The 18-30 Stone Holiday
9pm, ITV
Eight Brits, some tipping the scales at more than 190kg (30st), head for the Bahamas and the plus-size-friendly environs of The Resort, a hotel with reinforced toilets and beds. Here, each spends time getting to grips with the kind of body issues encapsulated by call-centre worker Steven’s heartbreaking assessment of himself as “the beast of Fife”. It all culminates in a visit to a public beach, a tough assignment for those too often fat-shamed. Jonathan Wright
Our Girl: Nepal Tour
9pm, BBC1
Michelle Keegan continues to put in a solid performance as Georgie, the tough medic on a mission in Nepal. This week, her head is turned by the arrival of perpetually shirt-free love interest Elvis (Luke Pasqualino), who is sipping tea and pondering manoeuvres. The action gets a bit Homeland-meets-Poundland as Georgie and the chaps strut into battle as if on a dusty catwalk. But who’ll come a cropper when it all kicks off with the enemy? Hannah Verdier
This World: Calais, the End of the Jungle
9pm, BBC2
It is a year since the Calais migrants’ camp burned down; this urgent, humane documentary’s cameras were there to capture the nuances of a hellish situation. In the main, it is a tribute to the British volunteers who had arrived to organise shelter and advocate for refugees. What is most vivid is the impossibility of securing a border: the French authorities, or at least some individuals working for them, emerge with slightly more credit than you might expect. Jack Seale
Retreat: Meditations from a Monastery
9pm, BBC4
The ticking of a grandfather clock. Birdsong. A lovely bit of chanting. Given our shrieking era, what a relief it is to slip into this literally divine programme, broadcast from Somerset’s Downside Abbey, a Benedictine monastery home to 14 monks. Amid the ambient sounds and visuals, facts occasionally swim into view: “Monks wear their hoods up to cut out external distractions and focus on prayer.” We should all be hoodies. Ali Catterall
The End of the F***ing World
10.20pm, Channel 4
Based on the comic by Chuck Forsman, this show, stripped across the week, finds Alex Lawther and Jessica Barden as misfit teens James and Alyssa. Alyssa is looking for someone with an edge amid stultifying suburbia and she finds it in James. Sadly, he’s a budding psychopath who is looking for someone to murder. Which creates a queasy dynamic for a black comedy – there really had better be a good reason for it down the line. Ben Arnold
1917: One Year, Two Revolutions
9pm, National Geographic
The might of imperial Russia once seemed likely to last for ever. But the first world war enfeebled the once imperious state, leading to calls for revolution against Nicholas II. This, in turn, led to nine tumultuous months that irrevocably altered global politics. Told through the writing of a journalist stationed in Petrograd throughout the uprising and accompanied by captivating archive footage of the era, it’s a compelling chronicle. Mark Gibbings-Jones
The Race Underground
7.50pm, PBS America
Fascinating look at the beginnings of underground railways in the US. By the late 19th century, US cities were choking on their own progress: in Boston, 400,000 people lived in a single square mile, hauled between engagements by 8,000 noisy, reeking, horse-drawn trolleys. Despite precedents elsewhere – London and Glasgow had started work on subway systems – public opinion and political deadlock proved large obstacles. Andrew Mueller
Film choice
The Two Jakes (Jack Nicholson, 1990) 11pm, TCM
Director Nicholson again plays private eye Jake Gittes in this belated sequel to Polanski’s Chinatown. It’s 1947, 11 years on, but he’s still haunted by the events of the earlier film and now Harvey Keitel’s property developer Jake Berman is roping him into investigating the murder of another woman. Los Angeles is again a cruel place in Robert Towne’s twisting script, with Meg Tilly and Madeleine Stowe the dangerous-to-know women. Paul Howlett
Stonehearst Asylum (Brad Anderson, 2014) 1.40am, Film4
Young doctor Edward (Jim Sturgess) arrives at the forbidding institution of the title, run by Ben Kingsley’s too-good-to-be-true Dr Lamb. Edward is attracted to vulnerable patient Eliza Graves (Kate Beckinsale), but what are Mickey Finn (David Thewlis) and his ruffians up to, and what the hell is going on in the basement? A manically entertaining Hammer-like horror, adapted from an Edgar Allan Poe story. PH
Live sport
Scottish Premiership Football: Hibernian v Hearts 7.15pm, BT Sport 1. Edinburgh derby from Easter Road.
League Cup Football: Swansea City v Manchester United 7.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event. Mourinho’s strong unit visit the Liberty Stadium.
Cycling: Six Day London 7.30pm, Eurosport 1. The opening day from Lee Valley Velodrome.
