The Real Marigold on Tour
9pm, BBC One
There’s something irresistibly uplifting about this show, and in this series Miriam Margolyes, Wayne Sleep, Rosemary Shrager and Bobby George reunite to experience retired life around the world. The giggling foursome’s first stop is Sichuan province in China. Stairlifts on the metro are welcome but the lack of beansprouts is a disappointment, and while Miriam melts after an encounter with a panda, Rosemary is unimpressed. Hannah Verdier
Employable Me
9pm, BBC Two
Continuing the series following jobseekers with disabilities seeking full-time work. Tonight, we meet Nicola, whose hundreds of applications and first-class journalism degree haven’t helped her find work. Cerebral palsy hasn’t dampened her determination, but repeated rejection has chipped away her confidence. Meanwhile, Marve’s care-work experience should bring in opportunities, but his visual impairment is proving offputting to potential employers. Mark Gibbings-Jones
Concorde: Designing the Dream
9pm, Channel 5
The first part of a workmanlike doc about Britain and France’s joint emblem of postwar showing-off: the supersonic airliner. The technical challenges of breaking the sound barrier are laid out by pilots and engineers, as is the story of a feeble Soviet rival. It’s a triumph of ingenuity over improbability, but mentions of Concorde’s environmental impact leave room to question whether we should have built it, just because we could. Jack Seale
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
9pm, PBS America
This gloomy docudrama is a Poe biopic that pendulums from the master of the macabre’s formative years as a Byron-loving wannabe to his mysterious death in Baltimore in 1849. As a vexed, clammy Poe, Denis O’Hare addresses the viewer directly, which adds a certain unsettling charge to proceedings. There are also contributions from celebrity Poe-heads such as actor Chris Sarandon and B-movie maestro Roger Corman. Graeme Virtue
The Art That Made Mexico: Paradise, Power and Prayers
9pm, BBC Four
Mexico-born British artist Alinka Echeverría has a theory about her homeland. She believes the art there is influenced by three forces: nature, power and religion. That lends itself to a three-part documentary series, which begins with a trip to the volcano-ringed, earthquake-ravaged Valley of Mexico. Before the conquistadors arrived, the art of the Teotihuacan and Aztecs was closely linked to this dramatic landscape. Ellen E Jones
Handmade in Mexico
10pm, BBC Four
Debut of a three-part series celebrating distinctly Mexican artworks, and meeting the artisans who still produce them. This episode focuses on the design and manufacture of signature items of Mexican clothing – the tunic known as the huipil, which has grown more decorative in recent years, and the more elaborate tehuana dress made by the Zapotec, as popularised internationally by the self-portraits of Frida Kahlo. Andrew Mueller
Addicted to Porn
10pm, Really
Joseph, 13, styles himself as “a recovering porn addict”. It’s a dependence, he says, that was fuelled by the easy availability of explicit sexual imagery online. Joseph’s is just one story in what is essentially an anti-porn doc set out as a kind of all-you-need-to-know guide to how the 21st-century hardcore industry works. Featuring contributions from both industry figures and anti-porn campaigners, it is, perhaps inevitably, grim viewing as it counts porn’s human cost. Jonathan Wright
TV films
The Untouchables (Brian De Palma, 1987) 11am, 8pm, Sky Cinema Greats
De Palma’s big-screen homage to the 50s TV crime series is done in brilliant style and sharply scripted by David Mamet. Kevin Costner makes his name as upright fed Eliot Ness, pulling together a team of incorruptibles (Sean Connery, Andy Garcia, Charles Martin-Smith) to nail Robert De Niro’s ferocious Al Capone in crime-racked 1930s Chicago. Some of the bloody violence harks back to De Palma’s Scarface, but the Untouchables riding to battle on horseback, and the grand finale’s homage to Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin, are much lighter pastiche. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Snooker: UK Championship 1pm, BBC Two. Coverage of the sixth day at the Barbican Centre in York.
Championship Football: Birmingham City v Wolverhampton Wanderers 7.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event. A Midlands derby from St Andrews.
Ashes Cricket: Australia v England 3am, BT Sport 1. More from Adelaide as Joe Root’s team look to level the series.
