TV tonight: Alexander Armstrong embarks on an Indian odyssey

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Alexander Armstrong in India

8pm, Channel 5
Mumbai is the first stop on an Indian odyssey for Alexander Armstrong – of the 90s and 00s comedy duo Armstrong and Miller. Estate agent Ravi shows him around a multimillion-pound apartment, and Raj takes him on a tour of the slum where he grew up. There’s also time to taste a food critic-approved “Mumbai burger” and visit the monumental waterfront Gateway of India in Mumbai where in 1948 colonial rule ended. Hollie Richardson

Tonight: Cars – What’s Driving Up Costs?

7.30pm, ITV1
Falling car ownership may be essential for environmental reasons, but it’s problematic if, in the absence of adequate public transport, people on the lowest incomes are being priced out of getting around. With the average cost of running a car now thought to be about £3,500 per year, Paul Brand investigates. Jack Seale

Dragons’ Den

8pm, BBC One
GP Catherine Fernando (a doctor for more than 10 years, businesswoman for only two) puts a beautiful and vegan spin on the traditional doctor’s bag. But will she leave the Den with a healthy investment? The Dragons are joined by returning guest Susie Ma and other pitches brought in include a DIY infusion drink. HR

The Apprentice

9pm, BBC One

A woman in a hijab smiles while looking to the side.
Tycoon wannabes … Rothna Akhtar in The Apprentice. Photograph: BBC/Naked (A Freemantle Label)

The remaining tycoon wannabes have made it to the halfway point of Alan Sugar’s increasingly dispiriting don’t-get-sacked race. Their reward for sucking up and hanging in there? Being shuttled off to Egypt, where they must come up with awaydays appealing enough for corporate clients to actually pay for them. Graeme Virtue

Murder Case: The Hunt for Arlene Fraser’s Killer

9pm, BBC Two
The closing part of a look at the strange case of Arlene Fraser’s disappearance in Moray, Scotland. Nearly three decades later, her family are still going through the courts for answers after two murder trials and an appeals process. Arlene’s sister Carol is campaigning to find out what happened. HR

Hunting Outback Gold

10pm, U&Yesterday
Everyone’s favourite Aussie adventurers are heading to the site of Harold Lasseter’s base camp for his ill-fated 1930 expedition. All they have to guide them to the (possibly mythical) gold are cryptic landscape clues, as described by Lasseter’s diaries. Will their faith in their eccentric mentor remain unshaken? Ellen E Jones

Film choice

A man with glasses and headphones sits in a booth in front of a microphone.
A must-watch … Ian Russell in Molly vs the Machines.

Molly vs the Machines (Marc Silver, 2026), 9pm, Channel 4
As a tragic tale of teenage suicide, Marc Silver’s documentary would already be a must-watch. It follows Ian Russell, the father of 14-year-old Molly, as he campaigns eloquently against the harmful online content that contributed to her 2017 death, while her friends remember the girl they loved. But there’s also a second, wider strand that relates the rise of unregulated, libertarian social media companies. Their repeated failures to safeguard children, despite full knowledge of the effects, is laid bare by Ian, industry insiders and via a reconstruction of the 2022 inquest into Molly’s death. Simon Wardell

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