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3pm, Channel 4
With Deal or No Deal now in the dream factory in the sky, Noel Edmonds returns to our screens with a new, and even more illogical, concept. The aim of the game is for contestants to work out which of three items is the cheapest, while surrounded by fake “general store” staff. With bizarre innuendo, a problematic eastern European character and not-so-subtle mentions of Noel’s former glory, it’s either genius or bonkers. Hannah J Davies
Scotland’s Model Teenager
7.30pm, BBC1
Spotted by a casting agent three years ago while he was still at school, Connor Newall from Glasgow is living the dream, flitting between Europe and New York on assignments and mingling with celebrities in a world far removed from the shipyards or the army, whom he once considered potential employers. This doc follows his hectic schedule as one of the most successful Scottish models of all time. Can he survive the ordeal? Ali Catterall
Dangerous Borders: A Journey Across India & Pakistan
9pm, BBC2
In this new series, Adnan Sarwar and Babita Sharma travel the length of the India-Pakistan border to meet the people who live along this buffer zone, still hotly disputed 70 years after partition. We begin in Adipur, once a camp for Hindu refugees forced to flee for their lives from the new Muslim state of Pakistan. Today it is, of all things, a haven for Charlie Chaplin imitators. We also get a taste of the metropolis of Karachi. David Stubbs
EasyJet: Inside the Cockpit
9pm, ITV
Our appetite for air travel knows no limits, but there hasn’t been a parallel surge in the number of Brits training to be pilots. Cue this brand-building doc, following the budget airline’s drive to recruit more joystick-wagglers, women especially. Rookies are observed learning in classrooms, practising in simulators and, finally, controlling an aircraft full of passengers for the first time. There’s a business-class narrator, at least: Stephen Fry. Jack Seale
Storyville: Out of Thin Air – Murder in Iceland
10pm, BBC4
In the mid-70s, Iceland was a close-knit country in key respects. Crime was rare, so when two men vanished in 1974 and foul play was suspected, there was huge pressure on the authorities. What followed, as this doc recounts, was a shocking miscarriage of justice as six suspects were arrested and confessed to murder. The first-hand testimony of Erla Bolladóttir, held in solitary confinement for 242 days, is especially harrowing. Jonathan Wright
Gizzi Erskine: Seoul Food
9.30pm, Good Food
Debut of a new series on Korean cuisine that manages to conform to roughly every cliche of both the cookery programme and the travelogue: crashingly obvious pun in the title, presenter “on a journey”, etc. In this episode, Gizzi visits South Korea’s capital – crowded, apparently, with lots of tech companies – to learn, and then attempt her own take on, the fundamentals of Korean cooking. In fairness, the food does all look marvellous. Andrew Mueller
Game of Thrones
9pm, Sky Atlantic
For those firmly on the hook of season seven, we may discover tonight whether a certain gent survived his poorly judged run-in with Daenerys and Drogon following last week’s heart-thumping dust-up on the Roseroad. However, when someone disappears into the inky depths, there’s always a chance that they’ll bob up to the surface again downstream. Arya managed it. Either way, the stakes have been well and truly raised. Ben Arnold
Film choice
All Is Lost (JC Chandor, 2013) 9pm, Film4
Or what could be the Old Man and the Sea: Chandor’s relentlessly taut and gripping drama stars Robert Redford as a veteran, unnamed sailor, alone on a sinking boat on the ocean. It’s as minimalist as can be – we don’t know why he’s there – and Redford is superb, though near-silent, as the embattled wanderer who struggles to overcome storm and setbacks, one damn thing after another, that bring him ever closer to the end. Utterly riveting.
Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991) 9pm, Sony Movie Channel
The road movie that found a new gear, putting two devil-may-care women in the driving seat. Waitress Susan Sarandon and neglected wife Geena Davis head off on a weekend jaunt that quickly swerves out of control when they kill a rapist. The tone remains upbeat, often funny, but from here on they’re on a road to nowhere.
Sport
ATP Masters Tennis: Western and Southern Open 4pm, Sky Sports Main Event. Day one of the tournament in Cincinnati.
WTA Tennis: Cincinnati 4pm, BT Sport 1 Women’s heats of the above tournament.
Speedway: Somerset v Leicester 7.30pm, BT Sport 2. Somerset Rebels host Leicester Lions in the SGB Premiership at the Oaktree Arena.
• This article was amended on 16 August 2017. The original preview of Storyville: Out of Thin Air said that Erla Bolladottir was held in solitary confinement for 135 days rather than 242 days.
