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Entertainment
Hollie Richardson, Ali Catterall, Phil Harrison, Graeme Virtue and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: one man’s deeply emotional story about saving a kelp forest

Swim team …  Our Lives: Our Sea Forest.
Swim team … Our Lives: Our Sea Forest. Photograph: BBC/Big Wave

Our Lives: Our Sea Forest

7.30pm, BBC One

Hopeful environmental stories are few and far between these days, which makes this short film – about the recovery of a Sussex kelp forest that was destroyed by trawling – so special. It is hard not to feel emotional as Eric Smith, a 74-year-old freediver recalls the “garden of Eden” he helped to rewild with his daughter, restoring a vital marine ecosystem. Hollie Richardson

Mozart’s Great Mass at the Proms

7pm, BBC Four

One of his most ambitious works, Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor is also unfinished – prompting various composers to fill in the gaps over the decades. Scotland’s Dunedin Consort explore its mysteries, aided by soloists including Lucy Crowe and Jess Dandy, who, owing to its demanding nature, will have their work cut out. Ali Catterall

Gogglebox

9pm, Channel 4

Jenny and Lee! Mary and Giles! The Siddiquis! Our favourite armchair critics are back to give their live reactions to autumn telly and news. To kick things off, they get their claws into the Phillip Schofield-less National TV awards. HR

Billions

9pm, Sky Atlantic

This enjoyable, brutal parable about the amoral super-rich continues to approach a climax that will no doubt be as gripping as it is unedifying. This week, Prince has fallen out with his employees, while Ira is forced to turn to Chuck for help – and, sadly, it’s the kind of embarrassing problem that could easily be used as leverage. Phil Harrison

Open House: The Great Sex Experiment

10pm, Channel 4

A naked dinner party and a masquerade sex ball? It’s just another week in the UK’s most sexually liberated guesthouse. At the ball, George loses his nerve about having a threesome with girlfriend Chelsea. Then, over dinner, Ben and Olivia are anxious about inviting another couple into their bed after dessert. HR

Warrior

10pm, Sky Max

With its violent action and anachronistic soundtrack, there is a Peaky Blinders swagger to this gang drama set in the broiling melting pot of 1870s San Francisco. As season three continues, heroic hatchet man Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji) has stumbled across a means to literally print money … if he can just figure out how it works. Graeme Virtue

Film choice

Grandma’s house … Robyn Nevin in Relic
Grandma’s house … Robyn Nevin in Relic. Photograph: Album/Alamy

Relic (Natalie Erika James, 2020), 11.25pm, BBC One

A wonderfully creepy first feature from Australian director and co-writer Natalie Erika James, which uses the psychological horror of dementia as a prop for an expertly paced haunted-house chiller. When grandmother Edna (Robyn Nevin) goes missing, Emily Mortimer’s daughter, Kay, and her grownup child, Sam (Bella Heathcote), race to the old family home. Edna returns, but there is something not right with her or her creaking mould-infested house in the woods – a darkness weighed down by their collective past is lurking behind the walls. Simon Wardell

Live sport

France expects … Antoine Dupont.
France expects … Antoine Dupont. Photograph: David Rogers/Getty Images

One-Day Men’s Cricket: England v New Zealand, noon, Sky Sports Main Event The first ODI in the four-match series from Sophia Gardens, Cardiff.

Rugby Union World Cup 2023: France v New Zealand, 6.45pm, ITV1 The opening match of the tournament, with the hosts and favourites, led by Antoine Dupont (pictured above) taking on the All Blacks at Stade de France, Paris.

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