This Is Our Family
10pm, Sky Atlantic
Filmed over three years, this series follows four UK families as they navigate everything from marriage and infidelity to childcare and bereavement. The first episode follows the Borgs of Newport in Wales, with father of eight and former boxer Tony settling down to marry Emma, a mother of four. However, five of his children are refusing to attend the wedding and Emma is still grieving for her daughter Xana, who died in a car crash in 2015. An engrossing glimpse into the traumas of everyday life. Ammar Kalia
The Metro: A Rail Life Story
7.30pm, ITV
The 48-mile Tyne and Wear Metro is the UK’s biggest metro system outside London. This four-part documentary covers one summer on the line. This week, the Metro is under strain: the Spice Girls tour is in town and 50,000 fans are making their way to Sunderland for a dose of girl power. Will a downed power line thwart their plans? AK
Food Unwrapped Does Breakfast
8pm, Channel 4
This instalment of the probing food series features reports related to the most important meal of the day. That means Jimmy Doherty uncovering the history of baked beans, Matt Tebbutt getting surprisingly scientific with muesli and Helen Lawal untangling bacon-related health scares. Graeme Virtue
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild
9pm, Channel 5
Ben Fogle heads to Siberia to spend a week with a “wilderness scientist” who is trying to save the sparsely populated region. Said academic is on a mission to create conditions that will bring the woolly mammoth back from extinction and, as Fogle treks with him, it is clear he is made of strong stuff. Hannah Verdier
24 Hours in A&E
9pm, Channel 4
A 20th series of the award-winning documentary strand, the success of which suggests that – whatever our nationwide voting choices seem to imply – we love the NHS. Tonight: a series of road accidents, the most troubling of which concerns 12-year-old George, who is at risk of disability. Phil Harrison
Better Things
10pm, BBC Two
Pamela Adlon’s touching, nuanced portrait of a single mother of three continues its third season. After dropping her eldest daughter, Max, off to college in Chicago last week, Adlon’s Sam now has to contend with the onset of hot flushes, as well as meeting the parents of her daughter Duke’s bully. AK
Film choice
The Big Heat (Fritz Lang, 1953), 9pm, Sony Movies Classic
Fritz Lang’s film noir booked its place in cinema history with the scene where Lee Marvin’s gangster throws boiling coffee into Gloria Grahame’s face. The world is indeed a savage place here, the characters trapped in the interiors of Charles Lang Jr’s photography. Yet there may be redemption for Glenn Ford’s cop. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Alpine skiing: Youth Olympics 8.30am, Eurosport 1. Lausanne in Switzerland hosts the women’s slalom first run.
Golf: Abu Dhabi Hero Challenge 3.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event. Return of the target golf competition from Abu Dhabi.
FA Cup football: Tottenham Hotspur v Middlesbrough 8pm, BBC One. Coverage of the third-round replay.
