Bake Off: The Professionals is back for a new run, as are 24 Hours in A&E and Davina McCall's Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace, and there’s a new documentary about Easter Island Origins . . .
Pick of the Day
Bake Off: The Professionals, 8.00pm, Channel 4
It’s the season 9 opener, where Ellie Taylor and Liam Charles welcome a new batch of professional pastry chefs from hotels, restaurants and patisserie shops around the UK to compete for the title.
To get things rolling, judges Cherish Finden and Benoit Blin have a French classic up their sleeve in a secret challenge for the teams.
And without proper recipes to hand, the chefs must rely on their knowledge and teamwork to create 36 individual tarte aux fraise and one chocolate amenity in just three and a half hours.
New or Returning Shows
24 Hours in A&E, 9.00pm, Channel 4
The documentary series following life inside the A&E department at Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham is back for a new run.
The episode begins with Milky, who's 38, getting rushed to A&E after coming off his motorbike at high speed.
Adventurous dad Shaun has landed badly after skydiving with his teenage son and six-year-old Coby is brought in after swallowing an unknown object.
Cursed Histories, 9.00pm, Sky History
Streaming on NOW
From the tomb of Tutankhamen to the Hope Diamond to the Lost City of Frenier, history is riddled with people, places, and objects that spread utterly wicked, unbridled chaos.
In the wake of death and disaster, how did these curses come to be?
Whose wrath is responsible? What's the truth behind the unlucky? And can anyone ever hope to contain it?
Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace, 9.00pm, UTV
Davina McCall (below) and Nicky Campbell help more foundlings track down the people who gave them up as babies.
And this opening episode of the sixth season has an Irish connection.
Thomas was left in the waiting room of Reading train station in 1965 and the first birth relative the team finds for him is another foundling, left on the steps of a Dublin church.
Apart from DNA, all they share at first are questions, but their meeting soon leads to life-changing discoveries for them both.
Easter Island Origins, 9.00pm, BBC Four
This documentary looks at the most famous and mysterious collection of monuments on the planet, located on a remote island in the middle of the Pacific.
New evidence is now surfacing and radically re-writing the story of Easter Island, drawing on the latest science to answer questions such as who made the statues.
The Sky at Night, 10.00pm, BBC Four
Back for its monthly delve into astronomy, the team go cosmic ghost hunting, looking for hidden objects across the universe that can't be seen, but which astronomers and scientists still believe are out there.
Prof Chris Lintott and Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock meet scientists and astronomers at Provan Hall, hearing how they are trying to find new ways to sense what surrounds the human race in the cosmos.
Don’t Miss
Waves, 9.30pm, TG4
Writer/director Trey Edward Shults' award-winning drama, starring Kelvin Harrison Jr, Lucas Hedges and Taylor Russell.
Fans of This is Us will be drawn by the presence of Sterling K Brown, but should stay for an excellent tale well told.
High school student Tyler Williams is a star athlete on the wrestling team thanks to relentless training and sparring with his domineering father, Ronald.
Those dreams of excellence are threatened by Tyler's shoulder injury, which he secretly deals with using prescription painkillers.
Events spiral out of control when Tyler's girlfriend, Alexis, learns she is pregnant and the young couple run a gauntlet of angry protesters outside an abortion clinic.
10 Things to Know About, 8.00pm, RTÉ One
Streaming on RTÉ Player
This week's episode features a look at the latest research monitoring changes in the Gulf Stream, while the team also meets scientists who are using satellite technology and supercomputers to produce climate models.
Best of Glastonbury 2019, 12.05am, BBC Two
Here are some more memorable performances from Worthy Farm in Somerset, this time from the 2019 event.
Featured artists include Stormzy, George Ezra, Bastille, Sheryl Crow, the Killers, Liam Gallagher, Janet Jackson, the Proclaimers, Kylie Minogue and Miley Cyrus entertained crowds across the three days of the festival.
Sport
European Athletics Championships, 8.00pm, RTÉ2
Streaming on RTÉ Player
Live coverage of the evening session on day four of the European Athletics Championships from Stadio Olimpico in Rome.
The finals taking place are the women's pole vault from 7.15pm, the women's hammer from 8.33pm, the men's and women's 400m at 8.40pm and 8.50pm respectively, the men's 3,000m steeplechase at 9pm and the men's 200m at 9.50pm.
Paul O'Flynn (above) presents, with analysis from Derval O'Rourke, Rob Heffernan and Sonia O'Sullivan, reports from David Gillick, and commentary by Greg Allen and Dave Matthews.
