The Undeclared War
9pm, Channel 4
Espionage, malware and Simon Pegg doing his finest severe face characteristic as Peter Kosminsky’s cyber-thriller returns for a second season. When we left him, GCHQ director of operations Danny Patrick (Pegg) had found stunning secrets and techniques about each the inner workings of presidency and his personal marriage. Perhaps inevitably, issues are actually even worse. Saara (Hannah Khalique-Brown) has noticed irregularities in flows of knowledge that may solely imply one factor: a mole within the intelligence company. Plenty of scowling and working down empty corridors ensues, with Adrian Lester again because the prime minister and Siân Brooke becoming a member of as Danny’s spouse, a former MI6 member. Phil Harrison
The Great British Sewing Bee
8pm, BBC One
Sophie Willan hosts the artful competitors, which continues with every week devoted to color and prints. The briefs for every spherical showcase a variety of tastes and abilities, however that doesn’t imply it’s a cinch. “This is absolutely hideous,” says one contestant, inspecting their very own handiwork. Hannah J Davies
Murder 24/7
9pm, BBC One
Another sequence of this uncooked and grimly intimate present that takes viewers into the interior workings of actual homicide circumstances. This time, Jo is discovered useless with a knife wound and her husband, Mohamed, is arrested. But with no fingerprints on the presumed weapon and blood patterns not indicating a wrestle, one thing doesn’t add up. PH
Faithless
9pm, Sky Atlantic
The sequence concludes with a time-spanning double invoice. In the late Nineteen Seventies, actor Marianne (Frida Gustavsson) is having a torrid affair with director David (Gustav Lindh), which reignites after they work collectively at her theatre. Their more and more reckless shenanigans attain fever pitch at a birthday celebration. By 1980, Marianne is divorcing her husband when a tense night-time assembly ends in tragedy. Ali Catterall
Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques
9pm, Quest
Season two of a pleasantly lackadaisical actuality present, and Vegas – plus his finest mate Bev and girlfriend Vikki – has a brand new antiques store to suit out, an electrical van and desires of taking the enterprise on-line. Meanwhile, the infinite want for brand new inventory prompts a visit to Anglesey, and one other haggling match with fearsome veteran Trish. Jack Seale
Film selection
The Pillow Book (Peter Greenaway, 1996), 1.10am, Film4
Peter Greenaway discovered excellent supply materials for his perennial obsessions with artwork, intercourse and dying (with a aspect order of lists) within the titular pocket book penned by Sei Shōnagon, a woman within the imperial courtroom of late-900s Japan. In this exquisitely fashionable drama, Sei’s present-day counterpart is mannequin Nagiko (Vivian Wu), who will get sexual gratification from calligraphers writing on her physique. Then she begins a torrid affair with British translator Jerome (Ewan McGregor) and finds a really literary method to take revenge on the writer who destroyed her father. Simon Wardell
Live sport
The Hundred girls’s cricket: MI London v Sunrisers Leeds, 2.30pm, BBC Two Southern Brave v Welsh Fire is on Wednesday at 2.15pm.
The Hundred males’s cricket: MI London v Sunrisers Leeds, 6pm, BBC Two Southern Brave v Welsh Fire is on Wednesday at 6pm.
