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Entertainment
Mark Gibbings-Jones, Andrew Mueller, Graeme Virtue, Ali Catterall, Phil Harrison, Ben Arnold

Monday’s best TV: Rio 2016 Parades; SAS: Who Dares Wins

SAS: Who Dares Wins.
SAS: Who Dares Wins. Photograph: Vance Jacobs/Channel 4/PA

Hoarder SOS
1.05pm, Channel 4

Readers unable to see their televisions for piled-up newspapers and old Argos catalogues might want to trim down those stacks, as the Hoarder SOS team have reassembled for a new series. Today’s mission for Curtis Dowling involves a trip to Newcastle upon Tyne to meet a collector besieged by his collection of model cars, while Joanna Riley visits London to help a fanatical fashionista liberate a home swamped by shoes and clothing. Mark Gibbings-Jones

Rio 2016 Parades
4pm, Channel 4; 4.15pm, BBC1

Coverage from Manchester of the victory parade for Britain’s Olympians and Paralympians. A measure of gloating is justifiable: Britain had its best Olympics since 1908, returning from Rio with 67 medals, and at the Paralympics finished second only to China, racking up 147 medals. Given that few of these athletes will be spared much more thought or airtime for another four years, it seems like about the least they deserve. Andrew Mueller

Black-ish
7.30pm, E4

A belated UK debut – albeit in a daily, week-night slot – for the slick US comedy hit about an ambitious ad exec. After a tough upbringing, Andre (Anthony Anderson) frets over whether, in pursuing an affluent life for his anaesthetist wife and their four children, he has somehow compromised their black identity. That’s a knottier premise than most sitcoms but the occasionally barbed social commentary is matched with the usual family hijinks. Graeme Virtue

Polar Bear Town
8pm, Eden

Every year, around 1,000 hungry polar bears migrate through a small town in Canada called Churchill (pop. 800) looking for tasty seals. In this eye-opening new documentary – featuring much first-take stuff by necessity – we meet the huge, decidedly non-fluffy lords of the Arctic, such as a “mummy bear” and a 1,000lb gentleman known simply as “Big Bear”, plus their human counterparts, including a waitress who survived an attack and a “bear whisperer”. Ali Catterall

Paxman On Trump v Clinton: Divided America
9pm, BBC1

Even if he now regards the licence fee as “absurd”, Jeremy Paxman still occasionally deigns to do Auntie’s bidding. Tonight, he’ll be pronouncing on the bewildering 2016 US election. How did America get this poisonously divided? Is democracy as we know it under threat? And exactly how outlandish would Donald Trump’s behaviour have to become to discourage his rabid legions? In short: what the holy hell is going on over there? Phil Harrison

SAS: Who Dares Wins
9pm, Channel 4

Twenty-five hopefuls pitch up for a new series, to see if they have what it takes to pass the gruelling training undergone by the Special Air Service. Chief instructor Ant and his team have their work cut out for them, as they transport the recruits to the Amazon rainforest to take on the jungle phase of SAS training. It’s a hostile business, requiring a “bridge leap” before they’ve even made camp. And then there’s the insects. Ben Arnold

Sleuths, Spies & Sorcerers: Andrew Marr’s Paperback Heroes
9pm, BBC4

In the first of three films examining genre fiction, Marr attempts to unpack the whodunnit. With Conan Doyle and Christie unavailable, he interrogates Anthony Horowitz and Sophie Hannah, the contemporary authors hired to evoke their styles. Mimicry must be contagious, as Marr also attempts to invoke Poirot and Inspector Wexford with a cavalcade of wonky accents. Graeme Virtue

Live Sport

WTA Tennis: The Luxembourg Open 12midday, Eurosport 1 The opening day from the CK Sports Centre in Kockelscheuer.

Premier League Football: Liverpool v Manchester United 7pm, Sky Sports 1 Mouthwatering Monday nighter from Anfield as Mourinho’s Mancs visit Klopp’s surging scousers.

Series A Football: Palermo v Torino 7.30pm, BT Sport 1 Italian action from the Stadio Renzo Barbera.

Films

Silverado (Lawrence Kasdan, 1985)
6.20pm, Sony Movie Channel
The western had come to a halt by the mid-80s but this spurred a fresh canter. A sort of Magnificent Four – Kevins Costner and Kline, Danny Glover, Scott Glenn – take on bad sheriff of Silverado Brian Dennehy and his deputies. It’s a traditional plot, but exuberantly done. Less obvious western types such as Jeff Goldblum, Rosanna Arquette and John Cleese (as an English lawman) provide quirky touches, while Linda Hunt is tough and touching as the bar owner.

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