Sunak v Starmer: The ITV Debate
9pm, ITV
It’s time for prime minister Rishi Sunak and opposition chief Keir Starmer to go head-to-head within the first televised debate within the run-up to the final election on 4 July. ITV Information presenter Julie Etchingham will host the published and fireplace questions in entrance of a stay viewers. Sunak and Starmer have stated they’re trying ahead to the talk however, given the considerably bumpy begin to campaigning, this might effectively be an excruciating hour of TV. Hollie Richardson
The Nice British Stitching Bee
9pm, BBC One
Patrick Grant and Esme Younger set challenges based mostly round journey as the stitching contest continues. Nautical paraphernalia is repurposed into luggage and there’s a made-to-measure problem involving outfits impressed by the French Riviera. Healthful enjoyable. Phil Harrison
24 Hours in Police Custody
9pm, Channel 4
A Luton man is ambushed on his doorstep, shot thrice and hacked with a machete – earlier than his attackers flee the scene in a getaway automotive they later set fireplace to. Miraculously, he survives. However, with no witnesses, Bedfordshire detectives are counting on one potential clue: a cumbersome gold chain with a Tasmanian satan hooked up … Ali Catterall
Into the Amazon With Robson Inexperienced
9pm, Channel 5
The concluding episode of this cheerful South American travelogue sees Robson traversing the Anavilhanas archipelago – an outcrop of islands and lagoons that is stuffed with uncommon and spectacular wildlife. He additionally learns to fish with a bow and arrow and meets an alarmingly massive child caiman. PH
Queenie
10pm, Channel 4
“You’re an excessive amount of, Queenie!” This phrase is on the coronary heart of this humorous, good comedy based mostly on Candice Carty-Williams’s novel. Queenie is a Jamaican British twentysomething journalist navigating a variety of cultural contexts and courting a white boy (“Why is that this household so afraid of seasoning?”) – however her kinfolk have very completely different concepts about her issues. Dionne Brown is a pointy, heat lead; Sally Phillips and Joseph Marcell additionally star. PH
Tokyo Vice
10.40pm, BBC One
Ansel Elgort’s floppy-haired American journalist continues his investigations into the yakuza because the second season of this intriguing thriller approaches its endgame. Right here, he’s taking a break and heading again to Missouri – however the story received’t go away him alone for lengthy as a dying inside Chihara-kai causes turmoil and factors the investigation in a brand new path. PH
Movie alternative
Aquarela (Victor Kossakovsky, 2018), 11.35pm, BBC 4
He has subsequently made research of a pig and concrete, however Victor Kossakovsky’s 2018 documentary has a extra diffuse topic: water. From ice to ocean, waterfall to hurricane, this near-wordless movie is an awestruck paean to the majesty and menace of our blue planet. When people do seem, they’re in peril or overwhelmed – in automobiles trapped within the ice or on a yacht battling stormy seas; a warning about our relationship with the pure world. However it’s additionally stunningly lovely, with waves that appear like molten tar and near-abstract blizzards of spray. Simon Wardell
The Blue Caftan (Maryam Touzani, 2022), 1am, Film4
Similar to Phantom Thread, Maryam Touzani’s delicate, touching drama makes use of the craft of dressmaking as a metaphor for the intertwined threads of affection and want. Taciturn Moroccan caftan-maker Halim (Saleh Bakri) and his extra outgoing spouse Mina (an distinctive Lubna Azabal) have a low-key however content material life, though he has occasional intercourse with males within the native hammam. Nevertheless, this unaddressed state of affairs faces disruption from Ayoub Missioui’s devoted new apprentice, Youssef, and Mina’s declining well being. SW
The Watermelon Lady (Cheryl Dunye, 1996), 2.50am, Channel 4
Cheryl Dunye’s groundbreaking 1996 work, the primary characteristic by a Black lesbian director, is an entire lot extra playful – and sexier – than its canonical standing would recommend. It’s a mock documentary/drama about Philadelphia video-shop employee and aspiring film-maker Cheryl (performed by Dunye), who decides to analysis the lifetime of a misplaced Black movie actor from the 30s identified just for demeaning “mammy” roles. With vox pops, comedian digressions, real-life chats with the likes of Camille Paglia and a romantic subplot that includes Guinevere Turner, it’s a freewheeling expertise however makes its political factors forcefully. SW