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Entertainment
Ellen E Jones, John Robinson, Phil Harrison, Graeme Virtue, David Stubbs, Mark Gibbings-Jones and Paul Howlett

Friday’s best TV: Nashville; Requiem; Tones, Drones and Arpeggios

Hayden Panettiere as Juliette Barnes in Nashville
Age of anxiety: Hayden Panettiere as Juliette Barnes in Nashville. Photograph: Jake Giles Netter/Lionsgate Entertainment

Nashville
10pm, Sky Living

The US channel CMT has brought this country music soap back from the dead once already, but this sixth series really is its last. On New Year’s Eve, Deacon is dealing with some loneliness – surely par for the course for country musicians? – and Will has some top tips to help Gunnar overcome his fears about an upcoming gig. It’s bound to end in a barnstorming duet, and it does. Meanwhile, Juliette (Hayden Panettiere) has some performance anxieties of her own. Could shady self-help guru Gideon be her salvation? Doubtful. Ellen E Jones

Requiem
9pm, BBC One

It is hard not to like Requiem. Not for this suspenseful show a glossy, northern European-style darkness. Instead, from its hauntological title music on down, this is supernatural stuff in the muddy and British fashion of the late 60s and early 70s. Tonight, Matilda’s wallpaper discovery makes her push for Carys’s case to be reopened. John Robinson

Putin: The New Tsar
9pm, BBC Two

What with Russia’s apparently eager involvement in elections around the world, it would be easy to forget that Vladimir Putin faces his own date with the polling booth this month. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he is a reasonably warm favourite. What are the implications of six more years of Vlad? Phil Harrison

Lethal Weapon
9pm, ITV

The self-aware movie spin-off goes for a little less conversation and a little more action when a dead body is found in a dumpster near Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. Squabbling cops Riggs and Murtaugh find themselves on the trail of a conspiracy nut who is convinced that Elvis is alive and planning some sort of terrorist attack. Graeme Virtue

Tones, Drones and Arpeggios
9pm, BBC Four

Part two of Charles Hazlewood’s study of minimalism. This time he explores the work of Steve Reich, whose work developed from 1960s experiments with out-of-phase tape recorders, and Philip Glass, the genre’s most successful composer, whose work is like a sonic transcription of Manhattan. David Stubbs

Rough Justice
9pm, More4

Walter Presents’ latest comes from Belgium, where Superintendent Liese Meerhout leads the homicide division. Tonight’s opener, with a student attacking personnel linked to a smuggling network, suggests a cookie-cutter procedural, but mysteries around the edges strongly suggest that this is more than a mere CSI: Antwerp. Mark Gibbings-Jones

Film choice

The Man Who Haunted Himself (1pm, Horror Channel)

This ingenious British thriller stars Roger Moore (pre-Bond) in two roles – and you can actually tell the difference. He plays wimpish businessman Harold Pelham, who develops a villainous, wife-stealing alter-ego after a car crash. Director Basil Dearden prises out some chilly moments. Paul Howlett

Live sport

Scottish Premiership Football: Hibernian v Hearts (7.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event)
The always-lively Edinburgh derby from Easter Road.

ODI Cricket: New Zealand v England (10pm, Sky Sports Main Event)
The final ODI from Hagley Oval in Christchurch.

Winter Paralympics 2018 (12.30am, Channel 4)
Day one from Pyeongchang.

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