Meet the Drug Lords: Inside the Real Narcos
9pm, Channel 4
Perfectly timed in advance of Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico later this summer, former special forces soldier Jason Fox’s sphincter-tightening three-part documentary begins with him going after the real-life underworld kingpins who control Mexico’s drug trade. Starting with Sinaloa, the most powerful drugs cartel in the world, he meets hitmen and fearless foot-soldiers. Bullets fly, men are killed in cold blood and the lives of the programme-makers are put at risk. Mike Bradley
The Ice Cream Show
8.30pm, Vice TV
This new US series explores frozen treats in all their weird, wonderful forms – among them, pizza-flavoured ice-cream from trippy Philadelphia joint Little Baby’s. It’s also a chance for our host – third-generation ice-cream maker Isaac Lappert – to indulge his passion and pull some excellent faces. Hannah J Davies
Keeping Faith
9pm, BBC One
As this runaway hit of a Welsh crime thriller (it has topped the BBC iPlayer ratings) begins to show its true colours, central character Faith Howells descends deeper and deeper into the criminal underworld. The end point is a face to face with gnome-like mastermind Dewi Glyn. Chilling. MB
The Prosecutors
9pm, BBC Two
The day’s second drugs-based doc, this two-parter follows the campaign of senior crown prosecutor Eran Cutliffe to build a case against a network of crims who use drones to supply prisoners with everything from cannabis to spice. The key to nailing the villains inevitably lies in “following the money”. MB
Succession
9pm, Sky Atlantic
This highly promising new series, created by Jesse Armstrong of Peep Show fame, stars Brian Cox as Logan Roy, the ageing head of a Murdoch-style global media organisation. His sons, particularly Kendall, are keen for the old man to step down, but at his 80th birthday lunch he has a surprise for them. Dave Simpson
Evil Monkeys
9pm, ITV2
You’d call this a reality show if that didn’t say such unsettling things about reality. Three Towie veterans venture into the jungle and find themselves performing ridiculous tasks at the behest of a trio of malevolent apes. Got it? No, us neither. Whether it’s a cult classic or a cautionary tale, it’s certainly memorable. Paul Howlett
Film choice
The Wild Bunch, 10pm, Sky Arts
Sam Peckinpah’s masterpiece: a glorious, bloody, elegiac western in which William Holden’s bandit gang, out of time in Texas 1914, are drawn by their code of honour into a suicidal reckoning with despotic General Mapache. Robert Ryan is on outstanding form as the lawman forced to betray his old friends. PJH
Today’s best live sport
International Test Cricket: England v India 10.30am, Sky Sports Main Event. Edgbaston hosts day two of the first Test between the sides.
Europa League Football: Burnley v Aberdeen 7.15pm, BT Sport 1. First leg of an all-British clash.
Rugby League: Super 8s 7.30pm, Sky Sports Action. First game after the Super League’s customary split.
