The Handmaid’s Tale
9.30pm, Channel 4
“There’s this group that wants to set things right … ” So, in flashback, we learn how the Sons of Jacob snag Nick, a “loser” who can’t hold down a job. Offred/June’s powerlessness echoes Nick’s impotence. Except it’s by magnitudes worse because she has lost control of her own body. Another near-flawless episode that, exploring how the powerful seek to corrupt intimacy, shows Gilead’s hypocrisies in especially harsh detail. Jonathan Wright
BBC Proms 2017
8pm, BBC4
“I have written out my soul,” Elgar told a friend (and rumoured lover) of his Second Symphony, his final completed work in 1911. Which didn’t stop this newspaper snootily dismissing it at the time as cold, hard and not containing “melody in the full sense of the word”. Here it’s conducted by the Argentine-born Israeli composer Daniel Barenboim, with the German orchestra Staatskappelle Berlin, while Harrison Birtwistle’s new piece Deep Time also gets an airing. Ali Catterall
Poldark
9pm, BBC1
As ever, unflattering parallels are being drawn between dashing Ross and his furtive rival George. While Captain Poldark was recently perforating Frenchies willy-nilly during an audacious prison break, the craven magistrate struggled to cope with a minor toad infestation. But even if George demonstrably lacks any backbone, he is overflowing with low cunning, redoubling his efforts to pair off poor Morwenna with the right randy Rev Whitworth. Graeme Virtue
The Loch
9pm, ITV
The Loch concludes its baffling, tonally confused, needlessly grisly serial-killer yarn in this final episode as a body is hauled from the water. A handy photo in the waterlogged cadaver’s wallet turns into an important clue for Redford and Quigley. Meanwhile, Quigley threatens psych profiler Albrighton with arrest, but he’s so keen to prove that his theory about the murders is right that he’ll go to rather extensive – even dangerous – lengths to do so. Ben Arnold
OMG! Boy Beauty Addicts
12.15am, Channel 5
The OMG prefix is a winning one for Channel 5, offering the chance to gawp at extreme cases of vanity while exploring the motivations behind it. Male beauty is under the spotlight tonight, with one man considering penis enlargement surgery and another having his lips injected with collagen. Elsewhere, we meet a pop star on his way to achieving what he thinks is the perfect body and a stripper craving Instagram attention. Hannah Verdier
Wild New Zealand: Savage Island Giants
10pm, Nat Geo Wild
Mating season is not easy for the pregnant sea lions of Auckland Island. If they can avoid being flattened by males, they join a harem where childbirth is followed by another conception – not ideal when weak young could be eaten by petrels or crushed by their dads. Elsewhere, in an often icky documentary, giant spider crabs enjoy a disgusting moulting orgy with cannibal overtones, while yellow-eyed penguins provide some cute relief. Jack Seale
Shots Fired
9pm, Fox
In last week’s episode, long-simmering community tensions exploded into riots, but this US race and justice drama isn’t done yet. In the aftermath, Governor Eamons (Helen Hunt) is losing control of Gate Station, and the investigators are losing control of their case. At least Preston (Stephan James) still has a way with impromptu speech-making. A few words to a gathering of angry protestors and they all just lose interest and head on home. Uncanny. Ellen E Jones
Film choices
Nocturnal Animals, (Tom Ford, 2016) Sunday, 11.50am, 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere
An unsettling package arrives for Amy Adams’s successful, ennui-ridden LA art dealer Susan Morrow: inside is the manuscript of a novel by her ex-husband (Jake Gyllenhaal). It’s a violent Texan revenge story in which a mild man (also Gyllenhaal), whose family is destroyed by rednecks, seeks justice with the help of a cancer-ridden detective (Michael Shannon). Tom Ford expertly melds a sophisticated affair of the heart with a sunbaked murder thriller to create a potent, authoritative drama. Paul Howlett
The Lone Ranger, (Gore Verbinski, 2013), 8pm, BBC2
Hi-yo Silver, and … oh. This reworking of the masked avenger of the 50s TV horse opera struck something of a dud note on release. And that despite Johnny Depp (reuniting with Pirates director Verbinski) as Tonto, the deadpan Comanche who leads Armie Hammer’s rather dim Lone Ranger over the prairie, battling rapacious railway tycoons and silver miners. It’s a mixed, sometimes mystifying bag, but riddled with hectic and exhilarating action. Paul Howlett
Lunacy, (Jan Svankmajer, 2005), 1.20am, Film4
The lunatics have taken over the asylum in this droll and queasy allegory on post-Soviet eastern Europe by the great Czech surrealist Svankmajer. Pavel Liska’s tormented young Jean, fearing he is losing his mind, is led through an 18th-century asylum in France, where the spirits of the Marquis de Sade and Edgar Allan Poe reign. Jean’s nightmarish tour is a cranky, sinister collection of literally flesh-creeping imagery, set to the sound of manic laughter. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Test Cricket: England v South Africa Day three of the second Test of the series at Trent Bridge. 10am, Sky Sports 2
Formula 1: The British Grand Prix Coverage of the 10th round of the season, which takes place at Silverstone. 12.35pm, Channel 4
Tennis: Wimbledon 2017 The tournament comes to its traditional climax with the men’s singles final. 1.50pm, BBC1
