Mike Bradley, Ali Catterall, Jack Seale, Hannah Verdier and Paul Howlett 

TV tonight: Joe Lycett gets his revenge on the trolls

Dodgy car-rental firms and gold-digging scammers are targeted in the comic’s consumer affairs show. Plus: John Prescott dons a hairnet for British Made. Here’s the evening’s best TV
  
  

Intensely light-hearted ... Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back.
Intensely light-hearted ... Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back. Photograph: Ray Burmiston/Ray Burmiston/Channel 4

Jazz 625 Live: For One Night Only
9pm, BBC Four

The first live black-and-white TV broadcast since the 1970s sees the BBC revive the much-missed 60s show as a feature-length special broadcast from Cheltenham jazz festival. It features a house band led by pianist Robert Mitchell, accompanied by star saxophonists Joshua Redman and Jean Toussaint, guitarist Shirley Tetteh, plus singers Jacqui Dankworth and Gregory Porter. Plus a recorded performance from Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts in a quartet with sax man Scott Hamilton. Mike Bradley

British Made With John Prescott
8pm, Channel 5

Lord Prescott dons his blue hairnet again to see how the nation’s favourite food and drinks are made at factory level. Today he’s at Typhoo, learning how a blend of teas from all over the world goes into the nation’s cuppa – with a little help from Robby the Robot (who, ironically, doesn’t need a tea break). Ali Catterall

Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back
8.30pm, Channel 4

Stacey Dooley is the celebrity guest on another edition of Lycett’s intensely light-hearted take on consumer affairs. A car-rental company is the target of a hidden-camera investigation, while a gold-digging scammer receives the full weight of Lycett’s “trolling-the-trolls” prankery. Jack Seale

Deutschland 86
9pm, More4

So far, Anna and Jörg Winger’s echt German spy thriller has proved one of the most compulsive dramas of the year, and tonight’s fraught penultimate instalment paves the way for an almighty finale as Martin returns to the GDR in the hope of meeting his son Max and retrieving Lenora. See his hackles rise on arrival at HVA HQ. MB

The Looming Tower
9.30pm, BBC Two

As this intelligence drama continues, FBI counter-terrorism pro John O’Neill remains undistracted by the bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, asserting “the most important job is to figure out what happens next”, a task that falls to mysterious agent Ali Soufan. Another blinder from Jeff Daniels as O’Neill. MB

Celebrity Game Night
11.05pm, Channel 5

Liza Tarbuck hosts another night of fun with Susan Calman and a fez-wearing Danny Baker leading a posse of celebrities including Al Murray and Edith Bowman. As ever, they are tasked with a set of embarrassment-inducing parlour games, including one involving a ferocious popcorn-firing cannon. Hannah Verdier

Film choice

Dog Eat Dog (Paul Schrader, 2016), 10.55pm, Sony Movie Channel

Former armed robber Edward Bunker’s gangland novel gets a hard-boiled screen treatment from director Paul Schrader. This twisty tale of ex-cons planning to kidnap a mobster’s baby to provide for their retirement combines two of Hollywood’s most combustible stars: Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe. Paul Howlett

Sport choice

ODI Cricket: Ireland v England, 10.30am, Sky Sports Cricket

The Village in Dublin hosts this one-off match.

Premier League Football: Everton v Burnley 7pm, Sky Sports Main Event

Burnley, inching towards safety, visit the in-form Toffees.

International Women’s Hockey: Great Britain v China 7.30pm, BT Sport 2

FIH Pro League encounter.

 

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