9pm, Sky Atlantic
Mike White’s satirical takedown of entitled, wealthy (mostly) Americans may be running along formulaic lines now, but it is still great fun as the holidaymakers’ dark secrets start to emerge as the third series continues. The most pressing disclosure involves financier Tim Ratliff (Jason Isaacs), whose increasingly stressed phone calls to his former business partner reveal he faces prison back in the US. Meanwhile, girlfriends Laurie, Jaclyn and Kate (Carrie Coon, Michelle Monaghan and Lesley Bibb) continue stabbing each other in the back. But real life from outside the pampered Thai retreat is about to make itself shockingly felt, and a face from the past reappears.
9pm, BBC One
The latest episode of the violent, Bradford-set crime drama begins with a flashback to 2001 and a back story about why Riaz (Vikash Bhai) decided to embrace his dark side. Riaz must have hit the gym and protein shakes since then because back then he was a studious and puny-looking youngster, who, when saved from a beating by some local racist thugs, told his older brother Harry: “I wish I could fight like you.” Back to the present day and the brothers realise that they must pull together because someone is trying to ignite a gang war by attacking Riaz’s nightclub. Staz Nair, Aysha Kala, Nina Singh, Danyal Ismail and Elizabeth Berrington star.
9pm, BBC Two
A timely new documentary series by the award-winning filmmaker Norma Percy, whose previous work includes Putin vs The West and, more pertinently in this context, her 2005 series Israel and the Arabs: Elusive Peace. Percy’s new series chronicles the decisions that have shaped the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over the two decades since 2005, featuring interviews with key figures including one-time US secretaries of state Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Condoleezza Rice, president Obama’s ex-chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, and Sir Tony Blair and Ehud Olmert, former prime ministers of the UK and Israel, respectively.
9pm, Channel 4
“I think we’ll get further if we stop arguing,” says one of the participants in this now concluding refugee “experiment” as they make their way across the French Alps and head to Calais. That could go for the series as a whole, which seemingly didn’t change any of their minds although it did make some of them realise how lucky they are after meeting adults and children who are living in terrible conditions. In the final leg of their journey, they cross the Channel in a rubber dinghy. Dave wonders why anyone would want to come to a Britain where “it’s raining all the time and a pint of beer is nine quid”. A question of perspective, I guess.
9pm, U&W
Katherine Ryan’s teenage daughter Violet is the breakout star of this latest series – for me at least as I recognise some of the same traits in my own teenage daughter. “She won’t shut up about her tour,” Violet says of her mother’s upcoming 10-month UK and European comedy tour, while Ryan herself tries to lay down some ground rules between Bobby and Violet for her absence – including a phone ban after 9.30pm. Good luck with that. Meanwhile, she visits her old friend Aisling Bea, who has also recently given birth, and dashes off for an appearance on Vogue Williams’ new podcast, Never Live It Down.
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