In My Own Words: Hanif Kureishi
10.40pm, BBC One
Writer Hanif Kureishi’s world changed on Boxing Day 2022 when a fall left him needing 24-hour care. In this moving film, he ponders his life before and after his accident. While he seems admirably unsentimental about almost everything, Kureishi is in reflective mood, talking about his new working practices, the paradoxes in his celebrated 80s work and being thrown out of a mosque for being friends with Salman Rushdie. Phil Harrison
Jamie Oliver: What to Eat This Week
8pm, Channel 4
With harvest season upon us, this one is all about the preserves, whether pickled, dried or frozen – think jams, chutneys, blackberries and chillies – to be unearthed again in time for Christmas. Meanwhile, there are hearty soups and warming stews to be had. Plus a scrumptious tutti-frutti pear tarte tatin. Ali Catterall
Mozart: Rise of a Genius
9pm, BBC Two
“The only way to make real money is to tour.” Words that any modern musician would recognise – the main difference being that Mozart hit the road (with his dad) when he was eight. This series blends dramatisations with talking-head testimony from Richard E Grant, Sheila Hancock, Stephen Fry and many more to tell the story of a musical prodigy. PH
My Mum, Your Dad
9pm, ITV1
Davina McCall returns at the helm of the second series of this good-natured dating show, which connects older people who have been nominated by their grownup children. Once again, as the single parents gather at a rural retreat, the kids watch as their elders forge connections and get more intimate than is necessarily comfortable. PH
The Wives
9pm, Channel 5
Jo Joyner, Angela Griffin and Tamzin Outhwaite are the spirited leads in this darkly comic six-parter about an extended family who holiday together in Malta each year. When their brother-in-law turns up with a new squeeze who is the doppelganger of his supposedly late wife, the rosé-fuelled trio turn sleuths. Graeme Virtue
Aaron Hernandez Uncovered
11.10pm, U&W
“A thug that got lucky”, a talent who fell in with the wrong crowd, or something else? This four-part series tracks the downfall of NFL player Aaron Hernandez, who died in prison while serving time for murder. There is no shortage of talking heads stepping up to the mic, including his fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins. Hannah Verdier
Film choice
Once Upon a Time in China, 12.55pm, Sky Cinema Greats
This 1991 Hong Kong period drama kicked off a series of popular films that mix widescreen action with late-19th-century Chinese history to entertaining effect. Rising film star Jet Li plays Wong Fei-hung, a real-life martial arts master caught in the middle of geopolitical manoeuvrings between his nation and the encroaching powers of Britain and the US. But the power plays are less interesting than the wood-splintering fight scenes – the one with ladders is a doozy. Simon Wardell
