The BBC’s Towards Zero follows the scandalous life and loves of an adulterous tennis pro, and it’s slick from the get-go. Plus, Tom Hanks narrates epic nature show The Americas – and it’s Oscars night!

9pm, BBC OneChallengers meets Agatha Christie in the latest slick adaptation, which follows the aftermath of the scandal of adulterous pro tennis player Nevile Strange (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) – who holidays at his coastal family pile with his wife and ex-wife. At Gull’s Point, owned by the no-nonsense Lady Tressilian (Anjelica Huston), there are more guests and residents with grudges. Naturally, a murder is ahead. Hollie Richardson

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Welsh crime drama The One That Got Away is an addictive watch with a hotshot lead. Plus, Sabrina Carpenter will dazzle the stage at the 2025 Brits. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, BBC FourThis knotty Welsh crime drama opens with a nurse heading for a romantic weekend in Paris. She is later found dead in the woods, with a heart-knot carved into a nearby tree. Enter your new favourite no-nonsense detective: Ffion Lloyd (Elen Rhys). The hotshot is called back from Cardiff to team up with ex-partner (and lover!) DS Rick Sheldon (Richard Harrington), and the pair wonder if, based on a previous murder they solved, there is a copycat killer on the loose. Hollie Richardson

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The fascinating story of those who won’t stop searching for Nessie. Plus: Claudia Winkleman sits in for Graham Norton. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, BBC TwoIn 1961, the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau started monitoring the loch 24/7. By the 70s, a Japanese pop promoter, Yoshio Kou, led the International Loch Ness Monster Search Party. And 2023 saw the biggest Nessie hunt in more than 50 years. The beast has kept tourists coming for decades, and this documentary tracks the people who have been most obsessed with finding it. Hollie Richardson

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The Mad Men star plays a hotshot Hollywood producer going back to her Irish roots – and beyond – in Chris O’Dowd’s fun new show. Plus: a reboot of Bergerac. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, Sky Max

Chris O’Dowd (The IT Crowd, Bridesmaids) returns to his roots with this new creation: an offbeat Irish comedy drama with a strange sci-fi twist. The six-parter follows Wendy (Christina Hendricks of Mad Men fame), a hotshot Hollywood producer who returns to her rural home village, the fictional Drumbán, to make a movie. But when she reunites with the local doctor, Séamus (Paddy Considine), we see flashbacks to what happened more than two decades ago on millennium eve, when a light in the sky caused birds to drop dead around them in the woods. It’s kooky and fun, as the community gets involved with the movie production, and just the right amount of weird to keep it intriguing. Hollie Richardson

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The meticulous high-risk work carried out by hospital surgeons is shown in unflinching detail. Plus: is love hiding close to home in Amandaland? Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, BBC TwoNot one for the faint-hearted: it’s the return of the fly-on-the-wall hospital series that doesn’t flinch from showing every detail of the remarkable work carried out during high-risk surgeries. We’re in Edinburgh this time, where 21-year-old law student Sania has an inflamed pancreas and needs an auto-transplant – which involves removing it and reconstructing her digestive tract. It’s a complex procedure that has only been conducted in Scotland three times. Edge-of-your-seat stuff, if you can stomach it. Hollie Richardson

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Presenter James Blake finds there is a policing war raging online. Plus: a cold case gets a breakthrough. Here’s what to watch this evening

10.40pm, BBC One

After the identity of the social media influencer James Blake was stolen and used in scams, he made a documentary about it – last year’s Hunting the Catfish Crime Gang. So he is well placed to tackle another investigation, this time into how cyber sex crime has become an online policing war. But as he speaks to young people and experts, and travels across the globe in pursuit of answers, he is shocked to find that the “sextortion” picture is even darker than he imagined. Hollie Richardson

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World politicians give context to the current crisis in the Middle East. Plus: The White Lotus heats up. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, BBC TwoHillary Clinton, John Kerry, Tony Blair, Ehud Olmert and Salam Fayyad are some of the highest-level political figures to speak in Norma Percy’s all-encompassing series about the roots of the crisis that led to the attacks on 7 October 2023. It starts 20 years earlier, when Israeli settlers and armed forces were pulled out of the Gaza Strip, before Hamas won a shock election. The episode also features an interview with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, weeks before he was killed in July 2024. Hollie Richardson

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Tissues at the ready for Jon Pointing and Dylan Llewellyn’s emotional ending. Plus: another weepy conclusion for Miss Austen. Here’s everything to watch this evening

10pm, Channel 4

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Dope Girls is a gritty post-war story set in Soho’s underworld. Plus: Gaelic-language thriller An t-Eilean (The Island). Here’s what to watch this evening

9.15pm, BBC One

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Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder’s hit show Hacks has finally landed on Sky. Plus: Claudia Winkleman’s devilish quizshow. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, Sky MaxIf you’re late to the party, all three seasons of Hacks – one of the most lauded comedies in years, starring Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder – are on Now/Sky, and the show is playing from the start on Max. We’re halfway through season one this week, and after writer Ava (Einbinder) has a wild night in Vegas, she wakes up regretting the voicemail she left comedy legend boss Deborah (Smart). And, somehow, things get even worse from there … Hollie Richardson

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The soap is celebrating its 40th anniversary with this interactive special. Plus: the finale of The Vanishing. Here’s what to watch this evening

7.30pm, BBC One The BBC has gone all in for EastEnders’ 40th anniversary: Ross Kemp’s back on the square as Grant Mitchell, and iPlayer is overflowing with classic “doof doof” episodes and spin-offs. The jewel in the crown, though, is this live episode, with an interactive twist as the public will be allowed to decide the outcome of one storyline: will Denise end up with Mr Reliable, Jack, or take a chance on Ravi? But more importantly, will anything go disastrously wrong? Hannah J Davies

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Am I Being Reasonable? is Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli’s brilliant series. Plus: a mysterious Scottish 1984 murder case is reopened. Here’s what to watch this evening

9.30pm, BBC One

Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli’s wonderfully bizarre comedy drama gets murkier and funnier as Nic (Cooper) continues to completely spiral. Yes, she is dealing with the emotional turmoil of trying to get away with murdering her extramarital lover and brother-in-law. But she is also doing marriage therapy, worrying about her cat-killing son, Ollie (the awesome Lenny Rush), and oversharing with her fishy friend Jen (Hizli). And all this comes with cracking gag after cracking gag. Hollie Richardson

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