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Phil Harrison, Jonathan Wright, Mike Bradley, David Stubbs and Paul Howlett

Thursday’s best TV: Grayson Perry: Rites of Passage; Dr Christian: 12 Hours to Cure Your Street

Grayson Perry.
Grayson Perry. Photograph: Channel 4

Grayson Perry: Rites of Passage

10pm, Channel 4
This moving and revelatory series concludes with comings of age. This isn’t an exclusively youthful process – alongside teens from Lewisham in south-east London, Perry meets recovering addicts in Halifax in West Yorkshire. But first the artist witnesses an extraordinary ceremony in the Amazon that convinces him that such gatherings “should have a touch of ordeal about them”. The rituals he devises for his two groups are possibly painful, but almost certainly deeply cathartic, as the past is laid to rest and the future embraced. Phil Harrison

Dr Christian: 12 Hours to Cure Your Street

8pm, W
“GP services in the UK are in crisis” – that premise is the basis for what feels like a mildly tasteless austerity-telly setup. Doctors Christian Jessen and Sara Kayat take a mobile clinic around the country to “bring medicine back to the people”. The duo kick off a new series in Carlisle. Jonathan Wright

Press

9pm, BBC One
Commercial trouble on “Fleet Street”. Sales are plummeting at the liberal Herald, where editor Amina considers the unthinkable: a wraparound cover. Across the road at the Post, Duncan puts his faith in snapping celebrities with a rookie dressed as a polar bear. Mike Bartlett’s new journalism show is starting to hit its straps. Mike Bradley

Serial Killer With Piers Morgan

9pm, ITV
A chilling interview in which Morgan meets Alex Henriquez, a serial killer serving 75 years for three murders committed 30 years ago in New York City, but who maintains he is innocent. “I have to decide, Alex,” he says. “Are you just a guy in prison now as an innocent man or am I looking at somebody who did do that?” MB

No Offence

9pm, Channel 4
Bad omens abound – there is a full moon and DI Viv Deering has got her knickers on back to front – as Paul Abbott’s Manchester crime drama returns for a third season. Tonight, tragedy strikes when the Friday Street team are drawn into the world of local politics and a routine mayoral election debate ends in bloodshed. MB

Succession

9pm, Sky Atlantic
Following last week’s boardroom drama, the Roy family are at seemingly inescapable loggerheads, with patriarch Logan widely loathed – he has a bag of urine thrown over him by a YouTuber assailant. The family’s issues are hurting stock, so they convene for a rapprochement at the Roy ranch. Then Kendall turns up … David Stubbs

Film Choice

Ross Lynch and Vincent Kartheiser in My Friend Dahmer.
Ross Lynch and Vincent Kartheiser in My Friend Dahmer.

My Friend Dahmer (Marc Meyers, 2017), 11.40am and 9.50pm, Sky Cinema Premiere
Marc Meyers’s chilling biopic of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is based on a graphic novel by Derf Backderf – one of the friends/tormentors who queasily feels may have contributed to the making of the monster. Ross Lynch’s creepy performance suggests Dahmer would have got there by himself. Paul Howlett

Live Sport

Cycling: Vuelta a España 2pm, Eurosport 1. A 116-mile route from Ejea de los Caballeros to Lleida.

LPGA tour golf: the Evian Championship 2.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event. Day one of the major.

Super League rugby: Castleford Tigers v Huddersfield Giants 7.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event. The Super 8s qualifier from Mend-a-Hose Jungle.

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