The Accused: National Treasures on Trial
9pm, Channel 4
“All I know is that I was never guilty of anything like that.” In this astonishing documentary, Cliff Richard joins Neil Fox and Paul Gambaccini in speaking out 10 years after being investigated as part of Operation Yewtree. All three were eventually exonerated as part of the lengthy police investigation into claims of sexual abuse by a number of high-profile figures, including Jimmy Savile. Journalists and investigators who were involved at the time contribute their versions of events relating to the case, which ruined the lives of those who were falsely accused. Hollie Richardson
Shetland
9pm, BBC One
It feels as if DI Jimmy Perez (Douglas Henshall) was only just reinstated, but already he has two murders and a missing person to sort out. While Perez broods, his colleague Tosh (Alison O’Donnell) artfully grills a key witness. Graeme Virtue
The Rehearsal
9pm, Sky Comedy
In this brilliantly bizarre parody documentary series, deadpan presenter Nathan Fielder is hired to help people rehearse difficult conversations. First up, a trivia nerd wants to come clean about not really having a master’s degree. HR
The Great
10pm, Channel 4
Crocodile tears and crocodile smiles are par for the course in the court of Catherine (Elle Fanning), filled with its dissemblers and backstabbers. But in this episode there’s also an actual crocodile. Or is it a dragon? Or some kind of omen? Suspiciously, opportunist Archie (Adam Godley) has all the answers. Ellen E Jones
Dead Canny
10pm, Dave
Denise Welch – Loose Women’s queen of huns – steals the show as a fun-loving aunt in this silly comedy pilot. Set in creator Anna Costello’s Durham home town, it follows Kay (Sarah Balfour), who can see dead people. She uses this skill to make a few quid down the pub until it lands her in a murder inquiry. HR
Breeders
10pm, Sky Comedy
The nicely observed and winningly performed growing-pains sitcom continues, always appropriately on the sour side of sentimentality. Tonight, Martin Freeman’s Paul attempts to help his dad (the excellent Alun Armstrong) recreate a cherished memory. But the trouble with poking around in the past is you can never be quite sure what you’re going to dig up. Phil Harrison
Film choice
Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991), 10.20pm, BBC Three
Surf’s up, as is the crime rate, in Kathryn Bigelow’s exhilarating bromance thriller. Keanu Reeves plays greenhorn FBI agent Johnny Utah, who goes undercover on the beaches of California to track down the Ex-Presidents, a bunch of highly effective bank robbers who may also be surfers. His focus soon turns to the charismatic Bodhi (Patrick Swayze), who draws Johnny in with his freewheeling rebel philosophy, in between wave-riding and skydiving excursions. Reeves is more comfortable in slacker-dude guise than as a gun-toting G-man but Swayze inhabits his sunbleached part fully. Simon Wardell
