Imagine: Margaret Atwood – You Have Been Warned!
10.30pm, BBC1
Alan Yentob meets Margaret Atwood, presently enjoying an even greater degree of acclaim than usual thanks to the TV adaptation of her 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale. Like many pathfinders, Atwood has always been just outside – or ahead of – the mainstream. In the most depressing imaginable ways, reality appears to have caught up with her, making this a very pertinent profile. Andrew Mueller
The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2017
6.30pm, BBC1
Oh, if only it were a programme about royals getting inked in Scotland. But no – this military pageantry event has been running since 1950 as part of the Edinburgh festival, and is watched on television by 100 million people each year. Tonight, Bill Paterson narrates the highlights; besides Her Madge’s Colour Squadron, you’ll see the Japan Ground Self-Defence Force Band, the Indian Naval Band and certainly a bagpipe or 10. Sophie Harris
Dispatches: Secrets of Your New Car
7.30pm, Channel 4
As the fallout from the Volkswagen emissions scandal continues, Dispatches turns its attention to the misleading eco patter of many car salespeople and the rise of personal contract plans. Morland Sanders goes undercover on the showroom floor to reveal how hidden borrowing costs on cars are adding to the UK’s consumer debt crisis, and asks whether we can really trust what we’re told. Unsurprisingly, “read the small print” still applies. Sharon O’Connell
Nadiya’s British Food Adventure
8.30pm, BBC2
“I don’t like to follow rules,” growls Nadiya Hussain. “I like to mix things up!” Hence chucking tradition out of the window and making a Cornish pasty with apple and lamb, and serving up a tropical twist on cream tea and scones. We are in the West Country tonight, where Hussain is digging in Dorchester for garlic, and picking strawberries down in Gloucester to make midsummer berry jam – just the thing to put in her doughnuts. Ali Catterall
In Solitary: The Anti-Social Experiment
9pm, Channel 5
Most of us will have occasionally longed for more time to reflect, ponder and self-examine. This film shows what happens when five volunteers (including presenter George Lamb) are deprived of external stimuli and left at the mercy of their own thoughts for five days. It is borderline hellish for some, but participants who stick it out reach a tipping point – a moment when perception is cleansed and epiphanies occur. Fascinating. Phil Harrison
Game of Thrones
9pm, Sky Atlantic
The feature-length end is nigh – well, of season seven, anyway – and whether or not you bought into the silly, Dirty Dozen mission that cost Daenerys a dragon and left Jon Snow nursing some troublesome chilblains, what’s done is done. Once the Hound has delivered Cersei the stinking bag of walking flesh that it’s hoped will persuade her of Westeros’s impending doom, will she join the fight for all humanity? One doesn’t imagine so. Ben Arnold
Idiotsitter
11.30pm, Comedy Central
The humour of this ex-web series isn’t as edgy as it imagines, and the self-conscious tone sits rather awkwardly, but it has had its moments. This season finale sees student Gene locking lecturer Billie and other faculty members in the library, then swallowing the key, so reluctant is she to leave college. Cluedo-inspired chaos ensues, involving the gross-out retrieval of said key and winks to co-writer/star Charlotte Newhouse’s identity. Sharon O’Connell
Film choice
The Theory of Everything (James Marsh, 2014) 9pm, ITV
Clever of director Marsh to contrast the small-scale – the troubled marriage of Stephen Hawking and his wife Jane – with the major workings of his mighty mind and quest for a theory of the universe and everything. The result is an uplifting portrait of a man heroically overcoming the physical limitations of his motor neurone disease, with beautiful performances from Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones. Paul Howlett
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013) 1.35am, Film4
As creepy and disturbing a piece of sci-fi as you’re likely to see. Scarlett Johansson is a beautifully pallid, otherworldly presence as an alien in luscious human form who tours the mean streets of Glasgow in search of men, then takes them home to do extraordinary, draining things to them – just not the things they had in mind. Eerie and erotic. PH
Live sport
National League Football: AFC Fylde v Barrow 7.30pm, BT Sport 1. Coverage of the match from Mill Farm.
Speedway: Rye House v Poole 7.30pm, BT Sport 2. The SGB Premiership clash at the Rye House Stadium.
Test Cricket: England v West Indies 10.30am, Sky Sports Main Event. Action from day four of the second Test at Headingley.
