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Entertainment
Mike Bradley, Phil Harrison, Hannah Verdier, Jack Seale and Paul Howlett

TV tonight: is cannabis really the miracle cure for all our ills?

Dr Javid Abdelmoneim at a cannabis farm in Denmark on Horizon – Cannabis: Miracle Medicine or Dangerous Drug?
Dr Javid Abdelmoneim at a cannabis farm in Denmark on Horizon – Cannabis: Miracle Medicine or Dangerous Drug? Photograph: Marco Cervi/BBC

Fugitives
8pm, BBC One

More from this grimly fascinating documentary series, as UK and Ugandan police officers join forces to search for a woman who fled the UK after killing her daughter. Other cases tonight include London cops hunting a rapist wanted in Italy, and attempts to locate a cocaine smuggler who is utilising a light aircraft. Phil Harrison

Who Do You Think You Are?
9pm, BBC One

Who does he think he is? Paul Merton.
Who does he think he is? ... Paul Merton. Photograph: Stephen Perry/BBC/Wall to Wall Media

Ousted from its usual Monday slot by an avalanche of bank holiday drama, the genealogy show analyses comic Paul Merton’s family history. Experts uncover several surprising ancestors, one of whom prompts him to exclaim: “It’s good to discover I wasn’t the first to embarrass myself publicly!” MB

Cannabis: Miracle Medicine Or Dangerous Drug?
9pm, BBC Two

A&E doctor Javid Abdelmoneim presents a topical Horizon, in which he scrutinises the latest research into cannabis use and reveals horrifying statistics linking recreational use of strong skunk with the recent rise in cases of psychosis. There’s good journalism here, but also much bad news. MB

Deep Water
9pm, ITV

The juicy primetime drama continues. Amid the workday ups and downs and a crisis at the kennels, the three women’s lives simmer with secrets and stress. Lisa (a particularly watchable Anna Friel) is trying to avoid Adam, while Roz is finding that her acceptance of an indecent proposal is not enough to fix her life. Hannah Verdier

Better Things
10pm, BBC Two

God love the 20-minute dramedy format – one simple thing happens tonight in Pamela Adlon’s superb show about divorced motherhood, but it brims with relatable bittersweetness. After the power goes out, Jeff (Greg Comer) offers his friend some help, a kindness that has an irreversible knock-on effect. Jack Seale

Film choice

Springtime for Hitler: The Producers.
Springtime for Hitler ... The Producers. Photograph: Allstar/MGM

The Producers (Mel Brooks, 1967), 1.30pm, TCM
Mel Brooks’s first and funniest movie has Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder as fixers aiming to stage the worst musical in Broadway history, then pocket the production money. So here comes Springtime for Hitler, a show so thoroughly tasteless it is guaranteed to fail. Unfortunately, it’s a raging success … Paul Howlett

Live sport

Cycling: Vuelta a España 1.45pm, Eurosport 1. Fifth stage from L’Eliana to Javalambre Observatory.

T20 cricket: women’s super league 6.25pm, Sky Sports The Ashes. Group stage clash.

Carabao Cup football: Lincoln City v Everton 7.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event.

Sincil Bank hosts the Premier League outfit.

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