Doctor Who
7.20pm, BBC1
The ace Pearl Mackie’s second episode sees Bill, having decided to travel with the Doctor, marvel at the Tardis, her new mentor and her freedom to roam time and space. Frank Cottrell-Boyce scripts those exchanges, in an episode that’s stripped down to accommodate them, with a light and easy touch. The price for that is the adventure itself, set in a Black Mirror future where droids with emoji faces demand constant happiness; it’s talky, with some big leaps of exposition. Jack Seale
BBC Young Dancer 2017
8pm, BBC2
After weeks of heats, the final of this show now becomes the MasterChef of dance. Namely, it tries to make sense of a competition between people working in very different disciplines: street dance, ballet, contemporary and south Asian. The hope is that the judges (and the viewers) can watch and completely get it, perceiving who has the kind of talent that combines grace, wow factor and technical chops. John Robinson
Britain’s Got Talent
8pm, ITV
If people wearing dog masks for entertainment and dancing policemen are your thing then you’ve probably already picked your BGT winner. But there are many more auditions to be suffered/enjoyed. While Cowell, Holden, Walliams and Dixon dish out their opinions, the ever-reliable Ant and Dec host. You know the drill: for every “No thanks, take your mind-reading cat home” there’s someone who’ll make the judges hit those buzzers and wipe their moistened eyes. Hannah Verdier
Man Made Planet: Earth from Space
8pm, Channel 4
In 1972, Apollo 17 captured an image that has come to be known as the “Blue Marble”, a photo of our planet illuminated by the Sun. How has Earth changed in subsequent years? Astronauts, including Tim Peake, consider what Nasa’s archive shows in a documentary that uses time-lapse sequences to detail the growth of Chinese megacities, the melting of Kilimanjaro’s snowcap and the construction of giant solar arrays in Nevada. Jonathan Wright
All Round to Mrs Brown’s
9.20pm, BBC1
For comedy fans with a flexible quality threshold, here’s another hour-sized chunk of chat from Chez Brown. Agnes and family shuffle up the sofa to make way for choirmaster Gareth Malone and singer Peter Andre, Nick Knowles joins Dermot and Buster’s Celebrity Boat Tour, while Foley’s pub clears out the snug for a performance by Steps. Light entertainment? Light on entertainment, more like. Mark Gibbings-Jones
Live from the Artists Den
7pm, Sky Arts
This US series – which features performances and interviews with artists in intimate and often unusual settings – can swerve uncomfortably close to the middle of the road in terms of its subjects. But, by dragging performers off the beaten track, it does also capture some unique happenings. Tonight’s opening episode sees queen of irony Alanis Morissette playing at Judson Memorial Church in New York’s Greenwich Village. Phil Harrison
Hitler: The Rise and Fall
8pm More4
It might be tempting to wonder how many people still require instruction in the warning bequeathed to history by the rise of Adolf Hitler. But as events on both sides of the Atlantic have demonstrated, even presidential spokesmen and former mayors can be sketchy on the details. This is the first episode of a serviceable summary of Hitler’s career: it focuses on his ascent from embittered deadbeat to the pinnacle of government. Andrew Mueller
Film choice
Little Miss Sunshine, (Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton, 2006), 9pm, W
The Hoover family from Albuquerque pile into their clapped-out VW van to take seven-year-old Olive (Abigail Breslin) to a beauty pageant in California. What follows is a delightfully funny, poignant, and at times painful portrait of a dysfunctional but loving family. It’s beautifully acted by the likes of Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette and Alan Arkin. Paul Howlett
Dog Soldiers, (Neil Marshall, 2001), 11.20pm, Film4
A squad of soldiers on manoeuvres in the Scottish Highlands stumble on the bloody remains of another unit, and are soon fleeing for their lives to a farmhouse in the woods, pursued by a startlingly savage pack of werewolves. Led by Sean Pertwee’s laconic sergeant, they try to hang on until dawn, with hope and ammunition running out. It’s packed with black humour and visceral thrills (entrails and all). A top British horror movie. Paul Howlett
Blackthorn, (Mateo Gil, 2011), 2.35am, BBC2
Remember the sepia-tinged, shoot-out freeze-frame at the end of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? Well, it seems that was unduly pessimistic: the pair actually escaped. Mateo Gil’s fondly elegiac western is set in 1920s Bolivia where craggy Sam Shepard’s Butch now lives happily under the alias of Blackthorn with the devoted Yana (Magaly Solier), but is drawn into fresh scrapes, pursued by a 14-man posse across salt flats and snowy mountains, stunningly photographed by Juan Ruiz-Anchía. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Snooker: World Championship Day eight from the Crucible in Sheffield. 10am, BBC2
Scottish Cup Football: Hibernian v Aberdeen Coverage of the opening semi-final, which comes from Hampden Park. 11.30am, Sky Sports 2
FA Cup Semi-Final: Chelsea v Tottenham Hotspur A tasty-looking all-Premier League tie from Wembley. 4.50pm, BBC1
