The National Television Awards 2017
7.30pm, ITV
Dermot O’Leary again hosts the directly democratic gong show, from London’s O2 Arena. The programmes vying for votes include plenty of classy crowd-pleasers such as The Night Manager and Happy Valley, as well as the odd surprise (Orange is the New Black is up for best comedy). Meanwhile, can Gary Lineker’s online humanitarianism help the Match of the Day host prise the TV presenter award from the generally invincible Ant and Dec? Jack Seale
Who Do You Think You Are?
8pm, BBC1
If you accept the show’s conceit that the discoveries about the ancestry of its stars are being made for the first time on camera, then this week’s edition, featuring Ian McKellen, is a treat. McKellen learns that he was not the first thespian in his family. His grandmother’s uncle, one Frank Lowes, trod the boards in the 19th century. This leads to a moving reenactment of scenes from a play in which Lowes starred in McKellen’s home town of Bolton. David Stubbs
Italy’s Invisible Cities
9pm, BBC1
Alexander Armstrong and Michael Scott explore Florence: cradle of the Italian Renaissance, home to the murderous Medici family and boasting a cathedral with an eye-catching dome (Armstrong: “I always imagine the most enormous half of lemon being squeezed on top of it”). Elsewhere, Scott catches a Calcio Fiorentino match – a somewhat “lively” sport combining elements of wrestling, rugby and football, but “about as close to football as, frankly, nuclear war”. Ali Catterall
No Offence
9pm, Channel 4
Paul Abbott’s bawdy crime drama juggernaut rolls on and tensions are running high down at the Friday Street station. This week, there’s division between Dinah (Elaine Cassidy), Joy (Alexandra Roach) and the boss who you wouldn’t dare mess with, Deering (Joanna Scanlan). There’s suspicion that the Attahs might be colluding with one of the team, and there’s another case to crack when a dad reports his daughter missing and the search uncovers sinister online activity. Hannah Verdier
Women Who Kill
10pm, Channel 4
Two-part documentary about three women in prison, all of whom have been charged with murder. The cases of Ana Trujillo (who killed her boyfriend with a stiletto shoe), Amber Hilberling (who pushed her husband out of a window and later killed herself) and Patricia Ignacio (who beat her cousin to death with a piece of concrete) were all sensational US crimes of the past five years. Hopefully, this will probe a little beyond the lurid headlines. John Robinson
Quarry
10pm, Sky Atlantic
The key to any series about contract killers is to leave at least a little space for audience sympathy among the carnage. This measured but gripping deep-south drama has managed this very well so far: Mac’s recent PTSD-related trauma and his decision to take on Arthur’s debt have given us every reason to root for him. Tonight, he’s back on more comfortable ground as, amid escalating racial unrest, The Broker offers him a high-profile assignment. Phil Harrison
The Chris Ramsey Show
10pm, Comedy Central
The Tyneside titter merchant invites another unwitting audience back to the bowels of his basement for a bucketful of banter. Guests joining the titular cellar-dweller tonight are Towie mainstay-turned-factual frontman Joey Essex and Almost Royal aristo-impersonator Ed Gamble. Expect the usual extravaganza of party games and curious challenges, including a physical train-based trial set by England rugby star James Haskell. Mark Gibbings-Jones
Film choice
Stonehearst Asylum (Brad Anderson, 2014) 9pm, Film4
Young doctor Edward (Jim Sturgess) arrives at the forbidding institution of the title, run by Ben Kingsley’s too-good-to-be-true Dr Lamb. Edward is attracted to vulnerable patient Eliza Graves (Kate Beckinsale), but what are Mickey Finn (David Thewlis) and his ruffians up to, and what the hell is going on in the basement? Michael Caine and Brendan Gleeson are vivid presences in Anderson’s entertaining Hammer-like horror. Paul Howlett
Today’s best live sport
T20 Cricket: South Africa v Sri Lanka The final game in the three-match series between the sides. 3.55pm, Sky Sports 2
League Cup Football: Liverpool v Southampton Semi-final second leg. The Saints take a 1-0 lead to Anfield. 7.30pm, Sky Sports 1
Australian Open Tennis Coverage of the opening women’s singles semi-final on day 11 from Melbourne Park. 2.30am, Eurosport 1
