Snowfall
10pm, BBC2
There are shades of The Wire about this new series set in LA in 1983, just as the crack epidemic is about to ravage the city. And as with The Wire, it might require initial patience. As we open, crime seems to be restricted to scamps stealing from ice-cream vans in tree-lined suburbs but things are about to get worse. We’re introduced to, among others, a Mexican wrestler, CIA operatives and Franklin (Damson Idris), a smart 19-year-old looking for a way of getting on in life. David Stubbs
The Last Post
9pm, BBC1
With emotions still raw, the Red Caps provide support to an SAS raiding party, joined by Baxter and Dimarco, sent in to capture insurgent leader Kadir Hakim, the man responsible for the murder of Captain Page. It leaves Markham (the excellent Ben Miles) with the impossible choice of leading his men or being with his wife during labour. Meanwhile, Honor and hurricane drunk Alison bond over booze and swimming, to the chagrin of her charm vacuum of a husband, Joe. Gripping. Ben Arnold
Louis Theroux: Dark States – Heroin Town
9pm, BBC2
“I’ve been invited to a rendez-vous in a crack house…” Yes, it’s another series in which Louis allies his erudition to troubling social reportage. For this opening episode we’re in Huntington, West Virginia, where Louis has connected with local heroin addicts. Amid the awkwardness, and behind the alarming personal stories, Louis uncovers the bigger picture: how a crackdown on over-prescribed painkillers has led addicts to street drugs. John Robinson
Victoria
9pm, ITV
Ah, the Scottish Highlands: just the kind of place in which a young queen (Jenna Coleman) can clear her head and get some peace, what with all the extra security at the palace following the repeated attempts on her life. Sadly, as this penultimate episode reveals, it doesn’t prove to be quite the romantic idyll Walter Scott conjured up in her bedtime reading. Still, old husband-chops is happy. And might she finally achieve the anonymity she craves? Ali Catterall
Electric Dreams: Crazy Diamond
9pm, Channel 4
Episode four of the sci-fi anthology based on Philip K Dick’s works. This week’s instalment is a take on Dick’s Sales Pitch, in which Steve Buscemi and Julia Davis’s marriage is threatened by an alluring synthetic woman (Sidse Babett Knudsen). The leads are excellent but the plot feels stretched and – with the robot-themed source material some 63 years old – it feels more dated cyberpunk than prescient nightmare. Hannah J Davies
Alaska: The Last Frontier
9pm, Discovery
Season seven of a reality show about an family living self-sufficiently in Alaska. New log cabins need erecting but a heavy snowfall has to be overcome first, which means an episode of shovelling, skidding, towing and blowtorching as the clan try to clear the roads and get their equipment working again. If you’re as fascinated by tools and engines as the Alaskans, you might invest in whether their wits can overcome the elements. Jack Seale
The Gifted
9pm, Fox
After the frazzled freakout of Legion, this latest X-Men TV offshoot – a glossy, pacy chase thriller – inevitably feels rather more boilerplate. In a world where the emergence of powered mutants has been met with fear and suspicion, plucky parents Amy Acker and Stephen Moyer go on the run to protect their suddenly super teens. Can they connect with the mutant underground before the ominous Sentinel Services agency tracks them down? Graeme Virtue
Film choice
Jeremiah Johnson, (Sydney Pollack, 1972), 1.40pm, ITV4
Sydney Pollack’s wilderness western stars his longtime collaborator Robert Redford as the legendary Jeremiah Johnson, an ex-soldier who tires of civilisation and heads for the snowy wilds of the mountains, where he becomes a feared Indian fighter. A magnificent, meditative portrait of man pitted against nature. Paul Howlett
The Fly, (Kurt Neumann, 1958), 6.40pm, Horror Channel
The original icky-insect horror movie, with Al Hedison as the matter-transference scientist who finds a fly in his ointment. Buzzing around as half-man half-insect, he elicits brother Vincent Price’s sympathies and wife Patricia Owens’s impatience: she squashes him like a bug. Grotesque beyond the imagining of David Cronenberg’s 1980s remake, and all played with amazingly straight faces. Paul Howlett
Oranges and Sunshine, (Jim Loach, 2011), 11.30pm, BBC2
A powerful debut from Jim Loach (son of Ken) that recounts the postwar scandal in which many thousands of vulnerable British children were shipped to Australia to face all manner of abuse, chiefly at the hands of the Christian Brothers. Emily Watson is excellent as Margaret Humphreys, the Nottingham social worker whose tenacious investigation uncovered the deportations. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Golf: The Alfred Dunhill Links Championship The last day from St Andrews. 12.30pm, Sky Sports Golf
Premiership Rugby Union: Saracens v Wasps Coverage of the match from Allianz Park. 2.30pm, BT Sport 1
World Cup Football: Lithuania v England England conclude their desultory saunter towards World Cup qualification in Vilnius. 4.30pm, ITV
