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Hannah J Davies, Andrew Mueller, Jack Seale, Hannah Verdier, David Stubbs, Phil Harrison, Mark Gibbings-Jones and Paul Howlett

Wednesday’s best TV: The Week the Landlords Moved In; Last of the Rhinos

Surviving extinction … Natural World: Sudan – The Last of the Rhinos, BBC2
Surviving extinction … Natural World: Sudan – The Last of the Rhinos, BBC2. Photograph: Brendan Easton/BBC/Brendan Easton

Ackley Bridge
8pm, Channel 4

Episode four of the soapy but watchable drama set in a Yorkshire town, where segregation between white and Asian residents remains entrenched despite the new “integrated” school of the title. This week sees Missy make a difficult discovery about her nan, which – fearing for her sister Haley – she keeps to herself. As things escalate, she ends up in a fight with mum Simone. Elsewhere, Nas is having further relationship woes with Lila. Hannah J Davies

Natural World: Sudan – The Last of the Rhinos
9pm, BBC2

The Sudan of the title may be the world’s loneliest creature. The 43-year-old northern white rhino is the last male of his kind, having escaped the extinction of his subspecies through having been snatched early in life by a zoo: he and the two remaining females now live under armed guard in Kenya. This brilliant documentary tells the story of Sudan, and of the last-ditch attempts to retrieve the northern white rhino from the brink. Andrew Mueller

The Week the Landlords Moved In
9pm, BBC1

A spectacularly timely new life-swap series: wealthy landlords spend a week living their tenants’ lives. A flat on the London/Essex border and a house of multiple occupancy in Milton Keynes have mould and other snags that shock their previously absent owners; the powerless tenants haven’t been inclined to complain. Complex human drama plays out as shame and compassion compete with the profit motive, but, really, laws need changing. Jack Seale

Holiday Horrors: Caught on Camera
9.15pm, ITV

Like a more dangerous version of You’ve Been Framed, the series about what can go wrong on holiday draws to a close. If the tale of an adventurous traveller getting stuck inside a cave doesn’t have you reaching for the travel insurance, a look at what happens when paragliding goes wrong probably will. The horror stories keep coming, but there’s also light relief as a pair of spice-loving travellers jet off round the world testing hot chillies. Hannah Verdier

Fargo
10pm, Channel 4

Among its many joys, in this episode we get to hear Mac Davis’s hilarious country classic It’s Hard to Be Humble. Sy has a wretched time of it this week at the hands of Varga and his goons in an excruciating scene involving a coffee mug and, later, an incident of quite shocking violence. Emmit’s not having much better luck, being the victim of a crude blackmail plot, and visited by the IRS. Meanwhile, Gloria and Winnie bring Ray in for questioning. Will he blurt out all? David Stubbs

The Dressing Room
10pm, W

As this quirky series continues, another four amateur sports teams allow fixed cameras into their dressing rooms to capture the unique mixture of intensity and daftness that characterises team bonding. From the pugnacious coach of Three Bridges FC with his extended Agincourt metaphor to the detailed discussion about farting in cupboards that constitutes pre-match preparation for Millwall Lionesses, it’s oddly compelling and occasionally hilarious. Phil Harrison

The Secrets of Sleep
10pm, More4

Continuing the series following the insomniacs who spend the small hours of each night staring silently at the glare of their clock radios. Tonight’s episode sees the resident sleep experts attempt to assist Jess, unable to achieve a remotely regular sleep pattern since witnessing a traumatic accident; Mike, whose sleep is shattered by panic attacks on a regular basis; and Garry, whose splintered working schedule has left his sleep pattern perpetually set to shuffle. Mark Gibbings-Jones

TV films

Logan’s Run (Michael Anderson, 1976), 9pm, Syfy

Briskly paced sci-fi tale set in a future where people live inside a beautiful bubble city packed with sensory delights. The downside is that citizens get terminated at the age of 30. Security guard Michael York, 29, understandably decides to do a runner before his birthday and, equally understandably, takes resistance activist Jenny Agutter with him. Paul Howlett

Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland, 2012), 1.25am, Film4

Strickland’s ingenious psychological thriller stars Toby Jones as Gilderoy, a shy, Dorking-based sound expert who arrives at the studio of a sleazy 70s Italian film company to work on a shlock-horror movie, providing the sound effects for gruesome scenes of torture, rape and murder. Gradually the film’s cruelty and viciousness infects its makers. It’s superbly compelling and expertly creates a dreary, exploitative milieu. PH

Live sport

Women’s World Cup Cricket: South Africa v New Zealand, 10am, Sky Sports 2. A group match at the County Ground in Derby.

Confederations Cup Football, 6.30pm, ITV. The opening semi-final from Kazan Arena in Russia.

Tennis: Eastborne, 1pm, BBC2. Coverage of day three from the Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club, Eastbourne, featuring the third-round matches.

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