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8pm, Channel 4In Okinawa, Japan, they're living much longer: it's home to more centenarians than anywhere else on the globe. Filmed before he died, Michael Mosley uncovers a possible explanation. On the Faroe Islands, he joins a women's football team studying bone density, then in Halifax he meets an 84-year-old ballerina who reveals what's really behind muscle strength. Ali Catterall
9pm, BBC TwoElla Al-Shamahi's mind-blowing evolution series continues, and she's showing us how we became the only global species of human – including being the first to make the crossing to Australia about 45,000 years ago. She also learns more about Homo floresiensis, fondly referred to as Hobbits. HR
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It's 50 years since Jaws – and ITV claims to be on a mission to celebrate the magnificence of a much-maligned marine species, by encouraging celebrities to swim with 900kg tiger sharks. This episode may have you questioning if there isn't something else going on: because some of these celebrities are quite annoying, aren't they? Ellen E Jones
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11.05pm, Channel 4A new documentary series gets inside the world of the notorious biker club, with first-hand accounts of the gang's criminal activities. The double-bill fires up by talking with ATF agent Jay Dobyns, who went undercover as an Angel, and biker Jay, who dreams of becoming 'fully patched'. HR
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