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Combine Tape

Tuesday, 9pm, BBC Two
“You don’t overlook the primary mixtape a boy makes you.” Cracking music soundtracks this four-part will they/gained’t they story, beginning with New Order’s Weird Love Triangle, as youngsters Daniel (Rory Walton-Smith) and Alison (Florence Hunt) first speak sheepishly at a Sheffield home occasion in 1989. Twenty years later, Daniel (Jim Sturgess) has stayed put and is a music journalist, whereas Alison (Teresa Palmer) is a profitable novelist in Sydney. Each have households, however as they keep in mind the combo tapes they shared and unanswered questions, is a reunion on the playing cards? Assume One Day (by the way, Sturgess starred within the movie model) besides grittier. Hollie Richardson

Bake Off: The Professionals

8pm, Channel 4
Quarter-final time: the groups should are tasked with creating two dozen savoury candy desserts earlier than the actual problem: summoning up alien-themed showstoppers with jelly artwork desserts in simply 5 hours. All underneath the watchful gaze of upper intelligences Cherish Finden and Benoit Blin. Ali Catterall

Chernobyl: The New Proof

8.20pm, PBS America
Entry to a KGB archive in Ukraine supplies the hook for this new two-parter on the 1986 nuclear catastrophe; the information therein recommend officers have been conscious of flaws within the energy plant’s design. There are additionally sombre interviews with survivors, together with a technician who was on web site when reactor No 4 exploded. Graeme Advantage

The Nice British Stitching Bee

9pm, BBC One
Sara Pascoe is again to host the eleventh sequence of the newbie stitching competitors. The primary problem asks the contestants to create a voluminous tie-front shirt – a garment that appears very a lot up Pascoe’s personal model road. They then graduate from gathers to pleats within the “made to measure” spherical. Ellen E Jones

10pm, Channel 4
The weird staff of actor Emilia Fox, criminologist David Wilson and former detective Graham Hill dig into one other chilly case. Brian Worth and Susan Tetrault have been murdered in mattress in 1986 in Clapham, south London. May worldwide drug traffickers have been concerned? Jack Seale

Transaction

10.05pm, ITV2

The good Doon Mackichan visitor stars as the pinnacle of HR, as grocery store supervisor Simon (Nick Frost) rounds up the staff to debate how greatest to eliminate garbage night-shift employee Liv (Jordan Grey). However how can he do it with out being cancelled for firing a transgender girl? Bitingly humorous comedy. HR

Movie alternative

Jaws 1-4 (Steven Spielberg, 1975; Jeannot Szwarc, 1978; Joe Alves, 1983; Joseph Sargent, 1987), Netflix
The fiftieth anniversary of Jaws – yr zero of the fashionable blockbuster – has already been nicely publicised. Nevertheless, half a century of Jaws additionally means half a century of Jaws sequels, which is a distinct sort of enjoyable. This week, Netflix has gathered collectively all 4 movies for viewers to take pleasure in at leisure. The query is, which do you have to watch? The peerless authentic? Jaws 2, which is kind of a remake of the primary? Jaws 3, which was shot for 3D seemingly only for the scene the place a shark is exploded? Or Jaws: The Revenge, through which a shark with a vendetta chases Michael Caine across the Bahamas? Strictly talking, solely one in all these movies is nice. However in their very own approach, they’re all nice. Stuart Heritage

Hell Is a Metropolis (Val Visitor, 1960), 2:20pm, Film4

To be particular, hell is Manchester. This beautiful 1960 British noir has a lot going for it, like its tight, hardboiled plot – an inspector is tasked with monitoring down a assassin after a jailbreak – and the gruffly unsentimental performances from Stanley Baker and John Crawford. It deserves to be rediscovered and heralded as a traditional. Nevertheless, Hell Is a Metropolis was additionally shot in Manchester – uncommon for a movie – and supplies a beautiful snapshot of town 65 years in the past. To explain it as unrecognisable could be an understatement. SH