Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance 2017
9pm, BBC One
Pageantry with a solemn purpose as service-people, royals and dignitaries gather at the Albert Hall to pay tribute to those who paid the ultimate price. This year’s non-military musicians include Melanie C, Emeli Sandé, Tom Odell and Lesley Garrett. The centenaries of Passchendaele and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission will be marked, as will the 75th anniversary of El Alamein and Vera Lynn’s 100th birthday. Jonathan Wright
Strictly Come Dancing
6.45pm, BBC One
As the celebrity hoof-off sees the field narrow to nine hopeful couples, will anyone else try to gamely style out an end-of-dance tumble with a grapple on the floor, as Ruth Langsford did last week? Now the stakes are higher than ever, as those eliminated will lose the chance to twirl in the series’ Blackpool Tower Ballroom special, but, as ever, it’s about entertainment rather than scorecard superiority. Unless you’re Craig, that is. Sharon O’Connell
The X Factor
8.10pm, ITV
Last weekend’s Viva Latino especiales added varying levels of Latin fire to Guy Fawkes night, ultimately ending with the hopes of Tracy Leanne Jefford going the way of a wet banger, and Leon Mallett spiralling out of the auditorium like a defective catherine wheel. That leaves Nicole with just two acts going into this third weekend of live eliminations, where few eyebrows will be raised should Simon take another opportunity to tear into Jack and Joel. Mark Gibbings-Jones
I Know Who You Are
9pm, BBC Four
Now in its second series, there is a deftness in the direction of this Spanish thriller that means that even as the plot thickens, there’s a compelling lightness to its intricacies. In this week’s double bill, Alicia – wife of amnesiac lawyer Juan Elías – wakes up from her coma, ready to identify her attacker. Meanwhile, Marta Hess looks for evidence to use against Santi Mur. Expect tantalising twists and a delicious sense of creeping fear. Sophie Harris
The Jonathan Ross Show
9.40pm, ITV
Now here’s a disparate bunch: Baker-turned-presenter Nadiya Hussain, comic Micky Flanagan and grime don Stormzy. But the real pull is undoubtedly that extraordinary enigma-cum-dazzling fashion and music icon/real-life demi-goddess Grace Jones, promoting Sophie Fiennes’s new documentary about her, Bloodlight and Bami. Is it too much to hope she’ll mete out the same volley of slaps she once dealt Russell Harty? Ali Catterall
Murder on the Blackpool Express
9.30pm, Gold
Penned by Hebburn writer Jason Cook, Griff Rhys Jones plays mercenary murder mystery writer David Van Der Clane, who’s helming a budget coach tour of super-fans to the locations from his novels, ending up at Blackpool Tower. Except soon they’re getting bumped off. There’s a fine cast including Johnny Vegas, Sian Gibson and Una Stubbs, but even Kevin Eldon and Mark Heap find it hard to wring out any laughs. Whodunnit? Who cares? Ben Arnold
Free to Rock: How Rock & Roll Brought Down the Wall
9pm, Sky Arts
A film-length exploration of the thesis proposed by PJ O’Rourke in 1989: that “72 years of communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a Sony Walkman”. Eastern bloc governments made considerable efforts to discourage rock’n’roll, which they regarded, probably correctly, as a threat. This documentary explores the degree to which rock contributed to communism’s demise. Andrew Mueller
Film choice
Effie Gray, (Richard Laxton, 2014), 9pm, BBC Two
The famously unconsummated marriage of ascetic art critic John Ruskin and his young bride Effie Gray is the subject of this handsome period drama. Emma Thompson’s intelligent script plonks Effie (Dakota Fanning) in an oppressive Victorian society where she struggles against Greg Wise’s Ruskin and his horrendous mother (Julie Walters). Fortunately, Effie has the support of painter John Everett Millais (Tom Sturridge) and Thompson’s Lady Eastlake. Paul Howlett
30 Days of Night, (David Slade, 2007), 11.10pm, Film4
Another flock of vampires, and much nastier than that sweet Twilight variety. The bloodsuckers, led by a truly ferocious Danny Huston, are infesting the snowy Alaskan town of Barrow, where sheriff Josh Hartnett, his ex, deputy sheriff Melissa George, and an assorted bunch of other survivors find themselves under siege for a month until the sun next comes up. Paul Howlett
Free Men, (Ismaël Ferroukhi, 2011), 1am, BBC Two
Ferroukhi’s second world war drama, based on real events, explores a little-known corner of the conflict: the part Muslims played in the Paris resistance movement. Tahar Rahim plays a young Algerian black marketeer persuaded to take up arms against the German occupiers by the head of the mosque (Michael Lonsdale) and a Jewish nightclub singer (Mahmud Shalaby). It’s a thoughtful account of quiet heroism. Paul Howlett
Live sport
International Rugby Union: Scotland v Samoa With Wales v Australia to follow on BBC Two. England v Argentina is over on Sky Sports Main Event. 2pm, BBC One
World Cup Football: Denmark v Republic of Ireland The first leg of the play-off from Copenhagen. 7.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event
Boxing: Liam Smith v Liam Williams An eliminator for the WBO super-welterweight title in Newcastle. 7.45pm, BT Sport 1
