Instagram’s Worst Con Artist

9pm, ITV1

This bleak two-part documentary tells the story of Australian Belle Gibson, who turned an Instagram sensation in 2013 after launching a clean-eating app in response to a said prognosis of terminal mind most cancers. Her followers marvelled at how effectively she seemed, however there was a motive for that – her most cancers was a fiction. A narrative of harmful betrayal: not solely did Gibson monetise her lie however she additionally turned actual most cancers sufferers away from the therapy they wanted. Phil Harrison

Wildlife Rescue

8pm, Channel 4

Extra from the group at South Essex Wildlife Hospital, treating these injured critters who’ve fallen foul of encroaching urbanisation, and sending them, patched-up, again into the wild. The sufferers on this version embody a trapped badger, a fox cub together with his head caught in a rusty wheel and a few orphaned nice tit chicks, discovered nesting in a wall-mounted ashtray. Ali Catterall

Homicide, They Hope

9pm, BBC Two

This knowingly daft spoof crime drama was first proven on Gold in 2021 however is now getting a primetime BBC airing. Sian Gibson and Johnny Vegas star as Gemma and Terry, a pair of hapless non-public investigators who discover themselves in possession of a rabbit figurine that can also be desired by a shadowy crime gang. PH

Taskmaster

9pm, Channel 4

Splattering a human pigeon is all in a day’s work for the sensible Sophie Willan on this episode, proving why she is likely one of the Taskmaster greats. However there’s stiff competitors from Joanne McNally and her site visitors cone and John Robins’ in-depth homage to Little Alex Horne. Elsewhere, Nick Mohammed is caught underneath a mattress. Hannah Verdier

Joe & Katherine’s Discount Holidays

10pm, Channel 4

Joe Wilkinson and Katherine Ryan go to St Michael the Archangel, in Booton, close to Norwich. {Photograph}: Channel 4

That is an austerity vacation sequence with the deal with comedy, as budget-conscious Joe Wilkinson takes a sequence of breaks with Katherine Ryan, whose tastes are barely dearer. To start out off, they’re in Norfolk, sampling various couple’s remedy, falling in rivers and “champing” in a church. In opposition to all the chances, they appear to be having enjoyable. PH

Johnson & Knopfler’s Music Legends: Sir Tom Jones

10pm, Sky Arts

AC/DC’s Brian Johnson and Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits have lived storied lives in rock music. This sequence sees them meet equally seasoned company to commerce knowledge. Right here, Tom Jones seems to be again on every part from the intense adulation he drawn to his friendship with Elvis Presley. PH

Movie selection

Removed from the Madding Crowd (John Schlesinger, 1967), 11am, Film4

Julie Christie as Bathsheba in Removed from the Madding Crowd. {Photograph}: MGM/Studiocanal/Allstar

Thomas Hardy’s novels are sometimes high quality supply materials for movies or TV drama – filled with romance, incident and interval element – and John Schlesinger’s 1967 adaptation isn’t any exception. In a splendidly evoked Nineteenth-century rural world of harvests, people songs and gala’s, the independent-minded Bathsheba (a luminous Julie Christie) has inherited a farm from an uncle. She can also be, respectively, pined over, wooed and lusted after by reliable shepherd Gabriel (Alan Bates), ageing landowner Boldwood (Peter Finch) and dissolute cavalry sergeant Troy (Terence Stamp). Simon Wardell

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