The Cry
9pm, BBC One
“Hope you find some peace in your days,” says a letter to Joanna (Jenna Coleman). This idea, even as she attempts to rebuild her life with Alistair (Ewen Leslie), turns out to be a forlorn wish. Instead, there is a sense of things unravelling, the prelude to a devastating last 20 minutes as this psychological thriller concludes. A series that has often dipped its feet in melodrama, yet has also dealt adroitly with such themes as coercion within relationships, melded families and the personal cost of living a lie. Jonathan Wright
Radio 1 Teen Awards 2018
5.45pm, BBC Two
Little Mix recently released Woman Like Me, an empowering bop that showed that their Boohoo-cloaked brand of feminism is still going strong. They are among the acts featured in this highlights show, alongside the inseparable Not3s and Mabel, tween mainstays 5 Seconds of Summer and pop prodigy Sigrid. Hannah J Davies
Doctor Who
6.55pm, BBC One
Three episodes in, Jodie Whittaker’s Time Lord has found her feet – and her Tardis. Time then, to take a few risks, starting with a daring episode co-written by Noughts and Crosses author Malorie Blackman that sees the Doctor travel back to 50s Alabama, where she meets Rosa Parks and uncovers a plot to alter history itself. Gwilym Mumford
Butterfly
9pm, ITV
In the penultimate episode of Tony Marchant’s bold, difficult drama, 11-year-old Maxine (Callum Booth-Ford) attends school as a girl, while her mother (Anna Friel) fights for puberty-blocking medicine. It is unflinching in portraying the trauma of gender dysphoria, and nuanced in showing the reactions to it. Jack Seale
Royal Opera House: Lessons in Love and Violence
9pm, BBC Four
A broadcast of the latest acclaimed collaboration between composer George Benjamin and playwright Martin Crimp. It’s a provocative account of the doomed love affair between Edward II and his advisor Piers Gaveston, dissonantly scored and featuring a bloody conclusion. GM
Arthur Miller: Writer
9pm, Sky Atlantic
Married to Marilyn, hauled in front of the Un-American Activities Committee … Arthur Miller’s life story is by now a familiar one. But while this doc, directed by his daughter Rebecca, covers those major moments in the playwright’s life, it also tells a more personal story: that of a warm, complex and frequently funny father. GM
Film choice
Sunshine 1.05am, Sony Movie Channel
A team of astronauts are on a mission to fly a giant bomb into the sun’s core and rekindle its dying energy. Danny Boyle’s thrilling sci-fi shines with Space Odyssey brilliance, as the crew – including Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans and Rose Byrne – voyage to the limits of human experience, although the finale is a tad Alien-lite. Paul Howlett
Today’s best live sport
Snooker: English Open, 12.45pm, Eurosport 1
The final, live from K2 Crawley.
Premier League Football: Everton v Crystal Palace, 3.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event
Strugglers Palace visit Goodison.
Motor Racing: United States Grand Prix, 6.40pm, Channel 4
Lewis Hamilton can win the F1 driver’s championship if results go his way today.
