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Hollie Richardson, Jack Seale, Ellen E Jones and Stuart Heritage

TV tonight: what happened when Pete Doherty’s wife filmed him for a decade

Pete Doherty: Stranger In My Own Skin on Sky Documentaries.
Pete Doherty: Stranger In My Own Skin on Sky Documentaries. Photograph: Dazzler Media

Pete Doherty: Stranger in My Own Skin

9pm, Sky Documentaries

Following his strange encounter with Louis Theroux, here is a feature documentary about Pete Doherty created by his film-maker wife Katia de Vidas. She started to record the singer-songwriter when they first met a decade ago, and it follows him from his darkest hours to attempting sobriety. We see him start a family then head back on tour and into the studio with the band that catapulted him into the spotlight, the Libertines. Hollie Richardson

The Masked Singer: The Final

7.20pm, ITV1

Air Fryer and Eiffel Tower – AKA Keala Settle and Tiffany – are outta here, which means that our three finalists are Piranha, Cricket and Bigfoot. The judges are joined by Rob Brydon, who will help to pick this year’s champion. One last time: “Take it off! Take it off!” HR

New Zealand By Train

7.20pm, Channel 4

Julie Walters lends her voice as tour guide to this two-parter about New Zealand’s three major rail journeys. It starts with the spectacular Coastal Pacific, which rolls through hills and vineyards, and the TranzAlpine, which heads to Arthur’s Pass national park – considered one of the world’s greatest train journeys. HR

Lost Temples of Cambodia

8.20pm, Channel 4

Prue Leith narrates the epic three-part journey of archaeologist Pauline Carroll in Cambodia. Starting in Angkor – home to the world’s biggest temple and capital of the ancient Khmer empire – she then heads to the jungle to learn more about its roots. HR

Movie Themes at the BBC: Volume 2

9.20pm, BBC Two

A second compilation of songs from films – the first one, from last year, repeats immediately after this new collection – draws on Top of the Pops, Later … , old BBC archive such as The Old Grey Whistle Test and some bog-standard bought-in clips. Among the acts featured are Lulu (To Sir With Love), Lisa Loeb (Stay) and Kate Bush (This Woman’s Work). Jack Seale

The Jonathan Ross Show

9.50pm, ITV1

It’s Jack v Jon in this new series opener, as the talkshow host banters with standup and younger version of himself, Jack Whitehall. Luckily, the Bafta-winning Bob Marley: One Love star Lashana Lynch and YouTuber turned boxer KSI will also be there to ease the tension. Plus, there’s music from Paloma Faith. Ellen E Jones

Film choice

Full Time, 9pm, BBC Four

Laure Calamy is probably best known to British audiences as office gossip Noémie in Call My Agent. With that in mind, she is nothing short of a total revelation in Éric Gravel’s 2021 drama. Calamy plays a newly single mother who teeters on the edge of nervous exhaustion as she ricochets around the city fulfilling a frenetic daily schedule to keep her head above the water. There’s work, there’s a general strike to navigate, there are children to keep happy, there’s a job interview to attend. Relentlessly naturalistic in tone, this is a masterful panic attack of a film. Stuart Heritage

Moonfall, Saturday, 9.20pm, Channel 4

Patrick Wilson in Moonfall on Channel 4.
Patrick Wilson in Moonfall on Channel 4. Photograph: Reiner Bajo/AP

Roland Emmerich has made a career out of terrorising the world. In Independence Day it was aliens. In The Day After Tomorrow it was an ice age. In 2012 it was variously earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and mega-tsunamis. However, these were mere warm-ups for the bananas Moonfall, in which Earth discovers that the moon is a) hollow, b) a military electromagnetic pulse device designed billions of years ago to fend off an alien swarm, and c) wildly off its orbit. There are few words to describe how relentlessly stupid Moonfall is – and that’s a compliment. SH

Live sport


Test Cricket: India v England, 6am, TNT Sports 2
Day three of the third Test in Rajkot concludes. The fourth Test starts on Thursday at 3.30am, TNT Sports 1.

Premier League Football: Brentford v Liverpool, 11am, TNT Sports 1 Man City v Chelsea follows at 5pm on Sky Sports Main Event.

Premiership Rugby Cup: Gloucester Rugby v Exeter Chiefs, 3pm, TNT Sports 1 The first semi-final at Kingsholm. Ealing Trailfinders v Leicester Tigers is on Sunday at 2.30pm.

Super League Rugby: Castleford v Wigan, 5pm, BBC Two From Mend-a-Hose Jungle.

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