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The Vampire Lestat: Interview with the Vampire
9pm, BBC Two
True Blood meets Eurovision in this ludicrously camp vampire drama. This is the third series of Interview with the Vampire but it takes a new turn, now set in 2025 with the spotlight on blood-sucking glam rocker Lestat – played so erotically by Sam Reid that he can pull off lines such as “MDMA and LSD: the Torvill and Dean of hallucinogens” and “I carry with me an immortal erection”. Hollie Richardson
The Great British Sewing Bee
8pm, BBC One
It’s reduce, reuse and recycle week: the sewers must transform landfill scraps – everything from potato sacks to curtain rope tassels – into fast fashion and couture. But not before refashioning old T-shirts into three pairs of knickers. Emma: “I’m just going to bask in the glory that Patrick Grant liked my knickers.” Ali Catterall
Hotel Chocolat Unwrapped
8pm, Channel 4
This bumper advert for the chocolatier returns for a second series – and it kicks off with the first Hotel Chocolat instore bakery. Elsewhere, the Chocmobile – a van filled with chocolates – hits the summer festivals, while across the Atlantic, a store is set to open in Chicago. HR
The Undeclared War
9pm, Channel 4
The focus is on Siân Brooke’s Dr Barbara Napier as Peter Kosminsky’s portentous cyber thriller continues. There’s some deep background as we flashback to an ill-fated MI6 mission in 2014 and another in 2022. Barbara’s charming but shifty ex, Nicky, is the thread connecting these operations. Surely that can’t be a coincidence? Phil Harrison
Shabaz Asks: Are Billionaires Bad?
9pm, BBC Three
The answer is straightforward, but former Blackburn teacher turned TikTok sensation Shabaz “King of the Povvos” Ali is a hoot as he goes on a journey to find out – with the aim of meeting a billionaire. Along the way, he’ll meet economists, Zack Polanski and an ex-Apprentice candidate. Plus, will his 2 million followers be able to help out? HR
Gomorrah: The Origins
9pm, Sky Atlantic
How did a disco-loving Naples gutter rat grow up to be ice-cold kingpin Don Pietro? This 1970s-set prequel to Sky’s brutal Italian gangster drama shades in the backstory. The opening double bill sees pimply teen Pietro glimpse a less glamorous side of Camorra life when hunky local underboss Angelo goes on the warpath. Graeme Virtue
Film
The New Boy (Warwick Thornton, 2023), 11.05pm, BBC Two
The Australian state’s former policy of separating Indigenous children from their parents, to assimilate them into western culture, gets a sideways take in Warwick Thornton’s mystical period drama. Aswan Reid stars as a blond-haired Indigenous boy found in the outback and taken to a Benedictine orphanage run by Cate Blanchett’s unconventional Sister Eileen. It’s an alien world to him, but when he displays miraculous powers, Eileen sees in him a very Christian divinity. Simon Wardell
Live sport
Racing, Glorious Goodwood, 1.30pm, ITV1 Day one of the meeting, including the Goodwood Cup.
