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Entertainment
Graeme Virtue, John Robinson, Hannah J Davies, Andrew Mueller, Phil Harrison, Ben Arnold, David Stubbs, Paul Howlett

Wednesday’s best TV: Trust Me, I’m a Vet; Madeleine McCann: 10 Years On

TV vet Judy Puddifoot in Trust Me I’m a Vet, BBC2
Care of the dog … TV vet Judy Puddifoot in Trust Me I’m a Vet. Photograph: Laura Farrell/BBC

Trust Me, I’m A Vet
8pm, BBC2

Care of the dog: this new magazine show hosted by TV vets Steve Leonard and Judy Puddifoot digs deep into health issues affecting the UK’s 60m pooches, moggies and other animal companions. Deficiencies in the mineral content of pet food, useful dental hygiene tips and a new UV light to combat bone disease in reptiles are among the features great and small in the opening instalment, presented from London’s Royal Veterinary College. Graeme Virtue

Madeleine McCann: 10 Years On
9pm, BBC1

The disappearance of the British three-year-old from Portuguese holiday resort Praia da Luz in 2007 remains an unsolved crime. With little evidence, and with jurisdictional issues hindering the inquiry, the case remains tragically unclear; mystery sightings, even rumours of child slavery, are the nightmares haunting this middle-class town of tapas and tennis coaching. Reporter Richard Bilton, a veteran of the case, looks again at the evidence. John Robinson

Second Chance Summer: Tuscany
9pm, BBC2

It is the penultimate week of the gentle relocation challenge following a group of strangers trying rural Italian life for size. Highlights so far have been the blossoming friendships – and maybe even possible business partnerships – among the gang. This week they’re hosting their first major event in the form of an Italian wedding. Will they be able to meet the expectations of guests hoping for the genuine Tuscan experience? Hannah J Davies

Confessions of a Junior Doctor
9pm, Channel 4

The NHS is by some estimates the world’s fifth-biggest employer; TV producers making films about it can’t be far behind. Even so, this is a compelling portrait of the NHS’s overworked and underslept junior doctors. This episode visits the paediatric department of Northampton General, and introduces third-year doctor Fahim, working night shifts in the neo-natal unit: as anyone other than Superman might, he wonders if he’s really up to it. Andrew Mueller

Britain’s Nuclear Bomb: The Inside Story
9pm, BBC4

Tone is crucial in documentaries like this: however monumental the scientific achievement, the creation of these weapons should probably be regarded as a mixed blessing at best. This film gets it just about right, exploring the geopolitical background and the moral quandaries but finding room for the odd wry anecdote, too – such as the time the plutonium core of Britain’s first nuke was left in a broken-down Vauxhall outside a London boozer. Phil Harrison

Dawn of the Nazis
9pm, National Geographic

This one-off special is made up from restored and colourised archival footage, putting viewers eerily on to the streets of Europe in the 1930s. Seeing the nightmare unfold for the German people, now led by a maniac with world domination in his sights, makes this hour play out like a horror film. Nobel-winning intellectuals such as Einstein – not to mention, of course, half of the Jewish population – begin to flee the country in droves. Ben Arnold

Midnight Sun
10pm, Sky Atlantic

The final episode of a series whose gruesome despondency has always been compensated for by its visually luminous sumptuousness. Tonight, it’s a race to save Eddie’s intended victims, including Jenny Ann – who is about to give birth – from various watery graves, with the perpetrator himself in a pod with some of those against whom he has developed such a bitter grudge. Meanwhile, will Alain make good on his promise to help Jessika and Nadji? David Stubbs

Film choice

Emma Watson (second left) in The Bling Ring.
Emma Watson (second left) in The Bling Ring. Photograph: Studiocanal/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar

The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola, 2013), 1.55am, Channel 4
The strange-but-true story of a bunch of spoilt LA teens who, in 2009, took to burgling the Hollywood mansions of celebrities including Paris Hilton – in whose home some scenes were shot. With Emma Watson as the leader of the bling ringers, it’s a highly sympathetic, pretty unquestioning portrait of youthful celebrity addiction. Paul Howlett

Live sport

Tennis: The Estoril Open Coverage of the third day of the clay-court tournament at the Clube de Ténis do Estoril. 1pm, Eurosport 2.

One-Day Cup Cricket: Hampshire v Middlesex Fifty-overs-a-side action from the Ageas Bowl, Southampton. 1.55pm, Sky Sports 2.

Champions League Football: Monaco v Juventus The opening leg of the second semi-final at the Stade Louis II. 7pm, BT Sport 2.

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