Half Man
10.40pm, BBC One
Richard Gadd’s follow-up to Baby Reindeer comes to regular telly, having premiered on iPlayer last week. Mitchell Robertson and Stuart Campbell are both superb as weak Niall and violent Ruben, a duo of 1980s schoolboys. We flash forward to glimpse Jamie Bell and Gadd himself playing them as adults – who are about to form a toxic lifelong bond. Jack Seale
Michael Portillo in Stockholm
7pm, Channel 5
Meatballs, schnapps, saunas … if this Swedish travelogue feels rather overfamiliar, it might be because it has been thriftily recycled from Portillo’s previous Euro-hopping Long Weekends series. In any case, the inquisitive Tory grandee is reliably chummy company and sports items from a startling yellow wardrobe. Graeme Virtue
Interior Design Masters With Alan Carr
8pm, BBC One
Romantic weekend in a medieval castle, anyone? Alan’s second task for his designers is to make love nests at Peckforton Castle in Cheshire. Nobody’s imagination runs too wild – which is a good job, because guest judge Linda Boronkay has classy taste. Hollie Richardson
Our Welsh Chapel Dream
8pm, Channel 4
The transformation of the courtyard and guest bedroom is complete. Now, Keith Brymer Jones and Marj Hogarth prepare to turn the chapel’s Sunday school hall into a pottery studio. Meanwhile, Keith has a significant birthday coming up, and the celebrations include Welsh gin, a 50-strong male voice choir – and a unique cover of a Talking Heads song. AC
MasterChef
9pm, BBC One
The heats continue with an eager new bunch. Yuvi has undentable confidence and prepares duck three ways, but factory worker Tony’s ways with pork are sixfold. The apron cook-off (fishfinger sandwiches) is glorious carnage, and the Grace Dent lyricism is plentiful, the highlight being her description of a solitary boiled egg as a “visiting dignitary”. Lucinda Everett
Better Date Than Never
9pm, BBC Three
A double bill of the gentle Aussie documentary about first-time daters from the makers of Love on the Spectrum. Charles struggles with small talk, and Olivia is instantly taken with a fellow Taylor Swift fan. Elsewhere, Liv is already planning her wedding – though she is yet to find the groom. Hannah J Davies
Film choice
Small Things Like These (Tim Mielants, 2024), Netflix
Adapted by Enda Walsh from Claire Keegan’s novel, Tim Mielants’s heart-rending drama comes at Ireland’s Magdalene laundries scandal from a more domestic angle to other campaigning films, but is no less devastating. Cillian Murphy uses that haunted visage of his to great effect as 1980s coal merchant Bill Furlong, the son of an unmarried mother and the father of five daughters. The brutal treatment of girls at a convent where he makes deliveries ignites his compassion, but he butts up against the community’s omertà in the face of the church’s power. Simon Wardell
Live sport
Champions League football: PSG v Bayern Munich, 7pm, Prime Video The semi-final first-leg tie.
