Icons: The Greatest Person of the 20th Century – Live Final
9pm, BBC Two
The time has come for the overall winner from the seven categories – leaders, explorers, scientists, entertainers, activists, sports stars, and artists and writers – to be decided by the public. First, the seven corresponding advocates – Trevor McDonald, Dermot O’Leary, Chris Packham, Kathleen Turner, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Clare Balding and Lily Cole – each argue on behalf of the finalist from their field. There are two ways to vote: via the website or by telephone. Mike Bradley
This Time Next Year
8pm, ITV
So, how did those New Year resolutions work out? Did you leap out of bed on 2 January like some Nietzschean Übermensch … or are you tucking into crisps again? In the first episode of a new life-transformation show, Davina McCall meets a group of people who are determined to shed the pounds – and are given 12 months to do so. Ali Catterall
How the Other Kids Live
8pm, Channel 4
Imagine Come Dine With Me, only with playdates instead of dinner parties, and you get the basic premise. What you might not anticipate is the marvellously matter-of-fact manner of under-10s. This week religion, race, disability and Donald Trump are all dispensed with efficiently. Feelgood without being facile. Ellen E Jones
Martin Clunes: Islands of America
9pm, ITV
Clunes’s latest jaunt – after Britain and Australia – takes him on a four-part journey around the coast of the US. The opener – Hawaii to Alaska – adheres to the usual format of potted histories, local customs and natural wonders. Expect aloha shirts, volcanoes, kodiak bears and the Russian orthodox church. MB
Paxman on the Queen’s Children
9pm, Channel 5
In the wake of Jeremy Vine and Michael Palin, Channel 5 snares another erstwhile BBC big name. Here, Paxman presents the first in an impressively assembled, richly illustrated two-part film about what he calls “the royal children soap opera”. Intelligent, thought-provoking history. MB
Surviving R Kelly
10pm, Crime & Investigation
The UK premiere of the much-publicised and thoroughly harrowing documentary series about the sexual abuse allegations levelled against the singer. Part one builds a portrait of “the Pied Piper of R&B”, while part two (at 11pm) documents his two marriages to vulnerable young women. Hannah J Davies
Film choice
Kill List (Ben Wheatley, 2011), 11.25pm, Film4
A former soldier, Jay, and his mate Gal are freelance hitmen contracted by a mysterious figure known only as the Client to kill a series of apparently unconnected people. With each murder, a chilling sense of foreboding grows as they enter ever darker territory in Ben Wheatley’s brutal, subversive thriller. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Alpine skiing: world championships 11am, Eurosport 1. Coverage of the women’s super-G from Åre, Sweden.
Cycling: Six Days of Copenhagen 8pm, Eurosport 2. The final day of the track event from Ballerup Super Arena, Denmark.
