PICKS OF THE DAY
Travel: Race Across The World, BBC2, 7pm
If you are unfamiliar with this show, those involved must cross the globe but cannot use air travel or smartphones. Tonight, the teams venture through Peru’s high altitudes as the race reaches the halfway mark – but the first hurdle they face is in Ecuador, and drastic measures are required to ensure the competitors’ safety. Emon and Jamiul are in the lead but over budget, so try to get work with fishermen, while Dom and Lizzie (left) find a connection to their grandmother in Lima.
Film: Fantastic Four, E4, 8pm
It is fair to say E4 is not the go-to channel for top-end films but needs must sometimes and this superhero adventure, starring Michael B Jordan and Kate Mara (both above) alongside Jamie Bell, will at least get you through to 10pm. A gifted young scientist joins a secret project researching inter-dimensional travel, and they return from a journey to another world having been granted superhuman powers.
Drama: Our Girl, BBC1, 9pm
Trying to distract her mind from her resurging grief for Elvis and the news that Omar is still at large, Georgie throws herself into work, helping the polio inoculation programme at a local hospital and providing security for Dr Bahil. With families prevented from going to the area because of the bomb blasts, Dr Bahil decides to travel to the mountains to administer injections. Worried for the doctor’s safety, Georgie fights for the section to accompany her, bringing her into conflict with Sandy while befriending dishy American Dr Antonio along the way. When the mission is granted, Georgie confesses her painful past to Dr Bahil. Badria Timimi and Michelle Keegan (both left) star.
Animals: The Yorkshire Vet, Channel 5, 8pm
Peter Wright races to Monk Park to talk to owner Mark and farmhand Paul (both above) about a poorly baby alpaca. Elsewhere Julian performs a delicate eye operation on a labrador preparing for a dog show. A wallaby dies at a local visitor farm, raising concerns that its joey will not survive without its mother’s milk, a newborn lamb suffers a potentially fatal injury, and a rabbit named Boris needs to be castrated.
Documentary: Cops Like Us, BBC2, 9pm
In recent years Staffordshire Police have lost, staggeringly, more than a quarter of their officers due to budget cuts. In this final episode, the officers, like PC Phil Smith (right) look to the future as they take on new recruits. At the end of 2019, the Government pledged to train 20,000 new police officers and Staffordshire Police are going to be receiving some of these new recruits. One of them is trainee Holly Swift, who has a history of working in mental health services.