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Hollie Richardson, Hannah J Davies, Graeme Virtue, Ali Catterall and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: bra-burning and babies in action-packed Call the Midwife

Call the Midwife on BBC One.
Uplifting … Call the Midwife on BBC One. Photograph: BBC/Neal Street Productions/Olly Courtney

Call the Midwife

8pm, BBC One

It’s 1971: the decimal coin has been introduced and Nonnatus House is ready for another year of traumatising work. As Trixie (Helen George) stands up to the Board of Health’s threatening new rules, newly qualified midwife Sister Catherine (Molly Vevers) is thrown in at the deep end with a patient who can’t stop vomiting. Meanwhile, it’s the Poplar women’s liberation march! Hollie Richardson

The Floor

7pm, ITV1

There are 73 contestants still standing on Rob Brydon’s flashing floor – and they’re all fighting to win more squares and make it to the final. Players will go head to head in quickfire question rounds in a bid to get closer to that £50,000 cash prize. HR

The Great Pottery Throw Down

7.45pm, Channel 4

The potters are seeing double this week, as they’re tasked with making a pair of bookends (designs range from two halves of an avocado to a homage to Persian architecture). As ever, TGPTD remains irresistible, and – thanks to frequently teary-eyed judge Keith Brymer Jones – an emotional affair. Hannah J Davies

The Night Manager

9pm, BBC One

Undercover Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston) has seemingly gained the trust of Teddy Dos Santos (Diego Calva) – and all it took was hoovering up his drugs and nearly drowning in his swimming pool. Will he be able to find proof of the supervillain being in cahoots with British intelligence? HR

The Million Pound Shaman Scam

9pm, BBC Two

This true-crime two-parter has been re-examining the notorious case of faith-healing fraudster Juliette D’Souza, who extracted vast sums from her Hampstead neighbours for more than a decade by claiming to have access to Amazonian shamans. In the concluding episode, her swindled victims seek justice. Graeme Virtue

Red Eye

9pm, ITV1

Assassin Fox (Tom Forbes) turns a grounded flight into a battleground. Before long, there’s surgery on a makeshift kitchen table to save an agent’s life, as crucial evidence reaches Thames House and Hana and Brody set a trap. Then Fox strikes again with his boldest murder yet – revealing the shadowy mastermind pulling the strings. Ali Catterall

Film choice

The Integrity of Joseph Chambers, 11.20pm, Film4

Their previous collaboration, The Killing of Two Lovers, was suffused with barely suppressed menace. Director Robert Machoian and actor Clayne Crawford’s latest is equally unsettling, as Crawford’s inexperienced deer hunter heads into the woods solo for the first time – and bad things happen. Like a Raymond Carver story or the films of Kelly Reichardt, it’s a painfully perceptive tale of an ordinary man placed in an extraordinary position he just can’t handle, and a takedown of trite masculinity. Simon Wardell

Live sport

Men’s FA Cup Football: Derby v Leeds, 11.30am, TNT Sports 2 Portsmouth v Arsenal is at 1.30pm and Man United v Brighton at 4.30pm, both on TNT Sports 1.

Snooker: The Masters, 1pm, BBC Two Holder Shaun Murphy takes on Wu Yize in a first-round match at Alexandra Palace.

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