Heat
9pm, Channel 5
There is something about Danny Dyer’s cockney-geezer charisma that makes this otherwise mediocre four-part thriller worth a try. In his first role since leaving EastEnders after nearly a decade in Walford, he plays Steve, a British ex-pat in Australia who takes his family for their annual reunion with his old friend Brad (Darren McMullen) on Brad’s grand estate. However, it seems that everyone is keeping a secret; Steve’s wife and daughter suspect that he is having an affair again. Hollie Richardson
Brave Britain With Fergal Keane
8pm, BBC One
“Where is the hope in today’s Britain?” is the question the BBC correspondent Fergal Keane asks in this heartwarming documentary. He revisits some of the people he met more than 20 years ago in the country’s most hard-pressed communities, including Glasgow shipyard workers and farmers in Cornwall. HR
Bake Off: The Professionals
8pm, Channel 4
“I feel like my face is the same colour as the raspberry puree!” The spin-off that puts expert pastry chefs through the wringer continues, with the remaining five teams asked to come up with inventive takes on peach melba and the humble tart. What could top that? Perhaps 160 choux buns inspired by “mad science”. Graeme Virtue
Stories from the National Portrait Gallery
8pm, Sky Arts
To promote the recently reopened, renovated NPG, Kate Bryan conducts a three-part tour that forms a history of portraiture. After a long chat about the gallery itself, it kicks off with the painting that served as a dating-app profile pic for Henry VII, before bowing to the master, Hans Holbein. Jack Seale
Joe Swash: Teens in Care
9pm, BBC One
Joe Swash’s mother brought up him and his sister single-handedly after their father died. After they left home, she became a foster parent to children including Daniel, who remains close to the family and is now starting university. Swash speaks to his mum, children in care, MPs and campaigners about why child social care is at breaking point. HR
Sky Coppers
9pm, Channel 4
Be careful what you get up to in the West Midlands. A police unit is watching from above, deploying drones to – in this episode – recover cash thrown from a suspected drug dealer’s upstairs window and uncover a giant cannabis grow house. Cosy docusoap or Orwellian horror story? You decide. Ellen E Jones
