Dispatches: Undercover Ambulance – NHS in Chaos
9pm, Channel 4
In this startling documentary, a member of an NHS ambulance crew secretly films his team during the winter. He claims that people don’t realise exactly how bad the reality behind the headlines is, and the president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Adrian Boyle, says there were “most likely 300 to 500 excess deaths each week” during the period that this was filmed. Hollie Richardson
Dragons’ Den
8pm, BBC One
The Dragons weigh up a plastic-free soap brand, a micro-campervan manufacturer and a football trading card board game created by a teenage entrepreneur. During one pitch, a Dragon claims to be the “most excited” they have been in their time on the show. Micha Frazer-Carroll
Crufts 2023
8pm, Channel 4
Clare Balding is joined by Radzi Chinyanganya and Sophie Morgan for all the action from day one of the canine bonanza. First to compete are the gun dogs, so come for the cute spaniel faces and stay for their impeccable skills. Last year, a flat-coated retriever won best in show, but who will be in the running this year? Hannah Verdier
The Apprentice
9pm, BBC One
They have already been savaged by children, so how will Alan Sugar’s candidates fare with animals? Yes, it’s the dog food challenge – a task that should be so simple, and yet so much can go wrong. While one team creates its signature dish, the branding teams kick off something of a dogfight. HV
Funny Woman
9pm, Sky Max
Sophie is like a Bridget Jones of the 60s as she wallows around her flat wrapped in a duvet listening to Nico (“Today for entertainment I watched a fly lay eggs on a sausage”). The BBC has sacked her for having a “potty mouth”, but can the sitcom go on without her? HR
Murder in the Pacific
9pm, BBC Two
“Overseas organisations, foreign countries, they were all possible suspects.” The New Zealand authorities’ investigation into the 1985 bombing of Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior continues this week. Swiss campervanners Alain and Sophie Turenge immediately raise police suspicions, before a nuclear link is identified. Danielle De Wolfe
Film choice
Room (Lenny Abrahamson, 2015), 12.10am, Film4
Lead actor Brie Larson won this film’s only Oscar – and well deserved it was, too. But plaudits should also go to the director, Abrahamson, and the writer, Emma Donoghue (adapting her own novel), for making a story largely set in one small room so dramatically fulfilling. Larson plays Joy – abducted, locked up and subject to abuse by a man, “Old Nick”, for seven years. She now has a five-year-old son, Jack (the superb Jacob Tremblay), whom she tries to shield from the horror of their situation. Intimate by necessity, it is heart-tugging, claustrophobic stuff. Simon Wardell
