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Hollie Richardson, Jack Seale and Ellen E Jones

TV tonight: Jane Fonda, Gloria Hendry and Rose McGowan talk sex on screen

Jane Fonda in the 1968 film Barbarella
Putting on a brave face … Jane Fonda in the 1968 film Barbarella. Photograph: Allstar Picture Library Ltd/Alamy

Storyville: Sex on Screen

10pm, BBC Four

In this terrific documentary women talk about how sex in the movies has changed up to and beyond the #MeToo movement. The interviewees include the first Black “Bond girl”, Gloria Hendry, and Janet Leigh’s Psycho body double Marli Renfro, who says she got zero credit. It covers the mid-20th century change in Hollywood censorship from “romance without sex” to “sex without romance”, Jane Fonda getting drunk to shoot the nude sequence in Barbarella, and today’s world of airbrushed bodies, fake pubic hairpieces and intimacy coordinators. Hollie Richardson

Great British Menu

8pm, BBC Two

Who will make it through this week’s Scottish heats? Keeping kitchen temperatures high are Adam Handling of Michelin-starred restaurant Frog; Mark McCabe, owner of the Ethicurean; Kevin Dalgleish, head chef of Amuse in Aberdeen; and Tunde “Abi” Abifarin, head chef at Edinburgh’s Farin Road. HR

Food Unwrapped Gets Fruity

8pm, Channel 4

The Unwrapped team cheerfully investigate a bunch of fructose-rich mysteries. Spain provides an answer as to why some oranges are difficult to peel, while India is the venue for a test of pomegranate’s mooted health-boosting properties. Plus, cucumbers: why are they wrapped in plastic? Jack Seale

The Mormons Are Coming

9pm, BBC Two

Mormons Sister Cooper and Elder Cook in The Mormons Are Coming
Sister Cooper, from Hertfordshire, and Elder Cook, from Utah, two of the missionaries featured in The Mormons Are Coming. Photograph: Nial Barrett/BBC/Peggy Pictures

Who knew that Chorley, in Lancashire, is home to more Mormons than anywhere else in Europe? Granted access to the training centre located there for the first time, this documentary follows a handful of young Mormons who have left their families to serve as missionaries. Spreading the gospel includes a stint outside a performance of the Book of Mormon musical in London. HR

The Diplomat

9pm, Alibi

If you’re a distressed Brit in Barcelona, you’d better call Laura Simmonds (Peaky Blinders’ Sophie Rundle), the hardest-working official at the British consulate. For Laura, every day is something different in this new detective series-meets-glossy office drama-meets-spy thriller – starting with the mysterious death of a barman on an exclusive yacht. Ellen E Jones

Katie Price’s Mucky Mansion

10pm, Channel 4

Price’s house has 19 rooms that need fixing – enough for several seasons of low-impact reality TV. This week, her daughter’s bedroom receives an underwater mermaid theme and a new cinema goes in, but there’s jeopardy when abusive online messages cause a rethink of the home’s security measures. JS

Live sport

FA Cup Football: Fulham v Leeds, 7.30pm, BBC One
A fifth-round tie. Bristol City v Man City is at 7.30pm on ITV1.

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