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The Great British Bake Off, Channel 4.
The Great British Bake Off, Channel 4. Photograph: Mark Bourdillon/CHANNEL 4 PICTURE PUBLICITY
The Great British Bake Off, Channel 4. Photograph: Mark Bourdillon/CHANNEL 4 PICTURE PUBLICITY

Tuesday’s best TV: The Great British Bake Off, Bobby Sands: 66 Days, Cyberwar

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The culinary competition comes to a head in the final, and a look into the 1981 hunger strike at HM Prizon Maze. Plus: was Donald Trump installed into the White House by Russia?

The Great British Bake Off
8pm, Channel 4

Emerging from the BBC’s cosy oven to its new home at Channel 4 hasn’t dented Bake Off’s appeal. Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig are here with the final, and the trio of remaining bakers must pull out all the stops to impress Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith. Tonight’s challenges include baking a batch of loaves and biscuits. The showstopper’s going to be a tricky one, with a sophisticated patisserie number on the menu. Hannah Verdier

Saving Lives at Sea
8pm, BBC2

Water, water, everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Still, there’s always beer … In the last of the dramatic series following the volunteer heroes of the RNLI, lifeguards and crew help rescue a pair of drifting kayakers whose slender crafts are laden down with delicious booze. Meanwhile, a team assist police trying to track down a boat thief in Tenby; elsewhere, there is no time to waste when two yachts capsize off Portsmouth. But who to rescue first? Ali Catterall

Our Girl: Nepal Tour
9pm, BBC1

Transporting last week’s casualties – including an ailing but still pretty daft Rab – Georgie and 2-Section embark on a hair-raising ride back to Kabul. It’s not without incident, but frankly that is the least of their problems. While Georgie’s fury with Elvis has begun to wane, the location of terror target Aatan Omar comes in and soon they are off to provide support to the special forces team in a climactic and pretty devastating confrontation. The last in the series. Ben Arnold

The Balfour Declaration: Britain’s Promise to the Holy Land
9pm, BBC2

The Balfour declaration of 1917 played a massive part in igniting the most intractable conflict of modern times: that between Israel and Palestine. Jane Corbin – whose ancestor Leo Amery helped draft the declaration – explores the century of violence and discord that has passed since. The likelihood that her studied attempts at neutrality will fail to satisfy either side will tell its own dispiriting story. Phil Harrison

Bobby Sands: 66 Days
9pm, BBC4

One of those documentaries so good it renders interest in its subject irrelevant; you must see this anyway. Historians, ex-IRA men and politicians, including Gerry Adams, discuss the circumstances of the 1981 hunger strike at HM Prison Maze. They offer insight into both the psychology of the man (Sands was just 27 when he died) and the psychology of the divided nation. Archive footage combines with readings from Sands’s own diary to haunting effect. Ellen E Jones

Dr Christian Will See You Now
9pm, W

Dr Jessen offers more bespoke consultations to patients with delicate issues. Tonight, a dangerously underweight mother of three is desperate to attain a healthier BMI, while a young woman feels conception problems are threatening her relationship. A woman with Tourette syndrome from Warrington is sick of taking pills, instead seeking a solution without medication, while a retired hairdresser vows to rid himself of varicose veins. Mark Gibbings-Jones

Cyberwar
8pm, Viceland

The idea that Donald Trump was eased into the White House via a covert campaign by Russia is terrifying (for the obvious reasons) yet strangely comforting (as it enables us to believe that nearly 64 million people would not, in a fair contest, have voted for such a creature). Ben Makuch’s film goes searching for the fire beneath the smoke, and finds disquieting numbers of serious people taking the possibility of Russian meddling extremely seriously. Andrew Mueller

Film choice

Prevenge (Alice Lowe, 2016) 10.40pm, Film4

Alice Lowe goes full-on horror here, with just a touch of grisly humour. She plays single mum-to-be Ruth, who has a nasty sarcastic tone, and also thinks her unborn baby is telling her to kill people – instructions that she follows with furious savagery. It’s a queasy, messily bloody tale of antenatal depression and paranoid delusion. Paul Howlett

Dawn of the Dead (Zack Snyder, 2004) 12.25am, ITV4

Time for some Halloween fun: a gorily effective remake of George A Romero’s 1978 cult horror movie, which has humanity largely wiped out by a plague of zombies and a small group of people fighting for their lives in a Milwaukee shopping mall. Among the survivors are Sarah Polley’s nurse and Ving Rhames’s cop, who is so tough even the flesh-eating undead think twice about attacking him. PH

Live sport

Tennis: The Paris Masters 10am, Sky Sports Main Event. Coverage of the second day’s play of the tournament at the AccorHotels Arena in Paris.

Snooker: International Championship 11.30am, Eurosport 1. The third day’s play in Daqing in China.

Champions League Football: AS Roma v Chelsea 7pm, BT Sport 2. Coverage of the Group C clash at Stadio Olimpico.

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