The Death of Bunny Munro
9pm, Sky Atlantic
Matt Smith is at his most grotesque in an unsettling drama based on Nick Cave’s scandalous novel of the same name (Cave also executive produces). It’s set in Brighton in 2003, with Smith playing Bunny Munro – a hedonistic sex-addict salesman who manages to charm many around him while enraging others. After the death of his wife, Libby (Sarah Greene), he takes in his sweet, curious nine-year-old kid Bunny Jr (Rafael Mathé). But when social services call in to a flat littered with drugs, booze and cigarettes – plus a naked woman in the hallway – Bunny legs it with his son and together they embark on a wild road trip across southern England. Hollie Richardson
Cancer Detectives: Finding the Cures
9pm, Channel 4
Prof Sarah Blagden is developing a lung cancer prevention vaccine. Richard Mair is researching hard-to-treat brain cancers. And Prof Caroline Dive is working on a type of blood test that can detect cancer before a scan does. This three-part series follows the three trailblazing scientists inside the “golden age of cancer research” – starting with Blagden, who treats retired navy veteran Trevor. HR
Celebrity Race Across the World
8pm, BBC One
We’ve now reached the midpoint – El Salvador. Despite a crackdown on gang violence, it’s still not advisable to travel after dark, so the teams must journey by day to their third checkpoint, Honduras. While Molly and Tyler cope with food poisoning, Dylan and Jackie visit a food market, and Roman opens up about coming off antidepressants. Ali Catterall
Classic Movies: The Story of Escape from New York
8pm, Sky Arts
It’s the turn of the dystopian action sci-fi film to get the Classic Movies treatment. Regular presenter Ian Nathan plus critics including Christina Newland and Stephen Armstrong muse on what makes John Carpenter’s 1981 film so enduringly cool. But surely the answer is obvious: Kurt Russell in an eye-patch. Ellen E Jones
Play for Today: Big Winners
9pm, Channel 5
Paul Copley and Sue Johnston in Play for Today: Big Winners. Photograph: Joel Pammenter & Karl Livingstone/5 Broadcasting Limited/LA Productions
This commendable revival of the Play for Today format continues. There’s a distinct air of kitchen-sink drama to the second piece, which stars Sue Johnston and Paul Copley as a couple whose happily frugal life is thrown into turmoil by a lottery win. What unspoken grievances and suppressed emotions may the money trigger? Phil Harrison
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK
9pm, BBC Three
Alma’s Not Normal creator Sophie Willan is the fabulous guest at the penultimate stage of drag race. She’ll be helping RuPaul to coach and then judge the comedy roast challenge, along with funnyman of the moment Alan Carr. It’s a famously tricky final hurdle. HR
Film choice
Amadeus (Miloš Forman, 1984), 11.50pm, Sky Cinema Greats
Tom Hulce as Amadeus. Photograph: Sky
The upcoming Sky TV adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s play has its work cut out to make the same splash as Miloš Forman’s 1984 film – eight Oscars being the benchmark. This period drama about the rivalry between Vienna court composer Antonio Salieri (a pitch-perfect F Murray Abraham) and newly arrived musical prodigy “Wolfie” Mozart (Tom Hulce, forever vivace) is a joy – dramatically, visually and musically. It also reveals with great wit that genius isn’t synonymous with good character, and that history isn’t always written by the winners. Simon Wardell
Live sport
Women’s Champions League football: Chelsea v Barcelona 7.30pm, BBC Two. At Stamford Bridge.
