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The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
9pm, Sky Max
Here we go again with the third season of this spin-off from The Walking Dead – and Daryl (Norman Reedus) and Carol (Melissa McBride) have reached London. The good thing about a zombie apocalypse is that you can stay in a Westminster townhouse rent-free. Handy, given a horde of the undead are already after them. But they get a different sort of fright, in the form of guest star Stephen Merchant. Hollie Richardson
Unreported World
7.30pm, Channel 4
Slay queens are a generation of young women who are using social media and aspirational lifestyles to monetise South Africa’s dating culture. Is this shift empowering or dangerous? Reporter Symeon Brown investigates and finds a much darker side of blurred lines around dating, sex work, scams – and even trafficking. HR
Borderline
9pm, ITV1
We’ve reached episode four of the solid police procedural that sees coppers from both sides of the Irish border reluctantly join forces. “Uncooperative and hostile” as she may be, Boyd (Eoin Macken) is forced to stick with Regan (Amy De Bhrún) as they unpick what happened inside the oil tanker. Hannah J Davies
Britain’s Most Scenic Counties: Cheshire
9pm, Channel 5
This twee and generic but somehow deeply soothing series set in the rolling hills of Cheshire continues, starring thousands of sheep being managed, gently and carefully, by sheepdog handlers Jane and James. The pair are experienced sheepdog trainers, too, and we follow two of their charges in competition. Phil Harrison
How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)
9.30pm, BBC One
With Alan’s girlfriend, Katrina, away in Paris for a completely innocent badminton match with his best friend, the pride of Norwich is up a mountain in the Peak District with a 365-degree stick camera. Some say that the great outdoors can work wonders for your mental health. “As much as 84%” apparently. Ali Catterall
The Graham Norton Show
10.40pm, BBC One
Kim Kardashian and Sarah Paulson discuss playing divorce lawyers in Ryan Murphy’s juicy new series All’s Fair, while Bryan Cranston talks about his West End play All My Sons, and Rachel Zegler reflects on singing Evita to London’s masses from an outdoor balcony. HR
Film choice
A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow, 2025), Netflix
A missile of unknown origin has been launched from the Pacific – and it’s heading for the US. From that hook, Kathryn Bigelow has fashioned an almost unbearably tense thriller out of the American response. As government agencies and armed forces kick into “defcon” mode, the subsequent 15 minutes or so are seen several times from multiple points of view – a missile defence battalion in Alaska, White House politicians and advisers (including Rebecca Ferguson), the military high command, the president himself (Idris Elba). It’s a dazzling, skilful piece of cinema, laser-focused despite the huge (yet utterly believable) cast, with Bigelow’s fascination with the nuts and bolts of statecraft to the fore. Simon Wardell
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost (Ben Stiller, 2025), Apple TV+
After the deaths of his parents, comic double act Jerry Stiller (AKA George’s dad in Seinfeld) and Anne Meara, actor-director Ben Stiller decided to pay tribute to them with a documentary. And there’s plenty of the expected talking heads, archive clips, home videos and unheard tapes to make this a solid eulogy to the popular entertainers and their 62-year marriage. But, fascinatingly, what transpires is more akin to a therapy session for nepo baby Ben, as he acknowledges their “very big shadow” on his own career and – in conversation with his wife and children – his failures as a father and husband. SW
Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978), 11pm, BBC Two
It may not have been the very first slasher movie, but John Carpenter’s 1978 film is certainly the most influential, despite being almost quaint in its restraint when it comes to the blood and guts. The prowling camera, the masked killer, the “final girl” – they’re all here and used superbly, with the tension amped up by the director’s own minimal but menacing piano score. Jamie Lee Curtis’s career was defined by her role as suburban Illinois teenager Laurie, who is menaced by escaped mental patient and sister killer Michael Myers on trick-or-treat night. SW
