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Black Ops

9.30pm, BBC One
Gbemisola Ikumelo and Hammed Animashaun are again as wannabe intelligence brokers Dom and Kay on this likably foolish sitcom. The former police group assist officers at the moment are correct staff of MI5 – albeit extraordinarily junior within the service. While Kay fends off a white colleague who’s a bit too excited to be working with a Black man, Dom is charmed by an agent from the higher flooring. Jack Seale

The Nineteen Seventies Diet: Could It Work for You?

7pm, Channel 5
More health-kick guilt TV for post-festive indulgences. This time, This Morning’s Josie Gibson is experimenting with how folks aimed to get wholesome within the 70s. A disco-inspired dance class and half a fish-and-chip supper are a part of the retro plan. Hollie Richardson

Live Well With the Drug-Free Doctor

8pm, Channel 4
Does the UK depend on remedy too closely? Dr Rangan Chatterjee, who has spent nearly 25 years as an NHS physician, hears from individuals who say life-style modifications have improved their wellbeing as a substitute. He begins by assembly a girl dwelling with continual ache who’s attempting ache reprocessing remedy. HR

Spain With Michael Portillo

8pm, Channel 5

Hat’s off … Michael Portillo in Barcelona. Photograph: Curve Media Ltd

TV’s main Tory grandee turned travelogue host explores his father’s homeland for this amiable – if not massively revelatory – new eight-part sequence. He begins in Barcelona, sampling town’s greatest vermouth, snapping up a pair of “sexy, elegant” espadrilles from the retailer who bought footwear to Dalí, and displaying off his Spanish language abilities. Hannah J Davies

Pete Wicks: For Dogs’ Sake

8pm, U&W
It’s the proper time for a 3rd sequence of this heat hug of a present through which big-hearted dog-lover Pete Wicks (he loves them greater than people) works at a shelter. His first shift again includes assembly six chihuahuas who’ve been rescued from a hoarder and a pregnant pug known as Coco who wants particular remedy. HR

What We Do within the Shadows

10pm, BBC Two
The closing season of this spoofy vampire comedy starring Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou and Kayvan Novak begins with a comeback: Jerry has been having fun with a Super Slumber lasting a long time. It’s time for him to be woken – however what horrific results would possibly his prolonged coffin-time have had? Phil Harrison

Film alternative

Amateurish armed robber … Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon. Photograph: Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy

Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975), 10.55am, Sky Cinema Greats
In 1975, Al Pacino reunited together with his Godfather co-star John Cazale for Sidney Lumet’s fact-based crime drama. But their characters right here are not any Corleones; Sonny and Sal are amateurish armed robbers who maintain up a Brooklyn financial institution (to get cash for a sex-change operation for Sonny’s lover) however grow to be trapped in a hostage scenario. For essentially the most half it’s a caper, because the financial institution’s employees get giddily caught up in Sonny’s plans and he exploits the media circus and extreme police operation that spring up across the siege. Simon Wardell


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