British Telly

The Welsh actor buys £1m worth of debt in this powerful documentary. Plus: chess is officially the most exciting game! Here’s what to watch this evening

Monday, 9pm, Channel 4

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It's been 25 years since the now defunct Channel M first broadcast to viewers in Greater Manchester

The Australia-set Ten Pound Poms is back for a tense second series. Plus: part two of the star-studded new Agatha Christie. Here’s what to watch this evening

8pm, BBC One

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The glamorous but gritty period drama continues to put on a show. Plus, enjoy some ‘doggy dancing’ at Crufts! Here’s what to watch this evening

9.15pm, BBC One

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Nemo, Käärijä and Katrina all feature in a special concert ahead of May’s finals. Plus: The Traitors US reaches its gripping conclusion. Here’s what to watch this evening

11.40pm, BBC One

The Eurovision song contest final takes place in Switzerland on 17 May, so of course we are already warming up for it with this celebratory concert in Amsterdam to kick off the competition. Edsilia Rombley and the Drag Race UK star Tia Kofi host a night of interviews and performances with Eurovision royalty including Loreen, Nemo, Käärijä, Katrina (minus her Waves) and Baby Lasagna. Hollie Richardson

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Five female activists tell the astonishing tale of how they discovered they were dating undercover police officers. Plus: canine capers at Crufts. Here’s what to watch today

9pm, ITV1

This shocking documentary series televises the “spy cops” scandal brought to national attention by the Guardian. Told by five female activists whose romantic partners suddenly abandoned them, it’s a moving, personal account of discovering you’ve been dating an undercover police officer – and an astonishing tale of their investigative nous. Alexi Duggins

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Get Millie Black is an action-packed story by Booker prize-winner Marlon James. Plus, Lucy Boynton stars in a dark true crime drama. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, Channel 4

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Dispatches looks at the rise of appetite suppressants for weight loss in the health and beauty industries. Plus: Frankenstein at the National Theatre. Here’s what to watch this evening

8pm, Channel 4

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Peter Blake, Jim Moir and more celebrate the late artist’s genius. Plus: Norma Percy’s masterly series on Israel and Palestine continues. Here’s what to watch this evening

10pm, BBC FourThe overlooked sole female co-founder of Britain’s pop art movement, Pauline Boty, who died at 28 in 1966, finally gets her story told in a documentary. Fans including the pop artist Peter Blake, the comedian Jim Moir (AKA Vic Reeves), the critic and curator Kate Bryan and the print designer (and Boty’s best friend) Natalie Gibson help to honour Boty’s legacy, alongside a showcase of her vibrant, feminist and politically incisive pieces, which were ahead of their time. Hollie Richardson

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The BBC’s Towards Zero follows the scandalous life and loves of an adulterous tennis pro, and it’s slick from the get-go. Plus, Tom Hanks narrates epic nature show The Americas – and it’s Oscars night!

9pm, BBC OneChallengers meets Agatha Christie in the latest slick adaptation, which follows the aftermath of the scandal of adulterous pro tennis player Nevile Strange (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) – who holidays at his coastal family pile with his wife and ex-wife. At Gull’s Point, owned by the no-nonsense Lady Tressilian (Anjelica Huston), there are more guests and residents with grudges. Naturally, a murder is ahead. Hollie Richardson

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The intergalactic version of the song contest will co-incide with the real thing in May, and it's going to be 'mahoosive' according to the writer

Welsh crime drama The One That Got Away is an addictive watch with a hotshot lead. Plus, Sabrina Carpenter will dazzle the stage at the 2025 Brits. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, BBC FourThis knotty Welsh crime drama opens with a nurse heading for a romantic weekend in Paris. She is later found dead in the woods, with a heart-knot carved into a nearby tree. Enter your new favourite no-nonsense detective: Ffion Lloyd (Elen Rhys). The hotshot is called back from Cardiff to team up with ex-partner (and lover!) DS Rick Sheldon (Richard Harrington), and the pair wonder if, based on a previous murder they solved, there is a copycat killer on the loose. Hollie Richardson

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The fascinating story of those who won’t stop searching for Nessie. Plus: Claudia Winkleman sits in for Graham Norton. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, BBC TwoIn 1961, the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau started monitoring the loch 24/7. By the 70s, a Japanese pop promoter, Yoshio Kou, led the International Loch Ness Monster Search Party. And 2023 saw the biggest Nessie hunt in more than 50 years. The beast has kept tourists coming for decades, and this documentary tracks the people who have been most obsessed with finding it. Hollie Richardson

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The Mad Men star plays a hotshot Hollywood producer going back to her Irish roots – and beyond – in Chris O’Dowd’s fun new show. Plus: a reboot of Bergerac. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, Sky Max

Chris O’Dowd (The IT Crowd, Bridesmaids) returns to his roots with this new creation: an offbeat Irish comedy drama with a strange sci-fi twist. The six-parter follows Wendy (Christina Hendricks of Mad Men fame), a hotshot Hollywood producer who returns to her rural home village, the fictional Drumbán, to make a movie. But when she reunites with the local doctor, Séamus (Paddy Considine), we see flashbacks to what happened more than two decades ago on millennium eve, when a light in the sky caused birds to drop dead around them in the woods. It’s kooky and fun, as the community gets involved with the movie production, and just the right amount of weird to keep it intriguing. Hollie Richardson

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The meticulous high-risk work carried out by hospital surgeons is shown in unflinching detail. Plus: is love hiding close to home in Amandaland? Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, BBC TwoNot one for the faint-hearted: it’s the return of the fly-on-the-wall hospital series that doesn’t flinch from showing every detail of the remarkable work carried out during high-risk surgeries. We’re in Edinburgh this time, where 21-year-old law student Sania has an inflamed pancreas and needs an auto-transplant – which involves removing it and reconstructing her digestive tract. It’s a complex procedure that has only been conducted in Scotland three times. Edge-of-your-seat stuff, if you can stomach it. Hollie Richardson

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Presenter James Blake finds there is a policing war raging online. Plus: a cold case gets a breakthrough. Here’s what to watch this evening

10.40pm, BBC One

After the identity of the social media influencer James Blake was stolen and used in scams, he made a documentary about it – last year’s Hunting the Catfish Crime Gang. So he is well placed to tackle another investigation, this time into how cyber sex crime has become an online policing war. But as he speaks to young people and experts, and travels across the globe in pursuit of answers, he is shocked to find that the “sextortion” picture is even darker than he imagined. Hollie Richardson

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World politicians give context to the current crisis in the Middle East. Plus: The White Lotus heats up. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, BBC TwoHillary Clinton, John Kerry, Tony Blair, Ehud Olmert and Salam Fayyad are some of the highest-level political figures to speak in Norma Percy’s all-encompassing series about the roots of the crisis that led to the attacks on 7 October 2023. It starts 20 years earlier, when Israeli settlers and armed forces were pulled out of the Gaza Strip, before Hamas won a shock election. The episode also features an interview with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, weeks before he was killed in July 2024. Hollie Richardson

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Tissues at the ready for Jon Pointing and Dylan Llewellyn’s emotional ending. Plus: another weepy conclusion for Miss Austen. Here’s everything to watch this evening

10pm, Channel 4

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Dope Girls is a gritty post-war story set in Soho’s underworld. Plus: Gaelic-language thriller An t-Eilean (The Island). Here’s what to watch this evening

9.15pm, BBC One

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Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder’s hit show Hacks has finally landed on Sky. Plus: Claudia Winkleman’s devilish quizshow. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, Sky MaxIf you’re late to the party, all three seasons of Hacks – one of the most lauded comedies in years, starring Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder – are on Now/Sky, and the show is playing from the start on Max. We’re halfway through season one this week, and after writer Ava (Einbinder) has a wild night in Vegas, she wakes up regretting the voicemail she left comedy legend boss Deborah (Smart). And, somehow, things get even worse from there … Hollie Richardson

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The soap is celebrating its 40th anniversary with this interactive special. Plus: the finale of The Vanishing. Here’s what to watch this evening

7.30pm, BBC One The BBC has gone all in for EastEnders’ 40th anniversary: Ross Kemp’s back on the square as Grant Mitchell, and iPlayer is overflowing with classic “doof doof” episodes and spin-offs. The jewel in the crown, though, is this live episode, with an interactive twist as the public will be allowed to decide the outcome of one storyline: will Denise end up with Mr Reliable, Jack, or take a chance on Ravi? But more importantly, will anything go disastrously wrong? Hannah J Davies

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Am I Being Reasonable? is Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli’s brilliant series. Plus: a mysterious Scottish 1984 murder case is reopened. Here’s what to watch this evening

9.30pm, BBC One

Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli’s wonderfully bizarre comedy drama gets murkier and funnier as Nic (Cooper) continues to completely spiral. Yes, she is dealing with the emotional turmoil of trying to get away with murdering her extramarital lover and brother-in-law. But she is also doing marriage therapy, worrying about her cat-killing son, Ollie (the awesome Lenny Rush), and oversharing with her fishy friend Jen (Hizli). And all this comes with cracking gag after cracking gag. Hollie Richardson

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The BBC has assured Doctor Who fans that the sci-fi drama has not been cancelled, following an "incorrect" tabloid report.

The Sun stirred up concern that the long-running series was to go dormant again for between five and ten years, as it previously did after Sylvester McCoy's final season – and once again after Paul McGann's 1996 standalone film.

The speculation comes after perceived disappointment over Doctor Who season 14's viewing figures, although the BBC and showrunner Russell T Davies have previously drawn attention to the show's strong engagement from younger viewers.

The Sun's anonymous source claimed that star Ncuti Gatwa was eyeing a move to Los Angeles to pursue Hollywood work – and that he had filmed a regeneration sequence for the end of the current run.

However, a spokesperson for Doctor Who commented: "This story is incorrect, Doctor Who has not been shelved. As we have previously stated, the decision on season 3 will be made after season 2 airs.

"The deal with Disney Plus was for 26 episodes – and exactly half of those still have to transmit. And as for the rest, we never comment on the Doctor and future storylines."

Storyville’s beautiful documentary follows the lives of cowboys and cowgirls. Plus, can one person’s fear of clowns be cured? Here’s what to watch this evening

10pm, BBC FourThis black-and-white documentary is so artfully crafted by directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw that it feels more like a cinematic western drama. It follows the everyday lives of Argentina’s shrinking community of gauchos (cowboys and cowgirls) who preserve their traditions and fight to remain free in the modern world. There are no introductions or to-camera interviews, just mesmerising observations of cattle herding, family meals and horse-riding. Hollie Richardson

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A 10-year-old TikToker and an 11-year-old who dreams of being a paramedic show us the horrors of living in a warzone. Plus: unbearable holidaygoers check in at the White Lotus. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, BBC Two

A teenager narrates this absolutely vital film about what life has been like for young people in Gaza since 7 October 2023. Abdullah, 13, is incisive, quick on his feet and at times alarmingly indifferent as he shows the horrors around him. We also meet cooking TikToker Renad, 10, who stops whisking when a bomb hits nearby: “We’re not afraid, we’re used to it.” And Zakaria, 11, who dreams of being a paramedic, is determined to “find a way to fit in” by helping casualties; it is a relief to see him enjoy a moment in the sea. Most haunting still, following news of Donald Trump’s intentions for Gaza, are Renad’s words after the ceasefire is announced: “If Gaza goes back to how it was before, I’ll stay for sure.” Hollie Richardson

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