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Entertainment
Gwilym Mumford, Ali Catterall, David Stubbs, Jack Seale, Phil Harrison and Paul Howlett

TV tonight: momentous, show-stopping – it’s the Fleabag finale

Love you too … Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Sian Clifford and Olivia Colman in the closing episode of Fleabag, season two.
Love you too … Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Sian Clifford and Olivia Colman in the closing episode of Fleabag, season two. Photograph: BBC/Two Brothers/Kevin Baker

Fleabag
10.35pm, BBC One

There are spirited debates to be had about whether this run of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s peerless sitcom is superior to its predecessor, but it clearly hasn’t suffered the difficult second season syndrome some feared. It concludes with the wedding between Dad (Bill Paterson) and Olivia Colman’s monstrous godmother, an event that delivers at least two momentous family face-offs, and a show-stopping performance from Andrew Scott’s much-lusted-after man of the cloth.

The Victim
9pm, BBC One

A knotty legal drama with heavy nods towards the James Bulger case, as a father is viciously attacked after being accused of murdering, as a teen, a nine-year-old boy. Episode one is a bit of an exposition dump, but it rises to a powerful pitch as the series goes on. Continues until Thursday. GM

A House Through Time
9pm, BBC Two

Another residency for the series tracing social history via the prism of a single house – this time, a Georgian property in Newcastle upon Tyne, boasting lofty proportions and a grand fireplace. What manner of ghosts dwell here? In episode one, David Olusoga discovers a local lawyer and a cheesemonger-turned-scientist. Ali Catterall

The Widow
9pm, ITV

This promising new series, made by the creators of Baptiste, stars Kate Beckinsale as Georgia, whose partner is assumed to be dead after a plane crash in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, although his body was never found. Television footage of a street riot in that country makes her suspect he is still alive. Continues tomorrow. David Stubbs

Life After Lock-Up
10pm, Channel 4

Striking new series following offenders as they pick up the pieces after prison. Practical difficulties for them abound – Gemma leaves jail and returns to the car park where she slept before being sent down. But psychological problems are explored, too, from coming to terms with lost years to making amends for damage done to families. Phil Harrison

Timewasters
10pm, ITV2

Series two of this silly but sharp sitcom ends in chaos, with the KGB on the hunt for the time machine that’s taken a gang of Peckham pals back to the 1950s. Meanwhile, Caribbean immigrants are fighting a racist landlord. Setting these episodes at the dawn of the Windrush era was surely not an accident. Jack Seale

Film choice

Paul Valentine, Kirk Douglas and Robert Mitchum in Build My Gallows High.
The pain, the passion … Paul Valentine, Kirk Douglas and Robert Mitchum in Build My Gallows High. Photograph: AF archive/Alamy

Build My Gallows High (Jacques Tourneur, 1947), 7.40am, Movies4Men

Classic film noir from Jacques Tourneur, starring Robert Mitchum as a doomed private eye haunted by femme fatale Jane Greer. From the start it’s all downhill for him: the passion, the helplessness, life as pain-and-nothing-but in a seedy Acapulco bar. It was remade less successfully in 1984 as Against All Odds. Paul Howlett

Live sport

WTA Tennis: Lugano 12pm, BT Sport 1. Switzerland hosts the women’s tennis tournament.

Cycling: Basque tour 2.30pm, Eurosport 1. Coverage of the opening stage, a time trial in Zumárraga.

Premier League football: Chelsea v West Ham United 7pm, Sky Sports Main Event. Under-fire Blues boss Sarri seeks a stabilising win for the hosts.

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