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Brianna: A Mother’s Story

9pm, ITV1
The last text Esther Ghey sent to her daughter, Brianna, said “how good it was” that she was going out and re-entering society. Esther doesn’t know if she ever saw that message – Brianna was murdered in 2023 by two 15-year-olds, one who she believed was her friend, in a brutal attack partly motivated by her transgender identity. This devastating and brave documentary tells Brianna’s story, from the sparkling, beloved girl she was to how the disturbing online world affected her wellbeing. It also examines the legacy she has left, as her mother continues to campaign for social media reform. Her friends help paint a picture of her, while journalists and police give insights into a case that shocked and saddened the nation. Hollie Richardson

Kill List: Hunted by Putin’s Spies

10pm, Channel 4
This real-time documentary follows journalist Christo Grozev, whose exposés on Putin lead to him having to flee an assassination plot. It also follows a defector from Russia’s “poison programme” trying to get his family to safety in Europe, and a Russian activist twice poisoned by Putin, whose wife wants to team up with Grozev to free him during his treason trial. Alexi Duggins

The Madame Blanc Mysteries

9pm, Channel 5
Sainte Victoire’s antique-dealing sleuth Jean White (Sally Lindsay) gets stuck into another murder case: Aunt Fifi’s poisoning. Her nephew Charlie’s interest in her valuable antiques collection makes him a suspect. HR

Stacey Dooley: Growing Up Gypsy

9pm, BBC Three

Brilliantly engaging … Dooley with TikToker Gypsy Wife AKA Chantelle. Photograph: Production/BBC/Little Venice Studios

Stacey Dooley is once again brilliantly engaging as she spends time with the Gypsy and Traveller communities. She meets four different women as they go about their day-to-day lives, including Chantelle who is popular TikToker Gypsy Wife. HR

Gangs of London

9pm, Sky Atlantic
A lethally spiked shipment of cocaine has upset the fragile peace between London’s underworld factions. Surely gangster pariah Sean Wallace (Joe Cole) couldn’t have orchestrated it all from behind bars? As series three of the bloodthirsty crime drama ramps up, some heavily armed stakeholders seem determined to find out. Graeme Virtue

Small Town, Big Story

10pm, Sky Atlantic
As Chris O’Dowd’s Hollywood-in-Ireland dramedy ambles amiably towards next week’s finale, the production is plunged into crisis – not helped by the fact that Wendy (Christina Hendricks) never read the source novel. Meanwhile, Séamus (Paddy Considine) is facing a disciplinary. The real trouble, though, is in his marriage. Ellen E Jones

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Holland (Mimi Cave, 2025), Prime Video

Comic mystery … Nicole Kidman and Gael García Bernal in Holland. Photograph: Courtesy of Prime

Mimi Cave’s comic mystery is set not in the Netherlands but Holland, Michigan, though it does boast tulips and a windmill. Nicole Kidman’s “life management” schoolteacher Nancy Vandergroot lives a chintzy, slightly suffocating life as a dutiful wife and mother. But her husband, optician and model-railway enthusiast Fred (Matthew Macfadyen), is away a lot at conferences and Nancy suspects he is having an affair. She and her colleague Dave (Gael García Bernal) try their hand at amateur sleuthing in a story of humorous, if mild, peril – until an almighty twist throws everything out of whack. Simon Wardell



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