New Tricks
9pm, BBC1
New Tricks goes all Wolf Of Wall Street (well, Threadneedle Street) when Steve stumbles upon the apparent murder in the 80s of a City futures trader who was part of a group that called itself The Wolfpack – a bunch of pin-striped wallies who were into some debauched shenanigans when they weren’t hauling in the cash. Tracking down his old partners in crime leads the Ucos team into a murky web. Meanwhile, Steve is skint, but hopes to learn a few stock market tricks to get him out of a hole. Ben Arnold
School Swap – The Class Divide
9pm, ITV
As Warminster headmaster Mark Mortimer explains during the concluding part of this school-swap experiment, the crucial difference between state and private education isn’t what happens in the classroom but what happens outside it. However, what are we to make of his contention that public school pupils don’t rely on influential connections for a leg-up? “That may have been the case 250 years ago [but] I certainly don’t think it is any more.” Meanwhile, Bemrose head Jo Ward has some prejudices challenged. Ali Catterall
Educating Cardiff
9pm, Channel 4
New series of the always inspirational documentary series set in a British secondary school. This year, the cameras are trained on the pupils and staff at Willows High School in Tremorfa, south Wales. With only our own horrific (or otherwise) memories of big school to go on, this show reassures all parents that there are at least two Robin Williams/Morgan Freeman types in any given institution who will act as emotional lighthouses to our hormonal, directionless offspring. Julia Raeside
A Day In The Life Of Andy Warhol
9pm, BBC4
In this idiosyncratic doc, Stephen Smith attempts to demystify pop art’s most enduring superstar by channelling another inscrutable cultural icon: Jack Bauer. Smith gathers intel from Warhol’s surviving friends and co-workers to reconstruct, hour by hour, a typical 1964 day for the defiantly atypical artist. This involves a trip to Warhol’s local supermarket in search of Campbell’s soup and eating ice-cream at his favourite dessert restaurant. Playful, in a way the subject himself might have enjoyed. Graeme Virtue
Secrets Of China
9pm, BBC3
What’s it like to grow up in modern China? Kicking off this three-part series, Billie JD Porter considers the theme of conformity. Respect for the state and elders is drilled into Chinese youngsters from a young age, but some still rebel – so Porter heads for a bootcamp where disobedient kids spend months at a time having their thinking rearranged. Around a third of boys at the camp turn out to be hooked on online gaming, and the doc posits the idea that this statistic may be linked to the pressure to fit in or fail. Jonathan Wright
Goodness Gracious Me Special
10pm, BBC2
This one-off is a reminder of how funny Goodness Gracious Me is. Meera Syal and Nina Wadia are the Competitive Goddesses, sitting on clouds totting up how many worshippers they have on their smartphones. Meanwhile, Captain Brownadder takes to the trenches, and Gandhi is reinvented in a Martin Scorsese film. One of the highlights sees the India Broadcast Company, home of “lavish new costume drama, Brownton Abbey”, deal with a new head of diversity who suggests an English season. Hannah Verdier
Fried
10.30pm, BBC3
There are lots of great things about this boisterous new comedy based around a failing fried chicken shop. For one, manager Mary (Katy Wix) spends most of this opening episode doing an impression of a fictitious Spaniard named Carlos, complete with 70s specs and tache. Mandeep Dhillon, Matthew Cottle and co are also on fine form as her colleagues, battling against inebriated customers at “drunk o’clock”. Some gags are a little by-the-numbers but this series still looks to be more sizzling than half-baked. Hannah J Davies
Film choice
Hobson’s Choice (David Lean, 1954) 10.45am, More4
Delightful screen version of Harold Brighouse’s stage comedy, filmed in the authentic industrial-Lancashire atmosphere of Salford. It is beautifully played, with Charles Laughton as the boozy bootmaker who is tied up in knots by his eldest daughter (Brenda de Banzie) and her dim but lovable husband (John Mills). Warm as a ferret up a trouser leg. Paul Howlett
Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010) 12.50am, Film4
Aronofsky’s deliriously off-the-wall horror-drama has a painfully intense Natalie Portman as ballerina Nina, who is chosen to play Odette/Odile in Swan Lake. But overbearing director Vincent Cassel’s insistence that she must find her dark inner self in order to play the evil Black Swan leads to a spectacular breakdown in which reality and fantasy merge horribly. PH
Today’s best live sport
World Athletics Championships Look out for 2012 Olympic hero Greg Rutherford in the long jump today. 11am, BBC2
One Day Cricket Coverage of a quarter-final in the 50-overs-a-side tournament. 1.55pm, Sky Sports Ashes
Capital One Cup Football Coverage from a second-round fixture with Premier League clubs now involved. 7.30pm, Sky Sports 1
Major League Baseball: New York Yankees v Houston Astros All the action from Yankee Stadium. 12midnight, BT Sport 1
