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Hollie Richardson, Ellen E Jones, Phil Harrison, Ali Catterall and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: grooming gang victims tell their stories

Documentary maker Anna Hall looks at her computer screen in a still from Groomed: A National Scandal
Documentary maker Anna Hall in Groomed: A National Scandal. Photograph: Candour

Groomed: A National Scandal

9pm, Channel 4
Anna Hall has been reporting on gang grooming for more than two decades, after first broadcasting her findings in her 2004 film Edge of the City. In this horrifying documentary, she meets five grownup victims who speak about their experiences, examines the failings of the authorities (victims were referred to as “child prostitutes” or labelled “promiscuous”) and looks at how grooming became a polarising political issue. What’s even more troubling, Hall says, is the fact that the exact same patterns are being repeated today. Hollie Richardson

Glow Up: Britain’s Next Make-Up Star

8pm, BBC Three
The search is back on for Britain’s next makeup star, so host Leomie Anderson welcomes a new batch of 10 fresh-faced artists to Glow Up studios. They’re plunged straight into the spotlight, and tasked with creating runway looks for avant-garde designer Harri. Ellen E Jones

Race Across the World

9pm, BBC One
Once again, RATW feels like reality TV done right; a series that is empowering and comforting at the same time. This week, the teams must reach a checkpoint located in Sanya in the south of China. But do you take the speedy business route or travel scenically? Approaches vary, as, it must be said, do the results. Phil Harrison

Genius Game

9pm, ITV1
What happens when you group together a crime writer, a standup comic, two GPs, a scientist and an entrepreneur and get them to outsmart each other for a cash prize? David Tennant’s new gameshow finds out, as highly intellectual contestants instantly start squabbling during the first mind-boggling task. HR

Just Act Normal

9pm, BBC Three
“For some people, it seems like everything just falls into place.” For siblings Tiana, Tanika and Tionne? Not so much. In this episode, there’s a job interview touching on cultural representation and a night out with Shanice. It also contains the immortal line: “I killed my brother’s chicken. You thought it was my mum, but it ain’t.” Ali Catterall

I, Jack Wright

9pm, U&Alibi

The enjoyably hammy whodunnit starring John Simm, Gemma Jones and Nikki Amuka-Bird continues after the wealthy patriarch Jack Wright’s will reading left the family reeling. But they’re also about to learn the truth about how Jack died, along with some other secrets sure to raise eyebrows. HR

Film choice

A Complete Unknown (James Mangold, 2025), Disney+
James Mangold directed the excellent Johnny Cash drama Walk the Line, and his latest music biopic – which tracks the groundbreaking early phase of Bob Dylan’s career – has the same rewarding fidelity to time and place. It also features a lead performance that is so much more than an impersonation: Timothée Chalamet is perfectly cast as the single-minded young folk singer, who arrives in New York in 1961 to follow in the footsteps of his hero, Woody Guthrie. Dylan wows lovable banjo star Pete Seeger (Edward Norton) with his songs and political stance, but his selfish attitude alienates Monica Barbaro’s equally talented Joan Baez … and most of the folk establishment. Simon Wardell

Live sport

Women’s Super League football: Aston Villa v Arsenal, 5.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event. From Villa Park. Followed by Man United v Chelsea at 8pm.

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