Memory Hackers
7.50pm, PBS America
The brain is the most complex known structure in the universe, and research into what memories actually are continues to this day. If we are no more than the sum of our experiences, can memories be implanted or removed, leaving personalities artificially altered? A US documentary, with all the irritating conventions that entails (quick edits, overwrought music), it does ask some intriguing questions, if leaving a frustrating number unanswered. Luke Holland
Savage Kingdom: The World’s Most Wanted Leopard
8pm, Nat Geo Wild
A large effort of will is required to persist past the astonishingly blithe ignorance of almost the first lines of narration uttered: “I’d never heard of Azerbaijan. But it turns out that it’s a country in far-eastern Europe.” It may also be home to a population of the Caucasian leopard, Adrian Steirn’s search for which is chronicled in a film, featuring rather more of the presenter than it does of his quarry. Andrew Mueller
Classic Cellists at the BBC
8pm, BBC4
“To ooze” is a verb one should handle with care, yet according to Julian Lloyd Webber, cellist Paul Tortelier “oozed Gallic charm”. Check out whether that’s warranted in this archival selection of classic cello performances; including a young Jacqueline du Pré, a lovely bit of Rachmaninov from 2016 Young Musician of the Year Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Yo-Yo Ma interpreting Bach, and Jules himself. Ali Catterall
Rick Stein’s Long Weekends
9pm, BBC2
Never mind the recipes – Stein offers us another vicarious, sun-kissed, bibulous holiday, which he makes no secret of thoroughly enjoying at our expense. This week, he heads to the Greek city of Thessaloniki. As well as being birthplace of Alexander, it’s Greece’s gourmet capital, with fresh seafood high on the menu. Back home, Stein is inspired by chef Vefa Alexiadou to prepare veal and aubergine stew. David Stubbs
Ball and Boe: One Night Only
9pm, ITV
West End boys Michael Ball and Alfie Boe have a new album out in time for Christmas, and while this TV special carries the inevitable whiff of promotional tie-in, the gregarious duo seem determined to have a rollicking good time. Between rousing renditions of musical standards and moments of loosened bow-tie bromance, they team up with pop phoenix Rick Astley and former EastEnder Maria Friedman before a climactic Les Mis medley. Graeme Virtue
Walliams & Friend
9.30pm, BBC1
Sheridan Smith is this week’s guest on the defiantly old-fashioned sketch show, joining in with routines about Carry On films and knackered married couples that aren’t sure if they’re satirising cliche or indulging in it. The best skits are those in which Walliams and his writers cater more sensitively for what Smith can do: her solo turns as a cruise-ship singer frazzled by failure, and as a wife absurdly deluded about her husband’s attractiveness, give the show more heart and heft. Jack Seale
Adele in New York City
11.25pm, BBC1
The singer’s concert at Radio City Music Hall from November last year. If you wanted to pinpoint the moment at which Adele became the sort of person who might be on the cover of Vanity Fair, then it’s about here. A sensitive band accompanies stuff from her album 25, but you get the feeling it’s the singer backed only by piano, the deadly formula of Someone Like You at the Brits five years ago, that people have come to see. John Robinson
Film choice
Secret in Their Eyes (Billy Ray, 2015) 6am, 6pm, Sky Cinema Premiere
Juan José Campanella’s Oscar-winning Argentinian thriller gets a Hollywood reworking with an impressive cast. Chiwetel Ejiofor is ex-FBI agent Ray Kasten, whose forlorn 13-year quest to find the killer of colleague Julia Roberts’s daughter takes him back to the unspoken love of that time – Nicole Kidman’s Claire Sloan, now district attorney. It’s an efficient-enough thriller, but lacks the original’s air of moral corruption and aching regret. Paul Howlett
Serena (Susanne Bier, 2014) 1am, Channel 4
Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle stars Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper reunite for this big, bold, Depression-era drama. Cooper is George Pemberton, owner of an Appalachian logging firm. When he marries Lawrence’s beautiful but poor Serena he finds he has a partner ideally suited to his cut-throat business. It all goes up in a melodramatic blaze, but Lawrence is superb. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Championship Football: Brighton & Hove Albion v Leeds United Two of the league’s form teams meet at the Amex Stadium. 7pm, Sky Sports 1
Cycling: 6 Days of Amsterdam Day four of the track race from Amsterdam Velodrome. 7.30pm, Eurosport 1
Test Cricket: India v England The third day of the fourth Test from the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. 3.45am, Sky Sports 2
