ITV1 Goes Undercover in Crowborough Asylum Camp Tonight

ITV1 tonight broadcasts Inside the Asylum Camp at 10pm, an undercover documentary filmed at the former military facility in Crowborough that now houses asylum seekers — a site critic Phil Harrison describes as part of a company owned by a billionaire.

Harrison's preview pulls no punches. "Ever since Crowborough's former military facility became home to asylum seekers, paranoia has been rife in the town," he writes. The documentary, which he calls "balanced and extremely sad", allegedly finds a badly run camp housing many traumatised people. It also meets locals who, in Harrison's words, "manifest both ignorance and generosity". His verdict is blunt: it comes away with "a bleak portrait of a situation that could very easily be better for everyone".

What else is on tonight's schedule?

• Blue Planet III, 8pm, BBC One. A wildlife duel pits sea lion against black neck swan. The episode follows ocean animals adapting to seasonal change by swimming to other waters to hunt, and features the dating rituals of southern right whales, which Harrison calls "hilarious, eyebrow-raising … and so beautiful".
• This City Is Ours, 9pm, BBC One. The gangland drama continues after the death of Rachel. Michael orders Freddie to keep his "head down and mouth shut"; Elaine and Ozzie share a tense exchange; Banksey stalls the police to give Freddie a chance to disappear — though, as Priya Elan notes, the open question is whether he turns himself in.
• Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, 9pm, BBC Two. Bob Mortimer fishes home turf on the River Tees in County Durham, where trout run dark and, with luck, "a bit orangey". Guest Reece Shearsmith contributes local folk-horror stories that Jack Seale says serve as warnings of danger in the freezing waters.
• Stacey Dooley's Australia: Off the Beaten Track, 9pm, Channel 4. Dooley heads to Queensland and the world's oldest tropical rainforest, hoping to spot a crocodile, and embeds with a hippy commune whose off-grid set-up includes solar panels and a pizza oven. Graeme Virtue flags one personal stake: can the commune help her overcome her fear of rodents?
• Fontaines DC at Later … With Jools Holland, 10pm, BBC Two. The Dublin rockers take over an entire episode. Harrison's framing: "You know you've well and truly arrived when you get a whole episode of Later … devoted to you." The band has the Alexandra Palace theatre to itself for an intimate set drawn from the album Dopamine Chamber.

Film choice: Conclave

Conclave is out now on Netflix. Edward Berger's twisty drama adapts Robert Harris's page-turner about the cryptic process of selecting a new pope. Ralph Fiennes stars as Cardinal Thomas Lawrence, the man tasked with organising the gathering of Catholic luminaries to choose, in the film's phrasing, the next vicar of Christ. Simon Wardell writes that "God is largely absent as voting and plotting go hand in hand and the favourites come and go", calling it "a superb mystery, with Fiennes a rock as the one honest broker".

Live sport

Two fixtures close the day: the Nations Championship rugby match Scotland v Australia kicks off at 2pm on ITV1 from Murrayfield, and Spain v England in the final Uefa Nations League group match follows at 7pm on ITV1, live from Madrid.

The Crowborough film is the one to watch, and the one that will be talked about tomorrow — the question it leaves open is whether anyone with power to run the camp better is watching too.