Mint
9pm, BBC One
This retelling of Romeo and Juliet from Charlotte Regan – director of hit indie film Scrapper – is set in modern-day Scotland. Sparks fly at a train station when yearning romantic Shannon (Emma Laird) locks eyes with enigmatic Arran (Ben Coyle-Larner, AKA musician Loyle Carner) across the tracks. But Shannon is the daughter of the area’s biggest gangster and Arran is the son of a rival family. Will their forbidden love follow the same tragic trajectory as the classic it’s inspired by? The beautifully shot opening episode captures those heady first moments of lust – and quickly introduces us to the violent world that threatens to put a brutal end to them. Hollie Richardson
Great Japanese Railway Journeys
6.30pm, BBC Two
Michael Portillo’s pleasant working holiday in Japan continues. This time he’s visiting the Sakurajima International Volcanic Centre to watch scientists monitor seismic activity. He also explores the former airbase at Chiran, the departure point for most of Japan’s kamikaze pilots in the second world war. Phil Harrison
Mastermind
7.30pm, BBC Two
An engraved Caithness Glass bowl is up for grabs as the finalists brave the black chair and the gentle probing of Clive Myrie for the grand final. The specialist subjects include the films of Danny Boyle and the books of Beatrix Potter. PH
Egypt With Dan Snow
9pm, Channel 5
There may be remote corners of the world that aren’t currently hosting celebrity travelogues – but thanks to this amiable, generic series, Egypt is now not among them. The historian begins his trip in Luxor then takes a luxury steamer down the Nile. Nice work if you can get it. PH
Chernobyl: Days That Shocked the World
10pm, Channel 4
Forty years ago this week, in the dead of night, a devastating explosion tore through a nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine, putting its town on the map for all time. Its very name would become a byword for catastrophe and cover-up. Here’s how the tragedy unfolded. Ali Catterall
Euphoria
10.15pm, Sky Atlantic
For its much-delayed third season, HBO’s nihilistic high-school drama has evolved into a frazzled frontier crime show. After her disasters as a drug mule, Rue (Zendaya) is caught between two ruthless kingpins. Is now really the best time to try to reconnect with her disaffected ex Jules (Hunter Schafer)? Graeme Virtue
Film Choice
Whistle Down the Wind (Bryan Forbes, 1961), 4.30pm, Talking Pictures TV
“Who is it?” “Jesus Christ!” The shocked encounter in a dark barn between Lancashire farmer’s child Kathy (Hayley Mills) and criminal fugitive Arthur (Alan Bates) leads the girl and her younger siblings to believe he really is the son of God – and to vow to protect him from the grownups who might crucify him again. A skewed religious allegory directed in gritty fashion by Bryan Forbes – from a novel by Hayley’s mum, Mary Hayley Bell – it features brilliantly unsentimental performances from a motley group of mostly locally cast kids. Simon Wardell
