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Ammar Kalia, Phil Harrison, Ellen E Jones, Jack Seale and Paul Howlett

TV tonight: 20 years of Derren Brown's mind games

Mind controller ... Derren Brown.
Mind controller ... Derren Brown. Photograph: Channel 4/PA

Derren Brown: 20 Years of Mind Control: Live

9pm, Channel 4

Variously described as an illusionist, magician, mentalist, even a huckster, Derren Brown has spent the past 20 years inducing head-scratching reactions in viewers by performing stunts ranging from guessing the winning National Lottery numbers to convincing a man he was living in an apocalypse. Famous faces such as Martin Freeman, Steven Merchant and Claire Danes consider Brown’s appeal, while the man himself talks us through his career. Ammar Kalia

Sir Chris Hoy’s Secret World of Japanese Bicycle Racing

6pm, BBC Two

Filmed before lockdown, this sees British cycling star Chris Hoy travel to Tokyo, the home of next year’s Olympics, to explore the origins of the keirin – one of track cycling’s most dangerous events. He revisits the keirin school he attended there in 2005. AK

A Suitable Boy

9pm, BBC One

A Suitable Boy.
A Suitable Boy. Photograph: Taha Ahmad/BBC/Lookout Point

The visually sumptuous Indian period drama continues, this week with Lata returning to Berhampur as Haresh vies for her love with the promise of a better life. Meanwhile, her first flame Kabir reappears, and political tensions come to a head as differing religious festivals coincide in the city. AK

Tyson vs Jaws: Rumble on the Reef

9pm, Discovery

The one-time apex predator of the heavyweight division meets his aquatic equivalent for 12 underwater rounds. Yes, really. Ahead of his ring return in September, Mike Tyson tussles with a shark. No sharks (or boxers) were hurt in the making of this bizarre doc. Phil Harrison

Outcry

9pm, Sky Crime

In US law an “outcry” is the first allegation of abuse made by a child victim. It is supposed to result in a full investigation but, as documented in this new five-part documentary series, that is not what happened in the case of Greg Kelley, a high-school football star convicted of sexual assault. Ellen E Jones

Albion

10.10pm, BBC Four

Filmed at the Almeida Theatre during its run in February, Mike Bartlett’s play tackles patriotism and the urge to grasp for the past, and is thus seen as being implicitly about Brexit. Victoria Hamilton is a fearsome lead; Normal People’s Daisy Edgar-Jones co-stars. It goes on until 1am, so might be best seen on iPlayer. Jack Seale

Film choice

Jane Eyre.
Jane Eyre. Photograph: Everett/Rex Features

Jane Eyre 1.50pm, BBC One

Cary Fukunaga’s atmospheric screening of Charlotte Brontë’s gothic romance has Mia Wasikowska as an oppressed Jane, sent to live at the forbidding manor of Michael Fassbender’s Rochester, where Judi Dench’s housekeeper Mrs Fairfax holds sway. The moors are bleak and choked with repressed longings. Paul Howlett

Live sport

Test Cricket: England v Pakistan 10.30am, Sky Sports Main Event. Fourth day of the second Test.

F1: Spanish Grand Prix 2.05pm, Sky Sports Main Event. The sixth round of the season from the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona.

Rugby Union: Northampton Saints v Wasps 2.30pm, BT Sport 1. Top-flight match from Franklin’s Gardens.

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