Cuffs
8pm, BBC1
“Suspect is armed with a samurai sword!” And so begins another Saturday night in Brighton for the Cuffs brigade. The cop drama continues with a drugs death down at the beach hut and a dog high on coke. A woman is on the rampage at the local nightclub, using a shoe as a weapon while a crowd of people who can’t dance very well look on in horror. Meanwhile, Jake’s personal life starts to affect his work when his mum is rushed to hospital, Carl takes in another stray and an uppity copper from London visits. Hannah Verdier
Dominic Sandbrook: Let Us Entertain You
9pm, BBC2
Third instalment of Sandbrook’s survey of Britain’s postwar evolution from imperial overlord to court jester. In this episode, Sandbrook lays down his theory that for all the radical posturing of Britain’s modern popular culture, its content has not changed appreciably since the Victorian era. Sandbrook also argues that Britain has not become less keen on missionary outreach – it just does so now with music, film, comedy and literature, rather than Bibles and bayonets. Andrew Mueller
Brainwashed
9pm, Really
Not much to recommend in this lurid new series, which studiously overlooks the irony of condemning true-life cases of extreme psychological manipulation while reconstructing them in the most manipulative manner possible. This first episode is notable, though, for featuring first-hand testimony from two survivors of the 1978 Jonestown mass murder-suicide in Guyana. The accounts are genuinely terrifying; the cheapskate reconstructions, where cult leader Jim Jones appears to be either Ant or Dec undercover, less so. Graeme Virtue
The Affair
9pm, Sky Atlantic
The behaviour of some of its characters may leave something to be desired, but that doesn’t stop you warming to this excellent, multiple-perspective drama. There’s no Noah tonight; when he reappears, he’ll have some explaining to do. In this episode we see things first from the point of view of Alison who, finding Yvonne curiously frosty, sneaks a glimpse at a manuscript of Noah’s novel and recoils in rage. Then, we see Cole in the wars on three different fronts with his complex love life. David Stubbs
Peep Show
10pm, Channel 4
With Jez still in the bride’s bad books, Mark is roped into best man duties for Super Hans’s wedding – a task made bearable by the fact former girlfriend and current stalkee Dobby will be in attendance. While Mark holes himself up in a hotel to write a speech that will sum up half a lifetime of Hans-related debauchery, the freewheeling Jez is back at the (unbeknown to him) CCTV-rigged flat, broadening his sexual horizons. As morbidly relatable and compulsively quotable as ever, Peep Show is going out on a characteristically brilliant low. Rachel Aroesti
Toast of London
10.30pm, Channel 4
Steven Toast leaves his usual voiceover recording with Clem Fandango and Danny Bear only to discover he’s been replaced by a soundalike. But his troubles really begin when he tells a particular story about Kubrick on ITV’s Lorraine while half-cut. Will his indiscretion derail his forthcoming role in “the Scottish play” at Regent’s Park open air theatre? A splendid cast fleshes out the wonky Toast universe while Berry does his thing. But we’ve all seen his thing now. Could he, perhaps, give us a different thing? Julia Raeside
4Music Best Before: Music On 4
12.05am, Channel 4
If this does what it promises and does it well, it could be brilliant. Backed by daily blog entries, social media posts and content on Channel 4’s website, a weekly half-hour TV show heralds the best music released in the past 30 days, without discriminating between established, expensively promoted stars and brand new unknowns. “The only rule,” the press notes swear, is that “the music must be exemplary.” Each week, host Phil Taggart’s effort to distil something useful from so many fragments is assisted by star guests: tonight, Wolf Alice. Jack Seale
Film choice
Oranges And Sunshine (Jim Loach, 2010) 11.35pm, BBC1
This debut from Jim Loach, son of Ken, is a powerful and moving account of the postwar scandal in which many thousands of British children were shipped to Australia to face all manner of abuse, chiefly at the hands of the Christian Brothers. Emily Watson is excellent as Margaret Humphreys, the Nottingham social worker whose tenacious investigation uncovered the deportations. Paul Howlett
Vanishing Point (Richard C Sarafian, 1971) 1.30am, Film4
Cult road movie with Barry Newman as the amphetamine-fuelled ex-racing driver, ex-cop Kowalski, who bets he can drive 1,500 miles from San Francisco to Denver in 15 hours. Blind DJ Cleavon Little, hooked into police radio channels, helps him evade the cops – who couldn’t catch his supercharged Dodge Challenger anyway. A pedal-to-the-metal adventure, driven with existential finesse. PH
Today’s best live sport
Test Cricket: India v South Africa The final day from Bangalore. 6am, Sky Sports 2
ATP Tennis: World Tour Finals Day four action from the end-of-year tournament at the O2 Arena in London. 2pm, BBC2
T20 Cricket: Sunfoil Dolphins v The Unlimited Titans More action from the South African domestic T20 tournament. 4pm, Sky Sports 2
FA Cup Football Bradford v Aldershot in a first round replay in the tournament we’re now expected to call The Emirates FA Cup. 7.30pm, BT Sport 2
