Hollington Drive
9pm, ITV
Suburbia is rendered as a genteel, soft-focus hell in this new drama from Sophie Petzal. Theresa (Anna Maxwell Martin) and Fraser (Rhashan Stone) are hosting a barbecue. It’s a tense, awkward affair, full of clumsy interventions from Fraser’s brother Eddie (Ken Nwosu) and passive-aggressive provocations from Theresa’s sister Helen (Rachael Stirling). No wonder the kids want to go to the park. But when another of the drive’s children goes missing, Theresa starts to wonder what her offspring have been up to. It’s horribly claustrophobic, seething with grim detail and, as ever, Maxwell Martin does suppressed trauma and glacial unease superbly. Phil Harrison
28 Up: Millennium Generation
9pm, BBC One
The death of Michael “Up” Apted in January gave us an opportunity to revisit the simple brilliance of this formula: pick some kids, visit them every seven years and see how they are getting on. This series features footballer turned reality TV star Sanchez, questing Old Etonian Oliver and inquisitive Courtney. Charming and fascinating. PH
Hitmen: Reloaded
9pm, Sky Comedy
Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins return as goofy professional killers, Jamie and Fran. It’s a ludicrous premise, but there are a few laughs to be had as the pair get all Grosse Pointe Blank and attend a school reunion. Will business intrude on pleasure? Turns out one of their old schoolmates isn’t quite what he seems. PH
Sex Actually With Alice Levine
10pm, Channel 4
The secret of Sex Actually With Alice Levine is that it’s as much about relationships as it is about bonking. That is clear when Levine ventures into the bedrooms and dungeons of Britain’s BDSM couples. Following the polite-but-probing path of her mentor-producer, Louis Theroux, she investigates the day-to-day sub/dom dynamic. Ellen E Jones
The Blob: A Genius Without a Brain
10pm, BBC Four
“Brainless intelligence, as exhibited by slime mould” sounds like a review of a rolling news channel, but in fact it is the premise of this mind-bending science documentary. Experts from across the globe explain how much one-billion-year-old organisms, comprising a single giant cell, can teach us about the meaning of life. Jack Seale
Outsiders
10pm, Dave
It is a TV truism that celebrities become more entertaining when they have been deprived of life’s luxuries. In this new series, David Mitchell maroons a bunch of comedians (among them Kerry Godliman, Ed Gamble and Lou Sanders) in a forest and leaves them to sink or swim. Tonight, the group attempt to fell a tree. PH
Film choice
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True Grit (Ethan and Joel Coen, 11.25pm, ITV4)
It takes a certain level of chutzpah to remake a John Wayne western. But the Coen brothers (who have form, having also had a stab at Alexander Mackendrick’s peerless The Ladykillers) clearly saw possibilities, not least in getting a better actor – Jeff Bridges – to play its central character, ornery old US marshal Rooster Cogburn. Adapted from Charles Portis’s source novel, the grit-coated 2010 film features Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross, a girl in late 19th-century Arkansas who hires the drunken lawman to track down her father’s murderer. It’s an often brutal revenge tale. Simon Wardell
