James May’s Great Explorers

9pm, Channel 5
James May’s new series is about the explorations of Christopher Columbus, Walter Raleigh and James Cook and their contentious legacies. May starts by taking the helm of his own sailboat in south-west Spain, where he discovers the origins of the stubborn young sailor Columbus, who dreamed of sailing to Asia but ended up on two continents previously unknown to Europeans. James’s visits to the Alcázar palace in Seville and St Barts back in London fill in details of a man driven by daring and greed. Hollie Richardson

The Dog House

8pm, Channel 4
Two pooches desperately in need of love are given a special helping hand by best-job-in-the-world dog behaviour specialist Sue this week: Barley the labradoodle meets his third potential new owner, while longtime resident Lady the staffie cross might finally be taken to a new home. HR

The Apprentice

9pm, BBC One

It sounds like a simple enough mission: find nine items and negotiate the best price for them. But it’s immediately a face-palm disaster when Alan Sugar lets his wannabe business partners loose in Stratford-upon-Avon, and Nadia offers just £1.50 to a farmer to shear a sheep for its coat. HR

24 Hours in A&E

9pm, Channel 4
A man has sliced through his ankle with an angle grinder, a 50-year-old has crashed a mountain bike, and a young festival-goer has somehow managed to dislocate his shoulder mid-revelry. More staggering tales of medical mishaps emerge as the long-running show heads to Queen’s medical centre, Nottingham, one of Europe’s busiest accident and emergency departments. Alexi Duggins

An Update on Our Family

9pm, Sky Documentaries
Things get dark in the final episode of this documentary series about a family of YouTubers whose mega-popular depictions of their perfect domestic life suddenly ended with the internet turning on them. When they announce that they’ve rehoused their adopted son, sponsors drop them and mum Myka goes digitally awol. AD

Far North

10pm, U&Alibi
It’s the last in the series of this comedy drama about an ordinary couple who took down an international crime organisation. We’re promised devastating losses, confrontations with the police, and the incongruous combination of a troupe of hardened criminals and a campsite. AD

Film choice

The Square (Ruben Östlund, 2017), 12.35am, Film4

Ruben Östlund’s satirical fire turns towards the art world in his provocative 2017 comedy drama. Specifically, it is aimed at Claes Bang’s Christian, the preening director of a Stockholm modern-art gallery, whose spurious concerns for the world’s troubles – expressed through the works he promotes – are exposed as a sham when his wallet is stolen. His attempt to get it back sets in train a conflict between his comfortable bourgeois life and the everyday world of homeless people and immigrants that surrounds him. An easy target, perhaps, but it’s still fun to witness the unruly takedown. Simon Wardell