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Ammar Kalia, Hannah J Davies, Hannah Verdier, Ali Catterall and Paul Howlett

TV tonight: the Masterchef final gets mouths watering

Masterchef ... can they impress John Torode and Gregg Wallace?
Masterchef ... can they impress John Torode and Gregg Wallace? Photograph: BBC/Shine

MasterChef

7.30pm, BBC One

This year’s iteration of the amateur cooking contest might have seemed particularly mouthwatering owing to the coronavirus-related supermarket shortages but nonetheless, our final trio of chefs have more than proved their salt in challenges that have seen them cook in Michelin-starred kitchens and even travel to Mauritius. Tonight, they have three hours to cook the best three-course meal of their lives and to impress the formidable palettes of John Torode and Gregg Wallace. The heat is most certainly on. Ammar Kalia

Moominvalley

8am, Sky

A prestigious voice cast including Kate Winslet and Rosamund Pike, sunny pastels and those white, blobby Moomins – all smooth edges and blank faces – make for an aesthetically pleasing kids series. As this series concludes, Moomintroll battles with the winter, and Snufkin’s journey doesn’t go to plan. Hannah J Davies

Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back

8pm, Channel 4

Comic Joe Lycett continues his consumer crusade, this week enlisting the varied help of Atomic Kitten and Kim Woodburn to tackle road toll fines, as well as hearing from Scarlet Moffatt on her fast food tips. Plus, Rosie Jones investigates the levels of disabled access in gyms. AK

The Graham Norton Show

9pm, BBC One

The new chatshow normal continues with Norton welcoming his guests from a safe distance in his living room. It will take more than a lockdown to dampen his spirits and the A-listers keep rolling in. Guests are confirmed nearer the time but the public can get involved as they tell their Red Chair stories from home. Hannah Verdier

Around the World By Train With Tony Robinson

9pm, Channel 5

Our intrepid traveller is in Canada this week, riding the rails from ice-hockey-mad Vancouver to the Jasper national park via the luxury Rocky Mountaineer train. Finally, he reaches the Alaskan glaciers where he witnesses the troubling consequences of the climate crisis. AK

Friday Night Dinner

10pm, Channel 4

Dad’s having a miserable birthday – he has looked at a website that calculates the date you will die. Even worse, he has also worked out the date of Mum’s death, and the boys’. (Plus, it’s dawned on him that he will never go to space.) Can Jim’s magic show cheer him up? Because a visit from “Horrible Grandma” won’t. Ali Catterall

Film choice

Octavia Spencer in Ma.
Octavia Spencer in Ma. Photograph: Universal Pictures/AP

Ma 11.55am, 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere
Another cheerful little shocker from Blumhouse, producers of Paranormal Activity and Get Out. Octavia Spencer has a whale of a time as the apparently kindly Ma, inviting the neighbourhood kids to party in her basement with one instruction: “Don’t go upstairs” – but kids being kids … Paul Howlett

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