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Hollie Richardson, Henry Wong, Ali Catterall, Hannah Verdier and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: Stacey Dooley goes on a genetic quest

Stacey Dooley chats with Janet in DNA Family Secrets
Gene genie … Stacey Dooley with Janet in DNA Family Secrets. Photograph: BBC/Minnow Films

DNA Family Secrets

9pm, BBC Two

The ubiquitous Stacey Dooley returns with a series in which she meets people who want answers about their genetics. She is assisted by the geneticist Prof Turi King, social workers and doctors, and DNA technology is used to find missing or unknown relatives. Tonight, Stacey meets 59-year-old Janet, who has always wondered if a rumour about her father having a secret daughter while he was a prisoner of war in Austria is true. Hollie Richardson

Between the Covers

7.30pm, BBC Two

Sara Cox is back with her starry book club – including crime writer Richard Osman – to review a new title (Candice Carty-Williams’s People Person) and bring along their own favourite reads. Everyone is impossibly nice about the books, but it’s an undeniably cosy way to spend half an hour. Henry Wong

Glow Up: Britain’s Next Make-Up Star

8pm, BBC Three

Makeup that stays on during a workout at the gym is the theme for the first task in the return of this Maya Jama-fronted competition. The 10 aspiring makeup artists need to create a social media campaign for a fitness brand – without breaking into a sweat. HR

The Great British Sewing Bee
9pm, BBC One

Summertime and the sewing is still pretty difficult, actually. This week, contestants have to craft a milkmaid-style day dress (think gingham, florals and puffy sleeves) and a demure two-piece coord. They’re also tasked with the type of challenge that makes this essential viewing: refashioning hammocks and macrame into summer-ready clothes. HW

Raised By Wolves

9pm, Sky Atlantic

Raised By Wolves
Head-spinning … Raised By Wolves. Photograph: HBO

The head-spinning sci-fi continues. While Mother (Amanda Collin) loses her grip on the human colony, Marcus (Travis Fimmel) is captured, and Sue (Niamh Algar) turns full Joan of Arc – and something a little more wooden besides. And, in one of the more disturbing outcomes, Tempest (Jordan Loughran) is about to give birth beside the acid sea. Ali Catterall

Inside No 9

10pm, BBC Two

Sophie Okonedo is the latest victim of Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s disturbing imaginations. On first look, Kat (Okonedo) is a detective inspector who will stop at nothing to find a missing boy, but it emerges her cliched hard-drinking single-mum character is just a puppet in writer Ezra’s (Pemberton’s) TV drama. Hannah Verdier

Film choice

Michelle Williams and Mark Wahlberg, surrounded by press, in All the Money in the World
Hard-pressed … Michelle Williams and Mark Wahlberg in All the Money in the World. Photograph: Scott Free Productions/Allstar

All the Money in the World (Ridley Scott, 2017), 1.05am, Film4
For those missing the Roy family’s torrid saga, here’s a fascinating, fact-based exposé of the moral vacuum that comes with extreme wealth. When John Paul Getty III, grandson of the US billionaire J Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Italy in 1973, the old miser (a chilly Christopher Plummer) refuses to pay the large ransom. Aghast at his inhumanity, John Paul’s mother Gail Harris (Michelle Williams, engrossing as ever) and Getty’s ambivalent dealmaker Chace (Mark Wahlberg) try to keep her teenage son alive. Simon Wardell

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