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Graeme Virtue, Ali Catterall, Mike Bradley, Ellen E Jones and Paul Howlett

Sunday's best TV: Top Gear; Baptiste; Traitors; Time Travelling Bong

Top Gear.
Top Gear. Photograph: Gus Gregory/BBC

Top Gear

8pm, BBC Two

When looking back on Matt LeBlanc’s run on Top Gear, TV historians might conclude that the leather-jacketed Friends hunk was always stuck in second gear. Tonight’s launch of his fourth and final stint has already been preempted by news that the franchise will – spoiler warning – be retooled later this year with new hosts Paddy McGuinness and Freddie Flintoff. But before that laddish MOT there are some implausibly fancy estate cars to test in Norway and Westworld desperado James Marsden to interrogate. Graeme Virtue

Endeavour

8pm, ITV

Against the backdrop of the Apollo 11 lift-off, a young astrophysicist and his girlfriend are found dead in a car accident – but Endeavour suspects foul play. Might it have something to do with a new-age cult called the Single Way Institute? Endeavour pays a visit and discovers a roomful of screaming people in their underwear … Ali Catterall

Baptiste

9pm, BBC One

This slowburning spin-off from The Missing edges tonight’s battle of the new 9pm dramas. Writers Harry and Jack Williams (Liar, Rellik) know how to craft good TV and the opener draws you into a darkly compelling plot that sees Tchéky Karyo return as French detective Julien Baptiste, now on the hunt for a missing sex worker. Mike Bradley

Traitors

9pm, Channel 4

Clique actor Emma Appleton leads a starry cast in this spy thriller from writer Bash Doran. Appleton plays an intelligence ingenue who finds her head turned by rogue American spooks who recruit her to spy on her own country as the cold war approaches. Keeley Hawes and Luke Treadaway round out the cast. MB

Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle

10pm, BBC Four

In double bills broadcast over four consecutive evenings, this series of 15-minute dramatic monologues follows Caribbean immigrants and their descendants, from 1949 to the present. Gravitas is provided by the involvement of Lenny Henry and Young Vic artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah. Ellen E Jones

Time Traveling Bong

10.55pm, Comedy Central

It may have been best to screen this US comedy written by and starring Broad City pairing Ilana Glazer and Paul W Downs separately instead of in one go. Each adventure in the three-parter about cousins who find a bong that can travel through time when smoked deserves to be savoured in its own right. MB

Film choice

Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare In Love.
Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare In Love. Photograph: PA

Shakespeare in Love, 9pm, Paramount

This romance plays handsomely to the masses in the pit, with Tom Stoppard’s quill-sharp script melding major life events of the bard with the writing of Romeo and Juliet. There are puns, pratfalls, tears and laughter, and a cast that revels in it, from Joseph Fiennes’s Will to Gwyneth Paltrow’s muse Viola. Paul Howlett

Today’s best live sport

Team LeBron captain LeBron James.
Team LeBron captain LeBron James. Photograph: Bill Streicher/USA Today Sports

Snooker: The Welsh Open, 1pm, BBC Two Wales

The final, from the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff.

FA Cup Football: Doncaster Rovers v Crystal Palace, 3.40pm, BBC One

Bristol City v Wolves airs 12.30pm, BT Sport 2. Swansea v Brentford airs 3.40pm, BBC One Wales.

Basketball: NBA All-Star Game, 1am, Sky Sports Main Event

Team LeBron v Team Giannis.

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