TV tonight: the Marie Antoinette ‘affair of the necklace’ scandal

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Marie Antoinette

9pm, BBC Two
The second season of this period drama continues to deliver palace gossip, backstabbing, political scheming, a rumbling revolt … and magnificent costumes. It’s spring 1784 and the “affair of the necklace” scandal is being hatched to try to bring down Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. Meanwhile, people are using the queen’s melancholy against her and the court is putting on a comic play – with serious consequences. Hollie Richardson

Forever Home

7pm, BBC Two
Helen Skelton and architect Patrick Bradley are the hosts of this Grand Designs-alike, offering planning advice and emotional support to London escapers Jess and Colin as they prepare to renovate a run-down Victorian cottage in rural Wales. What begins as an eight-month project budgeted at £150,000 soon veers off-piste. Graeme Virtue

Signora Volpe

8pm, U&Drama
The sun-kissed Umbrian landscape feels like an additional character in this accomplished if generic drama. However, there’s trouble among the olive groves as this second series concludes. Sylvia (Emilia Fox) learns the hard way that brokering peace between rival families has risks attached. Will hunky cop Riva come to her rescue? Phil Harrison

Taskmaster

9pm, Channel 4
A rarity this week as the contenders are released from the Taskmaster grounds and taken to an old abbey to be tested ruthlessly. Upon arrival, Fatiha struggles with aggressive wildfowl, Stevie bonds with a duck and Jason gets creative with facial hair. As ever, a reliable treat. PH

Mathew Baynton, Rosie Ramsey, and Stevie Martin in front of a washing line with different coloured socks.
Fresh line up … Mathew Baynton, Rosie Ramsey, and Stevie Martin in Taskmaster. Photograph: Rob Parfitt/Channel 4

Man Like Mobeen

9pm, BBC Three
It’s lads-on-tour time in this last-ever double bill of Guz Khan’s sitcom and, amid all the Istanbul sightseeing, there’s some serious business to schedule. Aqsa must be rescued and Khan must be killed. Plus, it seems Uncle Shady (Mark Silcox) has finally met his match. Or a least his Turkish equivalent. Ellen E Jones

Poker Face

9pm, Sky Max
Natasha Lyonne’s fun case-of-the-week crime caper heads to the Florida Panhandle for a wild story of death by alligator. Kumail Nanjiani plays Gator Joe, a Tiger King-esque cop – and human lie detector Charlie has to work out who set his own beloved animal on him ... and whether it had been fed methamphetamine. HR

Live sport

Golf, PGA Championship1pm, Sky Sports Main Event. Masters champion Rory McIlroy aims for his second major of the year at Quail Hollow Club in North Carolina.

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