This Cultural Life: Boy George
11pm, BBC Four
Boy George is an open book (he is promoting his memoir) as he sits down with John Wilson to spill all. He talks about his tight relationship with his mother, who died last year, the life-changing moment he saw the Ziggy Stardust tour at the Lewisham Odeon in 1973, meeting Quentin Crisp in New York with Andy Warhol and dealing publicly with addiction. Hollie Richardson
Granite Harbour
8pm, BBC One
The moody Aberdeen police drama returns for a second series deep in the granite city’s criminal underworld. It opens with DS Lara Bartlett (Hannah Donaldson) and detective Davis Lindo (Romario Simpson) investigating a body with a syringe stuck in it that has been found in a car. HR
Have I Got News for You
9pm, BBC One
The veteran panel show is a tough ask for journalists at the best of times, so spare a thought for Lyse Doucet, trying to be funny while taking a break from reporting for the BBC on the Middle East. Comedian Chloe Petts might also be on edge: this is her HIGNFY debut. Jack Seale
Gardeners’ World
9pm, BBC Two
Time to reboot after a miserably damp spring: Monty Don is out in his vegetable garden sowing seeds, while Nick Bailey visits an innovative Devon garden and Arit Anderson admires new dahlias. Plus, a stalwart of the Chelsea flower show announces her comeback after 25 years away. JS
Avoidance
9.30pm, BBC One
Jonathan and Claire both want to break up with their new partners (fun guest-star turns from Aisling Bea and Matthew Lewis) – but will either of them have the bottle to do it, especially when there’s a baby shower to get to and a dead cat to deal with? And does it mean they want to get back together? HR
Late Night Lycett
10pm, Channel 4
Birmingham once again becomes the only place to be on a Friday night as corporate scourge Joe Lycett presents another boisterous show live from his home town. As well as some hopefully game celebrity guests it will feature the usual panel of drag queens Yshee Black and Don One, local shopkeeper Hardev and Lycett’s aunties Pauline and Margaret. Graeme Virtue
Film choice
Saint Maud (Rose Glass, 2019), 10.50pm, Film4
Rose Glass’s second film, sapphic thriller Love Lies Bleeding, hits cinemas this week so here’s her debut feature to prep you for that. Saint Maud is an astonishing psychological horror about a palliative care nurse – and extremely devout Roman Catholic – Maud (an extraordinary performance from a pre-Tolkein Morfydd Clark), who vows to save the soul of her client, terminally ill choreographer Amanda (Jennifer Ehle). But are her episodes of overwhelming religious ecstasy divine revelation or signs of a disintegrating mental state? Glass tantalises us throughout in a disturbing, gripping drama. Simon Wardell
Trading Places (John Landis, 1983), 1.25am, Channel 4
It’s “hereditary v environment” in John Landis’s comedy – but capitalism turns out to be the real winner. Commodity broker brothers Randolph (Ralph Bellamy) and Mortimer (Don Ameche) have a wager about what would happen if Eddie Murphy’s poor beggar Billy Ray swapped lives with entitled rich employee Louis (Dan Aykroyd). The sexual and racial politics are definitely “of its time” (pity Jamie Lee Curtis as sex worker Ophelia, who helps Louis), but Murphy’s comic skills are used to good effect as you cheer his plot to financially ruin the bigoted old men. SW
