Alone
Sunday, 9pm, Channel 4
“I’m completely butt-naked in the forest and I’ve just seen some bear scat. I think I’m losing my mind.” On the bright side, it might not have been a bear. This new adventure contest (adapted from a US template) – which looks to test its participants almost to destruction – is set in an area of rural Canada that we’re told is also home to numerous cougars and wolves. Armed only with GoPro cameras and 10 survival items of their choosing, contestants are dumped in the wilderness – and the last participant to bail wins £100k. Very quickly, one contender contrives to bury an axe in his own leg – but the others fare little better, struggling with fire, food and assorted wildlife. Phil Harrison
Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer NY
9pm, Sky Documentaries
It began with a head found in a refuse bag. Other body parts were discovered elsewhere, all carefully washed. This sensitive and sober series tells the awful story of the serial killer who stalked New York’s LGBTQ+ community in the early 1990s. But what unfolds is a more generalised history of alienation and “queer-bashing” – and an embattled community’s response to it. It’s also a story of secrecy – some of the victims were “outed” by their own murders. Heartbreaking and fascinating. PH
Levison Wood: Walking With Orangutans
8pm, Channel 4
A nature series with a polemical edge as explorer Wood tracks down some of the planet’s most elusive creatures and investigates the reasons for their scarcity. Spoiler alert: invariably, humanity is to blame. However, this underpinning sadness and anger intensifies Wood’s encounters with animals – in this first episode, orangutans. PH
World on Fire
9pm, BBC One
The gripping drama continues to probe the tiny personal stories behind the grand, sweeping narrative of the second world war. This week, Rajib’s dilemma becomes more acute: will his conscience allow him to continue to serve the British empire? Meanwhile, back in Manchester, Kasia takes on an assignment with troubling moral implications. PH
Crazy Rich Agents: Selling Dream Homes
9pm, BBC Two
Commission impossible? This series set in the UK’s apparently unsinkable luxury property market tasks five novice brokers with closing lucrative mega-deals over the “killing season” of summer. In the opener, we get to know fast-talking Aly, ex-care home worker Georgie and youthful Krish. Graeme Virtue
A Spy Among Friends
9pm, ITV1
Trust is thin on the ground in the penultimate episode: if MI5’s DG himself, Sir Roger Hollis, really is a traitor, then all bets are off. As Elliott and Lily chase Sir Anthony Blunt for answers, Angleton realises he’s been played like a Stradivarius by Philby and races to salvage his reputation. Ali Catterall
Film choice
Control (Anton Corbijn, 2007), 9.45am, 2am, Sky Cinema Greats
This mournful homage to Ian Curtis looks even better now than it did when it was first released in 2007 – and it looked fantastic then. It’s primarily down to great central performances: from Samantha Morton as Curtis’s wife Deborah and – particularly – from Sam Riley as Curtis himself, doing his own singing and channelling Curtis’s awkward-squad appeal to perfection. Director Anton Corbijn summons up the spirit of late-70s England in gloomy black-and-white – a perfect complement to a story that’s only grown more resonant with time. Andrew Pulver
Live sport
Championship Football: Leeds United v Cardiff City, Sun, 2.15pm, Sky Sports Main Event Relegated Leeds welcome Cardiff to Elland Road.
Community Shield Football: Manchester City v Arsenal, 3.15pm, ITV1 The curtain-raiser to the English season from Wembley.
Netball World Cup: The Gold Medal Match, 5pm, BBC Two The final, from Cape Town.
