Children In Need 2015
7.30pm, BBC1
Terry and Tess helm another year of fervent fundraising with the customary cast of celebs pitching in. Radio 1’s Scott Mills attempts to abseil 400 feet down Blackpool Tower. The cast of Call the Midwife compete in a special edition of Strictly Come Dancing, with Brucie and Tess Daly reunited for presenting duties. Meanwhile, the cast of EastEnders travel back in time for a vintage Hollywood-style performance, and Harry Hill edits 40 years of TV into four minutes. Ben Arnold
Unreported World
7.30pm, Channel 4
The persistently excellent foreign correspondence strand pitches up in Mexico, where Kiki King investigates the ballooning child-surrogacy industry. Exposés of the markets in India and Thailand have simply led prospective parents, and the equally desperate people who are willing to hire out their wombs, to shift to this new location, where a child via surrogacy costs less than half what it would in the US. But insufficient regulation puts surrogate mothers at risk, and can leave customers with no firm legal claim on the child. Jack Seale
An Island Parish: Falklands
8.30pm, BBC2
We’re back in the Falkland Islands to observe the locals in the Reverend Richard Hines’s parish as his retirement date approaches. He’s spent seven years on that blowy rock, blessing the locals and trotting off to the dunes at silly o’clock to gather special grass for the Palm Sunday crosses. They’ll miss him when he’s gone. Tonight, two parishioners are cooking up a feast of reindeer kebabs and goose terrine for the Easter celebrations and the community is gearing up for the annual Queen’s birthday parade. Julia Raeside
Great Continental Railway Journeys
9pm, BBC2
Yet again riding the rails in foreign parts, Michael Portillo heads to Greece. His journey takes him from Piraeus, the country’s chief port, to Thessaloniki, captured from the Ottoman empire during the first Balkan war. Along the way, he explores the Acropolis, chows down on moussaka, and discovers how a posh poet from Blighty became a national hero. He learns, too, that some things don’t change: when his guidebook was published in 1913, Greece’s finances were in a rather sorry state. Jonathan Wright
Rod Stewart Live at Hyde Park
10pm, BBC4
“I’ll be playing the moderate hits,” Rod Stewart told Janet Street-Porter and co on Loose Women prior to September’s gig in Hyde Park. Which roughly translates as: no Maggie May, Tonight’s the Night, and, especially, no Da Ya Think I’m Sexy? Instead, we get brilliance: the likes of the gorgeous Gasoline Alley, I Was Only Joking, The Killing of Georgie, and a Tom Waits cover that isn’t Downtown Train. Great to see you, Rod. It’s followed by 2013’s Imagine retrospective, Rod Stewart: Can’t Stop Me Now. Ali Catterall
Gordonstoun: A Different Class
8pm, Sky 1
Fly-on-the-wall documentary series about Prince Charles’s alma mater, where he was famously miserable. Life seems perkier at the school now, while the title implies that this is no Etonian bastion of privilege – a sense of social responsibility is instilled in its pupils, now of mixed gender and race. Tonight, we meet a hopeful auditioning for a production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, follow the school’s volunteer fire service on a call, and meet a poor lad from Spain who’s finding it all a bit much. David Stubbs
The Making of the Mob
9pm, Quest
This lavish eight-part docudrama, recently screened on AMC in the US, is a rather awestruck look at the rise of organised crime in the aftermath of prohibition. Fans of Boardwalk Empire will recognise many of the key players, from Lucky Luciano to Bugsy Siegel and Arnold Rothstein, with the Mafia’s origin story parcelled out into expensively staged, indifferently acted but often surprisingly violent reconstructions. Rudy Giuliani, Frankie Valli and actors Vincent Pastore and Chazz Palminteri are among the talking heads. Graeme Virtue
Film choice
Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014) 11.30am, 10pm, Sky Movies Premiere
There’s a touch of the Coens about this heady, comic psychedelic film noir. Adapted from a Thomas Pynchon novel, it’s set in 1970 California, where stoner private eye Doc Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) is employed by an ex-girlfriend (Katherine Waterston) to find her missing, married lover. It’s one trippy investigation, staggering through a paranoid haze of pot smoke, rich in Pynchonesque prose, and crazily funny. Paul Howlett
Cross Of Iron (Sam Peckinpah, 1977) 12.45am, BBC2
In Peckinpah’s only war film, a German platoon face extinction on the eastern front and grapple with the themes of loyalty, honour and survival explored in his westerns. James Coburn is the pragmatic corporal; Maximilian Schell the Prussian officer ready to sacrifice his men to win the Iron Cross; James Mason noble and touching as a doomed old soldier. There’s the trademark slow-mo violence, but coarse-grained beauty too in John Coquillon’s cinematography. PH
Today’s best live sport
One Day International Cricket: Pakistan v England The second ODI from Abu Dhabi. 10.30am, Sky Sports 2
Snooker: Champion of Champions Day three from the Ricoh Arena in Coventry. 12.45pm, ITV4
Euro 2016 Football: Bosnia-Herzegovina v Republic of Ireland Can Ireland be the third home nation to qualify? 7pm, Sky Sports 1
Test Cricket: Australia v New Zealand The first day of the second Test at the Waca in Perth. 2.30am, Sky Sports 2
