TV tonight: Alison Hammond finally gets her own interview series
8.30pm, BBC OneAlison Hammond is a pro at getting laughs out of celebrities, but this new series – in which she spends a weekend at a star's house – proves she's a brilliant interviewer too. Who else could get away with asking Little Mix's Perrie Edwards if she needs to take a pregnancy test? The laughs are always there, but there's depth too when Edwards talks about anxiety and panic attacks. Hollie Richardson
9pm, BBC TwoThe three writers' retreats featured in this episode include Beatrix Potter's home-within-a-home (a doll's house containing more than 70 beautifully detailed miniatures), and the woodland cottage of Clouds Hill, Dorset, a refuge for TE Lawrence (of Arabia). Ellen E Jones
9pm, ITV1
The ever genial tourist Clunes wraps up his latest travelogue by setting course for the Faroe Islands. There he gamely mucks in with sheep-shearing and straps into a drysuit to dive for mussels. Then it's west to Greenland to marvel at some incomparable views and learn about the local wildlife ('Is this the penis bone of the walrus?'). Graeme Virtue
9pm, Channel 5Czech it out: another extended episode of Portillo's time in Prague – 'the city of a hundred spires' – from his previous Long Weekends series. This time he is leaving his one-room hotel to eat his way around the city, explore a centuries-old craft and visit a secret bunker. HR
9pm, Sky MaxThe late-night show is going great but, following Ava's (Hannah Einbinder) breakdown, can she continue to work as head writer with Deborah (Jean Smart)? Even if the answer is no, their millennial/boomer frenemy relationship finally looks back on track – and that could last … couldn't it? HR
9.30pm, BBC OneJulian's plan to rebrand himself in the eyes of the world approaches fruition in the penultimate episode of this underwhelming sitcom starring Ben Miller. But as the documentary release date approaches, is everything OK between him and Austin? Phil Harrison
Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson, 1970), 6am, Sky Cinema GreatsA set text in any discussion about the New American Cinema, Bob Rafelson's zeitgeisty 1970 drama stars Jack Nicholson as Bob, who works on a California oil rig and is in a relationship with waitress Rayette (Karen Black) – but is noticeably disaffected by both. He is also hiding a past as the classically trained pianist son of a middle-class musical family. On a road trip back home to Washington state to see his ailing father, his rootlessness comes to the fore – but is he running away from boredom, failure, commitment or just the difficult business of living an ordinary life? Simon Wardell
Bodies Bodies Bodies (Halina Reijn, 2022), 11.30pm, BBC OnePosing as a generic 'cabin in the woods' horror in the vein of And Then There Were None (though it is actually set in a mansion), Halina Reijn's film soon develops into a sly, brutally funny takedown of entitled generation Zers. A group of friends (the on point cast includes Amandla Stenberg, Myha'la and Rachel Sennott) prepare to party in a big, dark house, but storm-related power cuts and a bloody death precipitate a breakdown of order. Bitchy, indiscreet and jealous, the pals turn out to be hilariously incapable of staying united with a possible killer on the loose. SW
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