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Mysterious Path: Origin

9pm on BBC Two
Robin Malcolm joins the second series of the hit drama about an Aboriginal police officer who begins his career in Western Australia. It’s now the year 2000, but the remote timber town of Loch Eyres is still haunted by the events of its past. Jay Swan (Mark Coles Smith) moves here with his partner Mary (Tully Narkel) and finds himself in conflict with the ideals and operations of cynical Sergeant Paula “Simmo” Simmons (Malcolm). Holly Richardson

Would I lie to you?

7.30pm on BBC One
The celebrity show continues. Does Strictly’s Diane Boswell always give her Mini Cooper a kiss goodbye when she parks it? Will Jamelia have her back on exes by turning them into unlucky avatars for Sims 4? And does Bob Mortimer have a passing memory of once offering a famous football player some “car cheese”? Ali Catterall

Can you make £10,000 in 10 days?

8pm on Channel 4
This unique guide to side hustles is hosted by Scarlett Moffat. Although some of the advice is basic (the section on reselling looks like an unofficial ad for Vinted), it’s clear that the former Goggleboxer’s heart is in the right place as she helps the tattoo artist and TV director make some much-needed extra money. Hannah J. Davis

Big fat quiz from telly

9pm on Channel 4
Telly heads can test their knowledge of everything from The Simpsons to The Chase and Peppa Pig to The Traitors in this comprehensive quiz. Harry Hill, Judy Love, Tom Allen, Joan McAnally, Sam Campbell and Susan Wokoma are the celebrities co-hosting Jimmy Carr. Human resources

Jane MacDonald: From Pole to Pole

9pm on Channel 5

The Hun Queen has had a busy year, including a headline slot at the Mighty Hoopla. Currently, it continues its journey via South Georgia and the Falkland Islands. The itinerary includes 10,000 king penguins, meeting the people who have settled the remote outposts, and of course singing with the world’s southernmost military wives’ choir. Human resources

The Graham Norton Show

10.40pm, on BBC One
Not content with taking over the evil world, actress and singer Cynthia Erivo is now playing all 23 roles in the new West End production of Dracula. She’ll talk about it on the red sofa, where she’ll be joined by fellow Hollywood star Chris Pratt, as well as comedians Dawn French and Rob Beckett. Jack Savoretti is in charge of live music. Human resources

Choose a movie

Nuremberg (James Vanderbilt, 2025), 12.20pm, 8pm, Sky Cinema premiere
It has been just over 80 years since the Nuremberg trials, when top Nazis were accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Aside from a grisly sequence of footage of the actual death camp, James Vanderbilt’s intense dramatization of this historical event comes from the angle of arrogant American psychiatrist Douglas Kelly (Rami Malek), tasked with assessing the mental health of the accused. He finds himself in a battle of wills with Nazi leader Hermann Goering (a frighteningly arrogant Russell Crowe), a battle he’s not really capable of winning. Michael Shannon gets a fair amount of screen time as US Judge Robert H. Jackson, but it’s when Malek and Crowe face off that the film really works. Simon Wardle

People We Meet on Vacation (Brett Haley, 2026), Netflix
The first film based on the novel by bestselling author Emily Henry comes to Netflix, home of bright, digestible dramas. Emily Bader plays travel writer Poppy, who meets up with her best friend Alex (Tom Blythe) every summer for vacation. Over the course of many years and a series of trips to picture postcard locations – Barcelona, ​​New Orleans, etc. – it slowly occurs to them that maybe they should be together. Jameela Jamil, Molly Shannon and Alan Ruck co-star. Southwest

Cillian’s Tale (Tamara Kotevska, 2025), 10 p.m., National Geographic
A documentary blending folktale with the realism of aviation, Tamara Kotevska’s gentle and poignant film follows Macedonian farmer Nikola. He lives in a village with the largest population of white storks in the country, but the struggle to make a living from the land leads to the area being depopulated. Just as storks migrate in search of food, so do Nicola’s daughter and family, and his wife joins them in Germany. But then he picks up a stork with a broken wing and finds a glimmer of purpose. A multi-layered tale containing elements of natural history amidst a stark dissection of rural problems. Southwest

The Old Oak (Ken Loach, 2023), 11pm, BBC Two

Is this Ken Loach’s last film? If so, he suggests, it is a fitting end to a long career committed to exploring the lives of – and agitating for the betterment of – working-class people. The drama focuses on the friction caused by the arrival of Syrian refugees in the depressed former mining village of Durham. Dave Turner plays TJ Ballantyne, owner of the titular bar, a community hub — one of the few remaining — but also a business that can suffer if it offers space and solidarity to Ebla Mari arrival Yara and her relatives but alienates its patrons. Southwest