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Entertainment
Ammar Kalia, Phil Harrison, Hannah Verdier, Ali Catterall and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: the scandalous Anne Boleyn and her family go about their business

The Boleyn girl ... Rafaëlle Cohen as Anne Boleyn.
The Boleyn girl ... Rafaëlle Cohen as Anne Boleyn. Photograph: Jeremy Campbell/BBC Studios

The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family

9pm, BBC Two

This three-part documentary-drama on the history of the Boleyn family, made notorious by daughter Anne’s marriage to Henry VIII and eventual execution, continues with its second episode. We open with Henry VIII having been on the throne for 17 years and the Boleyns jostling for power in the royal court by trying to curry favour with the queen, Catherine of Aragon. As a romance between Anne and Henry begins, there are repercussions for the entire family. Ammar Kalia

BBC Proms 2021

7pm, BBC Four

One of the stars of the London-based jazz scene of the past five years, the saxophonist Nubya Garcia leads her first Prom at the Royal Albert Hall, playing music from her Mercury prize-nominated first album, The Source. She joins other non-classical acts on the lineup, including singer Moses Sumney. AK

Epic Wales: Valleys, Mountains & Coasts

8pm, Channel 4

This visually spectacular series celebrating the beauty of the Land of Song continues, this time transporting us to Skomer Island on the Pembrokeshire coast. If you like puffins, you’re in luck, as freediver and photographer Nicki Meharg captures their lives on film. Phil Harrison

Ian Hislop’s Trains That Changed The World

9pm, Channel 5

Have I got an underground station for you ... Ian Hislop outside King’s Cross.
Have I got an underground station for you ... Ian Hislop outside King’s Cross. Photograph: Channel 5

The show with the most boring title reaches its most exciting episode, pinpointing the moment when London’s commute switched from a horse-and-cart jostle to the swish new Underground. From there, Hislop’s journey stops off at New York and Mumbai. Hannah Verdier

The Crimson Rivers

9pm, More 4

Season two of this French crime series sees detectives Pierre Niemans (Olivier Marchal) and Camille Delaunay (Erika Sante) alighting in a village to investigate the grisly murder of the local pastor. He was found crucified on an inverted cross, a macabre staging the duo realise harks back to the 3rd century. AK

King Gary

9.30pm, BBC One

When Terri (Laura Checkley) reveals she has asked Kay to be a wedding planner, there’s an enormous row, leading Terri to go “fully dark”, as the family-man sitcom continues. Meanwhile, noisy neighbour Aaron’s partying is giving the street a headache, and Gary has been tasked with sorting it out. Ali Catterall

Film choice

Nicole Kidman in Detroyer
Rarely better ... Nicole Kidman in Detroyer. Photograph: Sabrina Lantos/Allstar/Lionsgate

Destroyer (Karyn Kusama, 2018), 10.35pm, BBC One
There are shades of Point Blank and Bad Lieutenant in Karyn Kusama’s murky, Los Angeles-set crime drama, as raddled former undercover cop Nicole Kidman (in full dress-down mode) reckons with her past misdeeds when a person of interest from an old case reappears. Kidman has rarely been better. Simon Wardell

Live sport

Cricket: The Hundred 2.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event. Women’s eliminator match, followed by men’s teams at 6pm.

Cricket: West Indies v Pakistan 3.45pm, BT Sport 1. First day’s coverage of the second and final test, from Sabrina Park, Kingston.

Golf: The Northern Trust 9.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event. Day two coverage from Jersey City.

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