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Entertainment
David Stubbs, Jack Seale, Ali Catterall, Jonathan Wright, Hannah J Davies, Hannah Verdier, Graeme Virtue, Paul Howlett

Friday’s best TV: Unreported World; The Level; The Story of Skinhead

The Story of Skinhead with Don Letts.
The Story of Skinhead with Don Letts. Photograph: Geoff Price/BBC/7wonder

Unreported World
7.30pm, Channel 4

Tonight’s edition comes from Berlin, a haven for those fleeing war and also a bastion of liberal tolerance. However, gay refugees from Syria and Iraq face violence from bigoted fellow migrants. We meet one young man who was a promising pop star in Iraq but was forced to leave after questions arose about his sexuality and his friends braved deadly attacks. He himself faces an attack on his shelter, with homophobic migrants the main suspects. David Stubbs

The Level
9pm, ITV

If last week’s rug-pull made you uprate this thriller from “adequate” to “addictive”, then episode three certainly won’t give you cause to regret it. There are chases around pretty Brighton locations and another batch of revelations to complicate a plot where nobody knows what anyone else knows, as impetuous cop Nancy (Karla Crome) investigates a murder without telling her colleagues she’s a key witness. The many large implausibles are easily ignored. Jack Seale

The Story of Skinhead with Don Letts
9pm, BBC4

It is one of the strangest contradictions in the history of pop culture that a movement so in thrall to Jamaican music became so affiliated in the public’s mind with racism. But that is certainly not the whole picture – and neither did it start out that way – as Don Letts explores in this fascinating look at the multicultural roots, fashions and legacy of a fiercely proud, urban working-class subculture. Ali Catterall

Still Game
9.30pm, BBC1

The revival of this comedy continues with Jack and Victor dealing with booze-related problems. Not only has Boabby decided to quit The Clansman, to be replaced by a fearsome new barman, but grog prices are up and Craiglang’s residents have turned to bootleg “hoochie-coochie”, which is having unwanted side effects.

A comedy that should, by rights, be past its sell-by date but still reliably delivers laughs, this episode is dedicated to the late Jake D’Arcy (Pete the Jakey). Jonathan Wright


Gogglebox
9pm, Channel 4

Why watch TV all week when you can get someone else to do it for you? While charming new additions to the sofa-bound cast Mary and Marina are settling in well, posh new family the Delaney-Elwoods divide opinion among Gogglebox’s more devoted viewers. Established favourites such as rent-a-daft-quote Scarlett Moffatt and the effervescent Sandy and Sandra are old hands at providing more entertainment than the shows on which they’re commenting. Hannah Verdier

American Horror Story: Roanoke
10pm, Fox

Cutting between a lurid, nominally true-life documentary focused on a child abduction in North Carolina and bloodthirsty flashbacks to 1590, season six of AHS has been a bumpy ride so far. A juicy twist is apparently imminent but, in the meantime, it’s fun to see The People v OJ Simpson co-stars Sarah Paulson and Cuba Gooding Jr properly screaming at each other rather than just exchanging frosty glances across a courtroom. Graeme Virtue

Film choice

In the Heart of the Sea (Ron Howard, 2015), 1.45pm, 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere

Based on Nathaniel Philbrick’s book of the same title, Howard’s admirable seagoing yarn tells the story of the real events that inspired Herman Melville’s classic, Moby-Dick. In 1820, a handful of survivors from the Nantucket whaler Essex were picked up, having been sunk by an enormous sperm whale. This is a great, storm-tossed adventure, with Chris Hemsworth as the gritty first mate, Owen Chase, who wrote an account of the fateful encounter, and Ben Whishaw as Melville himself. Paul Howlett

Sport choice

Football: Cardiff City v Bristol City Coverage of the Championship clash (kick-off 7.45pm). 7pm, Sky Sports 1

Scottish Football: Inverness Caledonian Thistle v Rangers SPL encounter at the Caledonian Stadium (kick-off 7.45pm). 7pm, BT Sport 1

European Champions Cup Rugby: Glasgow Warriors v Leicester Tigers Coverage from the Scotstoun Stadium (kick-off 7.45pm).7pm, BT Sport 2

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