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Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace

9pm, ITV1
Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell return with their heartstring-tugging family DNA series. First to go through the life-changing experience: Thomas, who was left in a train station waiting room in Reading in 1965. Remarkably, they find a relative who was also abandoned – on the steps of a Dublin church. There are plenty of questions when they meet for the first time. Hollie Richardson

Scam Interceptors

10.45am, BBC One
The Bafta-winning series that catches scammers returns. Host (and former police officer) Rav Wilding and YouTuber (and software engineer) Jim Browning join forces with ethical hackers to try to stop a woman before she transfers thousands of pounds of her savings to scammers. HR

Lost Boys and Fairies

9pm, BBC One

Eye-opening realisations … Sion Daniel Young in Lost Boys and Fairies. Photograph: Simon Ridgway/BBC/Duck Soup Films

Daf James’s wonderful drama about a gay couple adopting in Wales continues with Andy (Fra Fee) and Gabriel (Sion Daniel Young) slowly getting to know Jake before bringing him home for good. Tough conversations, laugh-out-loud moments and eye-opening realisations lie ahead, along with Gabe’s fabulous makeup, costumes and show tunes. HR

The Sympathizer

9pm, Sky Atlantic
The complex and absorbing post-Vietnam war drama starring Robert Downey Jr (never knowingly understated and playing a variety of roles) continues. Concern about infiltration reaches new heights as the Captain (Hoa Xuande) looks to execute a plan with Bon in cahoots. He also makes an influential new friend at a swanky lunch. Phil Harrison

Cursed Histories

9pm, Sky History
Via talking head interviews and thrifty re-enactments, this new series retells the stories of major archaeological finds that seemed to jinx those involved in their discovery. It begins with Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,000-year-old Alpine mummy who has been a common factor in seven deaths since he was defrosted. Graeme Virtue

10pm, Channel 4
Hooliganism has declined since the bad old days, due in part to the dedicated football officers who now patrol club grounds. At Walsall v Crewe Alexandra, DFO Macca must get between two groups of aggressive fans, while in Scunthorpe, Paul is investigating the case of a flare thrown in the stands. Ellen E Jones

Film choice

Sweaty paranoia … James Woods and Debbie Harry in Videodrome. Photograph: Entertainment Pictures/Alamy

Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983), 12.10am, Sky Cinema Greats
“Long live the new flesh!” This David Cronenberg thriller is probably the finest example of his “body horror” style of film-making, but it also fed into contemporary fears about the unregulated spread and malign influence of visual media. James Woods, always a terrific purveyor of sweaty paranoia, plays Max Renn, a Toronto TV station owner who is told about a mysterious channel that broadcasts snuff films. As he probes deeper, his sense of reality starts to melt. Hallucinatory but surprisingly political, it’s still a shocking experience. Simon Wardell

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