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Hollie Richardson, Ellen E Jones, Graeme Virtue, Ali Catterall and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: Michael Sheen and David Tennant return with their strangely enjoyable comedy

Michael Sheen and David Tennant with their partners Anna Lundberg and Georgia Tennant, return for a third series of Staged
Michael Sheen and David Tennant with their partners Anna Lundberg and Georgia Tennant, return for a third series of Staged. Photograph: Paul Stephenson/BBC/Staged Films Ltd

Staged

10.40pm, BBC One

It’s a double dose of Michael Sheen this week, as he reunites with real-life pal David Tennant for a third series of the strangely enjoyable show in which they play heightened versions of themselves who bicker at each other on video calls. After they fall out with their director, there is a three-way call to try to clear the air – but some participants are more enthusiastic than others about working together again. Hollie Richardson

The Repair Shop

8pm, BBC One

The beloved items in need of attention in this week’s visit to the workshop of wonders include a ventriloquist’s puppet called George, which helped with a child’s dyslexia diagnosis, and a family’s cornet, dating back to 1897, which can’t squeeze out a single note any more. HR

The Great British Sewing Bee

9pm, BBC One

This might be the noblest episode of an always ethically sound show: Reduce Reuse Recycle week. Host Sara Pascoe looks on encouragingly while the sewers use complex mathematical patterns to create a pair of zero-waste trousers. Then it’s the humble tote bag’s time in the spotlight – can a fashionable garment be crafted from this modern-life debris? Ellen E Jones

The Gallows Pole

9pm, BBC Two

David Hartley (Michael Socha, centre) and the gang in The Gallows Pole
Coining it in … David Hartley (Michael Socha, centre) and the gang reap the rewards of crime in The Gallows Pole. Photograph: Dean Rogers/BBC/Element Pictures (GP) Limited/Objective Feedback LLC

Part coin-clipping caper, part beautiful meditation on community; Shane Meadows’s drama, set in 18th-century Yorkshire has divided viewers. One thing that can be agreed upon is that there’s nothing else quite like it. This concluding episode suggests that another series may be on the cards. HR

Extraordinary Escapes With Sandi Toksvig

9pm, Channel 4

After last week’s trip around Ireland with Eddie Izzard, Toksvig recruits comedian Judi Love for a jaunt in the bucolic Lake District. Stopping off in three enviable hideaways seems to unlock their creativity: farmhouse cooking and watercolour painting are both on the cards, as well as some messing about on the water. Graeme Virtue

The Overlap on Tour

9pm, Sky Max

Gary Neville, Roy Keane and Jamie Carragher journey across the UK and Ireland for a new series of bantz, balls and backstage nerves – and perhaps a surprise guest or two – as they drop in on the locations that helped hone them. In this week’s opener, Roy takes Gary and Jamie for a spot of hurling and Blarney stone-kissing. Ali Catterall

Film choice

Jhon Narvaéz and José Acosta in Birds of Passage
Jhon Narvaéz and José Acosta in Birds of Passage. Photograph: Pimienta Films/Allstar

Birds of Passage (Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra, 2018), 1am, Film4
Ciro Guerra’s mystical Colombian drama – co-directed with Cristina Gallego – shares the stunning imagery and dreamlike atmosphere of his previous film, Embrace of the Serpent. It delves into the roots of the country’s drug trade – in this case marijuana – from the 1960s to the 80s, through the changes wreaked on one indigenous desert clan. Tradition and family overlap uneasily with the modern world as lives are destroyed by escalating violence and defiled customs. Simon Wardell

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