Tonight's TV highlights

All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace | Injustice | Psychoville 2 | MTV Movie Awards 2011

All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace

9pm, BBC2

The third and final part of Adam Curtis's exploration of the defining phenomena of our times – mankind's increasingly dependent relationship with computers. During this typically brilliant series, Curtis has expounded a thesis that machines have not liberated us, but rather imprisoned us in a reality fixed by the efficient but inflexible logic of circuitry. Tonight's episode is witty, enthralling, provocative and occasionally preposterous: it's an Adam Curtis programme after all.

Injustice

9pm, ITV1

Spread across five nights, this is ITV's latest attempt at a gripping, grown-up thriller. James Purefoy is a brooding barrister with a past, Dervla Kirwan his breathy wife and Nathaniel Parker the old college chum who asks him to act as his defence in a forthcoming murder trial. It twists and changes direction madly, like Jedward trying to find their way out of Ikea. But it will keep you guessing until at least episode four, simply because the twists are so out there. Why Kirwan has to teach young offenders while wearing a see-through top is another matter.

Psychoville 2

10pm, BBC2

The second and, by all accounts, final series of Psychoville draws to a close tonight. While it has a wonderfully twisting (and twisted) plot, it's in the details that this has impressed the most. Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith throw in pick'n'mix influences from Hammer horror, 50s schlock sci-fi, Lindsay Anderson's Britannia Hospital and much more. The secret of the locket is finally revealed – but who, in a show that has seemingly been intent on killing everyone off this series, will still be around to see it?

MTV Movie Awards 2011

9pm, MTV

If you've a notion that the Oscars are narcissistic, self-congratulatory and irrelevant for anyone other than marketing departments and actors looking for column inches in tabloids, then the MTV Awards are the perfect antidote. They're voted for by the public – it's the people's choice, people! – and there's no higher court than public opinion when it comes to giving cultural prizes for the likes of best kiss, best villain and biggest badass star. Jason Sudeikis, he of Saturday Night Live and Hall Pass fame, presents, while the Foo Fighters and Lupe Fiasco perform.

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Andrew Mueller, Julia Raeside, Phelim O'Neill, Martin Skegg

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