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Penny Dreadful: Sky Atlantic, 9pm

It's the season finale of the Victorian thriller, and Vanessa (Eva Green) has a vision of Mina (Olivia Llewellyn) at the Grand Guignol Theatre.

She explores the empty building, joined by Sir Malcolm (Timothy Dalton), Ethan (Josh Hartnett), Victor (Harry Treadaway) and Sembene (Danny Sapani). Once there, the group are confronted by their worst nightmare.

David Blaine: Beautiful Struggle: Watch, 10pm

Documentary about the American magician, exploring the inspiration behind some of his biggest endurance events.

The show looks into what went through Blaine's mind, as he took on tests such as being buried alive, getting frozen in a block of ice and living in a glass box above the River Thames.

Braquo: Fox UK, 9pm

In the last ever episode of the French crime drama, a change of allegiance leads to the arrest of Andreas (Ivan Franek).

Meanwhile, Roxane (Karole Rocher) and...

The recent spate of powerful euro-centric police procedurals to crop up on both terrestrial TV and Sky have managed to gain the approval of critics and audiences alike. One of these celebrated shows proudly wears its Us influences on its sleeve while managing to retain that dark and sobering tone found in neighbouring programmes such as The Killing.

Braquo (season two is current being screened on FX) has been billed as a France’s answer to The Wire, but in reality it has much more in common with another cop drama from across the pond, The Shield. Not only does one of the Parisian police crew share more than a passing physical resemblance to Shield star Michael Chiklis, but Braquo is also cut from a similarly pulpy (and at times, preposterous) cloth as that series, which was set in the fictitious Los Angeles area of Farmington.

Much like The Shield,...