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Ali Catterall, Mike Bradley, Ellen E Jones and Paul Howlett

TV tonight: steam heads do the locomotion

Mark O’Brien, head boilersmith at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway
Mark O’Brien, head boilersmith at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. Photograph: Channel 5

The Yorkshire Steam Railway: All Aboard
8pm, Channel 5

It is high summer, and for the North Yorkshire Moors Railway that means making hay while the sun shines. So it is hosting 22 steam train-based weddings, including that of head boilersmith Mark and his steam-mad fiancee Emma. As events manager Tim says: “To do this job, you have to be unflappable. And I am quite flappable.” Elsewhere, there are engine problems, a battered-sausage crisis and some breathtaking scenery. A comforting vegetable soup of a show. Ali Catterall

Unreported World
7.30pm, Channel 4

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ade Adepitan hears that “eco-guards” part-funded by the World Wildlife Fund are intimidating the native Baka tribe and preventing them from hunting the (legal) bushmeat on which they depend. Is the survival of endangered species being put above their own? Mike Bradley

Hatton Garden: The Inside Story
9pm, ITV

Geezers and diamonds: if ITV’s drama has somehow not quenched your thirst for Hatton Garden content this week, Ross Kemp ties things off with a documentary examining the 2015 heist, during which veteran thieves made off with millions in shiny loot, and bags an exclusive interview with lookout Kenny Collins. Graeme Virtue

Veerle Baetens as Hannah Maes in Code 37: Sex Crimes
Veerle Baetens as Hannah Maes in Code 37: Sex Crimes. Photograph: GSN/Channel 4

Code 37: Sex Crimes
9pm, More4

In tonight’s riveting dispatch from Ghent, offbeat Chief Inspector Hannah Maes discovers the body of a man left for dead in a hotel room. Evidently he spent the previous evening with an escort renowned for her ability to handle violent clients, but Maes doesn’t buy the theory that she put him in a coma. MB

Jamestown
9pm, Sky One

Life is more comfortable in the colony now that the settlers’ immediate survival is assured, but that only leaves more time for scheming. Governor Yeardley (Jason Flemyng) cooks up a plan to get revenge on the Pamunkey and Jocelyn grows Gollum-like in her obsession with finding Crabtree’s ring. Ellen E Jones

The Looming Tower
9.30pm, BBC Two

In this week’s chapter of Shannon Houston’s intelligence drama it’s December 1999 and, wary of any atrocities that terrorists may have planned for the millennium celebrations, both the CIA and the FBI are on alert. Jeff Daniels plays a blinder as John O’Neill, the FBI honcho whose instincts never fail him. MB

Film chouce

Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Tom Cruise and Ving Rhames in Mission: Impossible – Fallout
A thrilling ride ... Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Photograph: David James/AP

Mission: Impossible – Fallout, 1.35am, 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere
It is sixth time around for Tom Cruise’s IMF agent Ethan Hunt here. So motorbike and helicopter chases, jumps from a towerblock window and brutal hand-to-hand battles could all seem a bit mission: everyday. But under the kinetic direction of Chris McQuarrie, it’s a thrilling ride. Paul Howlett

Live sport

ODI Cricket: Pakistan v Afghanistan, 10am, Sky Sports Cricket
A World Cup warm-up game from Bristol.

Golf: The Made in Denmark, 10.30am, Sky Sports Golf
The second day of the event in Aalborg.

Cycling: Giro d’Italia, 12noon, Eurosport 1
Coverage of the 13th stage of the Grand Tour race.

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