Manhunt
9pm, ITV
More compelling than most fictional crime shows, this suspenseful drama is based on real events and stars Martin Clunes as DCI Colin Sutton, the man who tracked down serial killer Levi Bellfield. When Sutton is made senior investigating officer on the case of French student Amélie Delagrange, found murdered on Twickenham Green in 2004, not everyone on the force thinks he’s up to the job. But after some impressive police work, the murder is linked to the deaths of Marsha McDonnell and Milly Dowler. Continues over the next two nights. Mike Bradley
Dancing on Ice
6pm, ITV
The slippery talent format returns for 2019 with 12 more brave celebs strapping blades to their feet before being judged by Torvill and Dean. The cast list includes Towie’s Gemma Collins, comedian Richard Blackwood and actor Didi Conn (AKA Frenchie from Grease), so expect gags about chills multiplying. Graeme Virtue
Les Misérables
9pm, BBC One
Having completed the introductions, Andrew Davies’s cleverly constructed adaptation of the Victor Hugo epic really starts to progress the plot tonight. Seen through the prism of Fantine’s fateful experiences, the story leads us to the town of Montreuil, where a surprise awaits in the form of “Monsieur Madeleine”. MB
Cities: Nature’s New Wild
9pm, BBC Two
Next time you’re stuck on a train platform, spare a thought for the animal commuters overcoming even greater odds as they visit cities in search of food, from endangered African penguins seeking shelter in Cape Town and hungry hippos in St Lucia to bears breaking into houses in Colorado to purloin some scran. Ali Catterall
SAS: Who Dares Wins
9pm, Channel 4
As a fourth season of the punishing recruitment show launches, we learn that the MoD has announced that SAS selection will be open to women for the first time in 2019. Cue: 25 men and women heading into the Chilean Andes for a dramatic opener. Who will make it through to the end of stage one? MB
Semi-Detached
10pm, BBC Two
Lee Mack leads a curious sitcom pilot. In real time, his feckless suburbanite deals with a torrent of mishaps that deter him from escorting his in-labour girlfriend to hospital. The cast is tremendous (Patrick Baladi, Ellie White, Samantha Spiro, Geoff McGivern), but the script keeps reaching too hungrily for zany bad taste. Jack Seale
Film choice
Girlhood 1.30am, Film4
Marieme (Karidja Touré) is a teenager going nowhere in the Paris banlieue. When her school shamefully rejects her, she embraces gang life, joining three similarly disadvantaged black girls in tough but sometimes joyful scrapes involving shoplifting, drug dealing and fights, in a vibrantly physical coming-of-age tale. Paul Howlett
Today’s best live sport
Premiership Rugby Union: Wasps v Northampton Saints, 2.30pm, BT Sport 1
Top-flight clash at the Ricoh.
FA Cup Football: Newport County v Leicester City, 4.05pm, BBC One
Earlier, Woking v Watford airs at 1.30pm on BT Sport 2.
Test Cricket: Australia v India, 11pm, BT Sport 1
Fifth and final day of the final Test from Sydney Cricket Ground.
