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Phil Harrison, Ellen E Jones, Ali Catterall, Jack Seale and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: interior designers battle for a chance to win their own flat

Dara Huang and AJ Odudu.
In the Design Den … Dara Huang and AJ Odudu in The Big Interiors Battle. Photograph: Joff Wilson/Remarkable Television

The Big Interiors Battle

8pm, Channel 4

Yet another eliminative reality show, this time in the field of interior decoration. AJ Odudu is our effervescent host as eight designers battle it out (design themes include lads’ pads and a jungle spa) to try to win their own flat. Given current house prices, this has a decent claim to be one of the largest prizes in recent TV competition history. Phil Harrison

Unreported World

7.30pm, Channel 4

Gold mining in protected Indigenous regions of the Amazon rainforest is dirty, dangerous, exploitative and illegal. Yet, as uncovered by Guillermo Galdos in this documentary, up to half of Brazil’s gold trade comes from illegal mines before finding its way into the international supply chains of big technology giants like Apple. Ellen E Jones

Pilgrimage: The Road Through Portugal

9pm, BBC Two

The celebrity journey comes to an end in this final episode. En route, there’s Coimbra’s St Teresa convent to visit, once home to a megastar nun. “I could be her sister!” exclaims Su Pollard, on discovering a bespectacled statue of Sister Lucia. It culminates in a gorgeous, climactic, candlelit procession. Ali Catterall

Redemption

9pm, ITV

The heavy-footed crime drama peps up a little in the finale, as Colette (Paula Malcomson) risks further sanction from her cop superiors after she discovers that the gang who killed her daughter are also threatening her granddaughter. Even then, everything takes far too long to happen. Jack Seale

Christian

9pm, Sky Atlantic

This enigmatic crime drama set in a vast, decaying public housing complex in Rome returns for a second season. Christian (Edoardo Pesce) is a gangland enforcer who also seems capable of performing miracles. As we rejoin him, he’s attempting to put his gifts to righteous use. But a new beginning proves difficult. PH

The Cleaner

9.30pm, BBC One

Greg Davies’s Wicky clumsily engages with cancel culture this week as he’s sent to clean a statue which has been vandalised by Zoë Wanamaker’s Lucille. The statue of a giant chickpea has replaced that of a town benefactor who also owned enslaved people. Will Wicky be forced to drop his veneer of apathy and pick a side? PH

Film choice

Nope (Jordan Peele, 2022), noon, 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere

Daniel Kaluuya Nope on Sky
Daniel Kaluuya Nope on Sky Photograph: Photo Credit: Universal Pictures/AP


Jordan Peele’s packed sci-fi western fulfils his wish (formed during lockdown) to create an outdoor spectacle, but it also interrogates the entertainment industry – and Black workers’ place in it. Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer star as OJ and Emerald, siblings who run a California horse-wrangling business for TV and movies. One client is Steven Yeun’s Jupe, a former child star who runs a western theme park. But something extraterrestrial is stealing their animals … Kaluuya and Palmer make a fantastic double act – him the quiet eye of the storm, her a whirling dervish who sees dollar signs if they can film the alien. A Close Encounters for an age when everything is commodified. Simon Wardell

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