The Gilded Age
9pm, Sky Atlantic
The second series of Julian Fellowes’s superfluous attempt to export the upstairs-downstairs ethos of Downton Abbey to the new world. As ever, the minutiae of class feels as if it’s being explored to the point of cliche and beyond. We pick up in 1883 with the distressing news that Carrie Coon’s Bertha Russell has had her bid for a box at the Academy of Music rejected. (New money, don’t you know?) Will she accept this slight and move on? Phil Harrison
Gremlins: The Secrets of the Mogwai
7pm, BBC Three
Did the wild popularity of the Mandalorian’s Grogu help fast-track this belated animated prequel? Boasting a starry voice cast (James Hong and Matthew Rhys), it follows the original jug-eared cutie, Gizmo, as he teams up with plucky young kids in 1920s Shanghai for some family-friendly slapstick antics. Graeme Virtue
Prime Suspect: Who Took Madeleine McCann?
8pm, BBC One
Panorama has made several programmes about Madeleine McCann in the 16 years since the three-year-old’s disappearance, but this one gets closest to resolving the mystery. Richard Bilton, who has covered the case from the beginning, reports on the disturbing background of the suspect Christian Brückner. Just how strong is the evidence against him? Ellen E Jones
The Detectives: Taking Down an OCG
9pm, BBC Two
A fascinating insight into police work on the edge in this documentary, airing daily, focusing on a road rage incident that spirals out of control. When a group of tree surgeons in Rochdale attempt to intervene in a traffic dispute, one of them is attacked with an axe. The assailants turn out to be connected, in very dangerous ways. PH
The Long Shadow
9pm, ITV1
It is the penultimate episode of this superb, enraging series tracking the crimes of Peter Sutcliffe via the hopeless cops who tried to catch him and the women who suffered at his hands. The West Yorkshire police stake everything on a massive public appeal, but since they are still basing their investigations on the hoax voice recording, their strategy proves to be worse than useless. PH
Rhod Gilbert: A Pain in the Neck for SU2C
9pm, Channel 4
As the Stand Up to Cancer season continues, this uplifting film follows the comedian Rhod Gilbert while he battles head and neck cancer. Gilbert is the opposite of self-pitying – dark humour is never far away and he uses his personal challenge as a way of raising funds and awareness for other people living with the disease. PH
Film choice
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Hope Dickson Leach, 2022), 9pm, Sky Arts
Originally shot and screened live for an audience in Leith theatre, this black-and-white National Theatre of Scotland production relocates Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic horror novel to his home city of Edinburgh. The director and co-writer Hope Dickson Leach focuses more on the historical and political landscape than the body-morphing, with the animalistic Hyde representing “respectable” Victorian society’s fears of the working class it is trampling underfoot in the drive for profit. Simon Wardell
