Storyville: Accidental Anarchist – Life Without Government
9.50pm, BBC4
Carne Ross doesn’t look much like the received image of an anarchist, but this former diplomat, who quit after the Iraq war (“To lie to the public … is the worst thing any government can do”) is on a mission to promote people-power, from the bottom up. This film follows his journey from a Spanish cooperative to the Occupy movement and a women’s militia in Syria, seeking alternatives to failed models of democracy. Ali Catterall
Wild Alaska Live
7pm, BBC1
The Springwatch formula has proved eminently transferable and this week it’s transposed to spectacular Alaska. Accordingly, expect the smaller and more familiar charms of the British countryside to be replaced by a few of nature’s bigger and more ostentatious beasts: walruses, bears and orca will feature prominently in a narrative with the annual salmon migration at its heart. Liz Bonnin, Matt Baker and Steve Backshall will be providing the expert commentary. Phil Harrison
BBC Proms 2017
7pm, BBC4
No showman, the august Bernard Haitink conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe with stately self-possession through a concert of Mozart and Schumann. The Mozart is the 38th, “Prague” Symphony, a work debuted in that city. The Schumann is the second symphony, a work of extremes composed during a struggle with mental health issues. Violinist Isabelle Faust rounds out the Mozart programme with the Third Violin Concerto. John Robinson
Poldark
9pm, BBC1
The political subtext of the rivalries in 18th-century Cornwall – basically, Ross Poldark doesn’t think the poor should be ground into dust, which is controversial – becomes overt as Truro bigwigs accelerate their plan to install a new MP. Sneering heel George Warleggan is all over it, but is he quite the ticket? Can he focus on anything but his domestic war with the heroic Aunt Agatha? Meanwhile, Demelza tires of Ross’s hairy severity and flirts with smooth, carefree youth. Jack Seale
The Handmaid’s Tale
10pm, Channel 4
The penultimate episode of the dystopian fable brings a change of pace. Instead of offering context on the origins of patriarchal Gilead, the plot begins to run forward decisively as Offred accepts a mission on behalf of the resistance. Meantime, troubled Janine struggles with the idea of a new posting and Serena Joy suspects the Commander is being unfaithful. Brilliant writing, great performances: near-flawless TV drama. Jonathan Wright
Earth Live
7pm, Nat Geo Wild
Chris Packham briefly defects from the BBC to helm Earth Live, joined – slightly oddly – by Jane Lynch of Glee and Phil Keoghan from The Amazing Race, in a televised wildlife spectacular. Viewers will be taken on a journey around the world in a live broadcast that will find state-of-the-art cameras shooting creatures across six continents, from South America to Asia. Turn up for the ocelots, stay for the Old World monkeys in Jodhpur. Ben Arnold
Shots Fired
9pm, Fox
Fox’s microcosmic portrait of US police brutality takes a quick breather before embarking on the home straight, but is still as compelling as ever. Ashe swallows her pride to get a major breakthrough on the dual murder investigations, providing actor Sanaa Lathan with the opportunity to demonstrate her subtler talents. She also spits out a line that might do for the series’s motto: “Justice is supposed to be blind, but she can be a racist bitch.” Ellen E Jones
Film choices
Maps to the Stars, (David Cronenberg, 2014) Sunday, 10pm, BBC2
Photograph: Allstar
Julianne Moore is Havana Segrand, a raging, neurotic, half-forgotten film star trying to revive her fading career. She’s desperate to play the lead in a remake of a 50s melodrama that starred her mother, while around her hover a cluster of dreadful Hollywood types, including Mia Wasikowska’s scarred personal assistant/“chore whore”, John Cusack’s slimy self-help guru and chauffeur Robert Pattinson. It’s a superbly entertaining, vicious Tinseltown horror movie, full of nervous laughter. Paul Howlett
Ride the High Country, (Sam Peckinpah, 1962), 7.05am, TCM
Peckinpah’s masterly elegiac western incorporates themes later seen in The Wild Bunch – the end of the old west, friendship and betrayal – on a smaller scale. Leathery veterans Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott are former buddies on opposite sides of the law, reunited by a sack of money and the gallant urge to rescue a young bride (Mariette Hartley) from the odious Hammond brothers. Paul Howlett
Snake Eyes, (Brian De Palma, 1998), 11.05pm, Film4
The bravura opening – a single 12-minute take in which we follow Nicolas Cage’s hustler-cum-cop about his dodgy business – is De Palma’s homage to Hitchcock. The suspenseful thriller, set in an Atlantic City sports stadium before a big fight, sees the champ take a dive and a political bigwig shot. Are the two events linked? Cage sifts the evidence in a just-about-credible yarn. Paul Howlett
The Skin I Live In, (Pedro Almodóvar, 2011), 11.45pm, BBC2
A diversion into mad-scientist horror from the great Spanish farceur. Antonio Banderas exudes icy threat as a plastic surgeon who keeps the beautiful Eve (Elena Anaya) locked in his mansion in a weird, flesh-toned skinsuit; he’s developing a wondrous artificial skin, and exorcising the death of his wife in a car accident. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Golf: The British Open The final day’s play from the Royal Birkdale club in Southport. 8am, Sky Sports Main Event
Cycling: Tour de France The final stage to the Champs-Elysées offers up a last chance for the sprinters to bag a win. 3.30pm, ITV4
Uefa Women’s Euro 2017 Football: England v Spain The teams’ second match in Group D from Breda. 7.30pm, Channel 4
