FOUR OF THE BEST
Masterchef
BBC1, 9pm
Six more hopefuls arrive at the Masterchef kitchen for the third week of heats, ready to impress John Torode and Gregg Wallace with their signature dishes. The judges’ two favourites will get a coveted apron and a chance to skip the Three Ingredients Challenge, where the remaining cooks have to prove they can come up with a dish that will showcase spring onion, sweetcorn and crab. After that, two will be sent home, leaving the four remaining hopefuls to compete for a quarter final place. To get there, they deliver two courses which wow John, Gregg and three Masterchef veterans – 2011 contestant Elizabeth Haigh, 2015 finalist Robert Parks and 2005 champion Thomasina Miers.
The guests will send one cook straight to the next round, while John and Gregg decide who will get the next two places.
Liar
STV, 9pm
Feeling the full force of DI Renton’s investigation, Laura looks to those closest to her for support, but when suspicions fall on Ian, she is left questioning who she can trust. Seeking answers, she turns to a former ally, but the information she gleans only fuels her concerns. Meanwhile in the past, Oliver brings Andrew some devastating news, leading him to make a reckless and dangerous excursion. Jack and Harry Williams’s thriller, starring Joanne Froggatt and Ioan Gruffudd, with Katherine Kelly and Sam Spruell.
Inside No 9
BBC2, 10pm
Two police officers always have time to get to know each other while working on the night shift together. However, PC Thompson’s previous partner died in a brutal attack less than a month previously, the forensic evidence has gone missing and PCSO Varney is beginning to ask a lot of awkward questions. The final instalment of the fifth series of the anthology of darkly comic tales, written by and starring The League of Gentlemen and Psychoville’s Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, with Rebecca Callard.
Baghdad Central
Channel 4, 10pm
Khafaji realises that he must get his family out of Iraq. Both of his daughters need rescuing – one from the Green Zone and one from captivity. He plans an audacious trap for Frank Temple and Douglas Evans, though it remains to be seen whether it will succeed or there might be one final casualty. Help comes to the beleaguered family from an unexpected source during a last-minute flight to the border. The conclusion of the crime thriller set in Iraq in 2003, starring Waleed Zuaiter.