The Met: Policing London
9pm, BBC1
If the point of this series is to show how the rank and file of London’s police service make tough decisions in trying circumstances, so far it has succeeded. At a Brixton custody suite, frontline officers demonstrate both grit and compassion while dealing with detainees. It’s a little harder to empathise with top brass coldly monitoring a protest march, but witnessing how they adapt their response is fascinating. Graeme Virtue
BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2017
7.30pm, BBC4
There will certainly be no Six Chair Challenge in St David’s Hall. For one week, it’s filled with the world’s up-and-coming opera singers, competing for the prestigious title by performing for a jury whose members include Kiri Te Kanawa. Petroc Trelawny and soprano Angel Blue present highlights from the event’s second concert, with contestants from Mongolia, Italy and South Korea, plus Wales’s own mezzo, Sioned Gwen Davies. Sharon O’Connell
The Passengers That Took on the Train Line
9pm, BBC2
Seen from the outside, the rail-franchise system looks like a cosy setup dominated by just a few companies. Could this be shaken up if passengers had more of a voice? Jacques Peretti follows a group of commuters who want to take over a franchise held by complaint-hit Southeastern. Will the Department for Transport treat this initiative seriously or will the group’s ideas for putting customers first hit the buffers? Jonathan Wright
White Gold
10pm, BBC2
When the CB radio craze claims Fitzpatrick (AKA “Widowmaker”), his less-than-good buddies, Vincent and Lavender, plan a prank that only exposes Fitzpatrick’s domestic discontent. Not that Vincent is too concerned, with the unlovable lothario going full peacock in the wake of a nomination for Essex entrepreneur of the year and continued success at evading HMRC. Unluckily for him, drawing attention to yourself only makes you a bigger target. Mark Gibbings-Jones
Fargo
10pm, Channel 4
The anthology format means we don’t know the “who” and “when” of Fargo when we return each year; now it changes for one week in the middle of a season as we ditch Ewan McGregor’s warring twins to follow Carrie Coon’s unassuming cop to Los Angeles. Flashbacks to 1975 tell the origin story of her sci-fi novelist stepfather, adding to the plot only in terms of lessons learned about ordinary folk’s capacity for tawdry violence and deceit. A bold but pleasingly Coen-esque fable. Jack Seale
Brexit Stage Left
10pm, Viceland
This series sees four young comedians – Jamali Maddix, Fern Brady, Alfie Brown and Sean McLoughlin – travel around Europe doing standup, and exploring the continent their xenophobic elders are currently insisting we leave. Judging by this opener – a sojourn in Copenhagen, Denmark – it’s light on the cultural analysis and heavier on the standup, with Brown delivering a funny but barely EU-relevant routine, much of it about masturbation. David Stubbs
Public Enemy 10pm, Sky Atlantic
The unshowily sinister Belgian drama continues. As much as events on the margins are finely drawn, in this episode it’s all about the main event: Béranger, the child-killer now living in the monastery. With the abbot in ailing health, Lucas has a freer rein for his ideas. Against the backdrop of this shifting balance of power, Béranger ramps up his mind games with Chloe. Perhaps, he suggests, she may know who is behind her sister’s disappearance. John Robinson
Sport
Tennis: The Mercedes Cup 10am, Eurosport 2. Day three of the men’s grass court event in Stuttgart.
Champions Trophy Cricket 10am, Sky Sports 2. Coverage of the opening semi-final, as the winners of Group A face the Group B runners-up.
Baseball: Los Angeles Angels v New York Yankees 3am, BT Sport/ESPN. American League clash at the Angel Stadium of Anaheim.
Film choice
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955) 9am, TCM Laughton’s only film as director is a dark, delirious drama about the eternal struggle between good and evil. The latter is represented by Robert Mitchum’s terrifying preacher, who menaces two children (Sally Jane Bruce and Billy Chapin) who know the whereabouts of their murdered father’s ill-gotten loot. With mother Shelley Winters putty in his hands, it’s down to hardy Lillian Gish to protect the innocents.
Kick-Ass 2 (Jeff Wadlow, 2013) 10pm, E4 A welcome, if slightly underpowered return for the geeky, not-so-super teenage crimefighter Kick-Ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), and again he’s upstaged by Chloë Moretz’s anarchic Hit-Girl. Despite her wowzer martial-arts skills, she has promised her dear, departed dad that she will be an ordinary high-school kid. Fat chance, when there’s the villainous Motherfucker to take down.
Radiator (Tom Browne, 2014) Wednesday, 12.30am, Film4 The pain and infirmities of old age are explored here, not quite with the brutal clarity of Michael Haneke’s Amour, but with real authenticity and emotion. One-time leading man Richard Johnson stars, in his last film, as cantankerous old Leonard, so immobile in his ramshackle little Lake District cottage that his wife Maria (Gemma Jones) phones their estranged son Daniel (Daniel Cerqueira, who co-wrote with Browne) for help. What follows is bleak but beautiful; a heartwarming exploration of a dysfunctional family.
