TV tonight: fangtastic fun with the return of a hit vampire comedy
10pm, BBC TwoMatt Berry, Natasia Demetriou and Kayvan Novak are back with a fifth series of their bitingly funny vampire mockumentary. Human familiar Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) is acting oddly, and the vampires think it's because they missed his birthday (a 'terrible day' for humans). But the reality is that Guillermo has done something his masters won't be very happy about at all. Hollie Richardson
7pm, BBC TwoThe Young Ones veterans Nigel Planer and Alexei Sayle motor through Northumberland in a vintage car to see who has the best eye for an heirloom. Valuation experts Natasha Raskin Sharp and James Braxton are on hand to steer them towards the bargains. Graeme Virtue
9pm, BBC OneAs the season finale of the hit Motherland spin-off arrives, is Amanda (Lucy Punch) about to change her insufferably snobbish ways? Not quite. But she needs to decide between a life with awful Johannes in his massive Wapping penthouse, or staying put with Anne and the rest of the SoHa gang. HR
9pm, ITV1
It's 1955 and Ruth Ellis (Lucy Boynton) stands accused of the murder of her racing driver boyfriend David Blakely (Laurie Davidson). There are also issues of class and gender at play during her Old Bailey trial, while her solicitor John Bickford (Toby Jones) believes Ruth is keeping secrets about an abusive relationship. Ellen E Jones
9.30pm, BBC OneTo include one solo karaoke rendition of I Know Him So Well by Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson in your twisted village-based murder-comedy-drama is bold; but in its finale, the show does that for the second time this season, which is some kind of unhinged genius. Plus, a secret is revealed. Jack Seale
10pm, Channel 4Scotland Yard detective Luke Holborn (Joe Dempsie) may be able to handle an extra-spicy jerk chicken, but does that really make him 'one of the good guys'? Detective Millie Black (Tamara Lawrance) isn't so sure, but the two team up anyway to search for missing schoolgirl Janet, in the latest instalment of the ticking-clock Jamaican crime drama. EEJ
Moana 2 (David Derrick Jr, 2024), Disney+This is the second instalment of what we must now call a 'franchise' (a live-action version of the 2016 original is out next year), so savour the rarity value while you can. It's colourful, musical business as usual, with Auliʻi Cravalho's ebullient Polynesian navigator Moana setting off into the blue to seek a drowned island – cursed by bad-tempered storm deity Nalo – whose revival will reconnect all the scattered ocean peoples. Dwayne Johnson as demigod Maui vies for the comic foil position with Moana's pet pig and hapless rooster, and it's good to see the coconut pirates back in fighty form. Gods and monsters abound, with Nalo clearly being positioned as the Thanos of the series. Simon Wardell
Champions League football: Aston Villa v Club Brugge, 7pm, TNT Sports 1. Arsenal v PSV Eindhoven is on TNT Sports 2 at 7pm.
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