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Tommy: The Good. The Bad. The Fury

9pm, BBC Three
Tommy Fury – half-brother of Tyson – has had “the worst year of my life”. Last August, Molly-Mae Hague publicly announced their breakup five years after meeting on Love Island and having baby Bambi together. It forced him to reassess his relationship with alcohol; the couple are now reunited. Good for him! But this fly-on-the-wall series is pretty uneventful until things finally spice up with a hilariously pathetic verbal spat between men at a pre-match press conference. Hollie Richardson

The Big Pound Shop Swap

8pm, Channel 4
More from Denise Van Outen’s series in which she examines the pointless conundrum: could you swap the luxury supermarket for a weekly shop at the discount store? The Osbornes put it to the test this week, and they’ve got a big kids’ party to buy supplies for. Uh oh. HR

The Great British Sewing Bee

9pm, BBC One
“How hard can it be? Just make things smaller …” The remaining sewers are optimistic for children’s week as they start by making dungarees. For the final task, they need to create an outfit inspired by what the young models want to be when they grow up – including a beekeeper, a politician and a circus ringmaster. HR

In Flight

9pm, Channel 4
The hairbuns are ginormous, the lipstick undefeatable and the anxiety never-ending as this hammy flight attendant thriller continues. Jo (Katherine Kelly) is busy juggling blackmailers’ demands and efforts to get her son out of prison when she finds out she is due to become a grandmother. Hannah J Davies

Pompeii: Life in the City With Dan Snow

9pm, Channel 5

The grit and the glory … Dan Snow and Kate Lister head to Pompeii. Photograph: 5 Broadcasting Limited/Exec Prod Bill Locke

The final episode of a series that has proved that life in the Roman city was anything but idyllic. Dan Snow and Kate Lister explore law and order, Pompeii style. Muggings and street fights were surprisingly common, despite horrific punishments that included crucifixion and being placed in a sack full of wild animals. Phil Harrison

Resident Alien

10pm, Sky Max
After his lunar jailbreak, Harry (Alan Tudyk) is back on Earth but stuck in doughy human form with zero access to his alien superpowers – hardly ideal when there is a killer Mantid on the loose. But while season four of this offbeat sci-fi has ramped up the peril, there is thankfully still room for slapstick and general silliness. Graeme Virtue

Film choice

And Then We Danced (Levan Akin, 2019), 1.50am, Channel 4
“There is no sex in Georgian dance!” The strictures of tradition – choreographically and sexually – come down heavily on Merab (an affecting Levan Gelbakhiani), a student dancer at the Georgian National Ensemble, where a “masculine” performance style is the rule. His attraction to new boy/rival Irakli (Bachi Valishvili), which may be mutual, further complicates his feelings about his art and life. Levan Akin’s 2019 film – do check out his more recent trans drama Crossing – is a tender, troubling coming-of-age tale set in a world where difference is only tolerated at the margins of society. Simon Wardell

Hi, Mom! (Brian De Palma, 1970), 3.10am, Talking Pictures TV

Robert De Niro and Jennifer Salt in Hi, Mom! Photograph: TCD/Prod.DB/Alamy

This early Brian De Palma effort from 1970 shows the New York-based director playing around with some of his influences (Godard, Hitchcock) in a lively if slightly scattergun satire. Robert De Niro – himself not fully formed as an actor – plays a voyeuristic film-maker trying to make a movie by spying on his neighbours in the apartment block opposite. This devolves into a bizarre mockumentary about a radical theatre group staging an experience called Be Black, Baby, which features paint and an education in racial inequality. SW

Live sport

The Hundred Cricket: Trent Rockets Women v Manchester Originals Women 2.45pm, BBC Two. The men’s match follows at 6pm.

Tennis: US Open 10.15pm, Sky Sports Main Event
Day one of the mixed doubles competition.

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