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Witches of Essex
9pm, Sky History
Rylan Clark returns to his old Essex stomping ground of Chelmsford – which he calls “witchcraft ground zero” – for this three-part series in which he revisits old local witch trials. First up, he takes us back to the Elizabethan era, when a poor family of three women faced the death penalty. What was going on at the time to make this happen? Prof Alice Roberts helps Rylan investigate. Hollie Richardson
Spotlight: Dog Fighting – Exposed
9pm, BBC Two
This documentary goes undercover to expose a secretive international network behind a blood sport that forces dogs to tear each other apart. Journalist Patrick Fee reveals an organisation that stretches from Antrim to Amsterdam, featuring dogs that are raised to kill or be killed in fighting pits. Alexi Duggins
Art’s Most Satanic
9pm, Sky Arts
Critic Waldemar Januszczak’s highly entertaining frolic through art’s most controversial topics ends with this look at its depiction of the devil. It explains how Satan is the ultimate shape-shifter, and has popped up in various guises over the centuries. An intelligent, pizazz-packed treat. AD
Worlds Apart
9.15pm, Channel 4
The good-hearted but awkwardly contrived reality show road trip continues its Japanese odyssey. In Kyoto, the intergenerational duos start to open up to each other, sharing life experiences as they play games to try to avoid being sent home early. Combining elderly wisdom with youthful enthusiasm is the secret to survival. Jack Seale
Film Club
10pm, BBC Three
Will they, won’t they? That’s the big question this sweet comedy drama has been building up to in these middle episodes. But Evie (Aimee Lou Wood) needs to face her past mental-health journey before even considering a future with Noa (Nabhaan Rizwan). HR
Storyville: Mr Nobody Against Putin
10pm, BBC Four
Authoritarian regimes show human nature at its worst. But they also reveal humanity at its best and bravest. This startling documentary tells the story of Pavel Talankin, a teacher in small-town Russia whose filming of school events subtly and covertly illustrates the deadly grip of Putinist propaganda. His moral – and eventually, physical – courage is remarkable. Phil Harrison
Film choice
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Michael Showalter, 2021), 1.15am, Film4
In the battle between God and Mammon, it’s a knockout win for Mammon in Michael Showalter’s wonderfully garish biopic of the disgraced televangelist and her criminal husband, Jim Bakker. “God does not want us to be poor,” declaims Andrew Garfield’s venal Jim early on, as he and Tammy Faye (a transformed Jessica Chastain) set about monetising the American public’s Christian beliefs. It’s a riot of bad interior design, bad makeup and bad faith, though Chastain manages, remarkably, to present Faye as a sympathetic figure, with her liberal views riling her bigoted fellow TV preachers. Simon Wardell
