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Hollie Richardson, Hannah Verdier, Alexi Duggins and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: Kit Harington opens up about his family history

Kit Harington at Monte Cassino, Italy
Kit Harington at Monte Cassino, Italy, where his grandfather served as an officer in the Royal Artillery. Photograph: Channel 4

My Grandparents’ War: Kit Harington

9pm, Channel 4

Kit Harington’s most iconic Game of Thrones episode might be Battle of the Bastards – but, as he finds out tonight, all four of his grandparents were real-life heroes in the second world war. Among the moving and shock revelations, Harington is captivated as he learns that two of them – Lavender and John – worked with the Secret Intelligence Service, serving alongside James Bond creator Ian Fleming and Russian double agent Kim Philby. Hollie Richardson

Celebrity MasterChef

8.30pm, BBC One

With the final just around the corner, tonight’s four celebrity semi-finalists must each create a “fantastical, theatrical showstopping dish”. They’ll need to impress four pioneers of Italian cuisine in the UK: Francesco Mazzei, Jacob Kenedy, Masha Rener and Theo Randall. No pressure, then. HR

All That Glitters: Britain’s Next Jewellery Star

9pm, BBC Two

“Have you ever heard of jewellery made from concrete?” Well, tonight is your lucky night – the contestants must make a brooch using contemporary materials (which also includes string – fabulous!). They then create ear cuffs for an LGBTQ+ event. HR

Imogen Clawson and Nicholas Ralph in All Creatures Great and Small
Jenny Alderson (Imogen Clawson) and James Herriot (Nicholas Ralph) in All Creatures Great and Small. Photograph: Matt Squire/Playground Television

All Creatures Great and Small

9pm, Channel 5

The hand-up-a-cow’s-bum drama opens its new season with big changes for the vets. James and Helen are preparing for their honeymoon, but there’s still work to be done: treating an outbreak of tuberculosis among local cows and a vomiting dog. Can big boss Siegfried give James a new focus with an offer he can’t refuse? Hannah Verdier

Grand Designs

10pm, Channel 4

Kevin McCloud heads to Scotland tonight, where architect Iain and his wife Jenny plan to build a huge black minimalist house in the middle of a 19th-century country estate. Their vision takes an even grander turn with a gardeners’ bothy that is begging to be part of the renovation. HR

Late Night Mash

10pm, Dave

This witty topical comedy show has been consistently excellent despite hopping channels and hosts. Now fronted by the lively Rachel Parris, it’s hard to imagine it going off its game any time soon, given that we’re living in an age when many news headlines already border on dark comedy. Alexi Duggins

Film choice

Wind River (Taylor Sheridan, 2017), 11.35pm, Film4

Elizabeth Olsen and Jeremy Renner in Wind River.
Atmospheric crime drama … Elizabeth Olsen and Jeremy Renner in Wind River. Photograph: Voltage Pictures/Allstar

In between Marvel assignments, Elizabeth Olsen and Jeremy Renner teamed up for Taylor Sheridan’s atmospheric crime drama. She is the FBI agent sent to a Native American reservation in Wyoming in the depths of winter after a teenage girl’s frozen corpse is discovered. He is the US Fish and Wildlife service agent who uses his local knowledge to help her investigate the case. The landscape is as much of a character as the people shaped by its beauty, isolation and unforgiving nature, while the two leads give emotional width to a compelling police procedural. Simon Wardell

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