Moulin Rouge: Yes We Can-Can!
10pm, BBC Two
Who directs the most famous cabaret club in Paris, home of the can-can? Janet – a bolshy Leeds-born former dancer, who has built a classically trained troupe with fellow Brits from Grimsby to Manchester to Bournemouth. In this eye-popping, six-part, behind-the-scenes series, we follow her heading back to Yorkshire to find new recruits who meet the club’s brutally high standards. Hollie Richardson
Nadiya’s Simple Spices
8pm, BBC Two
Inspired by her mum and nan’s cooking, Nadiya Hussain presents recipes that are “singing and dancing” with spices. She starts with a comforting bowl of bay leaf and turmeric daal with a cumin-infused tarka, then cracks on with a cheese and onion loaf laced with chilli and cumin. HR
Celebrity Race Across the World
9pm, BBC One
The race is on and two teams got off to a bad start last week by missing their buses (poor Harry Judd’s mum took the blame: “I can do other things … guarding the luggage?”). After splurging on a taxi, Mel and her mother are in the lead in Portugal – but their journey to the second checkpoint in Corsica involves a vomiting episode. HR
DNA Family Secrets
9pm, BBC Two
Using DNA to answer questions at the heart of who we are is a dangerous business. In Colchester, Olympian Sarah wants to find the father who left before she was born – but what if he doesn’t want to see her? And wartime evacuee Jean has waited a lifetime to discover the truth about her missing mother. Ellen E Jones
Grand Slammers
9pm, ITV1
The pressure is on for former rugby union stars Martin Johnson, Lawrence Dallaglio and Mike Tindall in this attempt to use sport to turn round prisoners’ lives. They spend five weeks in HMP The Mount to recruit a team. Can a game built on trust and working together help rehabilitate the inmates? Maybe, if they can be convinced to join … HR
Domina
9pm, Sky Atlantic
The lip-smackingly overripe Roman power-struggle drama continues with Kasia Smutniak’s Livia back in the picture and stronger than ever. As she grows closer to Agrippa, it seems clear that she and Gaius are on a collision course. With Gaius weakened and Domitius and Iullus also plotting around succession, violence seems inevitable. Phil Harrison
