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Saint-Pierre

9pm, U&Alibi
While it remains an essentially generic crime drama, Saint-Pierre has sustained itself convincingly across its first season and deserves its recently commissioned second run. As it ends, the case-of-the-week format finally dovetails with the longer storyline regarding James Purefoy’s crime boss Sean Gallagher. Arch and Fitz aren’t the only people on the island who had beef with Gallagher – and a series of violent incidents put our detective duo on a collision course with their nemesis. Phil Harrison

The Repair Shop

8pm, BBC One
Is nowhere safe from World Cup fever? This one-off edition of the enduring heirloom glow-up sees a soft toy of England’s 1966 mascot World Cup Willie arrive in the barn. Elsewhere – and further back in time still – skiffle is back as a battered old washboard is brought to life by Pete and Sonnaz. PH

Location, Location, Location

8pm, Channel 4
Kirstie and Phil catch up with another pair of couples they helped find homes for, to discover what kind of fist they’ve made of them. In Solihull, Camilla and Liam’s move from a rental to their own house led to marriage and a growing family. But what’s become of Hayley and James’s “unicorn” house in Wiltshire? AC

Matlock

9pm, Sky Witness
Two parallel storylines converge as the second season of this gripping legal drama concludes. The merger plans are continuing apace – but can the team bring Senior to justice for his role in the cover-up in time to get the case off the books? Inevitably, there are plenty of hitches along the way. PH

Peter Flannery Remembers: Our Friends in the North

10pm, BBC Four

One of the jewels in the BBC’s crown returns to the iPlayer. This 1996 drama launched the careers of actors including Gina McKee and Daniel Craig and told a gripping national story of hope and betrayal. Before the first episode, Peter Flannery recalls its creation. PH

In Our Blood

10.15pm, Sky Atlantic

It was compared to It’s a Sin and while it doesn’t reach those heights, this drama is still a stirring representation of Australia’s response to Aids. The opening double bill begins with the election of Bob Hawke as prime minister in 1983. Is change on the way? PH

Film choice

Avatar: Fire and Ash (James Cameron, 2025), Disney+

James Cameron’s bold, blue-tinged fantasy epic returns for a third outing. This one has a similar feel to The Way of Water: regular bouts of stupendous aerial and aquatic action; plenty of dastardly human behaviour; and – underlying the whole enterprise – warnings about colonisation and the ignorant exploitation of the natural world. Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña and Sigourney Weaver are back as our favourite human-Na’vi blended family, still defending their way of life. The new element is the Mangkwan, a clan living next to a volcano led by the ambitious Varang (a lip-curling Oona Chaplin), who sees a collaboration with the gun-toting Earth forces as a route to power. Simon Wardell

The Welcome Table (Josh Fox, 2026) HBO Max
This incandescent climate crisis documentary from Josh Fox should probably have a trigger warning attached, such is the traumatic prognosis he gives for the planet. Through testimony from people affected by global warming-related fires, flooding and drought from Kenya to Brazil and the US, he shows the devastation now being caused, the colonial roots of much of it, and the mass migration that will follow. The only ray of hope comes from the survivors themselves – beacons of community and collaboration. SW

Rob Roy (Michael Caton-Jones, 1995) Great! Action

It had the misfortune to be released in cinemas in the same year as Braveheart, but Michael Caton-Jones’s rousing historical drama about Scotland’s folk hero has the edge in terms of peaty authenticity. Liam Neeson is as Scottish as Mel Gibson but at least there’s a Celtic tinge to his steely-eyed performance as the titular clan chief. Cheated by John Hurt’s Marquess of Montrose, he’s then harried by the lord’s relative, the gleefully immoral “bastard abroad” Archibald Cunningham (a grandstanding Tim Roth). But the honourable Robert Roy MacGregor proves that nobility isn’t a matter of birth. SW