Welcome To The Mosque
8pm, BBC2
Director Robb Leech is best known for two fine documentaries about his stepbrother, a convert to militant Islamism who was imprisoned on terrorism charges. This film, shot over eight months at the East London Mosque, is a curious enquiry into the faith that beguiled his brother. Granted extraordinary access, Leech films the workaday rituals and conversations of the congregation – and is on hand when the story breaks about three London schoolgirls defecting to Islamic State, whose families’ distraught search he follows. Andrew Mueller
The Great British Bake Off
8pm, BBC1
It’s semi-final time and the remaining bakers have a delicious week with a range of recipes on the theme of chocolate. The signature challenge is chocolate tarts and the tricky technical bake will be a chocolate souffle, which is enough to make even the most confident contestant collapse in the middle. Ganaches, mousses and caramel are out in force as the bakers battle for a place in the final. As ever, there’s good news for innuendo fans: this week’s showstopper sees a demand for a chocolate centrepiece. Hannah Verdier
The Face Of Britain By Simon Schama
9pm, BBC2
In 1954, Graham Sutherland was asked to paint Churchill. According to Simon Schama, Sutherland produced a masterpiece. Churchill didn’t agree, probably because the portrait showed the old bulldog as “a magnificent ruin”. It’s a cautionary tale that acts as a curtain raiser to a series exploring the history of British portraiture; and to an episode focusing on power and the messages that images of leaders convey. Schama’s script dazzles throughout, as when he nails Thatcher as “Boudicca with a broom”. Jonathan Wright
Dark Side Of The Greens
9pm, BBC4
In 2011, Local Hero-style documentary You’ve Been Trumped told the David and Goliath story of angry baby hamster Donald Trump’s efforts to plonk a luxury golf course in an environmentally protected site in Aberdeenshire, and the locals’ battle to stop him. In this follow-up, film-maker Anthony Baxter expands his remit to focus on similar struggles against developers from Croatia to Dubai. Shockingly, we’re told the water needed to irrigate such courses is enough to meet the needs of 80% of the world’s population. Ali Catterall
You, Me And The Apocalypse
9pm, Sky1
This promising all-star comedy drama stars Mathew Baynton, one of the Horrible Histories ensemble, as Jamie, a diffident bank manager who is falsely arrested for cyberterrorism but for whom a still grimmer fate lies in wait, along with the rest of humanity: a comet is on an unavoidable collision course with Earth, due to crash in 34 days. Appropriately, the cast is like a sea of past sitcoms flashing before your eyes – Megan Mullally from Will & Grace, Jenna Fischer, Rob Lowe and Pauline Quirke as Jamie’s mum. David Stubbs
Forced Marriage Cops
10pm, Channel 4
New laws have led Greater Manchester police to form a unit dedicated to investigating forced marriage offences. This report draws on privileged access to the team, and tells its disturbing story in a calm and procedural manner. We observe the police working within the south Asian communities, with people such as Roxana, threatened by her father for refusing to marry a cousin in Pakistan. Convictions are hard to come by but officers offer help to women breaking with their families. “It’s a massive step,” says Roxana, “but it’s got to be taken.” John Robinson
Asian Provocateur
10pm, BBC3
Romesh Ranganathan enters the “suspiciously eventful travelogue” market. This is his first time in Sri Lanka, so he intensifies a persona honed recently on the Dave panel show Taskmaster: a stone-faced grump beset by fools. He undergoes a black magic blessing, spends hours stuck up a stick trying to spear fish, and competes (badly) in a rap battle. It turns on Ranganathan sharing a cosseted white Briton’s sensibilities, but being allowed to say what they could not. If you’re OK with that, there are many funny moments. Jack Seale
Film choice
Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968) 12.05am, Sky Movies Greats
Mia Farrow’s vulnerable, elfin features are perfect for Rosemary, the mum-to-be who may be carrying the devil’s child. Polanski brilliantly sustains the cruel tension: is Rosemary the victim of satanists, or of mere social alienation? The sinister faces of Oscar-winning Ruth Gordon, Ralph Bellamy and all could suggest either in a diabolically clever chiller. Paul Howlett
Heli (Amat Escalante, 2013) 1.45am, Film4
There’s an all-too-realistic documentary style to Escalante’s harrowing drama that makes it even harder to watch. It’s an everyday tale of torture, drugs and death in Mexico, with Armando Espitia as the young man scratching a living with his wife, their baby, his father and sister, when a stash of cocaine dumps them into a violent underworld of gangsters and corrupt cops. PH
Today’s best live sport
Cycling: The Tour De L’Eurometropole Prologue Opening day of this year’s race. 2.15pm, British Eurosport
Champions League Football: Borussia Moenchengladbach v Manchester City City travel to Borussia Park. 7pm, BT Sport 2 Man United v Wolfsburg airs at 7.30pm, BT Sport Europe.
Speedway: Grand Final Second leg. 7.30pm, Sky Sports 1
Greyhound Racing: Yorkshire St Leger Coverage from Doncaster’s Meadow Court Stadium. 7pm, Sky Sports 2
