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

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Marie Antoinette

9pm, BBC Two
The 2nd play of this play play continues to present palace gossip, backstabbing, governmental scheming, a rumbling revolt … and magnificent costumes. It’s outpouring 1784 and the “affair of the necklace” ungraded is being hatched to effort to bring down Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. Meanwhile, radical are utilizing the queen’s melancholy against her and the tribunal is putting connected a comic play – with superior consequences. Hollie Richardson

Forever Home

7pm, BBC Two
Helen Skelton and designer Patrick Bradley are the hosts of this Grand Designs-alike, offering readying proposal and affectional enactment to London escapers Jess and Colin arsenic they hole to renovate a run-down Victorian cottage successful agrarian Wales. What begins arsenic an eight-month task budgeted astatine £150,000 soon veers off-piste. Graeme Virtue

Signora Volpe

8pm, U&Drama
The sun-kissed Umbrian scenery feels similar an further quality successful this accomplished if generic drama. However, there’s occupation among the olive groves arsenic this 2nd bid concludes. Sylvia (Emilia Fox) learns the hard mode that brokering bid betwixt rival families has risks attached. Will hunky bull Riva travel to her rescue? Phil Harrison

Taskmaster

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

Mathew Baynton, Rosie Ramsey, and Stevie Martin successful  beforehand   of a washing enactment     with antithetic  coloured socks.
Fresh enactment up … Mathew Baynton, Rosie Ramsey, and Stevie Martin successful Taskmaster. Photograph: Rob Parfitt/Channel 4

Man Like Mobeen

9pm, BBC Three
It’s lads-on-tour clip successful this last-ever treble measure of Guz Khan’s sitcom and, amid each the Istanbul sightseeing, there’s immoderate superior concern to schedule. Aqsa indispensable beryllium rescued and Khan indispensable beryllium killed. Plus, it seems Uncle Shady (Mark Silcox) has yet met his match. Or a slightest his Turkish equivalent. Ellen E Jones

Poker Face

9pm, Sky Max
Natasha Lyonne’s amusive case-of-the-week transgression caper heads to the Florida Panhandle for a chaotic communicative of decease by alligator. Kumail Nanjiani plays Gator Joe, a Tiger King-esque bull – and quality prevarication detector Charlie has to enactment retired who acceptable his ain beloved carnal connected 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 2nd large of the twelvemonth astatine Quail Hollow Club successful North Carolina.

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