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Hollie Richardson, Ali Catterall, Danielle De Wolfe, Ellen E Jones, Graeme Virtue, Hannah Verdier and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: seven celebrity pilgrims take a hugely emotional trip

Pilgrimage: The Road Through Portugal
From left: Shane Lynch, Vicky Pattison, Bobby Seagull, Nabil Abdulrashid, Millie Knight, Rita Simons and Su Pollard in Pilgrimage: The Road Through Portugal. Photograph: BBC/CTVC

Pilgrimage: The Road Through Portugal

9pm, BBC Two

The endearing celebrity pilgrimage series returns – this time starting in Valença, where they trek for two weeks to the holy site of Fatima. Among the cosy group are practising Muslim funnyman Nabil Abdulrashid, Pentecostal born-again Christian Shane Lynch (of Boyzone fame), and “not very Jewish” actor Rita Simons. Vicky Pattinson, who doesn’t practise any religion, has a particularly emotional moment when she reveals through tears that she envies the faith she has witnessed in the group. Hollie Richardson

Gardeners’ World

8pm, BBC Two

Monty has some new additions this Easter weekend in the shape of peas, shallots and potted lilies. Meanwhile, Carol heads to Mothecombe Gardens in Devon: with its nectar-dripping daisies, it’s a buzzing spot for pollinators. Ali Catterall

Redemption

9pm, ITV1

A tense exchange between DI Colette Cunningham (Paula Malcomson) and the Garda Organised Crime Unit all but confirms her suspicions of foul play where her daughter’s death is concerned. Elsewhere, a snide remark from Patrick Fannon (Keith McErlean) sees Colette unleash a loaded threat. Danielle De Wolfe

Drift: Partners in Crime

9pm, Sky Atlantic

Drift - Partners in Crime
Snow storming … Angelina Hantz, Fabian Busch and Ken Duken in Drift: Partners in Crime. Photograph: Photographer: Marc Reimann/Sky Deutschland AG und Sky Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG räumlich und zeitlich uneingeschränkte Exklusivnutzungsrechte.

The German-language police action thriller finds yet more excuses for shootouts and snowmobile chases in the Bavarian Alps, as Ali (Ken Duken) chooses this spectacular location to hide. Meanwhile, his more cautious brother Leo (Fabian Busch) makes a daring attempt to unveil the conspirators, and lawyer Maryam is also going public. Ellen E Jones

The Cleaner

9.30pm, BBC One

Newly single Wicky (Greg Davies) is agonisingly close to the pub when he is called to deal with a grisly electrical shop crime scene. While wiping away blood spatter, he has a meet-curt with aloof night-shift worker Karl (Asim Chaudhry). Can the sad-sack scrubber and prickly prepper find common ground? Graeme Virtue

Late Night Lycett

10pm, Channel 4

Beckham baiter and all-round national treasure Joe Lycett continues his revitalisation of Friday-night telly, live from Birmingham. With a look back on the week, a shoal of celebrities and plenty of gameshows and sketches, it’s nonstop entertainment, living up to Lycett’s promise of a show that’s “queer, fun and very Brummie”. Hannah Verdier

Film choices

Sam Neill in The Portable Door
‘Scene-stealing’ … Sam Neill in The Portable Door. Photograph: Sky UK

The Portable Door (Jeffrey Walker, 2023), 2.30pm, 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere
The first book in Tom Holt’s JW Wells & Co series of fantasy novels hits the screen in Jeffrey Walker’s spiffing comedy. It’s all a bit Harry Potter and the Half-Witted Intern, as Patrick Gibson’s eager but seemingly unqualified trainee joins a firm of “paranatural engineers”. They use magic to change people’s actions – such as a meet-cute or a family reunion – but owner Humphrey Wells (Christoph Waltz) has bigger plans. With a scene-stealing Sam Neill as Wells’s colleague and plenty of Pratchett-like oddity, it’s a fun addition to the venerable legacy of British weird fiction. Simon Wardell

ET: The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982), 5.45pm, ITV2
You could go the obvious route on Good Friday and watch King of Kings (10am, BBC Two) with Jeffrey Hunter as Jesus. Or you could get your Easter fix with a cute little alien in Steven Spielberg’s family sci-fi thriller-cum-Christ allegory. After being sent down to Earth, ET suffers the little children, brings things back to life, dies and is resurrected, then ascends to the heavens (and his human friend Elliott’s mother is called Mary). Spielberg’s childlike sense of wonder and suspicion of the adult world pervade a film of many miraculous moments. SW

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