Who Do You Think You Are?
8pm, BBC1
Science and nature presenter Liz Bonnin visits Trinidad and Martinique to explore her Indian and French roots. Both halves of her family have histories involving slavery or indentured labour, and Bonnin is braced for the shame of learning that some of her antecedents treated humans as chattels. In fact, a happier story emerges, with a running theme of people strong-willed enough to discard the strictures of the times they were living through. Jack Seale
The Apprentice
9pm, BBC1
This year’s bloviating business blunderers feel like an unusually hapless bunch, even allowing for the diminishing returns of this perceptibly creaking show. Tonight, the teams are branding and marketing gin. Which inevitably means tasting gin. In some cases, rather too much of it. Is nervously pitching a new product to a bunch of seasoned drinks industry insiders compatible with nursing a raging hangover? A brave gambit, at best. Phil Harrison
Close to the Enemy
9pm, BBC2
Poliakoff’s perplexingly plotted and patchily performed postwar period piece continues. Captain Callum receives evidence from Victor that our helpful German scientist Dieter Koehler might actually have more blood on his hands than previously suspected. He also levers himself back into Kathy’s good books by helping her to get hold of Bergit Mentz, a useful German prisoner, and advises her to try his own intelligence methods to get Mentz to spill the bratwurst. Ali Catterall
Extraordinary Weddings
9pm, ITV
The journey from engagement to marriage feels like a Sisyphean task for any soon-to-be-weds, but this new series follows couples whose route down the aisle contains especially overwhelming obstacles. Tonight’s opener highlights Nick and Sophie, whose search for a home was halted when Nick was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, while Carly and Nelly found plans derailed after an accident left Carly paralysed. Mark Gibbings-Jones
Vienna: Empire, Dynasty and Dream
9pm, BBC4
Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore presents a three‑part history of Vienna. We begin 900 years ago with plenty of stories about the Habsburgs, including “Albert One Eye” and “Fat Frederick”. Mesmerising stuff, with no shortage of bloodshed as well as much-needed diplomacy. Sebag Montefiore delivers everything with his trademark verve, proving just what a fascinating and pivotal (not to mention beautiful) place Vienna is. Hannah Verdier
True Supernatural
9pm, Really
New series of a show for the spectacularly credulous, from the US of all places. This week, as well as looking into a demon wolf stalking the midwest, we revisit a 1961 story in which, the narrative assures us categorically, Betty and Barney Hill were “abducted by aliens”. Could this be anything more than a bunch of feverishly imagined hogwash? If you’ve 45 minutes to spare, stick around for the hilarious outcome of the scientific investigation. David Stubbs
Abandoned
10pm, Viceland
Canadian pro skateboarder Rick McCrank is the chilled-out host of this new travelogue, which seeks to tap into the urban explorer craze for infiltrating derelict buildings. The first episode focuses on Ohio’s most forsaken malls, a series of dilapidated, Walking Dead-ready ruins full of twisted metal, broken glass and crude graffiti. McCrank sombrely surveys these decaying symbols of US social and economic decline before pulling off some sick grinds amid the debris. Graeme Virtue
Film choice
Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance, 2010) 1am, Film4
Cianfrance’s portrait of a marriage in its death throes is delicately handled. Ryan Gosling is Dean, who has a six-year-old daughter (Faith Wladyka) with Michelle Williams’s Cindy. The narrative flits cleverly back and forth in time to contrast the gradual breakdown of their relationship with their happier past. Committed performances create a subtle, poignant drama. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Europa League Football: FC Zorya Luhansk v Manchester United Mourinho’s men face a trip to Ukraine. 5.30pm, BT Sport 3
Rugby Union European Challenge Cup: Gloucester v La Rochelle A Pool One clash from Kingsholm. 7pm, Sky Sports 1
Test Cricket: India v England The second day of the fourth Test from the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. 3.45am, Sky Sports 2
