Amol Rajan Interviews Bill Gates
7.30pm, BBC Two
“It’s strange to be an old person; I don’t think of myself that way – I still feel young!” The 67-year-old Microsoft founder and philanthropist meets Rajan in Kenya for an in-depth chat – and it starts with a conversation about chickens. Talk turns to conspiracy theorists, Elon Musk, therapy, US politics, rumoured affairs (which he restrains from going into too much detail on) and his divorce after 27 years of marriage. Hollie Richardson
Would I Lie to You?
8pm, BBC One
On this week’s panel show where dishonesty is often the best policy: Jo Brand, Lucy Martin, Amol Rajan and Joe Wilkinson. Who claims to have been a chauffeur for the Jackson 5? And who once shared a tent in Kent with Susie Dent? HR
Travel Man: 48 Hours in Marseille
8.30pm, Channel 4
This week, Joe Lycett swans around the south of France with the comedian Asim Chaudhry. They go skateboarding (well, they stand on their boards), sit on the longest bench in the world and eat a cream-topped doughnut too naughty to be shown pre-watershed. HR
Death in Paradise
9pm, BBC One
The ever-changing cast of the seaside crime drama isn’t quite a ship of Theseus: Don Warrington has been there since day one as Commissioner Selwyn Patterson. This week, he gets a strong storyline when Patterson meets his daughter for the first time. The impossible slaying of the week is that of a former children’s home resident. Jack Seale
Hotel Portofino
9pm, ITV
This period saga, set in “a very English hotel on the Italian Riviera” in 1926, went unnoticed when it debuted on BritBox a year ago. The posh guests of the titular hotel have a secret. Natascha McElhone and Anna Chancellor give the cast a touch of class; the rising threat of fascism lends a comfy-feeling drama some edge. JS
Jon & Lucy’s Odd Couples
9pm, Channel 4
Sniping spouses Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont always seem keen to score points off each other, so it makes sense for them to host a relationship gameshow. This week, Amanda Abbington and her partner, Jonathan Goodwin, take on pop pussycat Kimberly Wyatt and model Max Rogers in the celebrity couple stress-test. Graeme Virtue
Film choice
Vice (Adam McKay, 2018), 11.05pm, BBC Two
Adam McKay’s brand of pointed political satire is brought to bear on Dick Cheney, the ghost president during George W Bush’s time in office. It’s a measure of the film-maker’s skill that you root for the whip-smart operator as he slides up the slippery pole of power – from drunken ne’er-do-well to a US vice-president who redefined torture, ripped up privacy laws and initiated a spurious war in Iraq. Christian Bale inhabits the part with admirable perspicacity, while Steve Carell is terrifically obnoxious as fellow traveller Donald Rumsfeld. Simon Wardell
