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Ali Catterall, Sophie Harris, Paul Howlett, Ellen E Jones, Andrew Mueller, John Robinson, Hannah Verdier, Jonathan Wright

Friday’s best TV: Extreme Wives With Kate Humble; Gregory Porter’s Popular Voices

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Girls on top … Kate Humble with north India’s Khasi women. Photograph: BBC/Alexis Girardet

Jamie and Jimmy’s Friday Night Feast
8pm, Channel 4

Bosh: Jamie Oliver and Jimmy Doherty return for a new series, and as they open the doors to their cafe at the end of Southend pier, Simon Pegg drops in. He’s been filming in Morocco so Oliver’s lamb tagine is on the menu, along with a very cheesy Provençal bake. Doherty gets handy with his DIY talents to create a Korean barbecue from a picnic table, and the enthusiastic duo are campaigning for more free-range duck farming. Hannah Verdier

Extreme Wives With Kate Humble
9pm, BBC Two

Humble-by-name, humble-by-nature has already visited Kenya and Israel in the hope of expanding her “white, middle-class” experience of womanhood. She rounds off this series in India, one of the most difficult places on Earth to be a woman, unless, perhaps, you’re a member of the matrilineal Khasi tribe living in remote north-east India. In these days of men behaving appallingly, is their society as utopian as it sounds? Ellen E Jones

Gregory Porter’s Popular Voices
10pm, BBC Four

It is only right that any discussion of crooning should be as tender as the art itself, and so it is in the second episode of Gregory Porter’s singing series. Besides pleasing nuggets of information – gentle crooning superseded vocal showboating in the 20s with the invention of the microphone – there are chats with the likes of Iggy Pop and Josh Homme, charting singing’s evolution via Nat King Cole, Marvin Gaye and David Bowie. Sophie Harris

The Graham Norton Show
10.35pm, BBC One

Singer-songwriter Kesha performs her single Learn to Let Go – which, by odd coincidence, is what fellow guest Mel Gibson did with the booze, after it derailed his career a few years back. The reformed Oscar winner makes his debut appearance on Norton tonight, alongside co-stars Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg and John Lithgow, to promote the ludicrously successful comedy sequel, Daddy’s Home 2. It’s no Passion of the Christ. Ali Catterall

Brokenwood Mysteries
Fern Sutherland, Neill Rea as Mike and Nic Sampson in The Brokenwood Mysteries. Photograph: UKTV

The Brokenwood Mysteries
8pm, Drama

The fourth series of the New Zealand crime drama and the biggest mystery in the show is what the tone is meant to be. Weirdly comic? Cutely amusing? Wry and cynical? All of these elements tussle for dominance in tonight’s feature-length episode. When a skydiver plummets to his death within sight of Mike’s birthday party, the investigation rakes over the coals of old relationships and some business, some close to home. John Robinson

A Jew Among the Germans
9.40pm, PBS America

Germany’s reckoning with the crimes committed during the second world war is, as it should be, a work in progress. This film by Marian Marzynski, a survivor of the Holocaust, wonders what will happen when the 1930s and 1940s evaporate from living memory. First broadcast in 2005, cued by the opening of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, it remains an interesting meditation on the limits of historical guilt. Andrew Mueller

Madness Live at Eden
12midnight, BBC Four

Recorded in June 2017, Suggs and co take to the stage at Cornwall’s Eden Project. Having re-formed in 1992, before it was de rigueur for everyone except the Smiths to get back together, the Nutty Boys are a proper going concern who have steadily released new material down the years. Still, expect familiar hits – including House of Fun, Baggy Trousers, Night Boat to Cairo and It Must Be Love – to get the biggest cheers here. Jonathan Wright

Film choice

Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958) Friday, 3pm, TCM
The famous opening is a bravura three-minute crane tracking shot that carries us over the Tex-Mex border into a nightmarish noir world. It also brings Charlton Heston’s honest Mexican lawman Vargas and his innocent wife (Janet Leigh) into the decadent domain of Orson Welles’s corrupt cop Hank Quinlan, a sweaty giant of a small-town tyrant who resorts to kidnap and murder in the name of justice. It’s a brooding, brilliant, sex-charged drama, a five-star classic, which Welles only got to make because Heston insisted. Paul Howlett

Click here to watch the UK trailer for Rush.

Rush (Ron Howard, 2013) 9pm, More4
Howard’s Formula One drama recalls one of the great sporting rivalries, between Britain’s James Hunt and Austria’s Niki Lauda. Chris Hemsworth’s Hunt is all golden-locked charisma; Daniel Brühl’s Lauda a more thoughtful, risk-aware character who was nevertheless the one to suffer a horrific accident in the Nürburgring in 1976. It’s a fascinating tale about a time when F1 racing was a death-defying business. Paul Howlett

Dark Shadows (Tim Burton, 2012) 9pm, W
This big-screen recreation of the cult 60s US TV show is generic Tim Burton. Johnny Depp, once again in gothic garb, is the luckless Barnabas Collins, who was turned into a vampire by evil witch Eva Green in 18th-century New England, buried alive and finally freed in 1972. The set and CGI are gloomily fantastical; Helena Bonham Carter is a wacky psychiatrist; and there’s an overarching droll, mock-horror ambience. Paul Howlett

Live sport

Women’s World Cup Football: England v Bosnia and Herzegovina 6.55pm, BBC Two. The Group One qualifier from the Banks’ Stadium in Walsall.

Premiership Rugby Union: Newcastle Falcons v Gloucester 7pm, BT Sport 2. Coverage of the match from Kingston Park.

Ashes Cricket: England v Australia 11.30pm, BT Sport 1. The third day of the first Test from Brisbane.

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