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Entertainment
Hollie Richardson, Phil Harrison, Graeme Virtue, Danielle De Wolfe and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: Danny Dyer, Gazza and Chris Eubank’s bizarre reality series

Scared of the Dark on Channel 4.
Scared of the Dark on Channel 4. Photograph: Jonathan Ford/Channel 4/PA

Scared of the Dark

9pm, Channel 4

The only thing more discombobulating than Chris Eubank meeting a Love Island star is Chris Eubank meeting a Love Island star in a permanently pitch-black bunker. Send Paul Gascoigne in there, along with a handful of other celebrities – including blind comedian Chris McCausland, who admits he has a slight advantage for once – and you’ve got this bonkers new reality series, which airs daily for five days. Host Danny Dyer sets the contestants tasks to do in the dark during their stay, driving one of them to nearly throw up and leave within 24 hours. Meanwhile, Eubank is doing everyone’s head in with his philosophising. As Gazza puts it: “Eight days like this? Jesus.” Hollie Richardson

The Hunt for Raoul Moat

9pm, ITV1

Matt Stokoe stars in this three-part drama, stripped across consecutive evenings, about the 2010 hunt for ex-bouncer Moat. Quite rightly, its main focus is Moat’s victims – as we begin, Samantha Stobbart is striking up a new romance but is concerned about the lurking presence of her abusive former partner. Phil Harrison

Our Changing Planet

7pm, BBC One

Here’s another run for this constructively polemical series that attempts to highlight humanity’s impact on the natural world and explore a few fixes. In this opening episode, a coral reef is recorded in order to track the teeming life it harbours. Chris Packham, Liz Bonnin and Ade Adepitan are among the presenters. PH

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer

7.40pm, Channel 4

Four more celebrities don their pinnies and risk mild culinary humiliation in order to raise awareness for Stand Up to Cancer. This week, Deborah Meaden, Jay Blades, Judi Love and Mike Wozniak are attempting cheesecakes, vegan fancies and baked renderings of their first crushes. What could possibly go wrong? PH

Great Expectations

9pm, BBC One

“Have you tried opium yet?” Steven Knight’s enjoyably down-and-dirty Dickens adaptation continues with our out-of-sorts hero hitting the rum hard while he runs dockside errands for spice magnate Mr Drummle. Pip’s anguish only increases when Estella crashes back into his life in the worst possible way: as bride-to-be for his unctuous boss. Graeme Virtue

Last Woman on Earth With Sara Pascoe

9pm, BBC Two

Pascoe takes on the most endangered jobs in Denmark this week. In a crash course in construction, the comedian dabbles in the dying art of seaweed thatching. She then bricks it, quite literally, as she bids to become a Lego master. Danielle De Wolfe

Film choice

Hunt, 6.25am, 9.50pm, Sky Cinema Premiere

Hunt on Sky Cinema Premiere.
Hunt on Sky Cinema Premiere. Photograph: Spirit Entertainment/2022 MEGABOX.JOONGANG PLUS M. ARTIST STUDIO & SANAM PICTURES.

Lee Jung-jae, of Squid Game fame, directs and writes as well as stars in this passion project. An intelligent espionage thriller set in 80s South Korea, it skilfully uses the febrile political situation of a military dictatorship facing pro-democracy demonstrations and threats from North Korea to give historical depth to the search for a mole in the security services. Lee plays foreign unit chief Park; Jung Woo-sung is Kim, head of the domestic unit. One of them is the mole. Suspicion switches between them as we are entertainingly strung along. Simon Wardell

The Outlaw Josey Wales, 9pm, ITV4

Clint Eastwood has often had fun forcing his lone gunman characters into ad-hoc family groupings – the joke being that the monosyllabic grouch finds he actually likes, even needs, company. Such is the case in this terrific western where he plays a Confederate rebel on the run in Texas at the end of the civil war. He soon finds himself stuck with a Cherokee elder (a superb comic turn from Chief Dan George), a young Navajo woman, an old settler, her granddaughter – and a dog. As warm-hearted as Clint gets. SW

Live sport

Premiership Rugby Union: Leicester Tigers v Exeter Chiefs, 2.30pm, ITV1 At Welford Road.

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