The Autistic Gardener
8pm, Channel 4
The garden makeover format from a new angle: autistic, brilliant gardener Alan Gardner redesigns a different punter’s backyard each week, helped by a team of five young autists for whom horticulture is a path to clear self-expression – from Charles, who talks as if narrating a Tim Burton movie trailer, to Thomas, who can hardly complete a sentence. It’s breezily educational and immensely charming. The glorious final reveal comes after, in Alan’s deadpan words, “some moving examples of autistic people bonding”. Jack Seale
The Interceptor
9pm, BBC1
Another side quest during the UNIT’s ongoing mission to bring down golf-loving kingpin Trevor Eve: a batch of powerful new pills are flooding London’s streets, so plainclothes superplod Ash and quizzical DI Gemmill team up to locate the drug lab, even though their bosses hate each other. It’s mostly a showcase for second-string villain Dexter Fletcher, who strong-arms his chemist into manufacturing lethally below-par “sherbs” to maximise profit and terrorises an underling’s unfortunate girlfriend. Graeme Virtue
Children Of The Gaza War
9pm, BBC2
The 51-day Israel-Gaza conflict last year claimed the lives of more than 500 children, all but one of them Palestinian. What is it like to grow up amid such violence? In a bleakly necessary documentary, Lyse Doucet meets children on both sides of the border, including those who lost loved ones when Israeli gunboats fired on a beach and killed four youngsters. The trauma caused by the conflict is all too clear to see, and not restricted to one camp. Samar (12, Palestinian): “There is no safety in the world.” Jonathan Wright
Long Lost Family
9pm, ITV
Sensitive in tone and featuring plenty of tearful moments, the series closes with two women searching for the key to their identity. Alley was abandoned as a newborn on the doorstep of a block of flats, wrapped in a pillowcase, and has been searching for her mother for more than 10 years. Jade has one photo of her father and knows he’s from Barbados, but has never met him. Can Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell track down the missing family members? Sometimes there’s no neat end to their stories. Hannah Verdier
From Russia With Cash
10pm, Channel 4
Back in the cold war days, the idea of a Russian takeover of London only existed in the fevered fantasies of militaristic rightwingers convinced of reds lurking under the bed. Today, however, Russians are making insidious advances on the city – ironically, thanks to a capitalist property boom. In this investigation, a reporter poses as a Russian government minister to show how the money that fuels this boom is often laundered by corrupt overseas buyers, whom British estate agents are only too keen to accommodate. David Stubbs
Jordskott
10pm, ITV Encore
Episode five of the gruesome Swedish thriller set in a gloomy forest, disaffected teens sulking on every branch. Tonight, Eva frets as Josefine’s condition continues to deteriorate. Can she make the ultimate sacrifice for her daughter before it’s too late? Meanwhile, there’s a terrible accident at an already maudlin teen party and a girl wearing lots of eyeliner flees looking guilty. The Danish imports we’ve seen do this with so much more subtlety and don’t have to resort to such broad brushstrokes. Raise it, Sweden. Julia Raeside
Doll & Em
10.10pm, Sky Atlantic
Created by Emily Mortimer, daughter of Rumpole author John Mortimer, and Dolly Wells, whose father was satirist John Wells, this semi-improvised series could be dismissed as an exercise in self-indulgent showbiz nepotism. However, while not wildly funny, it is richly nuanced and observational, drawing on a deeply embedded real-life friendship between the pair. In the final episode of the current series, it’s the opening night of the off-Broadway play the pair have been planning. Inevitably, however, crisis strikes at the last minute. DS
Today’s best live sport
Test Cricket: The Ashes The opening day of the England v Australia series from Cardiff. 10am, Sky Sports Ashes
Wimbledon 2015 The latest Grand Slam tennis action from south-west London. 11.30am, BBC1
Tour De France More Lycra-clad action from the roads of France. 2pm, ITV4
Major League Baseball: San Francisco Giants v New York Mets The National League West match from AT&T Park. 8.30pm, BT Sport 2
