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Entertainment
Julia Raeside, Jack Seale, Jonathan Wright, Graeme Virtue, Ben Arnold, Ali Catterall and Gwilym Mumford

Thursday’s best TV

Theo with his mother Emma in Born Naughty?
Theo with his mother Emma in Channel 4's Born Naughty? Photograph: Production Stills/Channel 4

Born Naughty?
8pm, Channel 4

GP Dr Dawn Harper and paediatrician Dr Ravi Jayaram meet parents unable to control their out-of-hand youngsters. In the binary world of telly, they have to decide for each child if the answer is better discipline or a medical diagnosis. Theo from Surrey is an only child with a mum who responds to his difficult behaviour with: “Don’t do that, please.” Guess which category he falls into. Meanwhile, young Honey is full of fury and in an almost permanent state of combat when faced with any kind of change. Julia Raeside

The Game
9pm, BBC2

Waking a new sleeper agent each week keeps this stylish spy cobblers fresh. Tonight it’s Rachael Stirling as Kate, a fierce operator who could be the key to the Russians’ grand plan. MI5 deploys the weaponised cheekbones and highly trained hair of Joe (Tom Hughes). Can he winkle juicy intel out of her? It’s another neat story, perhaps too tidily crafted, with the overt theme that people employed to pre-empt the enemy can’t predict what those closest to them will do next. Meanwhile, the deception within Daddy’s team ramps up. Jack Seale

World War Two: 1945 and the Wheelchair President
9pm, BBC4

David Reynolds explores the leadership of Franklin Roosevelt during the second world war, especially its end game. “With vision comes hubris,” says Reynolds of a man who, to promote his vision of a new world order based around the United Nations and to counter what he saw as the European vice of imperialism, stood for a fourth term even as his health failed. A portrait of a politician so secretive that even his own vice-president, Harry Truman, did not know about the Manhattan Project. Jonathan Wright

Wayward Pines
9pm, Fox

With the Twin Peaks sequel looking precarious, here’s a timely, star-stuffed stopgap: a mysterious new drama shepherded to the small screen by fallen movie idol M Night Shyamalan. Bewildered secret service agent Matt Dillon wakes up bloodied and bruised in a small town in Idaho, where the requisite secrets lurk just beneath the picture-perfect surface. As you might expect from Shyamalan, the twists come thick and fast, but there’s also charismatic support in the form of Terrence Howard, Juliette Lewis and Melissa Leo. Graeme Virtue

W1A
10pm, BBC2

This week, Hugh Bonneville’s Ian Fletcher and his team are tasked with tackling “inclusivity targets” for a cross-parliamentary watchdog; soon the acronyms are flowing like skinny soya macchiatos. BBC London’s hirsute new weather presenter Sadiq Iqbal proves key to Bame – black, Asian and minority ethnic – targets, so he’s “viralised” by Siobhan, using the hashtag #beardyweather, to highlight his ethnic credentials. However, Sadiq isn’t particularly happy to be trending nationwide. Ben Arnold

The Secret World of Tinder
10pm, Channel 4

Unbelievably depressing documentary following those looking for love via an algorithm and a swipe of the finger. (If dating is all about hooking you up with freaks, Tinder just gives you faster access to them.) It quickly becomes a generalised overview of dating apps and sites, and those on them, such as Chris, who has asked out more than 15,000 women, and single-mum Joanna, who treats her date to the immortal line: “I’ve been a slag. But you make me want not to be a slag, unless it’s for you.” Ali Catterall

Mad Men
10pm, Sky Atlantic

Mad Men reaches its penultimate episode and its characters are in a state of flux, with Joan having left McCann Erickson, Peggy and Roger uncertain of their futures there, and Don absconding from the office to enjoy the scenery of the Midwest. He’s having sleeping problems this week, while Pete Campbell – who you suspect might be the only one of the Sterling Cooper mob to survive and thrive in his new surroundings – finds himself caught out by a friend. Away from the world of advertising, Henry Cooper arranges a family reunion. Gwilym Mumford

Today’s best live sport

Tennis: The Internazionali BNL d’Italia The fifth day of the clay-court event from the Foro Italico in Rome. 11am, Sky Sports 3

IPL Cricket: Mumbai Indians v Kolkata Knight Riders Action from the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. 3pm, Sky Sports 2

League Two Football The second leg of a play-off semi-final on a night when Southend United face Stevenage and Wycome Wanderers take on Plymouth Argyle. 7.30pm, Sky Sports 2

Uefa Europa League Football Semi-final, second-leg action from the Europa League. 7.30pm, ITV4

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