Basquiat: Rage to Riches
9pm, BBC2
In May this year, one of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Skull paintings sold at auction for $110.5m, a record for any post-1980 artwork. It was a reminder of the enduring appeal of Basquiat’s furious, lurid paintings, nearly three decades on from his death from an overdose, aged 27. This documentary ponders the resonance of Basquiat’s work, featuring the first television interviews with his sisters, among other friends and associates. Andrew Mueller
Strictly Come Dancing
6.35pm, BBC1
The substantially sequinned sensation swings, skanks and salsas into week three, and Craig, Shirley, Bruno and Darcey are raising eyebrows at the remaining couples as they embark upon Movie Week. After Chizzy’s surprise exit, it’s dad-dancer incarnate Brian Conley who must surely now pick up his game, while Aston will no doubt prove that professional dancers will always make for quite good amateur dancers. Who knew, eh? Luke Holland
WWII’s Great Escapes: The Freedom Trails
8pm, Channel 4
Another sombre yomp for Royal Marine-turned-historic rambler Monty Halls, retracing the steps of those who dared evade the Nazis during the second world war. The perilous ridges of the Pyrenees offered a picturesque but arduous passage from France into Spain, a journey undertaken by many stranded allied airmen with the help of local resistance forces. Former RAF gunner Bob Frost shares memories of his own fraught mountain crossing. Graeme Virtue
Black Lake
9pm, BBC4
Back to carnage chalet in Scandinavia for a final double bill, and we find the photogenic Scooby Gang visitors still trying to work out whether they’re in the middle of a psychological thriller or a supernatural horror. Without giving away too many spoilers, it’s a bit of both – and as either scenario involves a heavy body count, what’s the difference anyway? Tosh and nonsense, albeit stylishly done, but worth sticking with if you’ve made it this far. Jonathan Wright
Performance Live: You Can’t Go Back
10.30pm, BBC2
Poet Ross Sutherland pulls off an impressively orchestrated one-take monologue, backed by a 1997 episode of EastEnders that he interacts with and remixes. The conceit is that he saw some of the original broadcast, before leaving his home and travelling in a friend’s car that then crashed; a rewatch might stir suppressed memories. It’s an oddity that preserves the immediacy of theatre within a structure that could only exist on TV. Jack Seale
XTC: This Is Pop
9pm, Sky Arts
Somewhere between new wave, UK folk and English psychedelia, the impossibly influential XTC were musically and lyrically streets ahead of the pack, are regularly spoken about in the same breath as the Beatles, and inspire the sort of devotion more commonly reserved for neo-pagan goddesses than art-rockers from Swindon. Subject of an online petition to get it aired (as the Beeb passed), this documentary charts the beautiful misfits’ career. Ali Catterall
Borderland
9pm, History
Six Americans of assorted political stripes continue to retrace the steps of three migrants who died attempting illegal entry into the US, tonight attempting a journey from southern Mexico atop a freight train. With hundreds sharing such rides, folksy images of sharing boxcars with wisdom-spouting hobos is a world away. And yet the rooftop commuters’ demeanour suggests a destination like Disneyland rather than the barren wastes bracketing the border. Mark Gibbings-Jones
Film choice
Where Eagles Dare, (Brian G Hutton, 1968), 6.50pm, Channel 5
Adapted by Alistair MacLean from his novel, this cracking war movie has major Richard Burton leading a small band of British character actors – plus Mary Ure’s resistance fighter and Clint Eastwood as their lethal American friend – into a nighttime swoop on the Germans. The snowy action scenes are terrific, particularly Burton’s ice-pick fight atop a cable car. Paul Howlett
Bright Days Ahead, (Marion Vernoux, 2013), 12.05am, BBC2
Fanny Ardant plays Caroline, a woman of a certain age (actually her 60s) in this sophisticated and seductive, ever-so-Gallic romcom. She starts a deliciously lustful affair with her fortysomething computing teacher Julien (Laurent Lafitte), and Vernoux proceeds with a delicately carefree touch, and a fine sense of fun. Paul Howlett
White God, (Kornél Mundruczó, 2014), 1.20am, Film4
This gripping and touching Hungarian tale of a teenage girl and her dog resembles a crossbreed of the savage Amores Perros and Lassie. Lili (Zsófia Psotta) is sent to live with her father, who promptly abandons her pet Hagen in the street. The lovable Labrador-cross is captured and brutalised by a dog-fighting gang, at which point events turn very strange indeed. A ferociously entertaining satirical drama. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Test Cricket: South Africa v Bangladesh Day two from Bloemfontein. 8.55am, Sky Sports Cricket
Super League Rugby: Castleford Tigers v Leeds Rhinos Rugby league’s showpiece grand final from Old Trafford. 6pm, Sky Sports Main Event
Boxing: Andrew Selby v Maximino Flores A WBC world flyweight eliminator from York Hall in east London. 9.45pm, Channel 5
