TV tonight: people with facial differences make a tough decision
10pm, Channel 4Terry was left with severe burns after his uncle set him on fire. Mia developed alopecia after her grandparents died. Another Mia hopes facial feminisation surgery can make her feel more herself. In this thoughtful series, activist Jono Lancaster invites people with facial differences to a clinic where world-class surgeons – without any judgment over their decisions – help the clients work out whether they really want to go ahead with a procedure or can be happy without one. Hollie Richardson
8pm, Sky ArtsSky's archive-heavy documentary has traced a line from early sci-fi to the rise of nuclear power and on to the space race. This third episode zooms in on gender and diversity, and how the likes of novelists Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood and – latterly – Ted Chiang have subverted norms and predicted the future. Hannah J Davies
9pm, BBC One
How is it still going? The 19th series has dragged on for an eternity while offering nothing new. Surely, as we reach the finale – and the competitors go head to head in branding their new businesses – it's time for the reality show to be the one being told: 'You're fired!' Here's hoping. Alexi Duggins
9pm, Sky AtlanticThe ultraviolent crime drama activates flashback mode to reveal why Lale (Narges Rashidi) has been acting so strangely in season three. Physically compromised and with angry henchmen on her tail, the Kurdish drug queen must find it within herself to survive. Events culminate in some shocking scenes unsuitable for the faint-hearted. Graeme Virtue
9pm, Channel 5A TV roadshow based around valuing antiques is in town, complete with David (Les Dennis), an old friend of Jean (Sally Lindsay), on its presenting team. When one of the show's experts dies in odd circumstances, the colourful expats are called in to help, giving this blissfully silly crime comedy-drama plenty of scope to muck about. Jack Seale
11pm, BBC TwoGuillermo (Harvey Guillén) is charged with exterminating a roomful of mini mutants, the results of Laszlo's latest experiments in 'vampiritus interruptus'. But will he develop fatherly feelings for these abominations before he can act? Meanwhile, Nadja is moonlighting as a night-school teacher. Ellen E Jones
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956), 9pm, Sky Arts
'They're here already! You're next!' It seems like a classic reds-under-the-bed allegory, but Don Siegel's seminal 1956 sci-fi chiller could also be viewed as the obverse: a warning about the conformity imposed on the US by McCarthyism. Whatever side you're on, it's a terrifically paranoiac experience. Dr Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) starts seeing people who claim friends and family are being replaced by impostors with no humanity. But it's not delusion, it's an extraterrestrial plot … Simon Wardell
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