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Hollie Richardson, Jack Seale, Ali Catterall, Phil Harrison and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: she’s dead but doesn’t know it – a whodunnit with a supernatural twist

Clara Rugaard in The Rising.
An invisible state … Clara Rugaard in The Rising. Photograph: Rekha Garton/Sky UK

The Rising

9pm, Sky Max

This eight-part thriller starts, as most reliable ones do, with a murder – except that 19-year-old Neve Kelly (Clara Rugaard) doesn’t realise she is dead until she walks home and works out that nobody can see her. After that supernatural twist, Neve becomes intent on finding out what happened to her, taking advantage of her invisible state to get into places the police can’t go. Was her boyfriend what he seemed? Why can her little brother sense her presence? Episode one plants plenty of clues. Hollie Richardson

Grayson’s Art Club

8pm, Channel 4

The last episode of the series sees Grayson and Philippa Perry joined by Channel 4 doyen Joe Lycett, with a simple theme: the future. Amateur artists explain to Grayson what the work they have sent in represents. Elsewhere, Conrad Shawcross showcases mechanical sculptures that draw on the past to imagine eras yet to come. Jack Seale

Pilgrimage: The Road to the Scottish Isles

9pm, BBC Two

We’ve arrived at the third and final part of this surprisingly sweet series in which celebrities who have different faiths take a pilgrimage together. As they reach Moray on the edge of the Scottish Highlands, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and former Emmerdale actor Louisa Clein have deep and meaningful realisations on camera. HR

It’ll Be Alright on the Night

9pm, ITV

The shade of Denis Norden rocks peacefully in his armchair, presiding over his televisual legacy, while protege David Walliams points and snickers. Tonight, Shane Richie injures himself in a hammock, Ricky Gervais is interrupted by a mobile phone and James Martin burns himself on a barbecue. Ali Catterall

Open House: The Great Sex Experiment

10pm, Channel 4

Open House: The Great Sex Experiment.
Taking things further … Open House: The Great Sex Experiment. Photograph: Channel 4

Al and Jasmin have embraced sex parties before, but they’re about to take things further in tonight’s episode of this swinging series. Alex and Lydie, who we met last week, also take the plunge. HR

The The: The Comeback Special Live at the Royal Albert Hall

9pm, Sky Arts

In the 80s and 90s, Matt Johnson’s post-punk stalwarts carved out a niche with their nakedly emotional explorations of political turmoil. Then the trail went cold, with no live performances between 2002 and this 2018 show. Expect exquisite adolescent angst tempered by the wisdom of middle age. Phil Harrison

Film choice

Tragic true story … Keira Knightley and Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game.
Tragic true story … Keira Knightley and Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game. Photograph: Black Bear Pictures/Allstar

The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum, 2014), 10.40pm, BBC One
A band of plucky, if mismatched, Britons join forces to crack an unbreakable Nazi code and turn the tide of the second world war. So far, so generic, but Morten Tyldum’s gripping thriller is also the tragic true story of Alan Turing, the brilliant, gay mathematician who invented the computer that cracked the Enigma machine but whose conviction for “gross indecency” led to his apparent suicide in 1954. Benedict Cumberbatch is affecting as Turing, while Keira Knightley brings her usual intelligence and pep to Joan Clarke, who defied the misogyny of the age to play her part in the war. Simon Wardell

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