Craft It Yourself
8pm, Channel 4
If you’re the type of person who thinks that life is too short to waste time beading your own chandelier then look away now, because this lively new series is all about crafting stuff for your home. It’s like Pinterest come to life as Robin Johnson, Clemency Green and Ant Anstead get to work on various projects. This week, a dining room is drenched in Cuban styles, Clem and Robin make a woven bench, and Ant demonstrates how to paint tiles. Hannah Verdier
In the Dark
9pm, BBC1
Cops go out with cops, but that certainly doesn’t mean that they trust each other, or indeed have seen each other’s case files. Paul, far from certain about Helen’s fidelity, is stalking her to her leaving drinks. When he is then one of the victims of a gang-related attack at a bus stop in Gorton, Helen uncovers a trail of evidence that leads deep into Manchester’s criminal underbelly and towards the sinister Frank (Tim McInnerny). Occasionally gripping stuff. John Robinson
Excluded at Seven
9pm, Channel 4
The exclusion of children from school at a young age is an increasingly common recourse for overstretched teachers. It is doubtless a relief to all concerned when a persistently disruptive student packs their bags for the last time – but it leaves a kid deprived of the education they clearly need. This Cutting Edge documentary, filmed at the Rosebery short-stay school in Norfolk, meets six children whose primary schools have asked them to leave. Andrew Mueller
Dictators and Despots: A Timewatch Guide
9pm, BBC4
AJP Taylor, Robin Day and a boyish David Dimbleby: the BBC does the poshest clips shows. In charge of the archives this week is David Olusoga, who – from the country pile of Lord Acton, the man who gave us the line about absolute power corrupting absolutely – explores why autocrats exert such a fascination. The latter part of the doc, featuring footage of such figures as Mugabe and Castro, is especially compelling. Jonathan Wright
Young and Promising
11.05pm, Channel 4
To her friends in Oslo, Elise is a success. They’re nursing creative ambitions while Elise enjoys a standup career in the US. In reality, Elise’s unpaid open-mic spots mean her only income comes from a cartoon character costume gig. On returning home, Elise is as adrift as her associates, and desperate to evade the obstacles life flings her way. An appropriately promising drama about idealists willing to chase their dreams at any cost. Mark Gibbings-Jones
Tattoo Fixers on Holiday
9pm, E4
This E4 reality series has always been as much prevention as cure; what better illustration of the folly of an ill-conceived inking than this parade of regretful rascals? But now Sketch, Alice and Jay are getting even more proactive about their preventative measures, by taking their cover-up operation to the site of so many bad decisions: the generic Mediterranean holiday destination. Will electrician Ian be able to put his Magaluf madness behind him? Ellen E Jones
Impossible Engineering
9pm, Yesterday
The series looking at epic structures and machines returns with a show on the Panama canal, lately reconfigured to take the world’s largest container ships. The statistics are boggling: locks the size of four football fields, 11-storey-high gates and the excavation of 150m cubic tonnes of material. Less awe-inspiring but just as intriguing, the show explores the technical innovations that made the project possible. JW
Film choice
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994) 11.25pm, TCM
Tarantino’s savagely amoral tale takes three staples of the thriller genre – the gangster and the boss’s wife; the pug’s one last chance; the lovers’ doomed heist – and weaves them with giddy pace and complexity. The characters talk the quintessential Tarantino talk, and walk the walk, too. Uma Thurman’s icy femme, Mia; Harvey Keitel’s Mr Wolf; Tim Roth’s Pumpkin; and John Travolta a revelation as gunman Vincent Vega, talking burgers and toe-jobs en route to the hit with Samuel L Jackson. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Cycling: Tour de Wallonie The Belgian road race continues. 2.30pm, Eurosport 1
Swimming: World Championships Day three from Budapest, including the final of the men’s 200m freestyle 4.30pm, BBC2
T20 Blast Cricket: Gloucestershire v Glamorgan Coverage of the South Division clash from the County Ground in Bristol. 6pm, Sky Sports Cricket
