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Entertainment
Graeme Virtue, Mike Bradley, David Stubbs, Ali Catterall and Paul Howlett

TV tonight: welcome to the surprisingly raunchy world of Dorkcraft

Will Merrick in Dead Pixels.
Hardcore gamer ... Will Merrick in Dead Pixels. Photograph: Mr Whisper/Channel 4 Images

Dead Pixels
9.30pm, E4

World of Dorkcraft: this caustic new sitcom pokes fun at hardcore acolytes of online role-playing games, following exasperated office drone Meg (Raised by Wolves’s brilliant Alexa Davies) and skittish shut-in Nicky (Will Merrick) as they happily ignore any and all real-world responsibilities to pursue intangible gains in the orc-filled world of Kingdom Scrolls. Creator Jon Brown – a writing veteran of Fresh Meat – clearly knows his virtual subject, mining surprising amounts of pathos and raunch from a plausibly gaudy gaming realm. Graeme Virtue

Secrets of the Heinz Factory
8pm, Channel 5

More insightful than the edition of BBC2’s Inside the Factory that induced drooling excitement in Gregg Wallace on a visit to the Wigan HQ in 2016, in this film we learn the secrets of Heinz’s large-scale production. Around 850 people produce 200 products, among them 450m of cans of baked beans per year. Mike Bradley

Pose
9pm, BBC Two

Utterly watchable ... Pose.
Utterly watchable ... Pose. Photograph: JoJo Whilden/BBC/FX

In a surprise to many, it’s the tender, human side to creator Ryan Murphy’s New York ball culture romp that makes it so utterly watchable. With the introductions completed, the plot progresses with an episode that sees brave Blanca walk against Elektra, Damon go on his first date and loser Stan search for Angel. Mike Bradley

Babes in the Wood
9pm, ITV

Hard on the heels of an instructive edition of BBC2’s The Prosecutors on the same subject, Trevor McDonald looks at how police finally brought child-killer Russell Bishop to justice, 32 years after the 1986 murders of Brighton nine-year-olds Karen Hadaway and Nicola Fellows, with the help of “compelling new evidence”. MB

The Good Fight
9pm, More4

It is series three of the superb spin-off from The Good Wife, and video tributes are being paid to a late former partner and “civil rights icon”. However, it emerges he wasn’t quite the paragon of virtue the company’s PR paints him as. Meanwhile, Diane is having a crisis of trust and Lucca is handed a new opportunity. David Stubbs

David Jason: Planes, Trains & Automobiles
9pm, Gold

The much-cherished actor embarks on a trek across the United States via all iterations of the above. (And, for a former car mechanic, licensed helicopter pilot and lifelong petrol-head, it’s a “perfick” fit.) Tonight he begins his journey in Seattle, by seaplane, and drives a vintage Ford Model T. Ali Catterall

Film choice

Joaquin Phoenix in You Were Never Really Here
Ferociously compelling ... Joaquin Phoenix in You Were Never Really Here. Photograph: Alison Cohen Rosa/Sydney Film Festival

You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay, 2017), 9pm, Film4
There’s a lot of Travis Bickle in Joaquin Phoenix’s antihero Joe, especially when the ex-military enforcer is commissioned to use his brutal skills to rescue politician’s daughter Nina (Ekaterina Samsonov) from sex traffickers. Phoenix is quietly, ferociously compelling in Lynne Ramsay’s eerie drama. Paul Howlett

Live sport

European Tour golf 6am, Sky Sports Golf. Day one of the Hero Indian Open, from New Delhi.

WTA tennis: Miami Open 5pm, BT Sport 1. Action from the semi-finals.

Baseball: New York Yankees v Baltimore Orioles 5pm, BT Sport 2. Opening-day coverage. Dodgers v Diamondbacks and Mariners v Red Sox follow.

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