Monday’s best TV: Growing Up Gifted; Cold Feet

Growing Up Gifted
9pm, BBC Two

This long-term documentary project on social mobility picks up a year on, revisiting gifted but disadvantaged children from Hartlepool to Harlesden, all of whom are preparing for their GCSEs. They are lovely, resilient kids who deserve every success in life but, sadly, such happy Hollywood endings are far from guaranteed in 21st-century Britain. What’s more, if this is how the gifted struggle, what hope for those children without any discernible “special” talent? Heartbreaking stuff. Ellen E Jones

The Secret Lives of Slim People
8.30pm, Channel 4

Despite host Sabrina Grant’s upbeat tone, this series treats thin people like prime suspects in an investigation, spying on them in private moments and snooping through their cupboards to uncover their skinny secret. This week’s targets are Karl from Essex and Gaby from south London. Graeme Virtue

Cold Feet
9pm, ITV

Series eight of the midlife melodrama concludes with an ineffectual finale. First we are titillated with rumours that “Adam is seeing someone”, which jar incongruously with a moving cancer storyline courtesy of Jen. Next, David plays good Samaritan before everything comes up roses. Too predictable by half. Mike Bradley

A Very British History: The First Black Brummies
9pm, BBC Four

Poet Sue Brown, whose parents came to Britain from Jamaica in the 1950s, meets members of Birmingham’s Caribbean community to recall the hostile environment that faced early immigrants, and explains why a large number of the new arrivals wanted to go home straight away. MB

The Making of Me
10pm, Channel 4

In this week’s episode, student Emma has started self-prescribing hormones in order to transition, having tired of waiting for NHS treatment. Plus, Jay is committed to transitioning from female to male but his dad begs him to have a change of heart. Life-changing decisions and all the drama that goes with them. MB

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
10.10pm, Sky Atlantic

Britain’s best expat satirist returns with more well-worked rants. In a show that maintains itself by focusing on the orange elephant in the room only as often as is absolutely necessary, it’s Oliver’s extended excoriations of particular injustices that still particularly satisfy. Jack Seale

Film choice

Tangerine 11.15pm, Film4 Shot on iPhone, Sean Baker’s indie comedy crackles with energy and streetwise laughter. It’s the story of trans sex worker Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez), who is out of jail and on the warpath when she finds her pimp-boyfriend Chester (James Ransome) has been unfaithful. Set in West Hollywood, it pulses with vibrant colour. Paul Howlett