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Entertainment
Paul Howlett, Graeme Virtue, Hannah Verdier, Mark Gibbings-Jones, Candice Carty-Williams, Jack Seale

Monday’s best TV: Being Blacker; Imagine – Ingrid Bergman

Blacker Dread.
Blacker Dread. Photograph: Molly Dineen

Being Blacker

9pm, BBC Two

Brixton residents might be familiar with Blacker Dread’s record shop on Coldharbour Lane. It’s now an estate agent’s. This melancholy turn of events is emblematic of Molly Dineen’s warm, thought-provoking film, which begins as a profile of a London legend but overflows into a meditation on identity, gentrification and the immigrant experience. Blacker is wise and affable, even as he begins a prison stretch. Meanwhile, Dineen, making her first film for a decade, has lost none of her enviable instinct for offering intimacy without intrusion and using tiny details to illuminate the bigger picture. Phil Harrison

Made in Chelsea

9pm, E4

The ritzy staged reality soap swans into its 15th season hoping to capitalise on the notoriety of recent I’m a Celeb winner Georgia “Toff” Toffolo. Will any of her old jungle pals make a cameo? In other developments, sunbed fan Jamie – who fared rather less well on Celebrity Hunted – has a new squeeze. Graeme Virtue

Jane

9pm, National Geographic

More than 100 hours of footage have gone into this telling of the story of fearless conservationist Jane Goodall, which is set to a score by Philip Glass. Worth watching for the moment when chimpanzees bounce over to examine her camera and steal bananas, it gives an enchanting insight into her work. Hannah Verdier

Electric Dreams

10pm, Channel 4

Arriving in a paranoid city from a backwater bubble, Irene Lee and her daughter Foster are in unfriendly surroundings. Foster’s sole supportive voice at school comes from the helpdesk assistant within a communication bracelet. Effortlessly takes Philip K Dick’s cold war satire into the Alexa era. Mark Gibbings-Jones

Five Star Hotel

10pm, E4

Wordplay is always welcome, this being a hotel run by five stars (in the loosest sense). And it is worth a watch, if reality TV circuit-treaders – Spencer Matthews, Joey Essex, Lydia Bright, Ashley Cain and Holly Hagan – doing what they do in every iteration of every programme they’ve been on is your thing. Candice Carty-Williams

Imagine: Ingrid Bergman

10.45pm, BBC One

Stig Björkman’s patchwork of interviews, newsreel and home movies is narrated by Alicia Vikander, reading from the Swedish actor’s letters and diaries. Even if it evokes rather than fully explains, the format gives the impression of entering the superstar’s confidence. Jack Seale

Cillian Murphy in 28 Days Later.
Cillian Murphy in 28 Days Later. Photograph: Ronaldgrantarchive

Film choice

28 Days Later, 11pm, Syfy

Cillian Murphy’s Jim wakes up from a coma to find that a virus has turned Britain into a nation of crazed zombies. Can he and other survivors – including Naomie Harris and Brendan Gleeson – make it to rural safety? An apocalyptic urban nightmare, reminiscent of the Living Dead series. Paul Howlett

Live sport

Test cricket: South Africa v Australia, 8am, Sky Sports Main Event. Day four of the second Test.

Premier League football: Stoke City v Manchester City, 7pm, Sky Sports Main Event. The champions-elect visit the Bet365 Stadium.

Winter Paralympics 2018, 12.15am, Channel 4. Including the men’s and women’s super combined alpine skiing.

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