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Entertainment
Julia Raeside, Ali Catterall, David Stubbs, Andrew Mueller, Hannah J Davies and Ben Arnold

Thursday’s best TV

Cyberbully
Maisie Williams as Casey in Channel 4's drama Cyberbully. Photograph: Ed Miller/C4

Cyberbully
9pm, Channel 4

Maisie Williams (Game Of Thrones) plays a depressed teenager with a serious cyberbullying problem in this nasty but effective one-off drama. Like every teen, she has multiple online profiles and liberally sprinkles herself around the web with no thought to her online security. Then one day, a masked avenger targets her and the horror begins. Any parents watching will immediately want to hurl all networked devices into a dumpster with some petrol and a match. This should probably be required viewing in all schools. Julia Raeside

The Super-Rich and Us
9pm, BBC2

In the cult movie Society, it is revealed that the rich are actually shape-shifting parasites, literally feeding on the lower orders. Given some of the stuff posited in part two of Jacques Peretti’s investigation, a similar real-life revelation wouldn’t surprise us. Here, he explores how an acceptance of big bonuses was manufactured, and investigates claims that inequality was deliberately pinpointed before the recent crash as a business opportunity. As one billionaire admits, if things keep on like this, “the pitchfork’s gonna come”. Ali Catterall

Bring Back Borstal
9pm, ITV

This week sees the inmates of the 1930s-style young offenders institution vie for blue badges that will entitle them to special privileges for good behaviour. However, the Kearney brothers, who fancy themselves as latter-day Kray twins, can barely last 15 minutes without acting up. Meanwhile, the rest of the inmates knuckle down and make fish pie. Despite the costumes, there’s lots of talk of “boundaries” and “addressing issues”, which feels closer to Educating Essex than pre-war juvenile punishment. David Stubbs

The Inca: Masters of the Clouds
9pm, BBC4

We reach the conclusion of Jago Cooper’s survey of the rise and fall of the Inca empire. This episode seeks to answer the most perplexing question attending the Incas’ demise: how did such a vast and sophisticated civilisation manage to lose an entire continent to a few boatloads of conquistadors? Cooper travels from Peru to Inca territory in Ecuador to make his case that it wasn’t simply a question of Spanish military superiority, but that the Incas’ strengths were turned against them. Andrew Mueller

Brooklyn Nine-Nine
9pm, E4

This Brooklyn-based cop caper, starring Andy Samberg, returns to UK screens for a second season that’s as mirthful and must-see as the first. After failing to apprehend a mafia boss while undercover with the FBI, Peralta (Samberg) infiltrates the mob once again. Back at base, the training tactics used by Captain Holt (Andre Braugher) lead to mutiny from the force (with Terry Crews on especially fine form as Jeffords), and a cynical Gina (Chelsea Peretti) seeks to avert a slide down the social scale after her tryst with Boyle (Joe Lo Truglio). Hannah J Davies

Suits
10pm, Dave

Legal drama Suits returns for its fourth series. Stuffed full of swaggering, wise-cracking characters, it’s tough to like, delivering complex business-based storylines you don’t care about. Mike Ross has passed over to the dark side, now working for Jonathan Sidwell’s mercenary hedge fund, but his lack of an all-important killer instinct isn’t doing much to impress his new boss – who just wants results, dammit! The intricacies of a takeover deal of Gillis Industries inevitably pit Mike against his former mentor Harvey Specter. Ben Arnold

One-Day International Cricket: Australia v England
3am, Sky Sports 2

Opening game of the tri-series tournament between England, Australia and India, postponed due to the death of Australian batsman Phil Hughes in November. Hughes’s passing may well take the edge off proceedings, putting traditional rivalries in their proper perspective so soon after the tragedy. That said, once they’re out on the crease, both teams will doubtless focus professionally, with Australia particularly keen to win one for their late comrade. DS

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