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Entertainment
Graeme Virtue, Phil Harrison, Andrew Mueller, Ellen E Jones, Ali Catterall, Jack Seale and Paul Howlett

Friday’s best TV: Sport Relief; Britain’s Favourite Food

Andy Murray gets in on the joke with Michael McIntyre for Sport Relief
Andy Murray gets in on the joke with Michael McIntyre for Sport Relief (BBC One). Photograph: BBC/PA

Sport Relief 2018

7pm, BBC One

After running all week, the energetic charity appeal digs deep for a final fundraising sprint, beamed live from Salford. A team relay of hosts – including Gary Lineker, Davina McCall, Ore Oduba, Alex Jones, Paddy McGuinness and bat man Freddie Flintoff – present sporty bits and comic wheezes, including a footballer-centric edition of Strictly, a BBC v ITV boat race, the bash-tastic return of celebrity boxing and a special edition of A Question of Sport, in which rival captains Matt Dawson and Phil Tufnell finally get to team up.
Graeme Virtue

Britain’s Favourite Food

8pm, Channel 4

This new series isn’t above mining the apparently inherent hilarity of Angel Delight and Blue Nun for nostalgic guffaws. But the host, chef Simon Rimmer, also attempts the odd bit of vaguely serious analysis of our changing eating habits as he views the flavours of his childhood through the prism of our foodie present.
Phil Harrison

Pilgrimage: The Road to Santiago

9pm, BBC Two

A further series seemingly commissioned from Alan Partridge’s BBC pitches: seven variously plausible claimants to the title of “celebrity” negotiate the Camino de Santiago. An inquest into whether the holiday films of people you don’t know are even duller than those of people you do.
Andrew Mueller

Jamestown

9pm, Sky1

The series of 17th-century colonial power games draws to a fiery climax, and Jocelyn is playing her most daring hand, while the marshal gets himself into a compromising position in the tavern. This soapy fun is somewhat undercut by reminders of the real historical suffering of enslaved Africans and native Americans.
Ellen E Jones

Ghost Adventures

9pm, Really

Paranormal investigator Zak Bagans visits an inn in Oklahoma, where the spirit of a “bungling outlaw” might be hopping into bed with the staff. Has the owner “knowingly or unknowingly” summoned his ghost with “satanic rituals”? Cue ghostly voices and doors slamming on command …
Ali Catterall

Will & Grace

10pm, Channel 5

Broad and silly is where this show works best, so park your nous and indulge in a ludicrous dating farce that begins with Grace starting an affair with a man who lives in her building. Meanwhile, Will is appalled that Karen spies on her house staff via CCTV, until he realises that her two chefs are secretly in love.
Jack Seale

TV film

The Ones Below 12.10am, BBC Two

This creepy thriller starts out so innocently, with easy-going Islington couple Justin and Kate welcoming new downstairs neighbours, Theresa and banker Jon. But when the couples learn that both women are pregnant, things start going viciously awry, in a very dark, Polanski-like way.
Paul Howlett

Live sport

International Football: Netherlands v England 7.30pm, ITV
A friendly game at the Johan Cruyff Arena.

Super League: Leeds Rhinos v Castleford Tigers 7.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event
A West Yorks clash at Headingley.

Test Cricket: New Zealand v England 12.30am, Sky Sports Cricket
Day three action from Auckland.

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