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Mission into Space with Francis Bourgeois

6.50pm on Channel 4

Can a train controller become an astronaut? You can’t help but root for train lover Francis Bourgeois as he makes this his mission. Fortunately, he had help from British astronaut Tim Peake, who happily helped him get to NASA’s Space Center in Houston, Texas to fulfill his childhood dream of launching into orbit. It’s a surprisingly moving film in two parts – and somehow, watching Bourgeois use a sick bag in a simulator is an emotional television experience. Holly Richardson

Great pottery throw

7.50pm, Channel 4

It’s Raku Week at the competition – a celebration of the medieval Japanese ceramic style, which was originally used to make tea ceremony vessels. Siobhan McSweeney hosts as the potters prepare to work on the parent-child skeletons, before a guest judge and master sculptor conduct a spot test of the sculpture. Who will crack? Human resources

Call your midwife

8pm, BBC One

Joyce (Renee Bailey) is seconded to the antenatal clinic in St Cuthbert’s, where she meets a single mother with a rare blood type called placenta previa. Meanwhile, Rosalind (Natalie Quarry) is curious when she finds a sick cousin eating from the trash. Blue Peter inspires the Turner children and the Poplar community to bury a time capsule. Human resources

Night manager

9pm, BBC One

The penultimate episode revolves around important face-to-face conversations, with more than one cast member having Tom Hiddleston’s big moment: a one-on-one confrontation with the man himself, as renegade spy Jonathan Pine plays on the emotions of those involved with arms dealer Richard Roper. As the latter, Hugh Laurie convincingly transitions into roaring evil mode. Jack Seale

After the flood

9pm on ITV1

Another body is found on Benson’s land, but is there any connection between the two victims, besides their unusual post-mortem injuries? DC Jo Marshall (Sophie Rundell) and newly transferred DS Sam Bradley (Jill Halfpenny) are busy looking into the matter. Meanwhile, rumors about Joe’s private life spread faster than wildfires. Ellen E. Jones

Four kings
At 10.05pm on Channel 4

The series, which traces the turbulent careers of Frank Bruno, Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank Sr and Lennox Lewis, arrives in the early 1990s, as American promoter Don King ushered in a Faustian era of the lucrative but punishing highs and lows of UK boxing. The four themes provide hard-won and often emotional insights. JV

Choose a movie

The Dot, 2.25am, Talking Pictures TV

You may feel like we have enough extinction events to worry about, but have you considered the possibility of a carnivorous amoeba-like alien landing on Earth, then gobbling up everything in its path, while growing into a giant blob of slime? This is the plot of the 1958 B-movie par excellence, which also features Steve McQueen in his first leading role. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson described the Blob as the favorite of all the aliens imagined by Hollywood — “from a scientific perspective.” Eig

Live sports

Premier League: Newcastle vs Aston Villa, 1pm, main event on Sky Sports Followed by the Arsenal vs. Manchester United match at 4:00 p.m. Everton plays Leeds at 6.30pm on Monday.

Bowls: World Indoor Championships, 2.30pm, BBC Two Open singles final.