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Entertainment
Jack Seale, Gwilym Mumford, David Stubbs, Mike Bradley, Jonathan Wright and Paul Howlett

Monday’s best TV: Married to a Paedophile

Sinead Keenan portraying Kate in Married to a Paedophile.
Sinead Keenan portraying Kate in Married to a Paedophile. Photograph: Channel 4

Married to a Paedophile

9pm, Channel 4
The people seen in Colette Camden’s documentary are actors, but they lip-sync to real words spoken by the wives of men convicted of downloading sexual images of children. With the family torn apart – one father’s study is now a shrine to an unimaginable betrayal – what now? The unusual format and queasy subject matter create a deeply eerie film about shame, shock and (widely varying levels of) forgiveness, captured so intimately that there is even room for humour, albeit so dark that Chris Morris might have balked. Jack Seale

Jeremy Vine

9.15am, Channel 5
After 18 years of the cheery populism of The Wright Stuff, Channel 5 looks to try something a little more probing with its replacement, a magazine panel show presented by, yep, Jeremy Vine. Intriguingly, Vine has described the series as “ferociously modern” and “better than Question Time”. Continues all week. Gwilym Mumford

Reported Missing

9pm, BBC One
The opener in this inevitably harrowing second series sees Cheshire police baffled as a five-year-old boy is reported missing by his estranged father, only for his mother to deny that he exists. Meanwhile, in Runcorn, a 16-year-old boy, heavily in debt, leaves his mother an ominous note but no clue to his whereabouts. David Stubbs

Mother’s Day

9pm, BBC Two
Is it possible to make an uplifting drama about the real-life events surrounding the 1993 IRA bomb attack in Warrington? You be the judge as Wendy Parry (Anna Maxwell Martin), who lost her 12-year-old son, Tim, in the attack, joins forces with Dublin housewife Sue McHugh (Vicky McClure), who launches the Peace 93 campaign. Mike Bradley

Murdertown

9pm, CI
If you can get past the fact that ex-Corrie actor Katherine Kelly presents from behind the wheel of a moving car, you will be rewarded with a worthwhile true-crime series about murder spots in regional British cities. First up, Hull’s longest-running unsolved murder is brought to a close by a forensic ecologist. MB

Undercover Girlfriends

10pm, Channel 5
Is he the one? To answer this most burning of questions, five women surveil their respective boyfriends. The men think they are filming a series about lads on holiday in Marbella, but really their womenfolk are employing “stealth, technology and a range of comical disguises” to test them. Continues on Tuesday. Jonathan Wright

Film choice

Lee Remick and James Stewart in Anatomy of a Murder.
Lee Remick and James Stewart in Anatomy of a Murder. Photograph: Allstar Collection/Columbia

Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 1959) 6am, TCM
James Stewart is outstanding in Otto Preminger’s gripping courtroom drama, adapted from Robert Traver’s novel. He plays a small-town lawyer taking on big city prosecutor George C Scott while defending army sergeant Ben Gazzara, accused of murdering the man who raped his wife (Lee Remick). Paul Howlett

Live sport

Test cricket: England v India 10.30am, Sky Sports Cricket. Final day of the fourth test. Can England claim a series win?

Cycling: Tour of Britain 10.45am, ITV4. Stage two, a 174km route from Cranbrook to Barnstaple.

Tennis: US Open 4pm, Amazon Prime Video. Flushing Meadows hosts the conclusion of the men’s and women’s round of 16 matches.

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