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Jack Seale, Hannah Verdier, Graeme Virtue, Phil Harrison, Gwilym Mumford, Jonathan Wright and Paul Howlett

Tuesday’s best TV: Tracey Emin – Where Do You Draw the Line?; Informer

Alan Yentob and Tracey Emin
Alan Yentob and Tracey Emin in her studio. Photograph: John O’Rourke/BBC

Imagine: Tracey Emin – Where Do You Draw the Line?

10.45pm, BBC One
At 55, Tracey Emin is doing more high-profile international work than ever, but she has also embarked on a project that involves retreating to a studio in her hometown of Margate in Kent. For his Imagine series, Alan Yentob follows the Young British Artists provocateur for 12 months, recalling along the way how Emin roared through the 90s and asking whether the death of her mother two years ago has caused her to enter a new, more reflective phase. Jack Seale

The Great British Bake Off

8pm, Channel 4
It is the semi-final, which means the notorious patisserie week is here. Prue is a particularly cruel mistress, setting an “almost impossible” technical challenge. Considering the bakers are so near to victory, there are a surprising number of wobbly moments, but that makes it all the more watchable. Hannah Verdier

Arrow

8pm, Sky1
Affluent archer Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) may have spent the past six years turning Star City thugs into pin cushions, but season seven kicks off with the collared vigilante banged up in a supermax jail. Will incarceration give Oli a new sympathy for the criminal class? Judging by his bruises, it seems not. Graeme Virtue

Informer

9pm, BBC One
The thriller continues, with coerced informant Raza (Nabhaan Rizwan) bonding uncomfortably with his contact and details about the traumatic past of Paddy Considine’s counter-terrorism officer Gabe beginning to emerge. The performances are excellent, the plotting tight and the moral ambiguities convincing. Phil Harrison

A Dangerous Dynasty: House of Assad

9pm, BBC Two
This stunning account of the Assad family’s relentless backslide into brutality concludes with the Syrian civil war, a cataclysm that we are set to be reckoning with for decades. Remarkable archive footage and in-the-know talking heads contribute to one of the year’s best documentaries. Gwilym Mumford

Martin Lewis: 10 Things Your Kids Need to Know

9pm, ITV
Financial expert Martin Lewis returns to his childhood home in Cheshire to impart life lessons to the next generation. As you might expect, the core of what he has to say concerns money, but the theme of resilience also looms large, with Lewis touching on the death of his mother when he was young. Jonathan Wright

Film choice

Javier Guttiérez and Raúl Arévalo in Marshland
Javier Guttiérez and Raúl Arévalo in Marshland. Photograph: Allstar/Atipica Films

Marshland (Alberto Rodríguez, 2014), 2.15am, Channel 4
Alberto Rodríguez’s Spanish thriller is set indelibly in time – 1980, as the country wrestles with transition after Franco’s death – and in place: Andalucía’s haunting marshes. Cops Juan (Javier Guttiérez), an old Francoist heavy, and idealist Pedro (Raúl Arévalo) embody the political tensions as they search for a serial killer. Paul Howlett

Live sport

ODI cricket: Sri Lanka v England 9.30am, Sky Sports Main Event. The fifth and final match in the series between the sides.
Champions League football: Manchester United v Juventus 8pm, BT Sport 2. The pace-setters in group H face off.
Cycling: Six Day London 7.55pm, Eurosport 1. First day of the long-running event, held at the Lee Valley VeloPark.

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