Friday’s best TV

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Unreported World7.35pm, Channel 4

Channel 4’s factual strand, always intimate and immediate, returns with a dispatch from Syria. The Kurdish people of Kobani, a town near the Turkish border, are on the verge of repelling Isis after a three-month siege. Kiki King flinches as the final few Isis mortars explode, but mainly captures a community clinging defiantly to the scraps of their old lives. One remaining school flourishes in a bunker, the last hospital does what it can and fierce young women tote machine guns on the frontline. Flowers in the rubble. Jack Seale

An Island Parish: Falklands8pm, BBC2

The long-running documentary series profiling remote congregations returns to the Falklands for a second outing. Reverend Richard Hines is regretfully preparing for a move back to the UK. In the meantime, there’s plenty for him to organise in the runup to Palm Sunday, while the Kilmartins rustle up a feast for their “two-nighter” end-of-season party. Also hard at work are the Pole-Evans family, who are sending their sheep off to market, and the islanders come out in force for the queen’s birthday. The height of gentle. Hannah J Davies

Marvel’s Agents Of SHIELD8pm, Channel 4

Back from a midseason break, Marvel’s Avengers spin-off has company: the TV superhero genre is expanding at rapid rate, with Netflix’s Daredevil about to join Gotham, Arrow, The Flash et al, and more series planned. Standing out from the pack is the challenge presented to Agent Coulson and co, and this first post-hiatus instalment sees Coulson and co attempt to execute an audacious and risky plot to hit Hydra where it hurts. Not that the terrorist group are slacking themselves, with their own dangerous ploy in the offing. Gwilym Mumford

The Musketeers9pm, BBC1

Those hairy Musketeers romp to the end of the series with maximum drama in the finale. Constance’s life is at risk, but can d’Artagnan reach her before she gets her head chopped off? His brave lover is not the only one under threat as Rochefort, all eye-patch and attitude, is still forging ahead with his plan to ruin France. Next on his hit list is the queen, so flouncy haired King Louis is relying on the Musketeers to save the day. Swords out, tops off and away they go with a swagger. Hannah Verdier

Raiders Of The Lost Past9pm, Yesterday

Drama-documentary has its tropes – emphatic nodding and pointing in the “drama” sections, for one. Here you’ll find all that present and correct, but still, it would be hard to not be thrilled by the story of Stephens (an American lawyer) and Catherwood (a British artist), who together discovered some of the major Mesoamerican sites. Previously, it was thought that no aboriginal society could have built sophisticated structures. Refusing to believe this, the pair discovered and documented jawdropping Mayan ruins. John Robinson

Sings Motown10pm, BBC4

It’s 50 years since Motown – the Detroit home of US 60s pop – sent its first package tour to the UK. Rather than a show about that event, two programmes take a trip to the archives. Sings Motown features BBC-derived covers of Motown numbers, such as Paul Weller and Amy Winehouse’s concerted assault on I Heard It Through The Grapevine. That’s followed by Queens Of Soul, which celebrates female singers from Aretha to Beyoncé – illustrating chiefly the elastic nature of what soul might actually constitute. JR

Quiz Nights10pm, Sky1

The last in the series of the show that exploits the public’s love of pub quizzes by encouraging them to sit at home with a six-pack of lager and watch them on TV instead. This week, teams from Chelsea, Essex, Newport and Liverpool are pitted against one another, with the questions ranging across such knotty and cerebral topics as YouTube and the love life of Katie Price, in the grail-like quest for the Golden Tankard. As ever, you, the viewer, can join in with pen and paper, if you choose. David Stubbs

Today’s best live sport

Sevens rugby The first day of the tournament in Hong Kong, with England facing Wales. 6am, Sky Sports 3

WTA tennis The Miami Open More action from the Crandon Park Centre in Florida. 3pm, BT Sport 1

Premiership rugby union Northampton Saints v Wasps – coverage of the match at Franklin’s Gardens. 7pm, BT Sport 2

International football England v Lithuania – European Championship Group E qualifier from Wembley Stadium. 7.15pm, ITV