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Girlbands Forever

9.20pm, BBC Two

From the highs of world domination to the lows of tabloid bullying, insiders tell the rollercoaster story of girlbands. While Spice Girls were smashing commercial success, Eternal and All Saints were sticking to their roots to get a No 1 – but there was a dark reality behind it all. Kéllé Bryan recalls her diet being controlled and Melanie Blatt says her manager told her and Nicole Appleton to “abort our babies”. Sara Cox, Nicki Chapman and Ron Tom also contribute. Hollie Richardson

Horse of the Year Show 2025

5.25pm, Channel 4

A quick trot through the NEC in Birmingham, where the event celebrating equestrian excellence took place last month. Matt Baker, Gemma Owen and Tegan Vincent-Cooke will be handing out rosettes and sashes to a stadium full of long faces. HR

Strictly Come Dancing

6.35pm, BBC One

A Peaky Blinders-themed tango? An American smooth to Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart? Ellie Goldstein playing a magician with Vito Coppola as the rabbit pulled from a hat? It can only be Halloween week on Strictly – and we’ve reached the point where the competition is getting stiffer and stiffer. HR

Great British Train Journeys from Above

8.20pm, Channel 4

Narration by Hugh Bonneville plus camerawork by drones is the formula for this soothing adventure. We’re floating above the West Somerset Railway as it puffs through the Quantock Hills towards the Bristol Channel, on a route masterminded by 19th-century engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Jack Seale

Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue

9.20pm, BBC One

The twisty whodunnit about plane-crash survivors who keep getting horribly bumped off while awaiting rescue reaches its finale. After eight days in the sweltering jungle it looks as if the truth will finally be uncovered at the remote Los Trios military base; veteran thriller writer Anthony Horowitz does not fumble the big reveal. Graeme Virtue

Romesh Ranganathan’s Parents’ Evening

9.20pm, ITV1

Is the one-time teacher missing his classroom days? Not unless he grilled kids’ guardians in an extremely amusing way as in this comedy gameshow based on celebrity parent/child duos. This week, Romesh welcomes Adrian Dunbar, Jo Brand, Layton Williams and their relatives. Alexi Duggins

Film choice

One Fine Morning, 12.50am, BBC Two

Léa Seydoux in One Fine Morning on BBC Two.

An actor who always inspires empathy, Léa Seydoux is again compelling in this 2022 film. Sandra, a widowed translator with a young daughter, starts an affair with the married Clément (Melvil Poupaud). She is also dealing with her father Georg (a superb Pascal Greggory), who has a neurodegenerative disease that causes blindness and hallucinations and needs to be in a care home. Mia Hansen-Løve’s deft drama traces Sandra’s shifting emotions as she grasps at life through lust and love, while her father’s decline brutally shows how fragile it can be. SW