Into the Wild with Gordon Buchanan
6.30pm, BBC2
Gordon Buchanan follows his last globetrotting series with a habitat closer to home. The film-maker looks at the wildlife of his native Scotland, observing UK species. He’s joined on his first trip by ex-Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell. Together they visit the Western Isles, including the Isle of Mull, where Buchanan was brought up, and Tiree, where Campbell spent a chunk of his childhood. The pair encounter otters and puffins, and discover an unusual way of attracting seals. Ben Arnold
Abused: The Untold Story
8.30pm, BBC1
Following the death of Jimmy Savile in 2011, it did not take long to emerge that — almost incredibly — the truth about his prolific sexual malevolence was even worse than the rumours had dared suggest. This film meets some of the thousands, such as Dee, who subsequently came forward to allege abuse by Savile and other figures protected by fame. It also meets the police and prosecutors who had to make sense of a logistically and emotionally overwhelming case. Andrew Mueller
Marcella
9pm, ITV
What happened to Marcella (Anna Friel)? As The Bridge writer Hans Rosenfeldt’s misdirection-heavy police procedural continues, we may have to wait a while to find out fully. Meantime, with the hunt for the Grove Park killer gathering pace, Cara places herself in danger; a friendship blossoms between prisoner Peter Cullen, out on work placement, and young postgraduate student Maddy; and we’re introduced to Yann and Matthew, a couple struggling to get by in the capital following a move from Norwich. Jonathan Wright
Fear the Walking Dead
9pm, AMC from BT
Return of the superfluous spin-off, which documents the early days of the zombie outbreak that is in full flare on The Walking Dead. After escaping the apocalypse on land, the survivors are now aboard Strand’s superyacht, the Abigail, and heading to San Diego. It should be plain sailing, but quandaries over whether to pick up other survivors threaten to tear the group asunder. More immediately, it looks like we might finally get an answer to that age-old question: can zombies swim? Gwilym Mumford
Empire
10pm, E4
The hip-hop soap reappears after a midseason hiatus, during which co-creator Lee Daniels confessed his baby had become too fraught with glittery guest stars. So the carousel of hostile takeovers and fashion statements that is the Lyon dynasty now spins harder and faster. Lucious has been ousted as CEO of his record company by his youngest son, while his eldest son’s pregnant partner has been shoved bloodily down some marble mansion steps. Lives, stock positions and the show’s smart-trash credibility are all at risk. Jack Seale
Film choice
The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise, 1945) 2.25am, Movies4Men
“Graves Raided! Coffins Robbed! Corpses Carved!” Yep, it’s a Val Lewton production all right, having a high old time with one of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Burke-and-Hare tales set in 19th-century Edinburgh. Henry Daniell is the goodish doctor, reduced to employing saturnine Boris Karloff to provide fresh cadavers in a creepy, typically shadowy city. Bela Lugosi is implicated, too: this was the last time the two great horror masters worked together.
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