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The Newsreader
9pm, BBC Two
The sharp Australian newsroom drama with terrific attention to detail returns. It’s now 1989 and, after reporting on the Lockerbie bombing, Helen (Anna Torv) reconnects with Dale (Sam Reid) over an awkward meal. Their updates: Helen has a new current affairs show and Dale is up for a Gold Logie award. Kylie and Jason are at the ceremony! But their presence won’t stop a night of bickering and a revelation that shakes Helen’s big plans. Hollie Richardson
Saving Lives at Sea
8pm, BBC Two
More white-knuckle ride-alongs with RNLI volunteers stationed around the UK, including a race to rescue six stranded teens in north Cornwall and a challenging late-night search off the coast of West Sussex. The bodycam footage means viewers get to feel every stomach-lurching swell. Graeme Virtue
The Dog House
8pm, Channel 4
Nancy and Beryl are 88-year-old twins who want a dog to go down the pub with – might little Alfie be their new four-legged companion? Elsewhere in the heartwarming doggy/owner matchmaking show, Bear the labrador needs to be on his best behaviour to impress. HR
I Fought the Law: The Ann Ming Story
9pm, ITV1
“You’ve got no justice for your daughter and a man bragging in the pub that he killed her.” Ann Ming helped produce the current hit drama based on her fight to change an 800-year-old “double jeopardy” law to retry and jail the man who murdered her daughter, Julie. She tells her remarkable but harrowing story here, along with Julie’s now grownup son Kevin. Sheridan Smith, who plays Ming in the drama, narrates. HR
Taskmaster
9pm, Channel 4
It’s that time already: a new cohort of comedians battling it out to win the Taskmaster trophy. Ania Magliano, Maisie Adam, Phil Ellis, Reece Shearsmith and Sanjeev Bhaskar get to work on the first round of tasks set by Greg Davies and his assistant, Alex Horne. Who will we be cheering on as they try to score with gym balls and gross noises? HR
Atomic
9pm, Sky Atlantic
The reluctant mercenaries, Max (Alfie Allen) and JJ (Shazad Latif), walk into certain death in Marrakech delivering uranium to bad guys, backed unreliably by the CIA. The thriller’s penultimate episode has a couple of big twists that almost compensate for some dangerously stilted expositional dialogue. Jack Seale
