TV tonight: Aussie crime drama Scrublands makes a bloody return
9pm, ITV1It's the final episode of the Tudor whodunnit based on CJ Sansom's novels, featuring Sean Bean as Thomas Cromwell. The origins of the sword used to murder Singleton lead Shardlake (Arthur Hughes) to the killer. And there's a thrilling showdown at the monastery as our hero reveals his findings about the other deaths – and some major fraud. Hannah J Davies
9pm, BBC Four
The historian Heike Görtemaker introduces a never-before-broadcast 1971 interview with Albert Speer, Hitler's architect and armaments minister, which is then aired in its entirety, as he is cross-examined by Michael Charlton, Hugh Trevor-Roper and George Ball. HR
9pm, Sky AtlanticHer White Lotus boost means this Julian Fellowes series is now the 1880s-set costume drama that has Carrie Coon in it, although Christine Baranski and Cynthia Nixon provide just as many chewy bon mots. While engagements and illnesses keep the women of New York City busy, George (Morgan Spector) is still out in the sticks, chasing his railroad fortune. Jack Seale
10pm, Channel 4'There's maggots all over the entire carpet.' Welcome to the grim world of crime scene-cleaning in this stomach-churning new series that follows highly trained specialists, starting with an 'unattended death' in Kent. As one expert says: 'It takes a strong mind to go in and clean something like that.' HR
11pm, BBC TwoMore utterly fascinating eavesdropping on four very different couples in Dr Orna Guralnik's therapy room. Alison and Rod are at each other's throats, while Kyle opens up about his abusive father, Jessica tells Boris she is 'very tired' and Nick confesses it feels 'too risky' to speak to Guralnik. HR
The Swimmer (Frank Perry, 1968), 4.55pm, Film4Starting life as a short John Cheever story in the New Yorker, The Swimmer does its best to defy as many conventions as it can. Burt Lancaster plays Ned Merrill, an ad executive who one day decides to 'swim home' by clambering in and out of every pool he passes. Along the way he attempts to seduce a string of women, refers to himself in ever more grandiose terms and begins to detach from the easy suburbia he finds himself in. Before long he has spiralled out of control. Dark and hallucinogenic, it's perhaps the best midlife crisis movie ever made. Stuart Heritage
Tennis: Wimbledon 10.30am, BBC Two. Coverage of the opening day. Carlos Alcaraz will be hoping to add to his recent wins at the French Open and Queen's.
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