The Syndicate
9pm, BBC1
“I’m having a double stainless steel with waste disposal!” The lottery winners are taking over the mansion they used to work in, but Julie’s ignorance of building regulations is the least of the dramas. Writer-director Kay Mellor stuffs about two hours’ worth of plot into 60 minutes, starting with the theft of a clock three years ago. The combination of believable dialogue and unbelievable events makes it feel as if this could be your own family discovering secret bank accounts and admitting their lives are built on juicy porkies. Jack Seale
The 7/7 Bombing: Survivors’ Stories
9pm, ITV
It’s nearly a decade since four young British men blew themselves up on public transport in London. They killed 52 people and maimed more than 700, many of them to a life-altering degree. While this film rightly includes interviews with some of those wounded survivors, it also recognises that many more were injured at one remove, and have had to spend a decade reflecting on the loss of loved ones in such monstrous circumstances; their testimonies are among the most affecting. Andrew Mueller
Child Genius
9pm, Channel 4
Last year’s search for Britain’s brainiest junior saw Sharon from Bolton scoop the title without a pushy parent in sight. Yet her victory was undeniably overshadowed by the unsavoury hothousing endured by many of her fellow contestants, coached from infancy in everything from quantum physics to degree-level history. As 20 new prodigies swot up on specialist subjects and tough trivia, expect more of the same: tonight sees the general knowledge and memory recall rounds, with an 11-year-old maths whizz among the hopefuls. Hannah J Davies
Dan Cruickshank’s Civilisation Under Attack
9pm, BBC4
Anyone who has watched the online videos showing members of Islamic State smashing up Assyrian antiquities in the museum at Mosul, and taking sledgehammers to the statuary in the historic city of Hatra, will already have a measure of what the militant faction feels about the past. Such relics, to its mind, represent “idolatry” and as such are an affront to its hardline take on Islam. Here, Dan Cruikshank considers the damage, attempts to explain why it’s happening, and assesses what might be next. John Robinson
Undercover
9pm, Dave
Episode three of the likable, sometimes surreal fish-out-of-water comedy about a neurotic traffic cop (Daniel Rigby) embedded in an Armenian crime family. If keeping up with the Sarkissians was starting to seem too easy for Operation Piccolo’s puppyish double agent, there’s a injection of menace when notorious enforcer Tommi Lylozian is released from jail. A volatile loose cannon in the convincing form of Keith Allen, Tommi twigs that something’s not quite pukka with the crew’s newest, twitchiest recruit. Graeme Virtue
Falling Skies
9pm, Fox
The post-apocalyptic action family drama with added aliens returns for its fifth and final 10-part season. After being feared lost in space, Mason’s unlikely return from his mission to the moon with tragic daughter Lexi – to deliver a poisonous blow to the alien Overlord, no less – is met with surprise, not least of all by himself. He doesn’t know how he got back, and he has also started having strange visions, but he still manages to deliver a rallying cry to his troops to seize upon this possible endgame. Ben Arnold
Not Safe For Work
10pm, Channel 4
Centred on the savvy, straight-talking Katherine (Zawe Ashton), who, to her dismay, is reshuffled to her workplace’s Northampton outpost, this first TV series from playwright DC Moore hovers uncomfortably between comedy and drama for much of its opener. Katherine’s new trope-based colleagues – from the non-London bumpkins to her ketamine-addled boss – are as cartoonish as you’d find in any sitcom, yet as an ulterior story about Katherine’s previous life slowly surfaces, this transforms into a refreshing and substantial drama. Rachel Aroesti
Today’s best live sport
Wimbledon 2015 The second day of action from Wimbledon. 11.30am, BBC2
Uefa Under-21 Championship: the final The age-specific tournament climaxes at Stadion Eden in Prague. 7pm, BT Sport 1
Women’s World Cup: the first semi-final The tournament approaches its climax. 11.20pm, BBC2
Copa America: the first semi-final One finalist is decided in the South American football tournament. 12.30am, Premier Sports
