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Hollie Richardson, Hannah Verdier, Ellen E Jones and Graeme Virtue,

TV tonight: a damning look at Partygate from all sides

Shall I get the karaoke machine? … Partygate.
Shall I get the karaoke machine? … Partygate. Photograph: Rob Parfitt/Channel 4

Partygate

9.30pm, Channel 4

“Shall I get the karaoke machine?” asks the government’s former ethics chief Helen MacNamara (Charlotte Ritchie) in this sickening and damning film about the Downing Street parties held during lockdowns. It weaves dramatisations of events recorded in the Sue Gray report with real footage of what was going on publicly and privately, and interviews with people whose loved ones died alone and who were fined thousands of pounds for breaking the rules. Hollie Richardson

The Great British Bake Off

8pm, Channel 4

New dream duo Noel Fielding and Alison Hammond get stuck into biscuit week and the tasty trials are taking no prisoners. There’s a marshmallow-based signature challenge and the chance for the bakers to make their favourite meal out of biscuits. Hannah Verdier

Rise of the Nazis: The Manhunt

9pm, BBC Two

In this concluding episode, images of Nazi war criminals enjoying their freedom in South American hideaways are almost unbearable to see. Josef Mengele on a skiing holiday. Klaus Barbie laughing with friends over dinner. Mercifully, that outrage is counterbalanced by the heroism of people such as Beate Klarsfeld determined to bring justice at long last. Ellen E Jones

Killer in My Village

9pm, Sky Crime

Season seven of the UK true-crime series examining rural murders begins with an upsetting case from 2022. A Derbyshire couple in their 80s were targeted at home by an opportunistic robber whose coercion methods proved deadly; the only positive in the whole awful affair is how quickly he was identified and apprehended. Graeme Virtue

Storyville: If the Streets Were on Fire

10pm, BBC Four

Storyville: If the Streets Were on Fire.
An impassioned film … Storyville: If the Streets Were on Fire. Photograph: Theo McIness/BNBC/DSP ITSWOF

In protest against knife crime, activist Mac Ferrari-Guy set up bike collective BikeStormz, which brings together young people to ride through London – but they are challenged with the threat of arrest and accusations of antisocial behaviour. This impassioned film follows them over several years. HR

White Nanny, Black Child

10pm, Channel 5

“The only memories I really have of that place are living in fear.” This moving and unsettling film hears from nine of the 70,000 west Africans who were fostered by white Britons between 1955 and 1995 – a practice which was known as “farming”. At a workshop retreat under professional guidance, they discuss their experiences. HR

Live sport

Gymnastics: World Championships, 7pm, BBC Two The men’s team final from Antwerp.

Champions League football: Man United v Galatasaray, 7pm, TNT Sports 1 Lens v Arsenal is on TNT Sports 2.

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