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Entertainment
Hollie Richardson, Hannah Verdier, Jack Seale and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: a fresh and freaky drama about a coven of modern witches

Siena Kelly in Domino Day
Coven ready … Siena Kelly in Domino Day. Photograph: Todd Antony/BBC

Domino Day

9pm, BBC Three

You know how it is: you meet a date that might as well be waving a big red flag and they end up sucking the life out of you. Except in this spicy, supernatural drama, Domino Day (Siena Kelly) literally sucks it out – she’s a witch who needs their energy to stay alive. Feeling frustrated and alone, all she wants is to find an accepting community. But when a coven does spot her (one that, incidentally, runs a plant shop), they are concerned that Domino is leaving too many mistakes in her hunting tracks – and she has to be stopped. Things get more complicated still when a blast from the past magically reappears. Fresh, freaky and fun. Hollie Richardson

Landscape Artist of the Year 2024

8pm, Sky Arts

“Too horizony”, “distracting shapes” or “dialling the joy up to 11”? Judges Tai-Shan Schierenberg, Kathleen Soriano and Kate Bryan give their verdict as the painters tackle the busy working harbour of Stonehaven. Will they deliver the goods or will one of the 50 wildcard contestants lurking in the background upstage them? Hannah Verdier

Kirstie and Phil’s Love It Or List It

8pm, Channel 4

The rising price of building materials, different priorities and Phil Spencer trying to persuade them to ditch their home for a new one: Jamie Lea and Curtis, a couple from Albrighton, Shropshire, have been through a lot of challenges. Four years on, Spencer visits them to discover how things turned out for them and their growing family. HV

After the Flood

9pm, ITV1

This crime mystery’s trump card continues to be the feeling that its characters could be real people. The maverick behaviour of PC Jo Marshall (Sophie Rundle), investigating a murder to which she has not been assigned, is nicely believable but we’re as invested in the local planning dispute, especially when it gives Lorraine Ashbourne the chance to drop hilarious F-bombs as unwavering campaigner Molly. Jack Seale

Johnny Vegas: Carry on Glamping

9pm, Channel 4

Johnny Vegas in Carry on Glamping
Johnny Vegas in Carry on Glamping. Photograph: Jonathan Jacob/Channel 4

David Jason makes a guest appearance in this week’s episode, as he shares his love of vintage vehicles with Johnny Vegas while working together on a radio show. Back to making his glamping site vision a reality, Vegas visits Melbourne Hall in Derbyshire, which could be the place. HR

Truthseekers

10pm, Sky History

Hollywood trailer-style voiceover? Over-the-top instrumental music? Repetitive budget dramatisations? Check, check and check. This new documentary series ticks every box for history buffs, as it digs into some of the world’s biggest myths and mysteries – starting in ancient Egypt. Dr Fern Riddell and Dr Karen Bellinger blow minds as they attempt to tell all about the pyramids. HR

Film choice

Johnnie Schofield, Frank Lawton, Mervyn Johns, Basil Sydney and Norman Pierce in Went the Day Well?
Johnnie Schofield, Frank Lawton, Mervyn Johns, Basil Sydney and Norman Pierce in Went the Day Well? Photograph: PictureLux/The Hollywood Archive/Alamy

Went the Day Well? (Alberto Cavalcanti, 1942), 11am, Film4
A postmistress killing a man with a hatchet might seem like a horror spin-off from Mr Bates vs the Post Office, but Alberto Cavalcanti’s terrific propaganda film – from a story by Graham Greene – slyly subverts our expectations of the ever-so-ordinary denizens of an English village. When an army unit billeted in their area turn out to be German paratroopers preparing for a sea invasion, the local people, led by the women and children, fight back – and there’s nothing quaint about how they do it. Simon Wardell

Saturday Night Fever (John Badham, 1977), 1.35am (Thursday), Film4
He’s a dancin’ man and he just can’t lose … John Travolta’s disco maestro Tony Manero has all the moves to make it out of Brooklyn, but the working-class Italian-American community he’s been raised in – with its family pressures, religious dogma and gang violence – proves difficult to escape. The phenomenal songs from the Bee Gees and others, plus the extravagant clothes worn by the dancers, give the film vibrancy and period charm, but John Badham’s drama is just as interested in the messy, distasteful stuff of urban life, so much so that Tony ends up a very ambivalent hero. SW

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