Jamie’s Five Ingredient Meals
8pm, Channel 4
While Jamie Oliver’s presentational shtick isn’t to everyone’s taste, he remains an inventive solver of culinary problems. In this new series, he creates a series of dishes that do a great job of, as he insists on putting it, “hero-ing everyday ingredients”. These feel like hacks you might actually use – for example, a brilliant technique for crisping chicken legs that is so simple you’ll wonder why you didn’t think of it first. Phil Harrison
Panorama: Challenging Putin – Moscow and the Mutiny
8pm, BBC One
Predictably, it didn’t take long for Yevgeny Prigozhin to have an unfortunate accident after his challenge to the authority of Vladimir Putin in June. In this documentary, Jane Corbin explores the incident and wonders if there have been any long-term consequences for the Russian president. PH
Scarlett’s Driving School
8.30pm, BBC One
After 13 years of learning to drive, Adeola is desperate to pass her test – and her patient and longsuffering cheerleader sister Ronke Jane has her fingers crossed too. Hitting the kerb, struggling to figure out roundabouts and panicking on steep hills are major challenges along the way. Meanwhile, Scarlett attempts an emergency stop. Hannah Verdier
The Reckoning
9pm, BBC One
Jimmy Savile – played with chilling precision by Steve Coogan – was able to continue his crimes in no small part due to the protection of his employer, the national broadcaster. In this episode, the aptly named BBC One drama arrives at the peak of Savile’s fame, hosting Jim’ll Fix It on, you guessed it, BBC One. Ellen E Jones
Union with David Olusoga
9pm, BBC Two
Insurrection is in the air as David Olusoga’s history series continues. Olusoga is brilliant at bringing dusty records to life: this week, he explores army discharge papers in the wake of the Napoleonic wars. The sad individual stories behind this apparent triumph explain what followed – Chartism: the first mass movement driven by the working classes. PH
The Long Shadow
9pm, ITV1
The strength of this bleakly important series has been its convincing contention that the crimes of Peter Sutcliffe were, in the context of their era, essentially the extreme version of universally toxic male attitudes towards women. Another woman survives an attack – but can David Morrissey’s arrogant ACC George Oldfield make anything stick? PH
Film choice
Summer of Soul (Questlove, 2021), 10pm, Channel 4
In the summer of 1969, when Woodstock was grabbing all the headlines, the Harlem cultural festival took place in New York, featuring a gobsmacking lineup of Black musical talent. Questlove has assembled hours of footage of the long-neglected event into an astonishing documentary. Stevie Wonder, the Staple Singers, Mahalia Jackson, Sly and the Family Stone, and force of nature Nina Simone are a few of the stars giving their all in front of a packed family crowd. Context is given by performers and audience members, but the music does the job all by itself. Simon Wardell
