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Hollie Richardson, Graeme Virtue, Hannah Verdier and Jack Seale

TV tonight: Uncanny brings ghost-hunting to primetime

Danny Robins.
Prepared to scare … Danny Robins. Photograph: Jamie Simonds/BBC/Rufina Breskin

Uncanny

9pm, BBC Two

Are you a believer or a sceptic? Danny Robins didn’t believe in ghosts … until two years ago. That was when he made the hit supernatural podcasts The Battersea Poltergeist and Uncanny, to which so many people responded with their own paranormal experiences. Now, he brings these stories to the screen, starting with Kate – who has been haunted by “Miss Howard” since she was a child. Hollie Richardson

Gardeners’ World

8pm, BBC Two

Among the potpourri of soothing horticultural segments tonight: Frances Tophill strives to get her evolving Devon garden shipshape for autumn and assesses the tomatoes in her upcycled greenhouse; Rekha Mistry reveals what she has learned from tending a Peak District vegetable patch; and Errol Reuben Fernandes explores a green community project in Wakefield. Graeme Virtue

Ghosts

8.30pm, BBC One

Mike’s anxiety about becoming a dad is growing, but it seems Alison isn’t the only pregnant woman in the house as one of the ghosts also has some happy news. Meanwhile, selling off land to a developer for a golf course might be a good plan for the expectant parents, but Lady Button is not so sure. Hannah Verdler

Barbara Knox at 90

9pm, ITV1

The term “Corrie legend” should not be used lightly, but in the case of Rita, the thrice-married queen of the cobbles, it’s entirely permitted. As Barbara Knox, who has played her for nearly 60 years, turns 90, she joins Bradley Walsh to look back over her career and share memories. Expect the odd tearful reunion too. HV

The Good Ship Murder

9pm, Channel 5

Shayne Ward is the singing detective in the sense that he plays a cruise ship singer, Jack, who solves crimes on board, in this cheerfully cheesy new sleuthfest where someone is murdered in a different port each week. Ward’s former Coronation Street cast-mate Catherine Tyldesley is Jack’s crime-solving partner. Jack Seale

Billions

10pm, Sky Atlantic

The effort to stop the dangerous uber-capitalist Mike Prince (Corey Stoll) from becoming the US president continues to lead to unlikely alliances. Long-term fans of this addictive drama will, however, get more out of a subplot in which Chuck (Paul Giamatti) has to use old-school legal smarts to get his family out of a jam. JS

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