Kiss Me First
10pm, Channel 4
An attention-grabbing if slightly frantic start to this new teen VR thriller, adapted from the page by Skins creator Bryan Elsley and with both Channel 4 and Netflix’s dosh behind it. Tallulah Haddon plays Leila, a vulnerable teenager whose mother has recently died. Leila finds solace in her favourite video game, where she discovers a secret Matrix-inspired zone named Red Pill. As Leila is pulled into strange and potentially dangerous worlds both on- and offline, Tess (Simona Brown) is the party girl taking her off grid. Hannah J Davies
Travel Man: 48 Hours in Brussels
8.30pm, Channel 4
Awkward traveller Richard Ayoade is in Brussels with Lee Mack for this opening episode of the new series. It features everything we expect from the Belgian capital: moules, chocs, waffles and EU-philia, plus one of the best marionette-based gags you’re ever likely to hear. Ellen E Jones
Lenny Henry: The Commonwealth Kid
9pm, BBC One
Lenny Henry visits Jamaica to explore the history of the Commonwealth and what it means post-Brexit. His take on the fissure in his own sense of identity is open-hearted, often moving and an illuminating way into an analysis of Commonwealth countries’ place in the modern world. Jack Seale
Dave Allen at Peace
9pm, BBC Two
Aidan Gillen stars in this thoughtfully constructed biopic of the Irish comedian. It skims swiftly over his celebrity years, though it is interspersed with recreations of some of his sketches and monologues. Instead, it explores the roots of his religious scepticism (sadistic nuns) and his relationships with his father and brother. David Stubbs
Marcella
9pm, ITV
This Anna Friel vehicle manages the trick of being simultaneously enjoyably barmy and genuinely harrowing. Tonight, it reaches its penultimate part with the detectives returning to Nigel Stafford’s home in order to double down on his false stories about Vince. But could the truth prove too much for them to handle? Phil Harrison
The Island with Bear Grylls
9pm, Channel 4
When two groups at opposite ends of the wealth spectrum are dropped on to an island with little more than the clothes on their backs, what will kill them first? Nature or class war? Predictably, the posh people are walking parodies of themselves, with the joke “I’m looking for the Hilton” deployed 10 minutes in. Candice Carty-Williams
Film choice
Free Fire, 9pm, Film4
In a dingy warehouse, IRA hardmen Cillian Murphy and Michael Smiley and their helpers, gunrunners Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer and their gang, plus intermediary Brie Larson (“I’m in it for myself”) have a furious falling out. Ben Wheatley strips out plot and character in favour of a brilliantly constructed shootout. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Test Cricket: South Africa v Australia 9am, Sky Sports Main Event. The brilliantly fighty series continues in Jo’burg.
Super League Rugby: Widnes Vikings v St Helens 3pm, Sky Sports Main Event. From Select Security Stadium.
Championship Football: Sheffield United v Cardiff City 7.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event. Action from Bramall Lane.
