The Secret Life of Brothers and Sisters
8pm, Channel 4
The charming stars of The Secret Life of Five Year Olds return in a two-part documentary about sibling rivalry. What better place to examine the love-hate relationship than on a family camping trip? Scientists watch them take on tasks such as hay-bale racing and drawing their family to find out what is going on in their heads. Happily, it’s not all tantrums, as the dynamics between brothers and sisters stretch to helping each other. Hannah Verdier
Saving Lives At Sea
9pm, BBC1
Lifeboat volunteers and the people they rescue get the 24 Hours In A&E treatment, in a new four-parter that mixes thrilling headcam footage and reflective interviews with the protagonists. We’re mostly on the west coast, where the rising swell of the Bristol Channel around Swansea is particularly dangerous. The programme vividly illustrates the sacrifice involved in manning lifeboats, and how easy it is to end up in terrifying difficulties if you underestimate the ocean. Jack Seale
Containment
9pm, E4
If this Atlanta-based thriller leaves you feeling a little queasy, that’s probably your brain processing the deluge of apocalyptic cliches rather than a mystery virus taking hold. A likeable but surely doomed ensemble – teacher Katie, cops Jake and Lex, teenager Teresa – are the focus of this opening episode, as we see the effects of a major outbreak on their lives. Cue lots of sneezing and much finger-pointing at a potential bioterrorist. Hannah J Davies
Man Down
10pm, Channel 4
Third series of misadventures for Greg Davies’s shambolic teacher. A disciplinary carpeting from the authorities is on the cards due to a simple misjudgment over a wine box and Dan’s drama class. The route to avoid being ostracised by Ofsted lies with the school’s tempestuously eccentric caretaker (played, in keeping with the show’s knack for grabbing big names, by Steven Berkoff). What could possibly go wrong? Regular viewers of Man Down might well guess. Mark Gibbings-Jones
100 Year Old Drivers Rebooted
8pm, ITV
More antics from some of the oldest drivers in the land. Clara and her 92-year-old grandfather Alan travel to Russia, where he served in the second world war and was given shelter and food by a family in Arkhangelsk. Journeying back proves emotional as well as hazardous. Mary, 99, is also a war veteran, a former pilot who flew Spitfires and drove racing cars. Seeing her do so again in the twilight of her life is most touching. Ben Arnold
Long Lost Family
9pm, ITV
Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell present this family documentary series, which is essentially Who Do You Think You Are? without the spurious celebrity content. It is well told and emotional in equal measure. Tonight, it’s a search for birth mothers: Cliff, in Devon, discovered he was adopted during an argument when he was eight; Sue, on the south coast, is looking for her mother, too. But they have much more in common, it turns out, than that. John Robinson
Black Panthers: Vanguard Of The Revolution
9pm, PBS America
Stanley Nelson’s documentary on the African-American liberation movement of the 1960s is broadcast over two nights, the story told without voiceover but in the words of participants themselves, from all sides of the struggle. We see how the group rose, rejecting the pacifism of the civil rights movement, embracing socialism, feminism (reluctantly) and attracting fans such as John Lennon before viciously unravelling. David Stubbs
Film
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, (Oliver Stone, 2010), 1.35am, Channel 4
In this belated sequel, Michael Douglas’s Gordon Gekko, the lizard of 80s Wall Street, is out of jail, eschewing his former greedy ways and seeking reconciliation with his estranged, charity-worker daughter (Carey Mulligan) while her partner, Shia LaBeouf, falls under his spell. Can the Gekko really change his spots? This sneaky movie oddly ignores the banking fiasco of 2008, but Douglas is as powerful as ever. Paul Howlett
Sport
Cycling: Tour De France 1.15pm, Eurosport 1; 2pm, ITV4 A short course (just the 162km) and no real climbs make this a big day for the sprinters, including ex-maillot jaune Mark Cavendish.
Baseball: All Star Game 6pm, ESPN After a celebrity warm-up, here’s the real deal as stars of American and National leagues square up.
T20 Cricket: Derbyshire Falcons v Lancashire Lightning, 6pm, Sky Sports 2 Another North Division match-up.
