Live Uefa Champions League: Manchester City v Bayern Munich
7.30pm, ITV
If City are to have the tiniest hope of qualifying for the Champions League knockout stages a win here is essential. Given Bayern’s awesome form in this competition – four wins out of four, a 7-1 trouncing of Roma in Rome – that doesn’t look terribly likely. That said, Bayern have already confirmed top spot in Group E, and could be tempted to rest players here, while City are hopeful that David Silva, their little metronome, will be fully fit after a recent knee injury. Gwilym Mumford
MasterChef: The Professionals
8pm, BBC2
“Chef’s got ideas,” muses Monica with eyebrows aloft as one brave professional serves up mackerel with peanuts. Five more chefs are competing for a place in Thursday’s quarter-final and two of them are risk-taking youngsters with high ambitions. As ever, Monica is taking no prisoners so gives them 15 minutes to prepare, clean and cook a cuttlefish. Hers has chorizo, peppers, garlic croutons and looks very pretty. Theirs, in most cases, do not. Will they fare any better with Marcus Wareing’s pan-fried sweetbreads? Hannah Verdier
The Missing
9pm, BBC1
James Nesbitt’s expression is practically set in anxious determination as the search for his son goes on; however, he does break into a smile during an encounter with a female stranger. Back in 2006, his suspicions of Ian Garrett are intensifying, as we learn the truth about the enigmatic property dealer, while in the present day, a police wire-tapping operation goes awry. Again, the 2006 World Cup is used as a marker of the era to supplement Nesbitt’s dubious hair dye. David Stubbs
The Paedophile Next Door
9pm, Channel 4
What if, by driving paedophiles underground, we unwittingly made them more dangerous? That’s the belief of some psychologists, who instead argue in this programme for another approach: in the midst of a child abuse “epidemic”, perhaps it’s better to encourage those with paedophiliac tendencies, but who have no plans to act on their preference (such as the paedophile interviewed here), to “come out” and seek treatment before it’s too late. A sad and revealing report, worlds away from the usual media storms. Ali Catterall
The Real Tom Thumb: History’s Smallest Superstar
9pm, BBC4
Charles Stratton was, thanks to the Svengali skills of PT Barnum, one of the very first international superstars. Discovering him in Connecticut, aged four and just 25in tall at the time, Barnum signed him up, debuting his new act on Broadway at his American Museum – the star turn of a thinly veiled freak show. Soon General Tom Thumb, as Barnum renamed him, graduated to the stage, becoming a runaway success. Here, Michael Grade explores small people and their place in the entertainment industry. Ben Arnold
Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages
9pm, More4
Large of hat and posh of voice, Penelope Keith is the perfect tour guide to explore the intricacies of life in the British village. Now she’s on the last leg of her journey, taking in the beautiful countryside of Wessex, which offers rich pickings for her delightful storytelling. Travelling through Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, she stops off at Britain’s prettiest village, Castle Combe, pops in to the place where To The Manor Born was filmed, and looks at some of the challenges the locals face in keeping country life ticking along. HV
Psychobitches
9pm, Sky Arts 1
A double bill to launch the new series of this splendidly daft sketch comedy from The League Of Gentlemen’s Jeremy Dyson. Rebecca Front returns as the ever-patient psychologist and a dazzling cast of comedy performers – including Katy Brand, Morgana Robinson, Sam Spiro, Sharon Horgan, Doon Mackichan and Liza Tarbuck – play fantastically loopy women from history. Tonight Anna Nicole Smith comes to talk about her love life, and Anne Boleyn hopes for a happy resolution in her couples therapy. Julia Raeside
Imagine – The One And Only Mike Leigh
10.35pm, BBC1
With biopic Mr Turner currently in cinemas, here’s an edition of Imagine devoted to its creator and foremost dramatiser of “ordinary” British life, Mike Leigh. “The temptation to go to Hollywood has never been an issue for a nanosecond,” he tells Alan Yentob, who finds the director on typically forthright and irrepressible form. “The Mike I know loves people and loves life,” comments actor Sally Hawkins. “He’s closer to Happy-Go-Lucky’s Poppy than people probably realise.” AJC
