Edward Snowden: Spies, Terrorists and the Law
8.30pm, BBC1
Peter Taylor interviews Edward Snowden, the whistleblower whose 2013 leak of NSA documents revealed the extent of snooping upon citizens and governments alike by the west’s intelligence services. Snowden now has uncertain sanctuary in Russia, faces espionage charges in the US, and arouses varied epithets, from heroic truthteller to malicious traitor. His declared mission, however, of raising awareness about privacy in the online age, has surely been accomplished. Andrew Mueller
Rooney: The Man Behind the Goals
9pm, BBC1
Gary Lineker drops in on Wayne Rooney at home as part of this luxury documentary. It turns out that he’s a quiet bloke with a lovely life and not much to say. Helped by every big name Rooney’s played with, Lineker remembers the Croxteth kid’s teenage brilliance, and his solid subsequent career. The programme details controversies, setbacks and failures on the world stage but is careful not to examine them too closely. Jack Seale
The Celts: Blood, Iron, and Sacrifice With Alice Roberts and Neil Oliver
9pm, BBC2
A bit CSI, a bit Game of Thrones, this show doesn’t want to seem like a history lesson. The pitch is this: the Celts, unlike their rivals the Romans, didn’t go in for marble statues, the written word and so on, and so are pretty much dead to history. Enter Neil Oliver and Alice Roberts to try and resurrect them. Whether that’s by peering at archeological finds in France, or summoning dramatic reconstructions of events in 387BC, they make a engaging job of it. John Robinson
Doc Martin
9pm, ITV
What do you do if a lonely little scruffy dog is stalking you? If you’re Doc Martin, after being prevented from giving the mutt a lethal injection, you take it to a hippyish vet, Angela Sim (Caroline Quentin). Chuck in such plot developments as illegal liquor distillation and the perils of self-medication, and that’s about as exciting as Doc Martin gets. Impressive, then, that it seems more than the sum of such inconsequential parts, perhaps because the ongoing odd-couple romance between Louisa and Martin anchors the dramedy. Jonathan Wright
Is Britain Racist?
9pm, BBC3
Although BBC3 was once derided for its endless Family Guy reruns and innumerable airings of Gavin and Stacey, the soon-to-be-axed channel has had more hits than misses of late, from the Defying the Label season on disability to the investigative Secrets of China. Its latest coup is the race season, which includes this one-off experiment on how Britain treats its ethnic minorities, with black, Jewish and Muslim reporters heading undercover to uncover the truth. Journalist Mona Chalabi hosts. Hannah J Davies
Sex Diaries: Gigolos
10pm, Channel 4
“I’m so sad and lonely,” read the lyrics to that American songbook classic Just a Gigolo; and if we consider the profession at all, it probably conjures up images of Midnight Cowboy and Jon Voight’s Joe Buck, a truly luckless man if ever there was one. But what’s the reality of male prostitution, and can those involved ever lead regular lives? Here, Charlie Russell meets three different men, including 51-year-old Ian, who offers a “boyfriend experience” – which probably doesn’t include having an argument during an Ikea shopping trip. Ali Catterall
The Leftovers
10pm, Sky Atlantic
The series about a world in which 2% of the population has mysteriously vanished, as if taken by a Rapture-style event, reaches its second season. The Garveys have relocated to Texas, as has Christopher Eccleston’s ex-reverend, but many characters from the first run do not feature this time round; instead, the action revolves around an African-American family headed by John, who went to prison for attempted murder. They live in Jarden, renamed “Miracle”, because it was the one place unaffected by the disappearances – until now. David Stubbs
Film choices
Babylon AD (Mathieu Kassovitz, 2008) 9pm, E4
Kassovitz has never quite lived up to his electric debut feature La Haine, and here’s another nearly-good movie. It’s set in a familiar down-the-drain dystopia, where Vin Diesel’s Rick Deckard-lite bounty hunter goes all soft and agrees to help young seer Mélanie Thierry and her bodyguard, Michelle Yeoh, get from the nuclear ruin of Russia to New York. Paul Howlett
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, 2014) 10pm, Sky Movies Superheroes
Captain America (Chris Evans), Marvel’s most patriotic warrior, teams up with Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow and Anthony Mackie’s Falcon to fight old Soviet killer the Winter Soldier and also more insidious threats from within that threaten the future of the security agency Shield. It’s all rather more grown-up than most superhero fare. PH
Today’s best live sport
Tennis: The China Open Day three of the women’s draw, with coverage of the men’s draw on Sky Sports 3 (12.30pm). 7.30am, BT Sport 1
International T20 Cricket: India v South Africa Second encounter in the three-match series. 2.20pm, Sky Sports 2
Darts: World Grand Prix The tournament, held in Dublin, enters its second day. 7pm, Sky Sports 1
American Football: Seattle Seahawks v Detroit Lions Face off between two teams who have underwhelmed this season. 1.15am, Sky Sports 2
