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What to watch: Today's TV Highlights

Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry go their separate ways after tonight's GBBO final
Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry go their separate ways after tonight's GBBO final

It's goodbye Mary Berry as the last-ever Great British Bake Off takes place on BBC One, while masked hero Arrow returns to Sky

Pick of the day

The Great British Bake Off: the Final, 8.00pm, BBC One

It's this year's final and there's a sense of more than an oven door closing here as only the title and Paul Hollywood will be heading-off To Channel 4. The show as we know it is finished.

This year's final will be royal-themed, meaning the finalists have to create bakes fit to impress the Queen of England, who obviously can't afford to buy her own. The last signature challenge sees a return to meringues, a challenge that a few of the bakers stumbled over in week six.

As for the technical challenge, Mary Berry has made a simple bake very, very tough, as she has only given the bakers one recipe instruction. The rest is down to them. It may be a very British classic, but with no measurements, this is the ultimate test of the final three bakers' intuition.

Movie Choice of the day

Pretty in Pink, 10.10pm, Sky Cinema Drama

Written by John Hughes and starring the ultimate 1980s redhead Molly Ringwald, this is one of the films that helped to define the celluloid style of the decade's Brat Pack coming of age movies.

High school senior Andie Walsh (Molly Ringwald) lives on the wrong side of the tracks with her underemployed working-class father, Jack (Harry Dean Stanton), with a terrifyingly young-looking John Cryer seeking her heart.

Add in working part-time at a record store, school bullies, the proverbial senior prom and you can guess the way this goes. Still great fun though.

Soap Choice of the day

Coronation Street, 7.30pm, UTV Ireland

Sarah's psychiatric nurse is pleased with her progress and tells her that she's now discharged. Bethany hugs Sarah, thrilled with the news.

Having received a text asking him to meet her, Gary finds Sarah lurking in the ginnel. Apologising for all the mixed messages, Sarah admits that she really wants him and they kiss passionately.

Meanwhile, as Amy helps Steve build a cot for the new baby, Michelle struggles with her fears for their child's future as they await the results of Steve's tests.

Elsewhere, Peter begs Tracy for a chance to help out and make up with his dad. On Tracy's orders, Peter phones round the family breaking the news of Ken's stroke.

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Best On Demand/TV Catchup

Fargo, Netflix

It won't be long before season three comes along on Channel 4, but in the meantime the first two seasons are available on demand on Netflix. If you haven't seen them, you are in for two superb treats.

The first season, starring Martin Freeman and Billy Bob Thornton, is great in a sociopathic, Stranger on a Train kind-of way, but the second season is even better. The scene in the lift will live with me forever.

In season two, Kirsten Dunst stars as Peggy Blumquist, an ambitious, smalltown hairdresser who inadvertently runs over a criminal and sets off a series of unfortunate events. The cast is almost as fantastic as the script's array of characters.

This show is quite marvellous, really. And I'm so glad I live on this side of the Atlantic.

Today's Guilty Pleasure

Arrow, 8.00pm, Sky 1

Season five of the hit US drama based on the DC Comics character Green Arrow picks up where season four left off, with the political landscape of Star City taking a very different shape.

As a result, criminal violence is on the rise, leaving billionaire playboy turned hooded vigilante Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) a very busy superhero indeed.

While not a patch on the comics, it's got its moments. The part of me that's ten forever loves it.

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