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Udder romance ... Christine on Love in the Countryside.
Udder romance ... Christine on Love in the Countryside. Photograph: BBC/Boundless/Fremantle Media Ltd
Udder romance ... Christine on Love in the Countryside. Photograph: BBC/Boundless/Fremantle Media Ltd

TV tonight: a tumble in the hay with Love in the Countryside

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Sara Cox helps seven singles find romance in the midst of running busy farms. Plus: the Bake Off rises once more. Here’s what to watch this evening

Sink Or Swim for Stand Up to Cancer
9.15pm, Channel 4

It is time for the titular swim in this final episode of the charitable series where non-swimming celebrities really are thrown in the deep end (of the Channel) – and one hopes (as do the producers) that they don’t sink. Following 12 weeks of training, the cohort, which includes Olympians Linford Christie and Tessa Sanderson, seem relay-ready, although the brutal realities of the freezing cold, murky water might spell failure. Despite the concept, it is strangely emotional viewing. Ammar Kalia

The Great British Bake Off
8pm, Channel 4

The first-ever dairy week on GBBO mixes things up with buttermilk and yoghurt – and if that sounds out of step with our lactose-intolerant times, the tricky technical challenge dates all the way back to Henry VIII. A tough shift for the remaining 10, but one smart cookie has homemade limoncello to woo Prue. Graeme Virtue

The Capture
9pm, BBC One

Who’s watching?: Holliday Grainger in The Capture. Photograph: Nick Wall/BBC/Heyday Films

The nail-biting continues apace in writer Ben Chanan’s shadowy crime drama, so much so that you might not have nails left by the end of this hour. With the instalment opening as Shaun Emery remains trapped in a padded cell by spy Napier (Ron Perlman), things take more turns than a helter-skelter. AK

Love in the Countryside
9pm, BBC Two

Rolling fields of green, soft bales of hay – the bucolic setting of England’s countryside surely seems like the ideal place to meet a loved one. Yet the seven singletons in this second season of Sara Cox’s dating show need all the help they can get. Heartwarming and wholesome. AK

Harrow
9pm, Alibi

Season-finale time for Harrow, and you will be interested to learn that one of the thrilling plot twists pivots on the fact that Ioan Gruffudd’s eponymous pathologist once gave a security guard’s cat (called Fuzznuts) mouth-to-mouth. Meanwhile, he is still trying to prove Chester is alive, but is in danger of being struck off and sectioned. Ali Catterall

Euphoria
10.10pm, Sky Atlantic

The parent-scaring, hedonistic teen drama continues with Rue (Zendaya) lying in a darkened room for two days after developing an addiction to Love Island. So far, so harmless, until she admits she is depressed. There is also a look at Cassie’s backstory and a Halloween party that is the perfect breeding ground for reckless behaviour. Hannah Verdier

Film choice

What’s wrong with the seats?: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. Photograph: Everett Collection/Alamy

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent, 1974) 11.10pm, TCM Movies
Walter Matthau is an unlikely choice for a hard-boiled New York detective fighting to save the victims of a hijacking in this race-against-time thriller. Ice-cool leader of a gang of crooks Robert Shaw has commandeered a subway train and is holding its passengers up for a $1m ransom. An enjoyable ride. Paul Howlett

Live sport

Tennis: Toray Pan Pacific Open Women’s tennis action from Osaka, Japan. 9am, BT Sport 1

County championship cricket A match from the penultimate round of fixtures. 10.25am, Sky Sports Cricket

Champions League football: Napoli v Liverpool Chelsea v Valencia airs on BT Sport Extra. 7pm, BT Sport 2

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