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    Who Do You Think You Are?

    9pm, BBC One
    This popular long-running genealogy series has a way of making you count your blessings: one thing that’s usually evident is how few generations most of us are from grinding poverty. That’s true of this week’s adventurer into the past, former Spice Girl Melanie Chisholm, whose Liverpudlian family’s journey involves a workhouse, incredibly bleak manual work and a hasty flight from the great Irish famine of the 19th century. She is also fascinated to learn that her fourth great-grandfather was a campaigner for improving working men’s lives and rights. Phil Harrison

    Daddy Issues

    9pm, BBC Three
    This funny, poignant sitcom about a father and daughter making the best of it when the woman becomes pregnant approaches its climax. Gemma (Aimee Lou Wood) bumps into an old flame, while Malcolm (David Morrissey) continues, in his charmingly inept way, to prepare for the baby. PH

    The Walking Dead: Dead City

    9pm, Sky Max
    Having infiltrated zombified Manhattan, anxious frenemies Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) collide with a ragged group of survivors. Can they point Maggie toward the location of her kidnapped son? We also learn more about the island’s sadistic warlord “the Croat” and his loyal cult of helmeted heavies. Graeme Virtue

    The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon

    9.50pm, Sky Max
    The stakes are high and the threats relentless, as Daryl (Norman Reedus) continues his journey across post-apocalyptic France. Our hero faces demons and captures walkers in exchange for fuel. And at a Pouvoir celebration, he is forced into a deadly gladiator fight. Ali Catterall

    Interview With the Vampire

    11.05pm, BBC Two

    A sensuous treat … Assad Zaman as Armand in Interview With the Vampire. Photograph: Larry Horricks/BBC/AMC Network Entertainment LLC

    As the interview takes an intriguing turn (involving the arrival of a handsome young man, just in time for vampire Armand’s lunch break), Daniel has a realisation about his 1973 encounter with Louis, in which Armand was circumstantially involved. Perhaps a recording will offer some clues? A clever and sensuous treat. PH

    This Ain’t Pretty Woman

    12.05am, Channel 4
    Cinema has, historically, been perhaps too interested in portraying sex work, and not interested enough in doing so accurately. This lively 10-minute film meets a group of real sex workers who rate famous films and, as the debate heats up, start to imitate their fictional counterparts. Jack Seale

    Live sport

    Paralympics Paris 2024, 8am, Channel 4
    Day one of the games in France, featuring Team GB’s boccia champion David Smith, who hopes to win a fourth gold medal. Plus, para track cycling.



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