The Missing
9pm, BBC1
The mounting online speculation about where this crime drama might be heading is testimony to its ability to keep its audience engaged despite its occasional opacity. The key is – of course – the performances, an area in which it is providing an ongoing masterclass. Tchéky Karyo’s Julien returns to centre stage this week, making a discovery that could be crucial. Meanwhile, Matthew’s increasingly unhinged behaviour has devastating consequences. Phil Harrison
Black and British: A Forgotten History
9pm, BBC2
November’s Black and British season has sought to offer a widescreen look at the black British experience, from racism to more positive social history. Here, David Olusoga’s four-part series continues, uncovering a less-trumpeted side of Britain’s seafaring past: its role as the world’s biggest slave-trading nation. Olusoga examines how slaves were legislated against, and how their challenges to such laws ultimately led to reform. John Robinson
24 Hours in A&E
9pm, Channel 4
What a wonderful programme this is, in which the whole carousel of life – with all its loves and heartbreaks – seems to revolve during one single 24-hour period at St George’s. Back for a 12th series, the opener focuses on the bonds between patients, partners and relatives – such as the relationship between 71-year-old Mel and her husband John, who has accidentally run her over. Elsewhere, 68-year-old opera singer Bonnie has hit her head on a bedside table. Ali Catterall
Pure Genius
9pm, Universal
An intriguing opener for the glossy US medical drama with a high-tech twist. Cocky Silicon Valley billionaire James Bell sets up a pioneering hospital and recruits talented but controversial surgeon Dr Walter Wallace to his team. The assembled geniuses have tough patients to treat, such as a pregnant women with cancer who is desperate to save her baby and her marriage. As Bell’s motivation is revealed, can Wallace help him to solve his own medical problems? Hannah Verdier
States of Undress
9pm, Viceland
Pretty smart stuff from Viceland, this. Model and journalist Hailey Gates travels to Palestine to talk to young people determined to share in the frivolous culture of their western counterparts, including fashion shows, surfing and driving fast cars. She discovers, somewhat emotionally, just how circumscribed their lives are, whether by Israeli settlements that prevent them from walking their own streets freely or the conservative culture of their parents. David Stubbs
Kids on the Edge: The Gender Clinic
10pm, Channel 4
According to the latest stats, 250,000 children in the UK are receiving help for mental health-related issues. Whether it’s increased pressure to succeed at school, societal strains or just better diagnoses, the numbers are significant. In this first insightful, sensitive episode of a new docuseries focusing on the subject, we meet two primary school pupils attending the UK’s only NHS-run gender-identity clinic for children. Hannah J Davies
Film 2016
11.15pm, BBC1
Danny Leigh is joined by guest reviewers Tim Robey and Mariella Frostrup to pick through the next seven days’ cinematic offerings. Features falling under the trio’s critical eyes tonight include Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe in Paul Schrader’s dark comedy-thriller Dog Eat Dog and the star-specked movie adaptation of JK Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Two films from decidedly different ends of the anticipation spectrum, one very much suspects. Mark Gibbings-Jones
Film choice
Fifty Dead Men Walking (Kari Skogland, 2008) 11.45pm, BBC1
Jim Sturgess gives an impressive central performance as the IRA informer Martin McGartland, on whose autobiography this violent drama is based. It’s set in 80s Belfast, where the young thief McGartland is recruited by Ben Kingsley’s special-branch cop to infiltrate and spy on the republicans, subsequently, the film claims, saving 50 police and army lives, before being ditched by MI5.
Live sport
Tennis: ATP World Tour finals Action from day four, with commentary by Andrew Castle and Tim Henman. 2pm, BBC2
Football: FA Cup Coverage of a first-round replay, with a second game tomorrow. 7.30pm, BT Sport 2
Test cricket: New Zealand v Pakistan The opening day of the first Test in the two-match series in Christchurch. 9.55pm, Sky Sports 3
