Jane Fonda in Five Acts
9pm, Sky Atlantic
It almost seems a trick of the mind now that she has reached “beloved veteran actor” status, but Jane Fonda was once one of the most hated women in the United States, at least among those who did not consider the Vietnam war a stain on the nation’s consciousness. Featuring extended and remarkably frank interviews with Fonda herself, this mammoth HBO doc considers her time as “Hanoi Jane” as well as her 80s reinvention as a fitness guru and her difficult relationship with her father, Hollywood icon Henry Fonda. Gwilym Mumford
The Little Drummer Girl
9pm, BBC One
Florence Pugh and Michael Shannon star in this 70s-set spy drama, which sees an actor drawn into an Israeli agent’s investigation of a series of assassinations. Another Le Carré adaptation featuring complex exposition – the opener is intriguing enough to get you to return for the next five instalments. Mike Bradley
The Ghan: Australia’s Greatest Train Journey
8pm, BBC Four
Slow TV has never seemed as lethargic as this three-hour condensed version of the 54-hour journey made by Australia’s famous train, which has been travelling from the southern city of Adelaide to the northern outpost of Darwin since 1929. Hypnotic, but not in a good way. MB
Butterfly
9pm, ITV
Tony Marchant’s important drama concludes, with the parents of transgender child Maxine (played by Callum Booth-Ford) at war over how best to raise her. As social services become involved, a timely series that has demystified a host of contentious issues boils down to a very simple message about tolerance. Jack Seale
Hitler’s Holocaust Railways With Chris Tarrant
9pm, Channel 5
Tarrant travels through three countries to learn how a railway network accelerated Hitler’s war, from the trains that ferried crowds to the Nuremberg rally, to those that took Jews to the ghettos, and finally the death camps. En route, he talks to historians and Holocaust survivors in this shattering film. Ali Catterall
Inside No 9 Live
10pm, BBC Two
Tantalisingly, all Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith will give away about this live special is that it’s Halloween night and a man is making his way home through the graveyard of a church when he finds a mobile on one of the graves. His attempt to contact the owner unleashes a dark chain of events. Be there and be scared. MB
Film choice
Deepwater Horizon, 9pm, Channel 4
This tremendous, old-school disaster movie is based on BP’s horrific 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Mark Wahlberg is Mike Williams, the hero every such catastrophe demands, battling to rescue workers from the flames. Meanwhile, safety expert Kurt Russell locks horns with John Malkovich’s corporate creep. PJH
Today’s best live sport
Premier League Football: Crystal Palace v Arsenal, 12.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event
Man United v Everton follows at 3.30pm.
Cycling: Six Day London, 5.30pm, Eurosport 1
Final day of the track event at the Lee Valley Velodrome.
Motor Racing: Mexico Grand Prix, 7.05pm, Sky Sports F1
Formula one action from the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez.
