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Mystery Road: Origin
9pm, BBC Two
Robyn Malcolm joins the second series of the slow-burn hit drama about an Indigenous police officer forging his career in Western Australia. It is now the year 2000 but the remote lumber town of Loch Iris is still haunted by events in its past. Jay Swan (Mark Coles Smith) has moved here with his partner Mary (Tuuli Narkle) and finds himself clashing with the ideals and operations of cynical Sgt Paula “Simmo” Simmons (Malcolm). Hollie Richardson
Would I Lie to You?
7.30pm, BBC One
The celebrity fibbing show continues. Does Strictly’s Dianne Buswell always give her Mini Cooper a kiss goodbye whenever she parks it? Does Jamelia get her own back on exes by turning them into luckless Sims 4 avatars? And does Bob Mortimer have a fleeting memory of once offering a famous footballer some “car cheese”? Ali Catterall
Can You Make £10k in 10 Days?
8pm, Channel 4
Scarlett Moffatt hosts this one-off guide to side hustles. As basic as some of the tips are (the section on reselling feels like an unofficial ad for Vinted), the former Goggleboxer’s heart is clearly in the right place as she helps a tattoo artist and a television director to make some much-needed extra cash. Hannah J Davies
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
9pm, Channel 4
Telly heads can test their knowledge on everything from The Simpsons to The Chase, Peppa Pig to The Traitors in this bumper quiz. Harry Hill, Judi Love, Tom Allen, Joanne McNally, Sam Campbell and Susan Wokoma are the celebrities taking part as Jimmy Carr hosts. HR
Jane McDonald: From Pole to Pole
9pm, Channel 5
The queen of huns is having a bumper year, including a headline slot at Mighty Hoopla. For now, she’s continuing her voyage through South Georgia and the Falklands. The itinerary includes 10,000 king penguins, meeting people who have settled in remote outposts and, of course, singing with the world’s most southerly Military Wives Choir. HR
The Graham Norton Show
10.40pm, BBC One
Not content with Wicked world domination, actor and singer Cynthia Erivo is now playing all 23 roles in a new West End production of Dracula. She’ll be talking about it on the red sofa, where she will be joined by fellow Hollywood star Chris Pratt, plus comedians Dawn French and Rob Beckett. Jack Savoretti is in charge of the live music. HR
Film choice
Nuremberg (James Vanderbilt, 2025), 12.20pm, 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere
It is just over 80 years since the Nuremberg trials, when top-ranking Nazis were charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. Aside from a harrowing sequence of actual death camp footage, James Vanderbilt’s intense drama comes at the historic event from the angle of cocky American psychiatrist Douglas Kelley (Rami Malek), tasked with assessing the defendants’ mental health. He finds himself in a battle of wills with lead Nazi Hermann Göring (a chillingly smug Russell Crowe), one that he’s not really capable of winning. Michael Shannon gets a chunk of screentime as US judge Robert H Jackson, but it’s when Malek and Crowe go head to head that the film really clicks. Simon Wardell
People We Meet on Vacation (Brett Haley, 2026), Netflix
The first movie based on a novel by bestselling author Emily Henry comes to Netflix, established home of easily digestible, sun-spangled romdrams. Emily Bader plays travel writer Poppy, who meets up with her best friend Alex (Tom Blyth) every summer for a holiday. Over many years and a series of trips to picture-postcard locations – Barcelona, New Orleans, etc – it slowly dawns on them that perhaps they should be together. Jameela Jamil, Molly Shannon and Alan Ruck co-star. SW
The Tale of Silyan (Tamara Kotevska, 2025), 10pm, National Geographic
A documentary that melds folk tale with fly-on-the-wall realism, Tamara Kotevska’s sweet, moving film follows Macedonian farmer Nikola. He lives in a village with the largest number of white storks in the country, but the struggle to earn a living from the land is depopulating the area. Just as the storks migrate for food, so do Nikola’s daughter and family, with his wife joining them in Germany. But then he takes in a stork with a broken wing and finds a glimmer of purpose. A multilayered fable with elements of natural history amid a stark dissection of rural woes. SW
The Old Oak (Ken Loach, 2023), 11pm, BBC Two
Is this Ken Loach’s final film? If so, as he has suggested, it’s a fitting end to a long career committed to exploring the lives of – and agitating for an improvement in the lives of – working-class people. The drama focuses on the friction caused by Syrian refugees arriving in a depressed former mining village in Durham. Dave Turner stars as TJ Ballantyne, the landlord of the titular pub, which is a community hub – one of the few left – but also a business that could suffer if he provides space and solidarity for Ebla Mari’s incomer Yara and her kin but alienates his patrons. SW
