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Entertainment
Mark Gibbings-Jones, Graeme Virtue, Paul Howlett, Hannah Verdier, Luke Holland, Ben Arnold, David Stubbs

Monday’s best TV: Storyville: Silk Road – Drugs, Death and the Dark Web; Streetmate

Jailed … Ross Ulbricht , aka Dread Pirate Roberts of Silk Road
Jailed … Ross Ulbricht , aka Dread Pirate Roberts of Silk Road Photograph: HANDOUT/REUTERS

Streetmate
5.30pm, Channel 4

Almost two decades after Davina McCall first combed the UK’s town centres looking for impromptu love matches, the dating show that favours chugger tactics over swiping right, returns in a daytime slot. I’m A Celeb champ Scarlett Moffatt is the new urban Cupid, buttonholing hot strangers on behalf of shy types such as Austin – a buff personal trainer armed with a killer knock-knock joke – and Sara, a former beauty queen who knows her fossils. Graeme Virtue

Jamie’s Quick & Easy Food
8pm, Channel 4

Jamie Oliver has discovered “a new way of cooking that’s completely changed my life”. Indeed, he’s practically jumping up and down with excitement at various points during the first episode of this new series. The focus is on simplicity, with each recipe using just five ingredients. And however you feel about him, Jamie’s recipes are undeniably useful – tonight’s highlight is an ingenious bread made with flour and yoghurt. Paul Howlett

Nadiya’s British Food Adventure 8.30pm, BBC2

Nadiya Hussain is one of those enthusiastic people who can use lines such as “whoever invented squeezy bottles for golden syrup, I applaud them”. This week, her culinary tour reaches Scotland and she starts with porridge, making crumble topped with flapjack. In the west, she joins forager Gary, who is in search of herbs to liven up a mushroom curry. And, unable to avoid the haggis, she gives a nod to it in her tasty-looking veggie tart. Hannah Verdier

EasyJet: Inside the Cockpit 9pm, ITV

At 20, most people are probably still trying to work out how to boil an egg without setting fire to their hair, so spare a thought for fledgling pilot Ryan, who tonight is given the considerable responsibility of attempting his first landing with a full consignment of passengers – at night. Elsewhere in the concluding part of this plane and simple yet gently fun doc, cadet Sophie is learning how to deal with face-wobbling G-forces. Luke Holland

Storyville: Silk Road – Drugs, Death and the Dark Web
10pm, BBC4

When Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs, no one could have envisioned that conflict spreading to a digital battlefield. And yet, with the dark-web empire Silk Road, that is exactly what happened. Mark Lewis’s gripping doc explores the infamous marketplace, from the supposedly utopian ideals of founder Dread Pirate Roberts – AKA physics graduate Ross Ulbricht – to efforts by US law enforcement to shut it down. Mark Gibbings-Jones

Game of Thrones
9pm, Sky Atlantic

The whole is he/isn’t he dead business with Jaime Lannister didn’t last long, and now with Cersei willing to parlay with the Mother of Dragons, and Littlefinger concocting his own brand of treachery, tension is tighter than the string on Qyburn’s rubbish dragon-slaying crossbow. Will Jon and his band of less-than-merry men succeed on their mission beyond the wall? Not without some casualties, one suspects. Ben Arnold

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
(Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt, 2012)
1.30pm, BBC2

Another wonderful fantasy from Aardman Animations, in which the Hugh Grant-voiced Pirate Captain sets sail to beat rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to the pirate of the year award. When he happens on Charles Darwin (David Tennant), all sorts of landlubberly machinations threaten to sink his plan. A witty stop-motion adventure. PH

Sport

Test Cricket: England v West Indies 1.30pm, Sky Sports Cricket

Coverage of the fifth day of the first Test.

WTA Tennis: New Haven 5pm, BT Sport 1

Day two of the Connecticut Open, the final stop on the WTA tour ahead of the US Open.

Premier League Football: Manchester City v Everton 7pm, Sky Sports Main Event

Two of the transfer window big spenders face-off at the Etihad.

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