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Entertainment
Gwilym Mumford, Hannah Verdier, Julia Raeside, David Stubbs, Bim Adewunmi, Ben Arnold, Rachel Aroesti

TV highlights 10/11/2014

Grantchester … going out with a bang.
Grantchester … going out with a bang. Photograph: ITV

ATP Tennis: World Tour Finals
2pm, BBC2, Sky Sports 3

Day two coverage of the season-ending tournament, which pits the world’s eight best-ranked male players against each other. Today sees the continuation of the group stage, which has been somewhat kind to the in-form Andy Murray, who has avoided world No 1 Novak Djokovic - though he still faces some tricky opponents in Milos Raonic, Kei Nishikori and Roger Federer. Missing from action, unsurprisingly given his recurrent injury woes, is world No 3 Rafael Nadal. Gwilym Mumford

Moving On
2.15pm, BBC1

Jimmy McGovern’s Moving On brings quality drama to daytime and its sixth series opens with a tale of a woman in her late 60s who has it all. Madge (Hayley Mills) leads a glamorous life of zumba and lunch dates. But what her boyfriend doesn’t know is that she’s hiding a big secret in the form of a husband in prison and is struggling to keep up the charade. So when the boyfriend proposes, Madge realises she can’t hold off the decision-making any longer. There’s a brilliant, twisty story each day this week. Hannah Verdier

How Rich Are You?
8pm, Channel 4

Richard Bacon presents a standalone interactive special in which British people discuss money matters and, more specifically, whether they feel poor or rich. So it’ll be an audience brandishing bank statements, and Bacon putting their debts and assets on a chart while some experts talk about the rich/poor divide in the UK, which is now the worst in Europe. Even with the energetic Bacon chivvying things along, it sounds deadly dull for a live audience discussion show. An odd format for such a dry subject, perhaps. Julia Raeside

Intruders
9pm, BBC2

The series about a secret society of bodysnatchers glides cryptically on, its narrative flashlight obscuring as much as it illuminates. The viewer, already challenged by John Simm’s uncharacteristic American accent, must cope with an interior sceptical voice muttering: “This had better be worth it.” Tonight we meet a billionaire determined to give away his fortune and late jazzman Bix Beiderbecke, while young Madison (Millie Brown) plays host to a possessor who, in one striking scene, reveals paedophile tendencies. David Stubbs

Grantchester
9pm, ITV

It’s the last in the series for the 50s-set but thoroughly modern Grantchester, and it’s going out with a series of bangs. Sidney and Geordie are having a chat at the station when a copper is killed in the street in broad daylight. Then another man gets shot, and investigating their murders puts the duo in mortal danger. Is there a link between the murdered men? And can the killer be stopped before he strikes again? Meanwhile Amanda’s wedding day draws nearer, and Sidney is increasingly on edge. Bim Adewunmi

The World’s Most Extreme
10pm, More4

Even in heavy snow, the M6 doesn’t usually need trailer-mounted cannons to free up the traffic. The same can’t be said for Alaska’s Atigun Pass, which requires a chap firing missiles into the snow to cause controlled avalanches and keep motorists safe from unexpected ones. This series sees all manner of extreme stuff explored, from bridges to airports and, in this first instalment, roads. Ten of the most insane highways on the planet are profiled, including the Yungas Road in Bolivia, which claims up to 300 lives a year. Ben Arnold

Stalker
10pm, Sky Living

Starring Maggie Q and Dylan McDermott as colleagues in LAPD’s stalking division, this new procedural drama not only manages to fall foul of that genre’s cliches – renegade-but-genius detective work, unsubtle personal life-based subtext, a general disregard for the established speaking patterns of humanity – but because it’s doused in light horror, it gets itself embroiled in a whole other world of stereotypes. Ultimately, though, that’s not really to the show’s detriment, as it’s consistently gripping and frequently quite frightening, too. Rachel Aroesti

Toast of London
10.50pm, Channel 4

After a contretemps while filming an advert, Toast’s arch enemy Ray Purchase finds cause to grass up him to “the tax people”, and because agent Jane Plough has been less than diligent with his affairs, it’s up to Toast to somehow stump up £250,000 or face the consequences. Thoroughly disillusioned by the acting game, he decides to have a crack at directing instead, taking on a production of Calendar Girls. But his aggressive, musty directing style doesn’t sit too well with his genteel cast. Ben Arnold

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