TV tonight: a deaf ex-prisoner goes all out for revenge

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Reunion

9pm, BBC One
After serving time for the murder of his best friend, Ray, Daniel Brennan (Matthew Gurney) is having his pre-release interview. The officer is firing questions but there is silence – Daniel is deaf, and an interpreter hasn’t been booked. This means the officials quickly lose track of him, as he leaves prison to reunite with his estranged daughter Carly (Lara Peake) and embark on a mission of revenge and redemption. Meanwhile, Ray’s wife Christine (Anne-Marie Duff) is keeping Daniel’s release from daughter Miri (Rose Ayling-Ellis) and new boyfriend Stephen (Eddie Marsan). This intriguingly layered opener sets up an unravelling story about what really happened between Ray and Daniel. Hollie Richardson

Panorama: Did Lloyds Bank Fail My Business?

8pm, BBC One
Like a dogged Terminator, journalist Steve Brodie has been on Lloyds Bank’s case for 15 years now. And while Lloyds insists it has always supported its business customers, Panorama has uncovered new internal documents and whistleblower testimonies, raising questions about how the bank treated dozens of entrepreneurs who claim the black horse rode roughshod over them. Ali Catterall

Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz

9pm, BBC Two
Veteran historian Schama has resisted visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau before, preferring to “celebrate life over death” in his work. This intense film sees him pass through the Polish death camp’s notorious gate. It is the culmination of a wider examination of the Holocaust across Europe, the chilling endpoint of “a much longer road of horror”. Graeme Virtue

What They Found

10pm, BBC Two

A woman, crying, holds the hand of a soldier reaching down to her
Devastating … footage from What They Found. Photograph: BBC/Imperial War Museums

When cameramen sergeants Mike Lewis and Bill Lawrie were ordered to film at Bergen-Belsen on 15 April 1945, they couldn’t have predicted the horrors they would find there. For his first documentary, Sam Mendes uses their devastating footage plus narration from interviews with them in the 1980s. The result is a numbing 40 minutes that will stay in people’s minds for ever. Hollie Richardson

Celebrity Big Brother

9pm, ITV1
This recent revival of one of the OG reality shows has proved a hit as it returns with another celebrity edition. Contestants won’t be confirmed until the night but rumours include former Tory MP Michael Fabricant and Corrie’s Jack P Shepherd. HR

The White Lotus

9pm, Sky Atlantic
It’s the last resort: season three of the acclaimed satire about rich narcissists on their hols reaches its finale. Episode one revealed that things would end in Thailand with gunplay and a dead body. But will it be conscious, cold-blooded violence? Or just a horrible knock-on effect from acts of greed, cowardice or incompetence? Place your bets. GV

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