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Hollie Richardson, Graeme Virtue, Ali Catterall, Ellen E Jones, Hannah Verdier and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: starvation, panic and delirium in the Alone final

Alone: The Final on Channel 4.
Alone: The Final on Channel 4. Photograph: The Garden TV/Channel 4 / The Garden TV

Alone: The Final

9pm, Channel 4

After 25 days of fear, anxiety, panic and bears sniffing around, there are four survivors left in Canada’s wilderness. Winter is biting, fish supplies are dwindling, energy levels have bombed and such solitude has led them all to the brink of delirium – one of them even cries for the first time in 15 years (“Starving is not very much fun”). But with a £100,000 prize for the last one standing, no one will tap out now, surely? Hollie Richardson

Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby

8pm, BBC Two

Monica Galetti and Rob Rinder don khaki shorts, heft machetes and do their best Attenborough whisper as they muck in at the wildly luxurious Phinda Private Game Reserve in South Africa. Locking eyes with leopards on safari is exhilarating; sweeping up bush baby poo from the breakfast verandah less so. Graeme Virtue

Unmissable Moments: Proms 2023

8pm, BBC Four

Beethoven, Rachmaninov and Mozart are among the big beasts whose works feature in this rattling look back at this year’s Proms. But really, the key theme here is diversity: Bollywood, jazz and soul all get a look-in, along with performances from superstars of the classical world including Pekka Kuusisto, Isata Kanneh-Mason and Yuja Wang. Ali Catterall

The Woman in the Wall

9pm, BBC One

The woman is no longer in the wall, but this gripping gothic mystery won’t give up all its secrets just yet. Lorna (Ruth Wilson) is convent-bound, in search of the justice she so desperately craves. Meanwhile, back in Dublin, detective Colman’s (Daryl McCormack) nightmares are invading his waking life. Ellen E Jones

Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing

9pm, BBC Two

Another peaceful half-hour with Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse, as they fish for pike in Dumfries and Galloway. Knee problems, jelly babies and death are just some of the topics of conversation that get them through a dry patch, before heading to a haunted castle for the night. HR

Waco Untold: The British Stories

10.45pm, ITV1

The powerful documentary about the 23 British people who died when David Koresh’s cult compound was stormed by the US authorities concludes. Compelling contributions include Mancunian follower Derek Lovelock and relatives who were back home when they heard about the explosions in Mount Carmel. Hannah Verdier

Film choice

Something in the Dirt, 11.50am, 6pm, Sky Cinema Premiere

Something In The Dirt Press on Sky Cinema Premiere.
Something In The Dirt Press on Sky Cinema Premiere. Photograph: Publicity image

Low-budget sci-fi auteurs Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are back with another brain-twister. This time they also star as ex-con bartender Levi and divorced churchgoer John, LA neighbours who decide to make a documentary when a quartz ashtray in Levi’s flat starts levitating. Theories about maths, aliens, magic and earthquakes fly around but remain tantalisingly out of reach in a film that, ultimately, is more about a friendship forged in extremis than the phenomenon with which they’re obsessed. Simon Wardell

Live sport

Men’s One-Day International Cricket: England v New Zealand, 10.30am, Sky Sports Main Event The second in the four-match series from Ageas Bowl, Southampton.

Rugby Union World Cup: South Africa v Scotland, 3.55pm, ITV1 The opening Pool B fixture. Followed by Wales v Fiji at 7.15pm.

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