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Entertainment
Hollie Richardson, Jack Seale, Alexi Duggins, Graeme Virtue and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: an unforgettable finale for punky period drama Dope Girls

Leader of the pack … Dope Girls on BBC One.
Leader of the pack … Dope Girls on BBC One. Photograph: Grant Royce/BBC/Bad Wolf

Dope Girls

9.05pm, BBC One

“Let’s make this a night to remember.” It’s the big finale for this punky period drama, and nightclub matriarch Kate (Julianne Nicholson) teams up with the Saluccis to sell cocaine at the party of the century. But will it be remembered for the right reasons? Following the fatal shooting of Lily, scorned undercover cop Violet (Eliza Scanlen) has vowed revenge – and she’s not the only angry person waving a gun around. Hollie Richardson

99 to Beat

6pm, ITV1

The wonderfully daft gameshow sets silly tasks for the remaining 82 contestants hoping not to come last and be booted out of the competition. Can they correctly guess the weight of a llama called Adam? Or unreel a whole roll of sticky tape before anyone else? Here’s hoping. HR

Ancient Greece By Train With Alice Roberts

8pm, Channel 4

Advocating for sustainable travel while also doing the usual business of the history-focused travelogue, Prof Roberts rails from Athens to Corinth, then travels to Piraeus to sail to the island of Paros. St Paul’s Greek pilgrimage and sea battles against the Romans are among the topics discussed. Jack Seale

Eric Clapton at the BBC

8.15pm, BBC Two

To mark Eric Clapton’s 80th birthday, the BBC dedicates an evening of programming to the blues guitarist, beginning with this compilation of old performances, and later including a documentary on his life. Hopefully it won’t all be hagiography, and will hold him to account for the time he decided to launch into a racist diatribe during a 1976 gig. Alexi Duggins

Portugal With Michael Portillo

8.15pm, Channel 5

The penultimate leg of Portillo’s Portuguese tour takes him to two cities. In Aveiro – the “Portuguese Venice” – he enjoys the colourful canal boats and makes a historic connection between the city and England’s Richard III. He then drives to Coimbra, the capital in 1139. HR

The 1% Club

8.20pm, ITV1

With 100 hopefuls crammed into the studio, this £100,000 quiz gauntlet could easily be an unwieldy trudge. But host Lee Mack keeps things fleet, especially when chatting to contestants who have been eliminated. He instinctively knows when to tease, comfort or pipe down so their eccentricity can shine. Graeme Virtue

Film choice

Con Mum, out now, Netflix

There are plenty of true-crime documentaries out there about people duped into giving away money through catfishing and the like. But what if the grifter is your own mother? Nick Green’s truly gobsmacking film tells the story of pastry chef Graham Hornigold, who was contacted in 2020 by the mum he never knew. Dionne turned out to be a very wealthy entrepreneur – but she only had six months to live, so Graham grabbed at the chance of a parental relationship, however brief. There are many, many twists in this tale of love, manipulation and devastating consequences. Simon Wardell


Babes 1.05pm, 6.10pm, Sky Cinema Premiere

Pair Broad City’s writer-star Ilana Glazer and the creator of Better Things, Pamela Adlon, and you can guarantee an unabashed, gloriously funny story about women’s lives. Glazer and Michelle Buteau play New York best friends, yoga teacher Eden and dentist Dawn. The latter has just given birth (the scene where her waters break is hilarious) when the former finds out she is pregnant. As the pressures of parenthood and potential single motherhood intensify, their intimate bond – utterly candid, sharply witty – begins to fray. SW

Klokkenluider, 11.10pm, Film4

For his feature debut, actor turned director Neil Maskell has clearly adopted the off-kilter, darkly comic stylings of his friend and regular collaborator Ben Wheatley. Klokkenluider is the Dutch word for whistleblower, which is what UK government IT guy Ewan (Amit Shah) is. He’s hiding in a Belgian holiday let with his wife Silke (Sura Dohnke), waiting for a journalist to spill the beans to about his world-shattering discovery. Tom Burke and Roger Evans play the minders who join them in a thriller that manages to be unsettling and slyly mundane at the same time. SW

Live sport

FA Cup Football: Fulham v Crystal Palace, 11.30am, ITV1 Brighton v Nottingham Forest is at 5pm on BBC One.

Premiership Rugby Union: Bath v Harlequins, 2.30pm, TNT Sports 1 Followed by Gloucester v Bristol Bears at 5.15pm. Leicester Tigers v Saracens is on Sun at 2.30pm.

Women’s Six Nations Rugby, Wales v England, 4.15pm, BBC Two The visitors, led by new captain Zoe Aldcroft, seek to maintain their unbeaten record.

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