Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
9pm, BBC Four
Jim Moir, AKA Vic Reeves, is no stranger to the screen, having graced ours for the past three decades. With his recent switch to a career as an artist, he explores the leftfield existence of video art – the screens found in galleries rather than homes – from its beginnings in the 1960s, when Sony camcorders became commercially available for artists such Nam June Paik, to the cutting-edge digital experiments employed today. A trippy journey through the looking glass. Ammar Kalia
His Dark Materials
8pm, BBC One
As plucky Lyra and her Gyptian allies dock at the northern town of Trollesund, two beloved characters from Philip Pullman’s novels enter the fray: wry Texan aeronaut Lee Scoresby (Lin-Manuel Miranda) and a certain fallen, furry king. Can Lyra convince them to join her search for the missing children? Graeme Virtue
The War of the Worlds
9pm, BBC One
Oddly fresh as the idea of a period alien-invasion saga is, we are into standard territory in this middle episode of the HG Wells adaptation, as our two leads doubt what we know is inevitable: that they’ll be safely reunited. Along the way there are satisfying deaths and some underpowered allegorical nudges. Jack Seale
Reggie in China
9pm, BBC Two
How have China’s super rich become so staggeringly successful in a communist country? This is the question Reggie Yates asks this week as he speeds in supercars with besuited businessmen, explores China’s multi-billion-pound live-streaming industry and discusses the state’s regulation of the internet. Maeve Allen
Our Guy in Japan
9pm, Channel 4
Racer and mechanic Guy Martin sets off around Japan to discover the secrets of Japanese engineering. Often offbeat, Martin excels when training with an 85-year-old engineering grandmaster, yet strays into exoticising territory when sampling poisonous blowfish and gangland tattoos. AK
Kemper on Kemper: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer
9pm, Sky Crime
TV’s serial killer fascination endures in this documentary on Ed Kemper, who on his arrest in 1973 had killed 10 people, including his mother. Former FBI agent John Douglas takes us through his interviews with Kemper, explaining his criminology. AK
Film choice
Goldstone 11pm, BBC Two
Like a sheriff arriving to right wrongs in a western, drunken indigenous detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) moseys into the outback mining town of Goldstone on the case of a missing Chinese woman and, with the grudging help of local cop Josh (Alex Russell), uncovers corruption in this rugged thriller. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Darts: Players Championship 12.45pm, ITV4. Quarter-finals of the tournament in Minehead Butlins.
Premier League Football: Sheffield Utd v Manchester Utd 4pm, Sky Sports Main Event. Bramall Lane hosts two teams vying for a top-six position.
International Cricket: New Zealand v England 9.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event. Final day of the first Test.
