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Greg Davies arrives on stage at the Royal Variety Performance 2018. Photograph: ITV Plc
Greg Davies arrives on stage at the Royal Variety Performance 2018. Photograph: ITV Plc

Tuesday’s best TV: The Royal Variety Performance 2018; School

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Take That feature in an evening of entertainment at the London Palladium and staff at a Bristol school prepare for an Ofsted inspection

The Royal Variety Performance 2018
7.30pm, ITV

Greg Davies hosts an unexpectedly appealing evening of entertainment for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and a London Palladium audience looking forward to Take That, Andrea and Matteo Bocelli, George Ezra, Sigrid, royal wedding cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Britain’s Got Talent winner Lost Voice Guy. Also on the bill are the casts of musicals Hamilton and Tina, as well as a unique take on 2018 from Imitation Game stars Rory Bremner, Jan Ravens, Debra Stephenson and Luke Kempner. Mike Bradley

Celebrity Lego Masters at Christmas
8pm, Channel 4

Six junior builders from series one and two pair up with half a dozen celebrity helpers – including Joe Swash, Warwick Davis and Tattoo Fixer Alice Perrin – to do festive battle in the Build Room. Who will win the Lego Masters Christmas Trophy? And will anyone step on a brick? Ali Catterall

Mrs Wilson
9pm, BBC One

“He betrayed Gladys, he seduced Dorothy and he married me – who was he?” puzzles bereft widow Alison Wilson, whose vigour is renewed in her search for the truth about husband Alec as this period drama based on real-life events concludes. Skeletons and closets litter the path to a final shocking revelation. MB

School
9pm, BBC Two

Staff at Bristol secondary school Mangotsfield prepare for the first Ofsted inspection in three years. Desperate to raise their game from the “requires improvement” category, they know that “Year 11 results are everything”. A tense final instalment asks: “Are schools the right place to be fixing inequality?” MB

1968: The Year That Changed the World
9pm, History

This dense CNN mini-series, exec-produced by Tom Hanks, was trailed in the US as “the most turbulent time in modern American history”. If that sounds like hyperbole, episode two examines a volatile spring that included the murder of Martin Luther King Jr and chaotic anti-Vietnam protests. Graeme Virtue

I’ll Get This
10pm, BBC Two

The final episode of the frankly mundane gameshow, where celebs must win parlour games to avoid picking up the tab for dinner. 1Xtra DJ Dotty, comedian Russell Kane, actor Steve Pemberton, journalist Steph McGovern and accidental Partridge pioneer Richard Madeley take part, for their sins. Hannah J Davies

Film choice

Carey Mulligan as Maud Watts in Suffragette. Photograph: Steffan Hill/Allstar/Focus Features

Suffragette 6.50pm, Film4

Not the subtlest account of the heroic fight for women’s rights – there is plenty of exposition alongside the scenes of repression here – but the rebel spirit burns bright in Sarah Gavron’s drama. That is due to the marvellous Carey Mulligan as laundry worker-turned-activist Maud Watts. Paul Howlett

Live sport

Snooker: Scottish Open 12.45pm, Eurosport 1. Day two coverage from the Emirates Arena in Glasgow.

World Cup freestyle skiing 7.15pm, Eurosport 2. Arosa, Switzerland hosts the skicross event.

Champions League football: Barcelona v Tottenham 8pm, BT Sport 2 or Extra. Also, Liverpool v Napoli is on either BT Sport Extra or BT Sport 2.

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