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Empire with David Olusoga
9pm, BBC Two
By the 1770s, Britain was transporting 45,000 Africans into slavery every year. David Olusoga visits Bunce Island, where captured Africans were sold, to continue his epic series about the empire’s legacy. The fallout of the American revolution then takes him to Australia – which, of course, had already been home to natives for at least 40,000 years, including the Tasmanian Truganini. Hollie Richardson
Children in Need 2025
7pm, BBC One
By now, Sara Cox will (hopefully) have finished her 135-mile walk/jog/run challenge. She will celebrate at the annual fundraiser with presenters including newbies Big Zuu and Paddy McGuinness. There’ll also be a children’s choir with a touching cover of Coldplay’s Yellow. HR
Unreported World
7.30pm, Channel 4
Each year, hundreds of Arab citizens are murdered in Israel, yet most cases go unsolved. Krishnan Guru-Murthy investigates, uncovering links to organised crime, weapons trafficking allegedly involving the security forces, a community loth to put its trust in Israeli police, and accusations, denied by the authorities, that the government is looking the other way. Ali Catterall
Gardeners’ World
8pm, BBC Two
The gathering gloom of November might tempt you to scale back your efforts, but not Monty Don: at Longmeadow, he’s busy creating a new woodland garden from scratch, planting grasses and hellebores and potting up hyacinth bulbs. Elsewhere, an acer superfan has 70 varieties of the tree in her Buckinghamshire garden. Jack Seale
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
9pm, Sky Max
This zombie spinoff has been pretty light on action, with Daryl (Norman Reedus) and Carol (Melissa McBride) enjoying rustic tapas in a sleepy Spanish enclave. But this instalment features the mother of all medieval smackdowns as the walls of Solaz del Mar are besieged by a marauding horde. Graeme Virtue
All Her Fault
9pm, Sky Atlantic
“Your nanny, who you hired, kidnapped her five-year-old son – do you really think the two of you are friends?” School-gate gossip is rife, as Jenny (Dakota Fanning) helps Marissa (Sarah Snook) find Milo. But more theories of what happened are working their way around the media – and the authorities. HR
Film choice
Mickey 17, (Bong Joon-ho, 2025), 12.35pm, 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere
Bong Joon-ho’s follow-up to his Oscar-laden social satire Parasite is another sharp comedy about class and capitalism, this time set in space. A starship under the command of Mark Ruffalo’s Trumpesque politician is en route to colonise a distant planet. Robert Pattinson – who is becoming quite the character actor – stars as Mickey, an “expendable”: his identity has been downloaded so he can die any number of times and the crew just reprint a new body. But when he gets to version 17, an encounter with the new world’s louse-like inhabitants puts a spanner in the works. It’s not subtle, but the farcical action is played with gusto by Pattinson alongside Naomi Ackie and Toni Collette. Simon Wardell
Come See Me in the Good Light, (Ryan White, 2025), Apple TV
An instant weepie, Ryan White’s documentary follows performance poet Andrea Gibson as they deal with incurable ovarian cancer, supported by their wife, fellow poet Megan Falley. It’s an intimate fly-on-the-wall profile, filled with love, as the couple come to terms with the diagnosis, the rounds of treatment and Gibson’s desire to do one last spoken-word performance. Despite not being a household name in the UK, Gibson is a vibrant and engaging presence, their poetry interspersed with often very funny thoughts about living with dying. Oddly life-affirming. SW
Belén, (Dolores Fonzi, 2025), Prime Video
Dolores Fonzi co-wrote, directed and stars in Argentina’s entry for the Academy Awards, a rousing, political labour of love that should be right up Oscar’s street. It’s the true story of a legal injustice that occurred in 2014, when a young woman, known only as Belén, was jailed for homicide after having a miscarriage. Fonzi plays her lawyer, Soledad Deza, who fights to overturn the decision, inspiring a national campaign against the conservative, male establishment’s control over women’s reproductive rights. A historical snapshot that is sadly still relevant today. SW
