couple reuniting in Death Valley at the last request of their dead son.
SPOOF ROCK DOC Brian Pern: A Tribute, 10pm,p, BBC4
A HOMAGE to the life of the fictional prog rock maestro Brian Pern (played with some darkness by Simon Day, pictured centre, with Paul Whitehouse, Dave Cummings, Christopher Eccleston, Phillip Pope and Nigel Havers), who tragically died in a ‘Segway mistake’. Monty Don, Peter Davison and Michael Douglas assist with the send-off in a pin-sharp comic memorial.
PAY-PER-VIEW FILM Paterson, BT TV/ Sky Store/Virgin Movies
ADAM DRIVER stars as a bus driver and poet called Paterson, who lives in a town called Paterson, in a lovely-looking muse on the world from writer-director Jim Jarmusch.