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Hollie Richardson, Hannah Verdier, Ellen E Jones and Danielle De Wolfe

TV tonight: following Brighton’s police on patrol after dark

Night Coppers on Channel 4
Here come the blue lights … Night Coppers on Channel 4. Photograph: Blast Films

Night Coppers
9pm, Channel 4

“I’ve got pubes older than you!” is just one of the insults that 22-year-old copper Will laughs about as he patrols Brighton at night. This surprisingly upbeat documentary series profiles the issues he and fellow officer Matt come up against – including their old chief who was in the force for 30 years and who they, rather awkwardly, pull over to breathalyse. “You should never do traffic stops with Matt,” says Will. “He loves traffic too much.” Hollie Richardson

Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams
8pm, BBC One

In his attempt to break cricket’s posh veneer (two-thirds of players are privately educated), Flintoff has spent four months training his team of working-class Preston teenagers. It’s a lively group to say the least (“Organised lunatics,” says 16-year-old Dylan) – so will they focus enough to give themselves a proper chance to succeed? HR

SAS Death Squads Exposed: A British War Crime?
9pm, BBC One

Panorama’s run of hard-hitting and fearless investigations continues with a focus on the SAS. Did a rogue execution squad operate within the force? No stone is left unturned in the team’s determined investigation into the potentially chilling existence of a series of British war crimes. Hannah Verdier

We Own This City
9pm, Sky Atlantic

Wunmi Mosaku as Nicole Steele in We Own This City.
Clear-sighted … Wunmi Mosaku as Nicole Steele in We Own This City. Photograph: HBO

Even within such a clear-sighted portrayal of civic corruption, there’s room for ambiguity. That’s where this series finally lands in regards to real-life Baltimore homicide detective Sean Suiter (Jamie Hector). For the unsatisfied, there are more answers (and more questions) in The Slow Hustle, a documentary directed by The Wire’s Sonja Sohn. Ellen E Jones

Snowfall
10pm, BBC Three

The crime drama returns for an explosive fifth series, dropping us into the scorching summer of 1986. Tonight sees Franklin Saint (Damson Idris) and El Oso (Sergio Peris-Mencheta) labelled the “least-fun-having drug dealers” around. But while the remaining Franklin family members ride a wave of success, the high life they adore has the potential to come crashing down. Danielle De Wolfe

Everything I Know About Love
10.40pm, BBC One

In the penultimate episode of this nostalgic friendship fest, the foursome down homemade cocktails and play a card game ominously called Evil Friends – an inevitable recipe for disaster. “Who is most likely to get divorced?” is one such potentially fraught question. HR

Sport choice

International one-day cricket England v India, 12.30pm, Sky Sports main event, the first one-day international from the Oval.

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