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Hollie Richardson, Hannah Verdier, Graeme Virtue, Phil Harrison, Simon Wardell

TV tonight: a new crop of strangers get ready to meet and marry on the same day

Ella, Laura, Jay, Shona, Rosaline, Porscha, Peggy and Tasha on Married at First Sight.
The hens … Married At First Sight UK. Photograph: Indigo Wild Studio/Simon Johns / CPL Productions / Channel 4

Married at First Sight UK

10pm, Channel 4

“This is my last time getting married. If it doesn’t work … we won’t be doing a third.” So says one of the 16 contestants ready to walk down the aisle with a total stranger. It’s the eighth season of the UK leg of the MAFS franchise and – with a concept that still doesn’t fail to blow the mind – it’s set to be as wild as ever. Refreshing to see a diverse cast, too. Hollie Richardson

Gardeners’ World

8pm, BBC Two

Get ready for your weekly dose of horticultural therapy, with a special show from York Gate in Leeds. Rachel de Thame, Adam Frost and Frances Tophill have all the jobs to do in September, while Jamie Butterworth checks out the walled garden at Scampston Hall. Plus there’s a treat for hibiscus fans. Hannah Verdier

PopMaster TV

8pm, Channel 4

Catherine Zeta-Jones had a Top 40 hit in 1999 with which singer? Show Me Heaven featured in which Tom Cruise movie? These are two of the questions contestants need to answer correctly, along with guessing a lot of songs, for a place in the final. HR

Ken Bruce on PopMaster TV.
Ken Bruce on PopMaster TV. Photograph: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock

Billions

9pm, Sky Atlantic

Halfway into the final series of Damian Lewis’s fancy drama about the mega-rich, and Prince’s new play is all part of a masterplan to raise his political profile. Meanwhile, Senior’s ill-judged move lands Chuck and Wendy in a family crisis. HR

Warrior

10pm, Sky Max

Back to the volatile streets of 1870s San Francisco for more of the punchy crime drama originally devised by Bruce Lee. Nellie’s vineyard sanctuary for sex workers lies in ashes, forcing madam Ah Toy to return to her Chinatown brothel. Meanwhile, Mai Ling is making high-stakes business deals over pocket billiards. Graeme Virtue

Drift: Partners in Crime

10.10pm, Sky Atlantic

The German thriller continues, equal parts police procedural and fraternal buddy drama. The Zeller brothers have a chance to capture Maryam’s attacker, but with deadly consequences. To make matters worse, it becomes clear that they haven’t covered their tracks as carefully as they thought. Phil Harrison

Film choices

Joan Greenwood as Sibella in Kind Hearts and Coronets.
Joan Greenwood as Sibella in Kind Hearts and Coronets. Photograph: 17/Ealing Studios/Studiocanal/Allstar

Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949), 3pm, Talking Pictures TV
In the middle of a seven-year run of classic comedies from 1948 to 1955, Ealing Studios produced arguably its finest work. Robert Hamer’s black comedy exploits the chameleon-like skills of Alec Guinness (playing eight members of the aristocratic D’Ascoyne family) in a tale of tradition, ambition and hubris. Dennis Price is Louis Mazzini, the impoverished, embittered black sheep of the clan who plots to kill all the relatives ahead of him in the line of succession to the dukedom. The inventive ways he murders them along with the twists in the tale make this a delight from start to finish. Simon Wardell

Cassandro (Roger Ross Williams, 2023), Prime Video
This fascinating wrestling biopic gets much of its oomph from the risk-taking of its lead, Gael García Bernal. He plays Saúl Armendáriz, a fighter in Mexico’s lucha libre world who decides to perform in the guise of Cassandro, an “exótico” – a type of male wrestler who dresses in drag but always loses. Saúl battles to be the first to win his fights, bumping up against homophobia and tradition in the process. Director Roger Ross Williams glories in the innate spectacle of the choreographed bouts, while Bernal brings out the tension between the freedom Saúl feels in the ring and the melancholy of his everyday life of secrecy and repression. SW

Live sport

Women’s Nations League football: England v Scotland, 7pm, ITV4 The first group match in the inaugural contest in Sunderland.

• This article was amended on 22 September 2023 because an earlier version captioned an image as Valerie Hobson in Kind Hearts and Coronets. In fact it shows Joan Greenwood in the film.

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