TV tonight: a hit jumpy horror series returns with Dan Stevens
The Terror is a terrifying drama anthology. Plus, tissues at the ready for a super emotional finale of The Piano. Here’s what to watch this evening
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The Terror: Devil in Silver
9pm, Sky Atlantic
“We all got our demons, don’t we?” We certainly do, though it’s rare to see them manifest so vividly in a drama. This third standalone story in The Terror anthology series is set in an understaffed, underfunded and quite possibly cursed psychiatric hospital. Dan Stevens stars as Peter “Pepper” Coffin, who has been wrongfully committed to the institution and is forced to reckon with its tatty malevolence. We meet the patients in their past and present lives and connect them via the sinister Dr Walter (John Benjamin Hickey) who may just be the key to the whole mystery. It doesn’t lack jump-scares but also generates a subtler, more genuinely unsettling ambient hum of horror. Phil Harrison
Violent Earth
6pm, Sky Nature
“It was chewing up everything in its path!” So begins the first episode – about terrifying tornadoes – in an intense new series about the science behind natural disasters. It’s presented by actor Liev Schreiber, for reasons unknown, and features first-hand footage taken across the world, along with eyewitness accounts. Hollie Richardson
Force of Nature
7pm, ITV1
Extreme heat is tackled in this instalment of the series dramatising how the climate crisis affects animals, from increased drought to the rise of wildfires around the globe. That means a wombat in Australia, a leopard in Zambia and a kangaroo rat in Arizona all abruptly find themselves starring in their own mini disaster movies. Graeme Virtue
Mozart at the Proms
8pm, BBC Four
A pair of Wolfie’s crowd-pleasers for your delectation: the Third Horn Concerto, featuring star soloist Felix Klieser; plus his exuberant Symphony No 35, AKA the “Haffner”, whose first movement, Amadeus advised, should be “played with fire”. Also, pieces by Elgar, Britten and, making its Proms debut, Thea Musgrave’s Out of the Darkness concerto for bassoon. Ali Catterall
The Piano
9pm, Channel 4
Jamie asked Claudia to sing a few notes, which he then improvised from when he first played in the competition. Will he need her help again in the final? He plays on stage along with Grace, who lost all her fingers after meningitis, Harri, with his song inspired by his grandad, wildcard teen Sophie and “piano-breaker” Gabby. HR
One Dollar
11.20pm, ITV1
“No guns, no body” and a cast of suspects: this acclaimed US drama knows how to set up a tale. And as a dollar bill changes hands in a struggling rust belt town divided by culture and class, secrets emerge, aided by John Carroll Lynch, Leslie Odom Jr, Nathaniel Martello-White and more. Hannah Verdier
Film choice
H Is for Hawk, out now, Netflix
Getting up close and personal with animals can be a life-affirming way of feeling at one with nature. It can also be a way of avoiding the messier everyday of being human. For Helen Macdonald (a febrile Claire Foy), in Philippa Lowthorpe’s adaptation of Macdonald’s bestselling memoir, it is the tug between the two that brings her world crashing down. After her beloved father (Brendan Gleeson) dies, Helen decides to train a goshawk (“a perfectly evolved psychopath,” her mentor warns) in memory of their shared love of the great outdoors. But confronting avian life red in tooth and claw isn’t the same as dealing with the complex emotions of grief. An arresting, affecting drama. Simon Wardell

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