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Entertainment
Hollie Richardson, Phil Harrison, Ali Catterall and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: Robyn Malcolm’s comedy about New Zealand’s biggest drugs bust

Robyn Malcolm and Temuera Morrison in Far North.
Entering dangerous waters … Robyn Malcolm and Temuera Morrison in Far North. Photograph: Matt Klitscher/UKTV

Far North

10pm, U&Alibi

Robyn Malcolm delivered last year’s standout performance in After the Party, so it’s worth catching this offbeat crime comedy drama, based on the true story of New Zealand’s largest ever drugs bust – half a billion dollars’ worth of crystal meth. In this third episode, Malcolm’s aqua-aerobics instructor, Heather, and her husband, Ed (Temuera Morrison), cross paths with a comically inept criminal gang – and help them out of a sticky situation. Hollie Richardson

Dragons’ Den

8pm, BBC One

Is Dragons’ Den going soft in its old age? This episode is, for the most part, an unusually heartwarming affair, featuring a Ukrainian refugee touting a wholesale clothing enterprise and, even more charmingly, a man who has somehow made a sustainable business out of giving swimming lessons to dogs. Phil Harrison

Sandi’s Great British Woodland Restoration

8pm, Channel 4

The last part of Sandi Toksvig’s eco-project sees her and wife Debbie put the final touches to their woodland patch. They visit the parish council and spy the chance to recruit some men for building duty, before inviting a Beaver group from a local school to see the results. HR

Britain’s Great Cathedrals: To the Glory of God

9pm, Channel 5

Rev Pat Allerton concludes his personal pilgrimage around the nation’s remarkable cathedrals, starting in Durham – with a Norman cathedral that has a fascinating story behind its 900-year-old North Door. He finishes in Lincoln, whose cathedral was once the tallest building in the world. HR

A League of Their Own

9pm, Sky Max

Arsenal midfielder Jorge Luiz Frello Filho, better known as Jorginho, and noted West Ham fanatic Danny Dyer (making his League debut) join Rob Beckett on the panel for another round of sports-related comedy. There’s a special, starry round of Pop Star Penalties – and everyone reveals their hidden talents. Ali Catterall

Lockerbie: A Search for Truth

9pm, Sky Atlantic

“Most people think he did it. And now? Most people just want to forget.” Dr Jim Swire (Colin Firth) has an uphill task persuading his peers that the man convicted of the bombing, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi (Ardalan Esmaili), is as innocent as he claims. Appeals and familial isolation follow in this penultimate episode. AC

Film choice

All That Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979), 4.10pm & 1.40am, Sky Cinema Greats

Cathartic, self-flagellating and gloriously indulgent, Bob Fosse’s semi-autobiographical 1979 musical gave the director-choreographer the chance to highlight his many failings – womanising, prescription-drug abuse, chain-smoking – while displaying his near-peerless dance routines. Roy Scheider is Fosse’s avatar, Joe Gideon, seemingly at death’s door but still beavering away at a new Broadway show and editing a film. Flamboyant dream sequences and flashbacks offer a glimpse at a contradictory character, impulsive but dedicated, who lived for his art. Simon Wardell

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