TV tonight: Chris Packham’s wondrous series about evolution

Evolution

9pm, BBC Two
Chris Packham begins his wondrous five-part series next to a Kenyan watering hole, laughing with pleasurable astonishment at the awesome creation that is the African elephant. Nobody would design an animal like that, so how did it evolve? The answer is an epic 4bn-year-old story of hunger, conflict and Earth-shaking natural disasters, all of which made the survivors stronger. Jack Seale

Animal Control

6pm, Sky One
Four seasons have already aired in the US, and now this sitcom about Seattle animal control officers makes its way to the UK. The opener features a plot about a wild weasel in an attic and another where one of the team slips a snack into his colleague’s pocket just as they approach a dozen ostriches. Alexi Duggins

24 Hours in A&E

9pm, Channel 4
A return to the hectic Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham for more emergency assessments. The parents of a 10-week-old baby are distraught after a choking episode; has any milk made it into his lungs? Elsewhere, a veteran bus driver is admitted with a nasty-looking leg infection that turns out to be very serious indeed. Graeme Virtue

House of the Dragon

9pm, Sky Atlantic
The crown weighs ever heavier on the head of Rhaenyra Targaryen: having taken the Iron Throne, she now discovers the full extent of the perfidy she’s up against. With even arch-schemer Daemon uncovering devastating secrets, the Game of Thrones prequel delivers a neat study of the difference between power and control. JS

Outback Terror: The Falconio Murder

9pm, U&W

Peter Falconio, who was killed while driving across the Australian outback, with his girlfiend Joanne Lees. Photograph: Jayne Russell/Alamy

Twenty-five years on from a case that shocked Australia – a man shot in the outback while travelling with his girlfriend – a forensic search specialist who worked on the Soham double murder case and a retired FBI profiler who was part of the Madeleine McCann investigation join forces to try to solve this cold case. A nail-biting two-parter. Priya Elan

How to Trick Your Way onto the Property Ladder

10pm, Channel 4
Hypnotising an estate agent? Selling £20 avocados? Pitching living spaces the size of Guantánamo Bay cells? This can only be Oobah Butler’s takedown of the housing crisis – including a chat with Andy Burnham – as he attempts to get on the ladder. But there’s no predicting the final moments when his mission takes an unexpected turn. Hollie Richardson