Sports Personality of the Year
6.40pm, BBC1
A particularly difficult year to call, this one. The 2015 winner Andy Murray’s remarkable achievements at Wimbledon would surely guarantee a gong any other year, yet 2016 also boasts Mo Farah, Laura Kenny and the rest of Team GB’s panoply of Rio success stories. Live from Birmingham’s Genting Arena, Gabby Logan, Gary Lineker and Clare Balding host an event that quite rightly lets British sport pat itself on the back. Luke Holland
Danielle De Niese: The Birth of an Opera
7pm, BBC4
Australian-American soprano De Niese is both star in, and host of, this avowedly warts-and-all look at Glyndebourne’s recent production of Rossini’s famous comic opera, The Barber Of Seville (broadcast afterwards). She is a pleasant host and clearly a diligent professional but, for all the glimpses behind the curtain, you leave with the impression that this is the authorised version, inside which a rather more interesting film is hiding. John Robinson
The Apprentice
9pm, BBC1
A surprisingly cordial final, fought between two candidates who share a not very Apprentice-like weakness: low confidence. Puppyish Courtney can’t pick a name for his novelty gifts firm (“Bingo Bongo… Ringo Dingo?”) and needs intensive Rada training before a presentation, while quietly determined Alana isn’t bold enough in branding her gooey homemade cakes. At the final showdown in City Hall, they both look one fumbled PowerPoint slide away from tears. Jack Seale
Humans
9pm, Channel 4
After a corker of a second series, it’s time to bid farewell to the synth chums. Troublemaking duo Niska (Emily Berrington) and Astrid (Bella Dayne) are preparing to go back to Berlin, but will family ties scupper their plans? Leo is in danger as Hester is out for revenge, and there’s trouble for Joe and Laura (the excellent Tom Goodman-Hill and Katherine Parkinson) when a shock revelation rocks their family. A third series would be very welcome indeed. Hannah Verdier
Victoria Wood: At It Again
10pm, BBC2
The death of the astonishingly versatile and widely adored comic was one of 2016’s bitterest blows. Quite appropriately, BBC2 is devoting the whole evening to Wood tonight, offering an array of shows that emphasise her remarkable range. There are sketches in an As Seen On TV special, a doc from 1998 in which she reflects on her career, a hyperactive Christmas special and, finally, this one-woman show from the Albert Hall. Phil Harrison
Who Killed JonBenét?
10pm, Lifetime
The unsolved murder of six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey became an international obsession back in 1996. As the 20th anniversary of her death looms, More4 is screening CBS’s new two-part docu-series The Case Of JonBenét Ramsey from Thursday. But first up is this dramatised TV movie that features the victim narrating her story from beyond the grave, Lovely Bones-style. Queasy viewing. Graeme Virtue
The X Factor Winner’s Story
6.05pm, ITV2
Matt Terry – the Louis Tomlinson lookalike of silky voice and sizeable brows – was last week named X Factor champ. But what next for the 23-year-old who - in a reversal of the usual talent-show trajectory – had to pull out of a Cumbrian panto once he had made it to Boot Camp? Will he go the way of Matt Cardle and Joe McElderry before him, or could he emulate his more successful doppelganger? Here, contestants and judges ponder his fate. Hannah J Davies
Film choice
The Amazing Spider-Man (Marc Webb, 2012) 7.10pm, ITV2
It seemed a tad premature to reboot Spidey so soon after the Tobey Maguire trilogy, but Webb’s movie is altogether more fun. Andrew Garfield is slightly less nerdy as Peter Parker, who gains his powers via the experiments of his scientist father (Campbell Scott) – as does the hugely menacing villain, Rhys Ifans’s Dr Curt Connors, aka The Lizard. Paul Howlett
Last Chance Harvey (Joel Hopkins, 2008) 11.30pm, BBC2
Dustin Hoffman is the melancholic New York musician Harvey Shine, in London to attend his estranged daughter’s wedding and striking up an awkward relationship with Emma Thompson’s Kate, who is struggling with an overbearing mother (Eileen Atkins). It ambles along at a tourist’s pace but is nevertheless a sweet midlife romance. PH
Before I Go To Sleep (Rowan Joffe, 2014) 12.55am, Channel 4
Joffe’s daft, entertaining thriller, based on SJ Watson’s bestseller, stars Nicole Kidman as Christine, who wakes every morning not knowing who she is. Her solicitous husband Ben (Colin Firth) explains she is suffering amnesia after an accident, but then Mark Strong’s mysterious Doc Nasch phones with twisty plot developments. It’s no Memento, but Kidman is terrific. PH
Today’s best live sport
World Darts Championship 1pm, Sky Sports Darts Coverage of the afternoon session on day four of the contest.
European Rugby: Clermont Auvergne v Ulster 3pm, Sky Sports 4 Coverage of the Pool Five match (Kick-off 3.05pm).
Premier League Football: Manchester City v Arsenal 3.30pm, Sky Sports 1All the action from the Etihad Stadium (kick-off 4pm).
