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Ammar Kalia, Hannah Verdier, Ellen E Jones, Jack Seale and Paul Howlett

TV tonight: Jacqueline Wilson's world of imagination

Words of wisdom ... Jacqueline Wilson.
Words of wisdom ... Jacqueline Wilson. Photograph: Directors Cut Productions/Sky

Jacqueline Wilson: Four Kids, It and Me
7pm, Sky Arts

Tracy Beaker creator Jacqueline Wilson provides a charming introduction to her writing life in East Sussex, as well as the inspiration behind her Four Children and It story, which has been made into a feature film (showing from this week on Sky Cinema). Wilson explores her childhood love of the E Nesbit Five Children and It stories and how she decided to update the adventures of the strange coastal creature to apply to a group of stepsiblings bonding. An early Easter treat. Ammar Kalia

Blue Planet Revisited: Great Barrier Reef
5.35pm, BBC One

The wildlife show returns with a look at the condition of Australia’s gorgeous reef. Liz Bonnin and co station themselves on Heron Island at the reef’s southern tip, an area that’s home to green turtles and breeding birds. With temperatures warming up, it’s a reminder that they’re under threat. Hannah Verdier

The Nest
9pm, BBC One

The truth will out ... The Nest.
The truth will out ... The Nest. Photograph: Mark Mainz/BBC/Studio Lambert

Emily (Sophie Rundle) is getting increasingly excited about the prospect of parenthood, but Dan (Martin Compston) knows the troubling truth about their surrogate Kaya (Mirren Mack), and it’s weighing heavy. The only thing he’s sure about is that Kaya can no longer be a part of their lives. Ellen E Jones

Uncovered: The McMartin Family Trials
9pm, Sky Crime

From a channel with a seemingly endless supply of true-crime docs, a look at a scandal that made headlines for years in the US, starting in 1983 with the arrests of a family running a Californian preschool. A long judicial process followed, filled with twists and maddening uncertainty. Jack Seale

Trigonometry
10pm, BBC2

After last week’s tumultuous wedding, Gemma and Kieran find themselves on their way to Finland for their honeymoon, although Ray must rush to get them on to their plane on time first, leaving the couple to reconsider what they’re leaving behind. Meanwhile, Ray connects disastrously with an old flame. AK

Ride Upon the Storm
10.55pm, Channel 4

Lars Mikkelsen returns as head of the Krogh family of priests in the second season of this riveting Danish drama. We pick up 18 months on from the death of his son August and the family’s divergent methods of grieving, namely daughter Emilie’s movement away from the church – something Johannes is determined to fix. AK

Film choice

A Monster Calls.
A Monster Calls. Photograph: Travis Topa/Focus Features

A Monster Calls, 10.30pm, BBC One

Much in the spirit of The BFG, JA Bayona’s adaptation of Patrick Ness’s novel has a troubled boy finding friendship in the form of an unfeasibly large, fantastical chum. The Liam Neeson-voiced tree giant is ferocious, but easily out-emoted by Lewis MacDougall’s Conor – a young master of fearful misery. Paul Howlett

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