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Gwilym Mumford, Graeme Virtue, Ellen E Jones, David Stubbs, Ali Catterall, Lanre Bakare and Paul Howlett

TV tonight: 21st-century criminologists rip open the Jack the Ripper case

Can they crack it? ... Jack the Ripper: The Case Reopened.
Can they crack it? ... Jack the Ripper: The Case Reopened. Photograph: Hugh Campbell/BBC Studios

Grand Designs: The Street
9pm, Channel 4

Constructing glass edifices out of grain silos is all well and good, but the DIY creations on Grand Designs often seem out of reach to those of us without a spare half a million. This new spin-off series presents a more inclusive vision of self-builds, documenting a recent experiment in Oxfordshire that saw the council sell “ready-to-go” plots to the general public. Kevin McCloud follows the fortunes of 10 households on the scheme, beginning with retirees building an eye-catching – and hopefully habitable – blue steel wedge. Gwilym Mumford

Celebrity Painting Challenge
8pm, BBC One

Perhaps the only place where you will hear Phil Tufnell compared to Picasso, this starry offshoot of The Big Painting Challenge recruits six dabbling dabbers – including Jane Seymour and Josie d’Arby – who are keen to brush up their artistic skills. Week one focuses on the human form. Graeme Virtue

Celebrity Painting Challenge.
Dabbling dabbers ... Celebrity Painting Challenge. Photograph: Guy Levy/BBC

Jack the Ripper: The Case Reopened
9pm, BBC One

While we await the TV adaptation of Hallie Rubenhold’s feminist, victim-focused take on the nation’s most famous cold case, here’s a more traditional refresher. Emilia Fox is joined by a real-life criminology professor and together they use 21st-century forensic science to review the evidence. Ellen E Jones

Code Blue: Murder
9pm, ITV

The first in this two-part doc follows, with actual footage, the case of Katherine Smith, found brutally murdered. Anthony Lowe, whom she met on a dating site and is now on the run, is prime suspect. The understated politeness of the investigating officers – for real, or for the cameras? – is eerily striking. David Stubbs

Anorac
9.30pm, S4C Digital

Sometimes, observes BBC Radio One’s Huw Stephens, “you just have to go home”. On the 50th anniversary of the first No 1 Welsh pop record (Shirley Bassey’s As I Love You), he dons his “anorac” and embarks on this lovely road trip to meet the likes of Meic Stevens, Dave Datblygu and Gruff Rhys. Ali Catterall

Bad Banks
11.05pm, Channel 4

The Ronseal title of this German drama belies a smart and darker-than-expected tale of bankers on the brink in Frankfurt. Focusing on the collapse of a huge investment bank with a cavalier new CEO, it’s a mix of Mr Robot’s black bloc post-capitalism anarchism and Billions’s corporate machismo. Lanre Bakare

Film choice

Robert Shaw in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.
Enough to keep you off trains for life ... Robert Shaw in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. Photograph: Allstar Picture Library/Alamy Stock Photo/Alamy Stock Photo

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, 11.10pm, TCM
It’s enough to keep you off the tube for life: four masked gunmen hijack a New York subway train and demand $1m or the passengers start dying. Robert Shaw as the ruthless gang boss and Walter Matthau as the transport cop try to out-gruff each other in Joseph Sargent’s relentlessly grimy thriller. Paul Howlett

Today’s best live sport

Snooker: China Open The fourth day of the ranking tournament from Beijing. 12.25pm, Eurosport 1

Golf: The Valero Texas Open Coverage of the opening day at TPC San Antonio. 1.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event

Darts: The Premier League The ninth round of the season with the circus moving on to Belfast. 7pm, Sky Sports Main Event

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