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Thames Water: Inside the Crisis
9pm, BBC Two
Thames Water, the UK’s biggest water company, recently won a controversial £3bn emergency debt package to prevent its collapse – for the next few months, at least. This two-parter goes inside the company during the six months leading up to this, as customer bills increase and sewage continues to flow into coasts and rivers. The new CEO, Chris Weston, speaks in this opener, as the team face a £15bn hole in the company finances. Hollie Richardson
Panorama: Lockdown Kids – Five Years On
8pm, BBC Two
Seeing your school doors chained up until further notice sounds like every kid’s dream. But when lockdown was enforced in March 2020 it meant two years of fitful education for our nation’s youth. The BBC’s education editor, Branwen Jeffreys, hears from families and teachers about the long-term effects and how they are being tackled. Graeme Virtue
Batch from Scratch: Cooking for Less
8pm, Channel 4
Joe Swash and Suzanne “the Batch Lady” Mulholland meet single dad Darran to help stop him relying on jarred sauces and oven meals when it comes to feeding his two kids after a long day’s work. Sausage traybake, slow-cooked beef massaman curry and pizza-flavoured stuffed chicken breasts are all on the menu. HR
Chess Masters: The Endgame
8pm, BBC Two
Chess is war on a board and the queen is the most powerful piece on it. So how will the aspiring chess champions fare with a “devilishly difficult” puzzle involving eight queens? It’s hard not to root for every one of the adorable contestants as they do their best to work it out. Meanwhile, Sue Perkins looks on, totally bewildered. HR
Virdee
9pm, BBC One
The Bradford-set thriller concludes its first series. Harry Virdee (Staz Nair) has already officially cracked the case – but with his wife in peril, he has to go through some very unofficial channels to really come out on top. It’s Reservoir Dogs meets Line of Duty as the endgame escalates. Jack Seale
The White Lotus
9pm, Sky Atlantic
As night falls in Thailand, the hedonism ramps up in Mike White’s scathing satire of the self-regarding rich on their hols. Insecure TV star Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan) and her girl gang are out clubbing with attentive Russians, while prickly Rick (Walton Goggins) has ditched Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood) for an unsettling rendezvous in Bangkok. Graeme Virtue
