Storyville: The Boy Who Changed America
10pm, BBC4
In November 1999, a viscerally emotional story made headlines in the US when a five-year-old Cuban boy was found on a boat off the coast of Florida. Elián González’s mother had drowned during the crossing, and on arrival in the States he found himself at the centre of a custody battle between his father in Cuba and his relatives in the US, amplifying tensions between the two countries. Elián – now 23 – and his family tell their story. Ben Arnold
Celebrity MasterChef
8pm, BBC1
The formula may be familiar, but this latest series of Celebrity MasterChef is as entertaining as it’s ever been, a show that’s in the groove rather than stuck in one. This week it’s the turn of actor Brian Bovell, Union J pop star Jaymi Hensley, singer Patti Boulaye, comedian Abdullah Afzal and the Rev Kate Bottley of Gogglebox fame to rock up and try to impress John Torode and Gregg Wallace. As ever, one of the five won’t be making it through to Friday’s show. Jonathan Wright
World’s Busiest Cities: Mexico
8pm, BBC2
Globe-straddling doc in which Ade Adepitan, Anita Rani and Dan Snow genially, if somewhat overenthusiastically, explore the inner workings of colossal conurbations. This week they are in Mexico City: home to 22 million people, covering almost 1,000 square miles and the thirstiest city in the world in terms of water consumption, it’s where ageing infrastructure strains to accommodate a swelling population. Luke Holland
Mountain: Life at the Extreme
9pm, BBC2
After last week’s reconnoitre of the Rockies, the BBC’s masterly Natural History Unit aims its HD cameras at the Himalayas. Scurrilous snub-nosed monkeys, lethal snow leopards and – eek! – eight-eyed jumping mountain spiders thrive in the harshest of living conditions. Of all these hardy beasts, the cute baby Himalayan marmot, required to triple its weight in 12 weeks before months of hibernation, feels the most relatable. Graeme Virtue
Back
10pm, Channel 4
David Mitchell and Robert Webb star in this new comedy-drama from Peep Show co-writer Simon Blackwell. Mitchell is put-upon Stephen, stepping uneasily into the shoes of his universally liked dead father, while Webb is Andrew, Stephen’s one-time foster brother, returning after 30 years with a portfolio of lived experience and effortless charm. With a dark undercurrent beneath its cosy surface, Back could easily become a modern Ever Decreasing Circles. Mark Gibbings-Jones
Party Legends
10.30pm, Viceland
A new series of the show that sees notable figures recall their most raucous parties, accompanied by trippy animations. This week, French singer Soko recounts the story of a “giant horny vagina” costume that got her into a pickle, BJ the Chicago Kid tells his tale of excess at a strip club, Paul Scheer remembers a brawl during the filming of Piranha 3D, and Ice-T extols the virtues of streaking. Decent stuff, even if Ice-T’s story is really rather silly. Hannah J Davies
Don’t Tell the Bride
9pm, E4
BBC3 originally broadcast this show, and given what it has become since it transferred to E4, you appreciate the relative Reithian restraint of its former channel. It feels as if the people who populate Don’t Tell the Bride, which shows what happens when grooms are let loose on wedding arrangements, have been laboratory bred just for this programme. Tonight, groom-to-be Andy fancies a skater-themed wedding. But it all goes pear-shaped. David Stubbs
Film choice
Stoker (Park Chan-wook, 2013) 11.40pm, Film4
This first US feature from the Korean director of the Vengeance trilogy is a weird and wild updating of Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt. The scene is a big house in rural Tennessee, where apparently charming Uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode) comes to stay, and work his psychopathic trickery on the womenfolk, including Mia Wasikowska and Nicole Kidman. Paul Howlett
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011) 1.30am, Channel 4
Malick’s Palme d’Or-winning drama that places the trials of a 1950s American family at the centre of the universe is lyrically brilliant, moving and preposterous by turns. Brad Pitt is superb as the harsh father, while Sean Penn attempts to make sense of life and loss. And then there’s the 20-minute history of the universe, complete with touchy-feely dinosaurs … PH
Sport
Rugby: New Zealand NPC 8.30am, Sky Sports Action. Action from Wellington v Hawke’s Bay, which takes place at the Westpac Stadium.
Cycling: Tour of Britain 10.45am, ITV4. Coverage of stage four, featuring a 165km route from Mansfield to Newark-on-Trent.
Cricket: Caribbean Premier League T20 12.30am, BT Sport 1. Eliminator one at the Brian Lara Stadium in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
