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Entertainment
David Stubbs, Mark Gibbings-Jones, Sophie Harris, Sharon O'Connell, Jonathan Wright, Paul Howlett

Friday’s best TV: The Last Leg: Re-united Kingdom; Hospital People

The Last Leg: Re-United Kingdom.
The Last Leg: Re-United Kingdom. Photograph: Adam Lawrence

The Last Leg: Re-united Kingdom

9pm, Channel 4

To mark the anniversary of MP Jo Cox’s death, a special extended edition sees hosts Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker lay on a street party in which longstanding foes from the worlds of celebrity and politics are encouraged to come together and put their differences aside. The programme is part of a planned weekend of events organised by the foundation that was set up in Jo’s name, which seeks to “reject divisive politics”. David Stubbs

The Summer of Love: How Hippies Changed the World

9pm, BBC4

Concluding the documentary on the no-goodniks who created a cultural revolution. Thousands flocked to San Francisco seeking life, love and LSD, with the net effect being a transformation of American culture, from movies to mindfulness and the very media we consume today. Let’s face it, as responses to “Get a job, hippies!” go, founding the country’s multibillion-dollar tech firms is hard to beat. Mark Gibbings-Jones

Hospital People

9.30pm, BBC1

The idea of a mock-doc set in an NHS hospital might be about as appetising as a plate of industrially steamed carrots, but Hospital People manages to pull it off. Tonight sees the last episode in the series: a warm-hearted affair in which the hospital’s various hapless characters (all played by Tom Binns) get it together to record a charity single. The gags may have something of an 80s sitcom feel, but only a churl would begrudge the song at the end. Sophie Harris

Frankie Boyle’s New World Order

10pm, BBC2

Boyle’s shift into socio-political commentary hasn’t blunted his tongue, and these days he’s on far more entertaining form than when he was merely shocking for shock’s sake. With a recent election and ever-obliging Donald Trump in the mix, there will be ample news-based chaos for him – and guests Katherine Ryan and Sara Pascoe, plus an interactive audience – to comb through for darkly comic common sense. Sharon O’Connell

The Graham Norton Show

10.35pm, BBC1

Having gentle fun at the expense of A-listers without making them look too foolish, Graham Norton’s chatshow shtick is the best around. Tonight, with the summer blockbuster season well upon us, he welcomes Mark Wahlberg, promoting Transformers: The Last Knight, Tom Holland of Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Woody Harrelson and Andy Serkis, lately monkeying around in War for the Planet of the Apes. Plus, Alison Moyet performs. Jonathan Wright

All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records

9pm, Sky Arts

Do you remember the first record – CD? MP3? – you ever bought? There’s a lot of that sort of reminiscing in this elegiac documentary by Colin “son of Tom” Hanks. Talking heads including Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl and the founder of Tower, Russ Solomon, who all agree there’s something about hanging out in a record store that no amount of Spotify playlists can replicate. Ellen E Jones

Drunk History USA

11pm, Comedy Central

The original US version of the only show to mix historical re-enactments with hard liquor continues. This week, Detroit comes into focus (and then out again, then in again), with tales from the Motor City. First up, it’s the Kellogg brothers, played gamely by real-life brothers Owen and Luke Wilson, with a lashed-up actor Paget Brewster on narration duties. Then it’s the rather more bladdered comic writer Tommy Blacha. Ben Arnold

Film choice

Confetti (Debbie Isitt, 2006) 11.05pm, BBC2
When British lifestyle mag Confetti offers a £500,000 house to the creators of the most original wedding plan, the competition is whittled down to three couples: two naturists rerunning Adam and Eve; a tennis pair playing mixed singles; and a pair of movie buffs who fancy a Fred ’n’ Ginger-ish production. A gently humorous mockumentary in the Best in Show style. Paul Howlett

The Fighter (David O Russell, 2010) 12.55am, Channel 4
Russell’s bruising, down-to-earth boxing movie, based on a true story, stars Mark Wahlberg as 90s welterweight “Irish” Micky Ward. He wants a shot at the title, but carries the burden of big brother Dicky (Christian Bale), a former champ-turned-trainer-turned-crack addict. It’s convincingly set in blue-collar Lowell, Massachusetts, with Wahlberg quietly impressive and twitchy Bale a bit distracting. Paul Howlett

Sport

Under-21s European Championship Football: Sweden v England 4pm, Sky Sports 1
All the action from the opening match of the tournament at the Kielce Stadium in Poland.

Golf: US Open 6pm, Sky Sports 4
The second day’s play from Erin Hills, Wisconsin.

International Rugby Union: Australia v Scotland 5.55am, Sky Sports 1
Coverage of the Test match at Allianz Stadium in Sydney.

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