Cuffs
8pm, BBC1
Ashley Walters and Amanda Abbington star in this new, Brighton-set police drama from the desk of the usually brilliant Julie Gearey, who also wrote Prisoners’ Wives. Her tone is slightly aspirational grit, but in this context it doesn’t work nearly so well. A man in a raincoat abducts a little girl; a young man is stabbed by a gang of cartoonishly evil racist thugs; and chief inspector’s son Jake is on his first day in the job, flirting with the duty solicitor. Its serious lack of sophistication makes you really miss Channel 4’s Babylon. Julia Raeside
Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet
8pm, BBC4
In the week that Spectre achieves global domination, you might be sick of Bond bores. But Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet – in their best tuxes and loosened up by Vesper martinis – are insightful company as they chew over that hoariest of chestnuts: who is the best 007? Their owlish analysis is followed by a shaken-not-stirred chaser in the form of Looking For Mr Bond: 007 at the BBC, compiled from archive footage cherrypicked from more then 50 years of movie-promoting duty. Graeme Virtue
The Face of Britain by Simon Schama
9pm, BBC2
Final instalment of Schama’s terrific five-part survey of British portraiture. As the title of tonight’s episode – The Face in the Mirror – suggests, Schama concludes by looking at self-portraiture, of which Britain has produced counterintuitive riches for a country that prides itself on self-effacement. Schama begins with today’s culture of self-promotion, and then works backwards all the way to cunningly immodest 13th-century illuminator, William des Brailes. Excellent. Andrew Mueller
Alexander Armstrong in the Land of the Midnight Sun
9pm, ITV
Final furlong of Armstrong’s circumnavigation of the Arctic Circle, with the Yukon the starting point for a trek across North America’s northernmost reaches. Stops include the Great Slave Lake in a locale so Canadian that almost any flat surface becomes an ice-hockey rink; an opportunity for Alexander to sample local brew, the Sourtoe Cocktail, (even less appealing than it sounds), and a visit to Alaska’s answer to Tom and Barbara Good. Mark Gibbings-Jones
The Affair
9pm, Sky Atlantic
The welcome return of the series examining the estrangement of Dominic West’s Noah and Helen (Maura Tierney), with two episodes this week. Helen starts a new life with Max, but sobs after an especially raunchy bout of sex. Noah, meanwhile, who ended the last season charged with murder, is back in time shacked up with Alison, though she is still shadowed by her past. The multiple perspectives and non-linear narrative may confuse some, but they are the essence of this extraordinary series. David Stubbs
Prison: First and Last 24 Hours
10pm, Sky1
Sky 1’s new documentary series bookends the custodial stays of convicted criminals, focusing on life in four very different prisons in Scotland – Low Moss in Glasgow, Barlinnie in Riddrie, Greenock and Cornton Vale in Stirling – during the two most definitive periods of inmates’ sentences: the day of their arrival and their day of release. There’s Paddy, homeless and in and out of jail on a regular basis, and Natasha, a young mum arriving to begin a sentence for shoplifting – sadly not her first stint inside. Ben Arnold
My Mania and Me
11pm, Channel 4
Sex, shopping, gambling and stealing: not the premise for a raunchy new Lynda La Plante, but the tragic addictions, compulsions and obsessions of the women profiled here, afflicted by the psychological condition impulse control disorder (ICD). None of them want to carry out these behaviours (Kezia, for example, is spending thousands of pounds on clothes she’ll never actually wear), and all are desperate for a cure. With the risk of bankruptcy – and even jail – awaiting, what can neuroscientists do to curb it? Ali Catterall
Film choice
Away We Go (Sam Mendes, 2009) 1.20am, Film4
Sam Mendes’s amiable, heartening road movie follows Colorado couple John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph as they head off in search of the perfect place to bring up their as-yet-unborn child. The journey around North America takes them to old friends and seldom-seen family, all with their own idiosyncratic take on the couple’s odyssey. This is about as nice as nice films get. Paul Howlett
Today’s best live sport
Para-Athletics: The World Championships Full coverage from day seven in Doha. 2pm, More4
German Football: Borussia Dortmund v Paderborn Coverage from the Westfalenstadion. 6pm, BT Sport 2
World Gymnastics Championships Day six of the competition from Glasgow. 7pm, BBC2
Capital One Cup Football: Liverpool v Bournemouth Fourth-round tie as the Klopp revolution looks for takeoff. 7pm, Sky Sports 1
