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Walking With Jim Moir
Get walking … Jim Moir takes the coastal path on BBC Two. Photograph: Tim Smith/BBC/Atypical Media Ltd
Get walking … Jim Moir takes the coastal path on BBC Two. Photograph: Tim Smith/BBC/Atypical Media Ltd

TV tonight: an odd little stroll along the coast with Vic Reeves

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Jim Moir puts on his walking shoes to explore some unusual hidden treasures. Plus, a grisly murder in Vienna drags Max and Oskar in deep. Here’s what to watch this evening

Walking With Jim Moir

7.30pm, BBC Two

The latest of these gently nourishing walks features Moir – AKA Vic Reeves – showing us around his favourite patch of the Kent coast. Along the way, he meets a bumble bee conservationist and a lugworm hunter and encounters some shingle that makes him walk “like a constipated duck”. An understated charmer of a series, showcasing a few of the nation’s hidden treasures. Phil Harrison

Dispatches: The Truth About Disability Benefits

7.30pm, Channel 4

Injustices in the benefits system might have been pushed down the news agenda by Covid and allegations of general corruption, but the pain of disabled people goes on. Richard Butchins investigates a series of deaths that grieving families say were hastened by the misdeeds of the Department of Work and Pensions. Jack Seale

Sainsbury’s: Christmas Food Secrets

8pm, Channel 4

’Tis the season for foodie indulgence. This one-off enters the Sainsbury’s test kitchen to witness the creation of new festive offerings such as an ingenious veggie-friendly “gammon” and some outre winter sushi. There is also a peek at the R&D behind that other vital ingredient in any supermarket chain’s lucrative December: the Christmas ad. Graeme Virtue

Political intrigue … Matthew Beard and Jürgen Maurer in Vienna Blood. Photograph: Petro Domenigg/BBC/Endor Productions/MR Film

Vienna Blood

9pm, BBC Two

This stylish detective drama set in 1900s Vienna and based on The Liebermann Papers stories by Frank Tallis continues its second season. Tonight, Oskar (Jürgen Maurer) gets out of his lane when a mutilated corpse is found in a slum. He’s told not to touch the case but, inevitably, he can’t resist a little nose around. A bad idea. PH

Gregg Wallace’s Magical Christmas Market

9pm, Channel 5

Yule gløgg: MasterChef’s jolliest judge heads for Copenhagen’s various festive markets to sample the delights of a classic Scandi Christmas. That means finding the perfect tree, helping make a Christmas cake at the city’s oldest bakery and enjoying Denmark’s signature festive tipple. GV

The Graham Norton Show

10.35pm, BBC One

Stanley Tucci is in the house tonight to talk about his new book, My Life Through Food. No doubt, he’ll find something to talk about with fellow guest Jamie Oliver. Somewhat inevitably, given his current ubiquity, Romesh Ranganathan will be around, too. Music comes from Lil Nas X. PH

Film choice

Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017), 11pm, E4
One of the most influential films of this century, and certainly nearing classic status, Jordan Peele’s 2017 directorial debut expands on the pointed comedy of his TV sketch show Key & Peele to chilling effect. Daniel Kaluuya’s Chris pays a visit to the family home of his white girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams), to find that her parents (Catherine Keener and Bradley Whitford) are not the racially liberal types they appear to be. An excellent commentary on, and riposte to, the invisibility and marginalisation of Black people in the horror genre – and cinema in general. Simon Wardell

Live sport

Darts: World Championships 12.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event. Day three from Alexandra Palace.

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