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Entertainment
Hannah Verdier, Mark Gibbings-Jones, Andrew Mueller, Jack Seale, Jonathan Wright, John Robinson and Paul Howlett

Tuesday’s best TV: Murdered for Love? Samia Shadid; Inside the Old Bailey

Samia Shahid and her second husband, Mukhtar Syed Kazam
True love ... Samia Shahid and her second husband, Mukhtar Syed Kazam. Photograph: BBC

Murdered for Love? Samia Shahid
9pm, BBC Two

The story of Samia Shahid is horrific and here it is brought into sharp focus by her friends’ voices. She was found dead in Pakistan after going to visit her father at a time when she had rebuilt her life and found new love after a failed arranged marriage. Was she the victim of an “honour” killing? Friends describe a woman so keen to conform to her family’s wishes that she had to hire a car in secret. “It’s almost like she knew that her lifespan is quite short,” says one. Hannah Verdier

Britain’s Favourite Walks: Top 100
7.30pm, ITV

Julia Bradbury and Ore Oduba bring us the results of a nationwide poll (voted for by 8,000 walking enthusiasts) to determine Britain’s most treasured treks, the rundown including locations from the West Highland Way to the Ridgeway. Expect musings on the joy of walking, plus a little social history. Mark Gibbings-Jones

Inside the Old Bailey
8pm, Channel 5

Few buildings can tell so many lurid stories. Britain’s ne’er-do-wells have been answering for their crimes on the site occupied by the central criminal court since the 16th century. This doc explores that history, including some of the more infamous cases tried there, among them serial strangler John Christie. Andrew Mueller

Chain of Command
9pm, National Geographic

Part one of a glossy platform for the US military to advertise its work fighting Islamic State. We are in Mosul, Iraq, where US jets back up the efforts of local forces to drive out Isis, and in the Pentagon, where a top-brass thinktank performatively outlines its grand strategy. Jack Seale

Inside No 9
10pm, BBC Two

A panel of judges meet to decide an acting award. Whom will they choose? This latest instalment of the anthology series is a gloriously acerbic take on showbiz folk, notably during the discussion over whether a handjob given “in the car park of the Dirty Duck in 1976” could really cloud the critical faculties. Jonathan Wright

Can You Rebuild My Brain?
10pm, Channel 4

Lotje Sodderland.
Journey of discovery ... Lotje Sodderland. Photograph: Richard Ansett/Channel 4

Six years ago, Lotje Sodderland – then a high-flyer in advertising – had a stroke, aged 34. Here, she ponders subsequent changes and considers philosophical questions about the brain and the personality. How far can science assist? And how far will we go to preserve our sense of self? John Robinson

Film choice

Chef (Jon Favreau, 2014), 11.05pm, Film4

A light culinary tale from Jon Favreau. He also wrote and stars as chef Carl Casper who, bored with preparing the same old specials for restaurant boss Dustin Hoffman, quits to start selling tacos from a Twitter-promoted truck, reconnecting with his son and attracting Scarlett Johansson and Sofía Vergara in the process. Enjoy! Paul Howlett

Live sport

Skiing: The World Cup 4.15pm, Eurosport 1. Featuring the men’s and women’s parallel slalom.

Premier League football: Huddersfield Town v Liverpool 7.15pm, BT Sport 1. Increasingly wobbly Huddersfield host Liverpool.

Cricket: U-19s World Cup 9.25pm, Sky Sports Cricket. The fifth-place play-off at Queenstown Events Centre.

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