From Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway talking Interstellar with Graham Norton to Lewis: What to watch on TV tonight
Our picks for the best Halloween television on Friday 31 October
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Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway talk up their sci-fi adventure Interstellar, joining Lena Dunham, the star and creator of Girls. Micky Flanagan fills out the sofa, while the end tune comes from Sia.
Unreported World, 7.35pm, Channel 4
Krishnan Guru-Murthy travels to India, where the government's drive for widespread electrification is pitting villagers who want the benefits of electricity against campaigners worried about the environmental impact of vast open-cast mines.
Goth at the BBC, 10pm & 2.25am, BBC4
To tie in with BBC4's celebration of all things gothic (not to mention Hallowe’en), the Eighties pop archives are trawled for dry ice, black clothes and doomy lyrics with Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, Sisters of Mercy and many, many more.
Lewis, 9pm, ITV
For those who have forgotten most of the previous week's story, here's a recap: the body of a classics student has been found in the Oxford Canal and there's a don with dark secrets. Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox tar.
Not Going Out, 9.30pm, BBC1
"You'll impregnate my daughter over my dead body," says Sally's father as Lee is introduced as a sperm donor. Lee doesn't particularly want to be a father, but neither does he like the idea of an Australian bloke from Sally's work providing the little swimmers
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