Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema
9pm, BBC Four
In this week’s instalment of his guide to cinema, the Observer critic explains how to pull off the perfect heist movie. Beginning with the first definitive example, John Huston’s 1950 thriller The Asphalt Jungle, he discusses the techniques essential to the genre that gave us The Italian Job and Ocean’s Eleven. An authoritative analysis of one of cinema’s most popular forms, but you get the feeling that BBC Four is missing a trick by not showing one of the films mentioned afterwards. Mike Bradley
Our Girl
9pm, BBC One
As the series roars to a close, Georgie heads to the police station with Barsha to inform Inspector Chowdhrey of Sumon’s kidnapping. Next, another attempt is made on Barsha’s own life. Soon, 2 Section find themselves engaged in a shootout with the drugs gang on a risky mission to rescue Sumon. An all-action finale. MB
The Five Billion Pound Super Sewer
9pm, BBC Two
This documentary about London’s sewer renovations provides another hour of intense boring. A pontoon needs to be expanded in Tilbury, Kent, months of noise at Tower Bridge infuriates a resident, while there is a big dig at Battersea. It is scaled up, but essentially it is detailed footage of quotidian workplace snags. Jack Seale
Long Lost Family
9pm, ITV
Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell assist two women who were adopted. Maria’s life was changed by a car accident that left her birth mother bereaved, while Francesca worries that hers won’t understand her decision to change gender. It is TV that gently insists you have a quiet blub. Jonathan Wright
The Affair
9pm, Sky Atlantic
Tonight’s perspectives are given over to Cole, who makes a discovery about his father’s past, but also to Helen’s partner, Vik – who has cancer – for whom an emotional day is recounted. This includes unhappy encounters with loved ones and a consolatory one with his neighbour Sierra, in the Porsche he just bought. David Stubbs
Knightfall
9pm, History
The shouting, fighting, fictionalised account of the Knights Templar continues in Paris, where Landry, the newly appointed master of the Paris temple, and his men are planning to launch a mission to reclaim the Holy Grail and the Holy Land itself. Good medieval fun – once you have overcome the shock of seeing Jim Carter playing Pope Boniface VIII. MB
Film choice
Black Mountain Poets (Jamie Adams, 2015), 2.15am, Film4
Sisterly rivalry looms large in this offbeat British comedy. Alice Lowe is the kooky Lisa, who, with sister Claire (Dolly Wells), steals a car and heads for a poets’ retreat in the Black Mountains on the England-Wales border. Awkwardly affecting poetic sensibilities, the pair fall for the spiritual grittiness of Tom Cullen’s Richard. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Tennis: German Open 10am, Sky Sports Main Event. Day two of the clay-court event.
Cycling: Tour de France 10.15am, ITV4. Stage 16 features a mountainous route from Carcassonne to Bagnères-de-Luchon.
Hockey: Women’s World Cup 12.15pm, BT Sport 1. Japan take on New Zealand in pool D, followed by Australia v Belgium in the same pool.
