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Entertainment
Hollie Richardson, Graeme Virtue, Ali Catterall and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: a cracking new Northern Irish offbeat comedy

Callum (Ryan Dylan) and Gemma (Ele McKenzie) in Funboys.
First love … Callum (Ryan Dylan) and Gemma (Ele McKenzie) in Funboys. Photograph: Chris Barr/BBC/Mayhay Studios Ltd

Funboys

10pm, BBC Three
A very funny and original four-part series based on an offbeat Northern Irish comedy short about the members of the Funboys’ Fun Club – “a playgroup for childish young men to engage in wholesome mucking about”. Life is a perfect ride of video games for the lads until Callum (Ryan Dylan) gets his first girlfriend and Jordan (Rian Lennon) reacts very badly. Will she fit into their way of life at the club? Hollie Richardson

Extraordinary Portraits With Bill Bailey

7.30pm, BBC One
Multimedia artist Jack Dickson has 12 weeks to create a portrait of life-saving London Underground worker Rizwan Javed. Dickson’s holistic approach takes inspiration from his subject’s wider world, from cricket team photos to local street art. It’s time-intensive stuff, but both men take a break for some birdwatching with Bill. Graeme Virtue

One Question

8pm, Channel 4

Claudia Winkleman ditches her Traitors dark side for another series of this quizshow in which contestants are asked just one question – but must choose from a possible 16 answers (OK, perhaps she is still a bit devilish here). First up, Leeds flatmates Yuz and Scott give it a go. HR

Death in Paradise

9pm, BBC One
When wellness business founder Susie Montagu (Georgia Maguire) dies from anaphylactic shock at the launch of her new skincare product, the cause is soon discovered: peanut oil in her throat. But she hadn’t eaten anything, and there are no traces of it on the premises. DI Mervin investigates. Ali Catterall

Uncanny

9pm, BBC Two
The Shadow Man was a 7ft figure that terrified Julian, his family and friends in his Wakefield home in the 1990s. Half sceptic, half believer Danny Robins attempts to make sense of it by investigating the cultural history of shadowy figures, starting with Inuit folk history. HR

The Graham Norton Show

10.40pm, BBC One
Norton last interviewed Pamela Anderson more than 20 years ago in his V Graham Norton days, and now she’s here promoting her film The Last Showgirl. She’ll be joined by fellow actors Stephen Graham, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sean Hayes and – talking about his return to EastEnders for its 40th anniversary – Ross Kemp. HR

Film choice

Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, 1993), 7.55am, 11.50pm,
Sky Cinema Greats

It’s the film that brought Matthew McConaughey to public attention, but Richard Linklater’s effortlessly rewarding 1970s-set Texas high-school drama is very much an ensemble piece. After their last day of class before the summer holidays (to the sounds of Alice Cooper’s School’s Out), next year’s seniors – nerds, stoners, jocks et al – subject next year’s freshmen to hazing rituals, while cruising around, flirting, indulging in minor vandalism, getting wasted and worrying about their futures. One of the great teen dramas. Simon Wardell

Live sport

Premier League football, Brighton v Chelsea 7pm, Sky Sports Main Event. At the Amex Stadium.

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