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A doctor’s day ends in tragedy – but is he to blame? Plus, tissues at the ready for tearjerking performances in The Piano. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, ITV1

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Elisabeth Moss returns in the chillingly familiar dystopian series. Plus: Oscar winner Thomas Vinterberg’s climate thriller. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, Channel 4

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Special report from al-Hawl refugee camp on the humanitarian crisis a decade on. Plus: Martin Clunes is island-hopping again. Here’s what to watch today

8pm, Sky Documentaries“Al-Hawl [refugee camp] is probably one of the scariest places in the world right now,” says Sky News special correspondent Alex Crawford. “It is packed full of Isis sympathisers or people who are connected to Isis.” She is in Iraq reporting on the humanitarian crisis that still reverberates today after the systematic slaughter of the Yazidi people in Sinjar in 2014 and the mass abductions of women and children. Bringing the Yazidi community’s fight for justice, she speaks with Kovan, who was abducted when she was 14. Hollie Richardson

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Mobeen is on a rescue mission to save his sister – can he pull it off? Plus: heaps of fun in the return of Taskmaster. Here’s what to watch this evening

9.20pm, BBC ThreeGuz Khan returns for a fifth and final series of his hit comedy about a working-class Muslim former drug dealer trying to do good in Birmingham. Mobeen (Khan) is desperate to save his sister Aqsa (Dúaa Karim) in the UAE but there’s one problem: he isn’t allowed to leave the country. He’s offered a few dodgy solutions, and will have to take one of them if he wants to secure a future for him and her. Hollie Richardson

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Channel 4 interviews adult survivors in an essential documentary. Plus: David Tennant’s tricky new gameshow. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, Channel 4Anna Hall has been reporting on gang grooming for more than two decades, after first broadcasting her findings in her 2004 film Edge of the City. In this horrifying documentary, she meets five grownup victims who speak about their experiences, examines the failings of the authorities (victims were referred to as “child prostitutes” or labelled “promiscuous”) and looks at how grooming became a polarising political issue. What’s even more troubling, Hall says, is the fact that the exact same patterns are being repeated today. Hollie Richardson

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The broadcaster gets the Who Do You Think You Are? treatment. Plus: Joe Lycett’s big Brummie adventure continues. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, BBC OneBroadcaster Mishal Husain has written a book about her grandparents’ experience of the end of the British empire in India and the formation of Pakistan – and now she takes an utterly absorbing journey through her family history. She starts in India, where an ancestor was personal physician to a maharaja. Hollie Richardson

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A gripping two-part documentary reveals the events surrounding the killings of Carol and Stephen Baxter. Plus: the downfall of P Diddy. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, ITV1This two-part documentary opens with a petrified 999 call from Ellena Baxter, who was accused of murdering her parents, Carol and Stephen, in 2023. But what starts as a generic true crime tale gives way to a blow-by-blow account of the catfishing and cruelty suffered by the Baxters and their daughter in the years prior. Hannah J Davies

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Louis meets Israeli religious nationalists settling in the occupied Palestinian territory. Plus: a night of comedy gold with Brett Goldstein. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, BBC Two

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Neurodivergent people fire tough questions at the actor in The Assembly. Plus: Rose Ayling-Ellis guest stars in Doctor Who. Here’s what to watch this evening

10.05pm, ITV1

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An upsetting moment as the search for missing Zoe continues. Plus: Cornish folklore in cosy crime series Beyond Paradise. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, BBC TwoThe Queensland-set cold case drama continues. Zoe Jacobs (Jana McKinnon) vanished on her 21st birthday back in 2003, and we have come to know her hopes, fears and love of ecstasy and pop-punk via extended flashbacks. So it’s all the more upsetting that unkempt detective James Cormack (Travis Fimmel) and Zoe’s old bestie turned beat cop Samara Kahlil (Megan Smart) have just recovered submerged human remains near the local dam. Graeme Virtue

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From tariffs to tech bros, insiders examine the president’s spine-chilling actions. Plus: Sky’s new coming-of-age drama Penelope. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, Channel 4Turbulent tariffs, forced migrations, tech bro best friends, accusations of “gambling with world war three” and every other spine-chilling action in between – by the end of April, Donald Trump will have proved that a lot can happen when you’ve been Potus for 100 days of your second term. This documentary recalls what’s been happening behind the headlines, with help from insiders and commentators, and asks what it means for the days ahead. Hollie Richardson

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A great cast has fun in this drama about the death of a wealthy family’s patriarch. Plus: Jamelia plays Tina Turner in Just Act Normal. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, U&AlibiA great cast – including John Simm, Gemma Jones, Rakhee Thakrar and Niamh Cusack – for this rompy thriller about a wealthy patriarch who died by suicide … or did he? Businessman Jack Wright married three times and has a brood of grownup kids, so there is a lot of squabbling at the reading of his will. But while everybody is storming out in a rage, an autopsy prompts questions about Jack’s death. Hollie Richardson

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