7.30pm, BBC One
An hour-long episode to mark the soap’s 40th birthday which contains, for the first time in the show’s history, a chance for viewers to vote on a story’s outcome. Yes, fans can decide whether Denise (Diane Parish) should choose between husband Jack Branning (Scott Maslen) and romantic rival Ravi Gulati (Aaron Thiara) – the result being revealed in tomorrow’s live episode. There’s also Grant Mitchell making one of his occasional revisits to Albert Square, where brother Phil is struggling with his mental health while his ex-wife Sharon is now dating his long-lost cousin Teddy Mitchell. All that and we discover the identity of Cindy Beale’s attacker.
8pm, Sky Arts
The easels are parked in front of a disused slate quarry in North Wales for the latest heat – and heat is the word as the sun beats down on the eight artists. “It’s quite ugly, isn’t it?” says judge Tai-Shan Schierenberg, observing the nearby abandoned slag heaps. “It’s also reminding me that I should redo my roof,” quips host Stephen Mangan as the painters (including a Brazilian chef and an artist specialising in Japanese wood-block printing) set down to work.
9pm, BBC One
Amanda’s downwards trajectory continues after her ex stops paying for the lease on her Tesla and she is forced to bicycle to her new job – sorry “collaboration” – at a kitchen shop. Warned by neighbour Mal (Samuel Anderson) that she’s not wearing a bike helmet, Lucy Punch’s wonderful comic monster replies: “If it’s a choice between brain damage and helmet hair, you know where I stand.” As usual it’s the one-liners and well-observed details that work best in this Motherland spin-off, as when Amanda’s mother Felicity (Joanna Lumley) turns up at her door saying: “Let me in, it smells of buses.”
9pm, ITV1
Meanwhile in what you might call “Alphyland”, or 50s Cambridgeshire if you prefer, Rishi Nair’s new vicar is stunned to discover that a young woman he knows has gone missing. Soon after, an aspiring student journalist is found dead. Alphy and Geordie race to find answers to the two troubling mysteries.
9pm, Channel 4
Kazal and Eleena both grew up and lived in the West Midlands but have ended up all over the world for work. Now, after 14 years of living in Dubai, they have come home to Solihull to take on the challenge of restoring and massively extending a run-down house in a desirable street to create the ultimate hub for hosting family gatherings. But will their plans survive massive cost overruns, mistakes with building plans and having to live in a building site throughout a bitter winter? You know the score.
9.30pm, BBC One
After an uncertain start paying off that series one cliffhanger, Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli’s comedy thriller is settling down – if that’s the right word for Nic’s increasingly frazzled frame of mind. More hallucinations are in store for Cooper’s guilt-stricken character as she agrees to online couples therapy with Dan (Dustin Demri-Burns), worried that son Ollie (Lenny Rush) is developing Jeffrey Dahmer-like tendencies over his treatment of the family cat. An oddball creation for sure, but welcome for that.
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