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One of Us ... almost gratuitously bleak.
One of Us ... almost gratuitously bleak. Photograph: Alan Peebles/BBC
One of Us ... almost gratuitously bleak. Photograph: Alan Peebles/BBC

Tuesday’s best TV: One of Us; 9/11: Truth, Lies and Conspiracies; Body Fixers

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Conclusion of bleak Highlands-set drama; the many unresolved questions about 9/11; likable new pop-up beauty-salon show. Plus: something-for-everyone music show Later Live returns for a 49th series

One of Us
9pm, BBC1

Plenty to resolve as this well-performed, almost gratuitously bleak drama reaches its conclusion. One of Us has made effective use of the peculiar claustrophobia of rural isolation; there is no escape from cause and effect, even in the wide-open beauty of the Scottish Highlands. Everyone must face the consequences of their actions and, with the clock ticking on several fronts, desperate measures are unavoidable. Perhaps lacking a little light and shade, but compelling all the same. Phil Harrison

9/11: Truth, Lies and Conspiracies
9pm, ITV

Fifteen years on, many still have questions. Some of the outlandish conspiracy theories remain as ludicrous as the day they were conceived – that the planes were holograms, that it was a plot of orchestrated mass murder dreamed up in CIA headquarters – while others, such as how the attackers were able to conduct the operation without detection, are more salient. This investigates whether errors were made and if secrets are still being kept. Ben Arnold

All Together Now: The Great Orchestra Challenge
9pm, BBC4

Week three of this diverting quest to find Britain’s best amateur orchestra. The three remaining ensembles are challenged to perform a concerto, with a passable virtuoso soloist selected from amid their own ranks. Series judge Paul Daniel and resident mentor Chi-chi Nwanoku introduce three professional soloists to lend encouragement, but the orchestra making the least pleasing racket will be eliminated from the contest. Andrew Mueller

Eamonn and Ruth: How the Other Half Lives
9pm, Channel 5

Daytime TV’s classiest double act are back to nose into the lives of the super-wealthy. They’re off to New York to meet an estate agent whose prices start at $10m (£7.5m), and a party planner in the Hamptons who is cagey about the celebrity parties she organises. The property porn is fabulous, while Eamonn is quick with the dad gags about toilet habits and the price of art, and the ever-charming Ruthie exhibits maximum tolerance of her cheeky husband. Hannah Verdier

Body Fixers
9pm, E4

Likable new makeover show set in a pop-up beauty salon staffed by four stylists and, for extreme cases, a surgeon. Members of the public walk through the door bearing desperate style problems, from misapplied hair relaxer and infected lip-filler to freakishly pale skin and an unusually furry torso. Not exactly Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation then, but the reveals – particularly the final one of a woman whose hair didn’t grow back after chemotherapy – are lovely. Jack Seale

Later Live – With Jools Holland
10pm. BBC2

Auntie’s flagship music show returns for a 49th series. First up, Jools welcomes Kings of Leon, reportedly re-energised after churning out turgid stadium rock in recent years. We can also expect an acoustic turn from Jack White, reinterpreting songs from his own catalogue, and Sting, whose I Can’t Stop Thinking About You nods to his work with the Police. Dark R&B from Banks and electronica from M83 round out a something-for-everyone opener. Jonathan Wright

The Bastard Executioner
10pm, History

“The carnage must stop,” says one character after yet another bloody bout but, rest assured, it doesn’t tonight, for that wouldn’t leave a lot else going on. There are, however, revelations: the Chamberlain opens up about his childhood to some poor confused soul before slaughtering him, while Wilkin and Lady Love’s blossoming relationship is put to the test when an innocent man is on the point of being executed. Beans are spilled and so are innards. David Stubbs

Ben Kingsley and Ray Winstone in Sexy Beast. Photograph: 20thC Fox/Everett/Rex Features

Film choice

Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer, 2000) 10.45pm, Film4

Ray Winstone is a celebrated screen hardman, but here his retired gangster Gal is comprehensively outpunched by Ben Kingsley’s sociopathic Don Logan. Small, bald and terrifying, Logan has arrived from London to coax Gal away from his luxury villa on the Costa del Crime for one last job. But this is not your standard caper movie: Glazer and writers create a suspenseful black comedy that keeps you guessing to the end. Crafty performances, too, from Amanda Redman, as Gal’s wife, Deedee, and Ian McShane as Logan’s boss back in London.

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Beeban Kidron, 2004) 9pm, ITV2

She has landed the Darcy (Colin Firth) of her dreams, but the course of true love isn’t running too smoothly for Bridget. He’s still a bit of a prig, and that charming Daniel (Hugh Grant) is still oozing about. The Thailand shenanigans (she’s busted for drugs) are silly, but that down-to-earth Renée Zellweger charm sees this patchy sequel through, and paves the way for the follow-up, Bridget Jones’s Baby, which is due on Friday. Paul Howlett

Live sport

Paralympics 2016 Athletics, swimming and wheelchair fencing from Rio. 1pm, Channel 4

Champions League football: Paris Saint-Germain v Arsenal Coverage of the Group A fixture from Parc des Princes. 7pm, BT Sport 2

Champions League football: Manchester City v Borussia Mönchengladbach All the action from the Group C encounter at the Etihad. 7pm, BT Sport 3

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