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TV tonight: a claustrophobic thriller set in a Scottish holiday park

Each family cabin gets its own episode in the eerie Summerwater. Plus: Sally Wainwright’s Riot Women ends with a bang! Here’s what to watch this evening

TV tonight: a claustrophobic thriller set in a Scottish holiday park

Summerwater 9pm, Channel 4 It may be set in a relaxing holiday park in rural Scotland, but this eerie psychological thriller gets increasingly claustrophobic – and kinky. Based on Sarah Moss’s hit novel, the six-parter follows several families in their cabins, and weaves together their unravelling secrets. To start off, Justine (Valene Kane) becomes paranoid and is forced to face her past with her husband Steve (Daniel Rigby). Dougray Scott and Shirley Henderson also star. Hollie Richardson King of Lies: Football’s Greatest Con 8pm, Sky Documentaries What connects North Korea’s mining industry and England’s oldest professional football club? This gripping documentary tells the wild story of the 2009 takeover of Notts County by a consortium with dubious links and a conman at their heart. The unravelling of the scam is by turns head-spinning and, for fans of the club, extremely sad. Phil Harrison Riot Women 9pm, BBC One Sally Wainwright signs off her menopausal punk band drama with aplomb. Kitty finally faces up to her past, which takes her on a prison visit. Meanwhile, Holly confronts bent copper Rudy, and Beth tries to make amends with angry son Tom. In more positive news: a second series looks likely. HR Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 9pm, BBC Two Even after eight series of angling, shambling and line untangling Bob and Paul have still never caught a perch. Will they finally have some luck in Herefordshire? Elsewhere, the real star of the show – Ted the terrier – shows up in regal style and receives the ultimate dog treat: a canine massage. Graeme Virtue I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! 9pm, ITV1 Comedian Ruby Wax, Spandau Ballet’s Martin Kemp, rapper Aitch, broadcaster Kelly Brook, Ozzy Osbourne’s son Jack and former Lioness Alex Scott are just some of the famous faces confirmed for this year’s stint in the jungle. Ant and Dec are, of course, back presenting, as the show reaches a milestone moment and turns 25. HR Daisy May and Charlie Cooper’s NightWatch 9.30pm, BBC Two Kicking off this week’s ghost hunt in unconventional fashion, Daisy May Cooper settles down at York’s Everyman to get her cinephile fix (that is, “Channing Tatum with no top on”). However, there’s soon serious supernatural business to attend to, as she and brother Charlie investigate spooky goings-on at the art deco theatre. Hannah J Davies Film choice The Untouchables, 10pm, BBC Two Script by David Mamet. Score by Ennio Morricone. Wardrobe by Giorgio Armani. If you can forgive Sean Connery’s Irish accent (by way of Edinburgh), this 1987 period crime drama is a classy joint. Brian De Palma’s vaguely true story of how prohibition-era mafia boss Al Capone – a magnetically chilling Robert De Niro – was brought to book features Kevin Costner as treasury agent Eliot Ness. He assembles a ragtag bunch of honest officers, including Connery’s wise old beat cop, to take down Chicago’s premier wrong’un, while assailed by corrupt forces. Simon Wardell ’71, 1.15am, Channel 4 With 2013’s prison drama Starred Up and this thriller a year later, Jack O’Connell fully realised the star potential he’d suggested in the likes of Skins. He plays Gary, a British soldier deployed to Belfast in 1971 who, after a house raid goes wrong, finds himself alone and on the run from IRA gunmen in a city he doesn’t know – in a political situation he can barely fathom. Despite it being a tense, tight tale set over a day and a night, Yann Demange’s film fits in a surprising amount of nuance, as a desperate Gary encounters folk from across the spectrum of the Troubles. SW Live sport Women’s Premiership Rugby: Exeter Chiefs v Harlequins, noon, TNT Sports 1 At Sandy Park. Men’s International Rugby Union: Scotland v Argentina, 2.30pm, TNT Sports 1 At Murrayfield. Men’s International Football: Albania v England, 4pm, ITV1 A World Cup Group K qualifier.

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