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Atomic

9pm, Sky Atlantic
More full-throttle action with Max (Alfie Allen) and JJ (Shazad Latif) as they are ordered by the cartel to transport the uranium through Syria. But the unlikely new partners in crime each have secrets: Max has been told his girlfriend’s life is at risk if he doesn’t deliver; and Syria holds a lot of troubling family memories for the mysterious JJ. Meanwhile, Samira Wiley’s CIA officer, Cassie, is hot on their tail. Hollie Richardson

The Dog House

8pm, Channel 4
Mushy the Maltese cross, Fox the fluffy pomeranian and Narla the blind boxer are all looking for new owners in the most heartwarming animal show on telly. Who will go home with the Rev Alex and Carrie to fill their empty nest? HR

The Hotel Inspector

8pm, Channel 5
To the heart of the Forest of Dean, where eccentric pub landlord Phil’s obsession with pies is putting a crimp on his holiday accommodation business. Bright of eye and floral of blouse, Alex Polizzi breezes in with simple fixes to turn crappy into chic. The first things to go: the large colour photographs of pies above every bed. Jack Seale

Tonight: How to Keep Your Money Safe?

8.30pm, ITV1
With a lack of curricular financial education and so many ways of losing money through bad decisions, scams and factors beyond our control, no wonder millions of people in the UK say they have no confidence with money. Ruth Dodsworth finds out how we can protect ourselves. HR

Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild

9pm, Channel 5
It’s an unusually comfy billet for Fogle this week: former corporate exec Yidan has spent the last four years turning her patch of remote farmland in northern Thailand into a homely retreat. Between mucking in with chores and chasing chickens, he hears why the 34-year-old from China saw the pandemic as an opportunity to start anew. Graeme Virtue

Night Coppers

9pm, More4
Even in apparently genteel Brighton, things get lively after dark. This series rides shotgun with the city’s night patrol, which in this episode demonstrates a combination of sensitivity and toughness. On the one hand, they deal carefully with a potential suicide. But there’s also a manhunt in the aftermath of a crowbar attack. Phil Harrison

Film choice

Delightful … Mercedes Ruehl (left), Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges in The Fisher King.
Photograph: AJ Pics/Alamy

The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam, 1991), 3.05pm, Sky Cinema Greats
Terry Gilliam’s most romantic drama may well be his best. After New York radio shock jock Jack (Jeff Bridges) inspires a mass shooting, his life falls apart. Then he meets Parry (Robin Williams), a mentally ill down-and-out on a quest for the holy grail – and the heart of the klutzy Lydia (Amanda Plummer). Because Parry’s wife was killed in the massacre, Jack seeks redemption by helping him with both wishes. Comedy and fantasy mingle delightfully, while Mercedes Ruehl is on Oscar-winning form as Jack’s long-suffering girlfriend. Simon Wardell

Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940), 4.30pm, Talking Pictures TV
Joan Fontaine delivers a perfectly calibrated rabbit-in-the-headlights performance in Alfred Hitchcock’s first US film, a fervid adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s gothic mystery. A whirlwind romance with the brooding Maxim (Laurence Olivier) doesn’t prepare the second Mrs de Winter (Fontaine) for life at his Cornish stately pile, Manderley, where the memory of his drowned wife is sustained by the forbidding, fetishistic housekeeper Mrs Danvers (Judith Anderson). SW

Reality (Tina Satter, 2023), 9pm, Film4
A verbatim dramatisation of an FBI interview doesn’t sound like a ripsnorter, but Tina Satter’s 2023 ripped-from-the-headlines drama is genuinely gripping. National Security Agency linguist Reality Winner (Sydney Sweeney) comes home to be faced by federal agents – led by Josh Hamilton’s Garrick and Marchánt Davis’s Taylor – who want to talk to her about the leak of classified information about Russian interference in US elections. Redacted dialogue is represented imaginatively by characters simply vanishing, but it is Sweeney’s gradual disintegration in the face of the evidence that is the most compelling. SW

Live sport

International football, Kazakhstan v Wales, 2.45pm, BBC One A World Cup qualifier. Followed by Luxembourg v Northern Ireland at 7.30pm on BBC Three.

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