Wilderness With Simon Reeve
9pm, Sunday, BBC Two
Swamps! Angry bee attacks! Bugs that bury eggs in human skin! Testicles for breakfast … and dinner! Simon Reeve is on the punishing but incredible journey of a lifetime as he travels the world’s most remote landscapes for this epic four-part series – starting with sweating and battling his way across the Democratic Republic of the Congo with no-nonsense guide Adams Cassinga. He discovers a remote but welcoming Baka community, meets a man who used ivory to pay for university then returned as a conservationist, and tracks down the elusive bonobo. As Reeve himself puts it while bugs swarm around him on an endless trek: “I’m a bit shattered, to be honest”. Hollie Richardson
George Clarke’s Adventures in Americana
9pm, Channel 4
TV’s favourite property man explores architecture and design across the US in this new series. He goes from Creole to cowboys in the first episode, starting in Louisiana’s biggest city, New Orleans – with colourful urban mansions once owned by grossly rich plantation owners – then on to Bandera where he finds a “man cave” that looks like a neon light museum. HR
Call the Midwife
8pm, BBC One
Hitting the yet gut-punching balance comes naturally to Midwife and this week Poplar-born model Gillian Baxter is due to give birth. But when the baby is diagnosed with a birth defect, the nurses must help her come to terms with it. Meanwhile, Matthew is helping Trixie find a new sofa before her big move. Hannah Verdier
The Tourist
9pm, BBC One
The shocking events of the last episode set up a good season one throwback gag and also a period of reflection. After all this globe-trotting, is it finally time for Elliot (Jamie Dornan) and Helen (Danielle Macdonald) to pick a spot and settle down? And given the pace of these plot-twists, will they get the chance? Ellen E Jones
Russell Maliphant’s Vortex
9pm, BBC Four
Drip king Jackson Pollock’s artistic approaches are almost as famous as the abstract canvases he produced. Those intense gestural techniques have inspired the choreographer Russell Maliphant’s latest work. Filmed at Sadler’s Wells last year, the hour-long Vortex creates a hypnotic mood via fluid movement, ingenious lighting and a throbbing score. Graeme Virtue
Big Boys
10pm, Channel 4
It’s Christmas at Brent Uni, and the boys have two very different festive dilemmas. Jack buys a table tennis set from his tutor for £50 just to finally find out if he is gay, while Danny meets up with his estranged dad. Corinne, meanwhile, dumps her spoken-word poet boyfriend Spencer (thank God for that). HR
Film choice
The Founder, 5pm, AMC
John Lee Hancock’s fast food biopic has all the hallmarks of Oscar bait, but the fact that it was roundly ignored on its release speaks to just how satisfyingly weird it is. Michael Keaton plays Ray Kroc, the man who turned McDonald’s into a megabrand, and for much of the film he’s presented as a typical American wide-eyed striver. But if you know anything about Kroc, you’ll know the trail of destruction he left by chasing his dreams. The Founder, then, is a film where the lead is a hero and villain at the same time. It’s a complex knot of a movie, and all the better for it. Stuart Heritage
Live sport
WSL Football, 12.15pm, BBC Two Chelsea Women v Man United Women at Stamford Bridge.
