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Entertainment
Mike Bradley, Jack Seale, Gwilym Mumford, Hannah J Davies, Graeme Virtue and Paul Howlett

TV tonight: should you believe what you see onscreen?

DI Rachel Carey (Holliday Grainger) in The Capture
Is seeing believing? DI Rachel Carey (Holliday Grainger) in The Capture. Photograph: Nick Wall/BBC/Heyday Films

The Capture
9pm, BBC One

Holliday Graingerset to reunite with her Strike co-star Tom Burke for a new four-part adventure very soon – stars here as DI Rachel Carey in a taut six-part crime thriller. It begins with the wrongful arrest of an innocent serviceman, Lance Corporal Shaun Emery (Callum Turner) and develops into a conspiracy of manipulated evidence. It is a cleverly structured show that interrogates the surveillance culture of modern Britain and asks the question: should you always believe what you see on a screen?

The Great British Bake Off
8pm, Channel 4

Welcome to the snap and crackle of biscuit week. We are still at the stage where the bakers’ abilities vary widely, so there are sloppy calamities and, in the showstopper round, at least two magnificent, proud biscuit animals. The cameraderie is as sweet and brittle as the bakes. Jack Seale

The Chefs’ Brigade
9pm, BBC Two

The conclusion of Jason Atherton’s quest to transform a crew of talented but green chefs into a crack cooking unit. For their final test, the brigade head to Paris for a stint at a luxury restaurant. As further motivation, Atherton will hand the best performer a book of their most mouthwatering recipes to take home. Gwilym Mumford

Fighter Pilot: The Real Top Gun
9pm, ITV

Danners in Fighter Pilot: The Real Top Gun
Aiming high ... Danners in Fighter Pilot: The Real Top Gun. Photograph: Blakeway Productions

Who are more riveting: youngsters Danners, Andy and Sedge, who face their final tests to see if they are ready to join 617 Squadron; or the qualified pilots returning from training in South Carolina? The newbies, of course. See who emerges from the call signs and Maverick-style monikers to get their F-35 Lightning wings. MB

Euphoria
10.10pm, Sky Atlantic

Episode five of the slick but often devastating teen drama opens with yet another flashback – this time to Maddy’s childhood, offering clues about her toxic relationship with Nate in the present. Elsewhere, Jules struggles with her co-dependent relationship with Rue, who is battling to stay clean. Hannah J Davies

High Society: Cannabis Cafe
10.15pm, Channel 4

This new two-part socio-documentary shuttles some curious Britons to an Amsterdam coffee shop so they can get high and hash things out. The cross-section in the opening episode includes an 82-year-old granny keen to try something new. But what will the two former drug squad cops make of it all?

Film choice

Rick Santoro (Nicolas Cage) in Snake Eyes
Hustler ... Rick Santoro (Nicolas Cage) in Snake Eyes. Photograph: Allstar/Paramount Pictures

Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma, 1998), 1am, Film4
The opening sequence – a single, 12-minute take following Nicolas Cage’s hustler-cum-cop Rick Santoro about his dodgy business in an Atlantic City sports stadium before a big fight – is Brian De Palma’s homage to Hitchcock, and sets the scene for a taut thriller. The champ takes a dive and a political bigwig is shot: are the two events linked? Paul Howlett

Sport choice

Cycling: Vuelta a España 1.45pm, Eurosport 1. Stage 10, a 36.2km individual time trial from Jurançon to Pau.
Test cricket: West Indies v India 3.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event. Fifth and final day of the second Test in the two-match series between the sides.
Women’s international football: Norway v England 4.45pm, BBC Two. A friendly match in Bergen.

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