Dave’s Guide to Spending Money
6pm, Channel 4
With many families’ finances stretched to breaking point, Dave Fishwick offers help in leaving our pockets a little less light, with the Burnley businessman vowing to stem our collective cashflow without cramping our styles. Tonight’s tips include the benefits of consuming the water flowing freely from our taps over the bottled variety and ways to circumnavigate those shocking electricity bills. Mark Gibbings-Jones
Vera
8pm, ITV
Brenda Blethyn’s DCI Vera Stanhope is back for a seventh series of no-nonsense northern sleuthing. Here, she investigates the washing-up of the body of a young woman on an isolated island off the coast of Northumberland. A ranger for a wildlife trust, the victim was popular and soon to be married. Murder seems unlikely until wounds on the body, coupled with emerging secrets and resentments surrounding her life, start to suggest otherwise. Ben Arnold
SS-GB
9pm, BBC1
It is with some relief that this not entirely successful series reaches its conclusion tonight, with Sam Riley’s Archer on a perilous cross-country mission to spirit away a desperately ill King George from captivity, joined by Harry and Sylvia. Meanwhile, the Americans make their move and Dr Huth and Kellerman come to a final reckoning. Explosive fare, punctuated by smoking scenes so frequent and gratuitous you’d think they were the series’ raison d’etre. David Stubbs
Down the Mighty River with Steve Backshall
9pm, BBC2
The final leg of Backshall’s attempt to kayak the 500km Baliem river in New Guinea, descending 1,500 metres in the process. Freak weather has made the white water of the lower gorge even more fast-rushing than usual, so the strapping CBBC stalwart must periodically yomp through spider-infested jungle. The extreme conditions are matched only by Baliem valley’s fecund beauty and Backshall’s bottomless enthusiasm. Graeme Virtue
Heimat: Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
9pm, BBC4
Having taken his 42-hour German domestic-historical drama from 1919 to 2000, director Edgar Reitz shifts back to the 1840s for this prequel, a snip at three-and-a-half-hours. The intimate rural focus and crisp black-and-white photography remain, as it follows the frustrated wanderlust of Rhineland blacksmith’s son Jakob, who dreams of a new life in Brazil away from poverty, feudalism and – the series’s recurring theme – the bonds of family and home. Simon Wardell
Madagascar’s Fantastic Creatures
9pm, Nat Geo Wild
A decent compendium of the Indian Ocean island’s weirdest animals, inevitably dominated by lemurs: there they are, munching on cacti, clinging to crags and splaying themselves like flashers to soak up the sun. Challenging lemurs’ customary top billing are creepy cave-dwelling crocs, which some locals think are satanic, and chameleons, filmed in such extreme close-up you can see their tiny feet closing around branches like hands. Jack Seale
Woman
9pm, Viceland
“For indigenous women, no place is safe.” Gloria Steinem’s bleak introduction to this latest episode of Viceland’s fine documentary series is a fair summary of the spiral of misery enveloping First Nations (indigenous) women in Canada. The horrifying murder rate is the starting point for a film that uncovers systemic racism, misogyny, drug abuse and sexual exploitation. A desperate story but, like all the tales told in this series, one that badly needed telling. Phil Harrison
Film choice
Johnny English Reborn, (Oliver Parker, 2011), 3.25pm, Channel 4
When MI7 hears of a plot to assassinate the Chinese premier, the only man to turn to is disgraced agent Johnny English, who is coming to transcendental terms with his utter incompetence in a Tibetan monastery. More amiable slapstick and gurning from Rowan Atkinson, who is abetted by a Bond-like Dominic West, M-like Gillian Anderson and retro Bond babe Rosamund Pike. Paul Howlett
While We’re Young, (Noah Baumbach, 2014), 10pm, BBC2
After Greenberg, Ben Stiller reunites with director Noah Baumbach for another portrait of middle-aged anxiety. He is Josh Srebnick, a fading documentary-maker who’s been labouring on his latest project for seven years. He’s happily married to Naomi Watts’s Cornelia, but when they encounter free-spirited twentysomethings Jamie and Darby (Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried), they are seduced: not sexually, but by their energy, confidence and who-gives-a-flip attitude, into searching for their long-lost inner youth. It’s very neatly handled, funny and perceptive. Paul Howlett
The Five-Year Engagement, (Nicholas Stoller, 2012), 12midnight, Channel 4
This smart and likable romcom stars Jason Segel as up-and-coming chef Tom, and Emily Blunt as British research student Violet. Tom’s career sinks like an undercooked souffle when he follows Violet to a new post in remote Michigan, while their engagement starts to stretch into years. Segel and Blunt are an engaging couple in a film that makes a pertinent point about the sacrifices more commonly made by women in relationships. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Rugby Union: Anglo-Welsh Cup Final – Exeter Chiefs v Leicester Tigers From Quins’ ground, the Stoop. 2.15pm, BT Sport 1
Premier League Football: Tottenham Hotspur v Southampton Peaking-too-late specialists Spurs entertain Southampton, with Man City v Liverpool to follow.2.15pm, Sky Sports 1
Test Cricket: India v Australia The final day of the third Test in Ranchi. 3.50am, Sky Sports 2
