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Hollie Richardson, Jack Seale, Ali Catterall and Ellen E Jones

TV tonight: Jodie Foster’s no-nonsense investigator joins the True Detective canon

Jodie Foster and Kali Reis in True Detective: Night Country.
A long, cold night … Jodie Foster and Kali Reis in True Detective: Night Country. Photograph: HBO/2023 Home Box Office Inc.

True Detective: Night Country

10pm, Sky Atlantic

Jodie Foster is on top form in the latest series of the hit crime anthology, set during Alaska’s longest nights. Foster is no-nonsense detective (and ever so slightly frazzled single stepmum to a teenager) Liz Danvers, who leads her team of ice-cool Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) and eager-to-please whippersnapper Peter Prior (Finn Bennett) in investigating the eerie disappearance of eight men at a research station – leaving only a severed tongue behind. Hollie Richardson

Michael Mosley: Secrets of Your Big Shop

8pm, Channel 4

Is your diet making you ill? Dr Michael Mosley arrives in Birmingham, where a married couple, who both have troublesome guts, claim to follow a healthy lifestyle – until an ambush at the supermarket checkout proves otherwise. Plus, the other big question: are the TikTok generation eating too many eggs? Jack Seale

University Challenge

8.30pm, BBC Two

Having survived a nail-biting tie-break against Trinity College, Cambridge, Manchester University triumphantly return to face Birkbeck, University of London, at the quarter-final stage. Once again, Amol Rajan is asking the questions, including some about Krautrock bands, an animated sitcom, French playwrights and the subject of “potatoes in art”. Ali Catterall

Silent Witness

9pm, BBC One

A body washes up by the Thames, but is it a suicide, as initially suspected, or something more sinister? Nikki and Jack have new impetus to work the case fast, in the form of DI Warren Bull (John Thomson). Meanwhile, a cantankerous criminology professor gets embroiled in a campus conspiracy after interviewing for a promotion. Ellen E Jones

David Caves and Emilia Fox in Silent Witness.
Asking the right questions … David Caves and Emilia Fox in Silent Witness. Photograph: Kevin Baker/BBC Studios

Streets of Gold: Mumbai

9pm, BBC Two

“It’s a crazy city … but it makes you believe.” Mumbai’s wealthiest continue to invite the cameras into their lives, starting with billionaire entrepreneur Anupam Mittal – an investor on India’s version of Dragon’s Den. We also meet a couple planning a £30,000 wedding and a flight attendant hoping to become a reality TV star. HR

Love Island: All Stars

9pm, ITV1

In a desperate attempt to emerge from the ashes of the last few seasons’ dwindling ratings, Maya Jama hosts this special edition of the reality dating show that rounds up familiar faces – all of whom are being kept under wraps until launch night – and dumps them in a South African villa together. HR

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