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Hollie Richardson, Jack Seale, Alexi Duggins, Graeme Virtue and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: Davina McCall reunites more long lost families

Scott and Davina, Long Lost Family.
Grab the tissues … Scott and Davina, Long Lost Family. Photograph: ITV

Long Lost Family

9pm, ITV1
The DNA show never fails to make your eyes leak. Scott was 12 years old when he learned that his mum and dad were actually his grandparents and his older sister was his mum – and now he’s desperate to find his real older sister who was put up for adoption. Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell help with finding her and navigating the emotional rollercoaster that ensues. Hollie Richardson

Lorraine Kelly’s Norwegian Odyssey

8pm, Channel 4
The second leg of cheery tour guide Lorraine Kelly’s outdoorsy adventure sees her reach the wild Vesterålen region, where she spends time with a nomadic reindeer herder and gets a massage from a goat (yes, a goat). She then sails through the Lofoten Islands and hopes to spot sea eagles which remind her of Orkney. HR

Spain with Michael Portillo

8pm, Channel 5
Portillo flamencos confidently northwards to Basque country, where Bilbao and San Sebastián offer a pintxos bar crawl, a replica of a 16th-century whaling ship and the Guggenheim museum. Then there’s still time to solemnly remember the civil war and have a beret fitted. Jack Seale

Rob & Romesh vs Team GB: Winter Special

9pm, Sky Max

If you’re comedians with no track record of sporting prowess and are wanting to find a winter sport to specialise in, surely curling is the one. So Beckett and Ranganathan hope, as they head to the world curling championships in Canada. But don’t hold your breath. Alexi Duggins

Black Ops

9.30pm, BBC One
Lowly MI5 support workers Kay (Hammed Animashaun) and Dom (Gbemisola Ikumelo) launch their own off-the-books surveillance operation as the anarchic spy comedy continues. Their attempts to track an enemy agent are more Mr Bean than Bourne, but the offbeat gags come thick and fast. Graeme Virtue

Dispatches: Palestine Action – The Truth Behind the Ban

10pm, Channel 4
Since the government controversially proscribed activist group Palestine Action (PA), more than 2,000 supporters of the organisation have been arrested. In this report, Matt Shea goes inside PA and asks why they have been labelled terrorists alongside Islamic State and neo-Nazis. HR

Film choice

Kindling (Connor O’Hara, 2023), 11.30pm, BBC Three
Five male pals in their late teens gather for the summer, but there’s more to their time together than partying and shooting the breeze. Sid (George Somner) is terminally ill, so he arranges a bonfire ritual to celebrate their friendship and mark his passing. Connor O’Hara’s drama has sadness hard-wired into it, but it skilfully sidesteps the maudlin as the boys deal with imminent death in their different ways, most heartbreakingly in Sid’s burgeoning connection with Mia McKenna-Bruce’s Lily. Simon Wardell

The Toxic Avenger (Macon Blair, 2023), 2am, Sky Cinema Premiere

In 1984, Troma Entertainment, low-budget purveyor of comic gore to the masses, made an eco horror that has had a surprisingly long afterlife – three sequels, a cartoon series, comic books, even a musical. Now comes Macon Blair’s ineffably silly remake. Peter Dinklage stars as mild-mannered chemical factory janitor Winston Gooze, who turns into a green-hued, superpowered crusader against his company’s dubious health and safety policies after being thrown into a pool of unsavoury liquid. A film with a lot of guts … and brains and blood. SW

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