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Entertainment
Hollie Richardson, Ellen E Jones, Graeme Virtue, Phil Harrison and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: Bruce Parry is back – and he’s taking ayahuasca in the Amazon

Open wide! … Tribe With Bruce Parry on BBC Two.
Open wide! … Tribe With Bruce Parry on BBC Two. Photograph: Rory Jackson/BBC/Frank Films

Tribe With Bruce Parry

9pm, BBC Two

It has been 20 years since Bruce Parry first lived with tribes around the world. After a decade away from the screen, now feels like a crucial time for him to continue showing the lives of Indigenous people who have a deep connection with the world. He starts in the Amazon, where the Waimaha are at first sceptical (“We have a pretty bad reputation, to be honest”); Parry must win their trust to take part in the ayahuasca ritual. Hollie Richardson

This City Is Ours

9pm, BBC One

The Liverpool crime drama starring Sean Bean maintains the tension, even while the Phelan drug clan lounge poolside at their luxury villa. It’s a succession struggle between Ronnie’s (Bean) lieutenants, his son Jamie and gang member Michael. But don’t count out Michael’s fiance Diana – she can stir up more than just a frozen margarita. Ellen E Jones

Protection

9pm, ITV1

We know that DCI Liz Nyles isn’t bent, not least because she’s played with heroic forbearance by the ace Siobhan Finneran. But some dubious behaviour – such as tampering with evidence – is coming back to haunt her as the knotty witness protection drama enters its endgame. Concludes Monday. Graeme Virtue

Paranormal: Britain’s Last Witch

9pm, BBC Three

A double-bill finale for Sian Eleri’s investigation into the case of Helen Duncan, the last British person to be imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act in 1944. What does the explosion of the HMS Barham warship, which killed 861 people, have to do with her? It continues to be about more than just the supernatural. HR

Dreamers

10pm, Channel 4

A dynamic new drama about members of a Leeds dance school – the Chapeltown Collective – and their coming-of-age stories. It starts with best mates Puppy (Princess Nelia Mubaiwa) and Koby (Demarkus Marks), who need to battle it out for a shiny scholarship – will it come between them? HR

Our Land: Israel’s Other War

10.20pm, ITV1

Filmed across 2024, this documentary offers an insight into the endless battle of attrition taking place on the West Bank. The territory belongs to Palestine, where Israeli settlements are illegal under international law – but that doesn’t stop them from happening. This film hears from both sides in an apparently implacable conflict. Phil Harrison

Fim choice

I’ll Be Right There, 11.35am, 7.15pm, Sky Cinema Premiere

Wanda (Edie Falco) is a giver in a family of takers – from her heavily pregnant daughter and recovering addict son to a secret lover who’s only in it for the sex. She could just be an annoying doormat of a character, but in the estimable Falco’s hands she is an engagingly flawed woman who relies on being wanted to give meaning to her life. There aren’t many rough edges in Brendan Walsh’s middle America drama, but it’s finely acted and completely relatable. Simon Wardell

Letter to Brezhnev, 11.35pm, BBC Two

Chris Bernard’s Liverpool-set romance was one of a string of features funded by Channel 4 in the 1980s that revitalised the moribund British film industry. Like much of the broadcaster’s early content, it’s sparky, politically edged fare, following two young women – jobless Elaine (Alexandra Pigg) and chicken factory worker/force of nature Teresa (Margi Clarke, sister of the film’s writer Frank) – on a night out in the city. They meet two Russian sailors, and while Teresa gets off with Alfred Molina’s Sergei, Elaine falls heavily for Peter (Peter Firth). But love and cold war realities soon collide. SW

Live sport

FA Cup Football: Preston v Aston Villa, 1.15pm, BBC One Followed by Bournemouth v Man City at 3.45pm on ITV1.

Women’s Super League Football: Leicester v Tottenham, 1.15pm, Sky Sports
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Chelsea v West Ham is at 4pm.

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