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Ali Catterall, Mark Gibbings-Jones, John Robinson, Ben Arnold, Graeme Virtue, Jonathan Wright

Friday’s best TV: People’s History of Pop; Gogglebox

The People’s History of Pop with Sara Cox.
The People’s History of Pop with Sara Cox. Photograph: BBC/7Wonder/Rez Marino

People’s History of Pop
9pm, BBC4

In the final part of this lovely series, Sara Cox explores how the internet and word of mouth allowed audiences to get closer to their heroes than ever before – right into the Libertines’ living room. Elsewhere, an Amy Winehouse fan explains how “it felt like you could have moaned to her about your boyfriend and she’d be right there with you”, and a Travis fan remembers how his loyalty one day paid off in a spectacular way. Ali Catterall

Schofield’s South African Adventure
8pm, ITV

Many people’s best chance of meeting their favourite animals would be to bribe an unscrupulous zookeeper. No such tactics for Pip and Steph as they complete their South African sojourn, the Cape of Good Hope providing an opportunity to experience giraffes and rhinoceroses at close quarters. With rhinos increasingly threatened by hunters, Pip joins an anti-poaching unit to see steps being made to combat falling numbers. Mark Gibbings-Jones

The Secrets of Your Food
9pm, BBC2

Michael Mosley and James Wong conclude their series about why food does what it does with a look at how it operates on our brains. You can’t kid saliva: Michael’s low test count suggests he can’t be persuaded to try a rotten-smelling “century egg”. Meanwhile, James investigates chocolate. Since cocoa beans are the bitter heart of a delicious, gooey cocoa pod that tastes like lemonade, why, he wonders, did anyone investigate further? John Robinson

Lethal Weapon
9pm, ITV

When a boxer with a taste for the high life is gunned down at one of his own high-rolling parties, the new Murtaugh and Riggs (Damon Wayans and Clayne Crawford) soon find that he was not the target of the assassination; it was a nearby waitress with mob connections. As already appears to be the show’s running gag, there will be much destruction of public property before the case is cracked. Dumb as a box of hair but irritatingly watchable, dammit. Ben Arnold

Gogglebox
9pm, Channel 4

The ninth series of the idiot-box ouroboros continues, with us watching them watching the telly. Hopefully the families will check in on SS-GB again, especially after Jenny from Hull offered perhaps the final word on Sam Riley’s gravelly line readings: “I think he needs some Tunes.” But when you get right down to it, the #Gogglebox phenomenon is just Creature Comforts without the hassle of stop-motion animation: real people, heartwarmingly nattering on. Graeme Virtue

The Team
9pm, More4

Episode four of the pan-European crime drama and, in all the best ways, it’s still difficult to figure out what’s going on. Following the murders of pimp Theo Janke and his daughter, security man Bruno Koopmann is in deep trouble. Elsewhere, Alice doesn’t know who to trust and it seems the inappropriately coquettish Iris Gabler might hold the key to the case. A series that’s getting gnarlier, and better, by the week. Jonathan Wright

Celebs Go Dating
10pm, E4

You know it’s been an outstanding series of the celebrity dating show when Towie alumnus Ferne McCann’s problematic bowels are the breakout story. Here comes the finale in which matchmakers Eden, Nadia and Tom organise a dinner party. At the more appealing end of the lineup are adorable knowledge-vacuum Joey Essex, Jonathan “friend of Kim Kardashian” Cheban and Diversity’s now all-grown-up child dancer Perri. Hannah Verdier

Film choice

The Borderlands (Elliot Goldner, 2013) 12.05am, BBC2
The prospect of yet another found-footage horror film seems a little ho-hum, but this is one nasty, creepy, stomach-churning little terror. It helps massively that techie Robin Hill and churchman Gordon Kennedy create such a down-to-earth, humorous friendship as they investigate supernatural business at a Catholic church in a damp Devon: an empathetic base for the ghastly stuff to come.

Live sport

Cycling: Tirreno-Adriatico 1pm, Eurosport 2 Stage three of the road race, from Camaiore to Pomarance in Italy.

Championship Football: Brighton & Hove Albion v Derby County 7pm, Sky Sports 1 Likely promotion candidates Brighton welcome play-off chasers Derby.

Scottish Championship Football: Dundee United v Hibernian 7.30pm, BT Sport 1 All the action from Tannadice.

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