Paul Hollywood: A Baker’s Life
8pm, Channel 4
The start of a four-part autobiography by the Bake Off judge, with the added draw of titbits about the show: we see Hollywood and Mary Berry’s screen tests, some backstage footage of the recent series, and an amusing interlude in which Hollywood bakes in the tent, judged by former contestants Selasi and Val. All of that makes it worth sitting through low-wattage scenes where Hollywood does his TV chef bit. Jack Seale
Would I Lie to You?
8.30pm, BBC One
The enduringly likable panel show trundles cheerfully on. This week’s guests for the good-natured fib-fest are Stephen Mangan, Mark Bonnar, Sheila Hancock and Anita Rani but, as ever, the show truly hits its stride when Lee Mack and David Mitchell lock horns and engage their counterintuitive comic chemistry. There are vanishingly few things we can rely on in today’s bewildering world but it seems this proramme is one of them. Phil Harrison
Supershoppers
8.30pm, Channel 4
Time to fashion a utility belt containing your various loyalty cards and a cape fashioned from bags for life, as Anna Richardson and Sabrina Grant return to empower Britain’s shoppers, just in time for the Christmas retail rampage. Tonight’s episode includes a comparison between own-brand produce and the big brands nestled up against them on supermarket shelves. Is the difference actually any greater than more lavish packaging and marketing spend? Mark Gibbings-Jones
Employable Me
9pm, BBC Two
Since a stroke six years ago, Andy, who has aphasia, has applied for more than 3,000 jobs, but has so far only had one interview. Meanwhile, Ryan, 22, has one of the most extreme cases of Tourette syndrome in the UK. Can he manage to hold down a trial at his local aquatic centre while calling elderly customers “coffin dodgers”? Occupational psychologist Nancy Doyle attempts to help them, and others, find employment in this encouraging new series. Ali Catterall
Black America Since MLK
9pm, PBS America
The events of the US’s civil rights era are fairly familiar, but what about the 50 years since? In this final hour of the four-part series, literary critic and historian Henry Louis Gates Jr reflects on the challenges Barack Obama faced as president and the role of social media in the Black Lives Matter movement. How could the same nation that elected a black man president allow these incidents of police brutality to continue? Ellen E Jones
Storyville: Last Men in Aleppo
10pm, BBC Four
The last men of the title are the White Helmets, the volunteer rescue organisation that, at considerable risk, works to retrieve survivors from the rubble of their city’s bomb-wrecked buildings. This film won the grand jury documentary prize at the 2017 Sundance festival, and deservedly: it’s an intimate, unsparing yet remarkably unfussy study of the day-to-day reality of life amid war, all the more heartbreaking for its matter-of-factness. Andrew Mueller
My Dad’s on Death Row
10pm, Really
Sunny Williams’s dad Coy “Elvis” Westbrook – though in her words “a kind, loving father” – killed five people, including his ex-wife Gloria, at a house in Texas in 1997. Despite being deemed mentally ill, with an IQ of 66, his execution looms. Meanwhile, Christie Battaglia has only visited her father John twice during his 15 years in prison; understandable given the horror of his crimes. A gruelling hour of TV, with scant comfort at the end of it. Ben Arnold
Film choice
Arlington Road (Mark Pellington, 1999) 9pm, Sony Movie Channel
Jeff Bridges is politics lecturer Michael Faraday, who has his doubts about new neighbours Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack. But he is himself a loose cannon, grieving for his murdered FBI-agent wife and preaching a radical agenda at college. So is he paranoid, or are the cheesy couple across the street actually terrorists? Pellington keeps us guessing in a consistently intriguing thriller. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Test Cricket: India v Sri Lanka 6am, Sky Sports Main Event. Coverage of the fourth day’s play in the second Test at Nagpur.
Championship Football: Queens Park Rangers v Brentford 7.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event. A second-tier London derby from Loftus Road.
NBA: Philadelphia 76ers v Cleveland Cavaliers 12midnight, BT Sport 1. The Eastern Conference clash at Wells Fargo Centre.
