Impact - Anatomy of a Crash explores a devastating road collision, Irvine Welsh speaks to Katie Razzall in The Interview, Mayfair Witches and Malpractice return, and Humans looks at the demise of modern humans' sister species the Neanderthals . . .
Pick of the Day
Impact - Anatomy of a Crash, 9.35pm, RTÉ One
Streaming on RTÉ Player
This looks like a tough watch. Necessary though, as the carnage on Irish roads continues.
In December 2016, joy and tragedy collided on Military Road outside Dungarvan, County Waterford.
One car carried a Cork family on their way to see Santa at Winterval and the other carried three young men, whose lives would be extinguished in an instant.
This documentary revisits one of the most devastating road collisions in Irish history, laying bare the enduring physical, emotional, and psychological scars left in its wake.
New or Returning Shows
The Interview, 7.00pm, BBC Two
Scottish author Irvine Welsh (below) speaks to Katie Razzall ahead of the publication of his latest novel Men in Love, a sequel to his 1990s' classic Trainspotting that catches up with the exploits of the gang.
He covers topics including class, the way music influences his writing and why he worries that culture is dying.
Mayfair Witches, 11.40pm, BBC One
Return of the supernatural drama based on the novels by Anne Rice and starring Alexandra Daddario, telling the story of a neurosurgeon who discovers she possesses supernatural abilities and is the heir to a family of witches.
Rowan tries to raise Lasher as a child but is confronted by his freakish spurts of rapid growth, enormous appetite and prodigious strength.
Tessa's sister Moira, whose special power is mind reading, arrives on the scene, holding Lasher responsible for Tessa's death.
Part two follows at 12.25am.
Lasher, now fully grown into an adult, struggles with his own desires, as they spiral dangerously out of control, leading to deadly encounters with some of the Mayfair women.
Moira wants answers about her family's dark history, and Cortland endures tormenting visions of his father.
Malpractice, 9.00pm, Virgin Media One
The medical thriller, starring Tom Hughes, Helen Behan and Jordan Kouame, returns for a second run – but this time without Niamh Algar.
When psychiatric registrar James Ford finds himself torn between a new mother attending a routine postnatal check-up and the sectioning of a psychotic woman during a busy on-call shift, no-one can predict the terrible consequences.
The MIU are brought in to investigate but digging deeper into the events that night leads to questions about Dr Ford and his hospital department.
Kamikaze: An Untold History, 9.00pm, BBC Four
On the Pacific front, towards the end of the Second World War, Japan's imperial armed forces launched kamikaze attacks - suicide missions by aircraft laden with bombs.
Close to 4,000 Japanese airmen died, and nearly 7,000 Allied military personnel were killed, and thousands more were injured by the attacks. How could this happen?
Utilising 15 years' worth of extensive interviews with US and Japanese veterans, Takayuki Oshima's film delves into the mechanism of how a crazed madness swept through an entire nation.
Don’t Miss
Human, 9.00pm, BBC Two
Ella Al-Shamahi looks at the demise of modern humans' sister species the Neanderthals, with new insights revealing Homo sapiens's possible role in their downfall.
Around 55,000 years ago, Homo sapiens ventured into Europe, only to find it was already occupied by Neanderthals, who had lived there for almost 400,000 years.
Ella Al-Shamahi finds out just how close the two species became when she sees evidence of interbreeding and reveals how during the Ice Age in Europe, Neanderthals held the evolutionary upper hand with a physiology better built for the cold.
Fake or Fortune? 9.00pm, BBC One
In a double investigation Fiona Bruce (below) and art expert Philip Mould try to discover if a landscape and a portrait are both previously unknown works by Renoir.
As scientific analysis begins to reveal some surprising results, the investigation takes an unexpected turn.
Can the team make a case that will convince the experts - or is there a chance that a sophisticated forger has been at work?
Michael Mosley: Secrets of the Superagers, 8.00pm, Channel 4
This week, Michael Mosley (below) focuses on the senses, and learns how people can keep their hearing, smell and vision super-sharp into old age.
In Chicago, Michael meets an 86-year-old jazz musician and discovers how playing musical instruments and singing can prevent the hearing loss that many will experience approaching old age.
In the town of Grasse, in southern France, Michael compares his sense of smell with that of a 75-year-old perfumer and learns how to train his nose with a programme of daily exercises.
Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters, 9.00pm, UTV
Paul de Gelder tells the famous faces that they will be cut adrift on a raft to experience what it's like to be lost at sea in shark-infested waters.
Lenny Henry sends a message to his agents and the team learns how to freedive, but Ade Adepitan struggles without the security of his scuba gear.
Operation Dark Phone: Murder by Text, 9.00pm, Channel 4
Continuing on from last night's opener, the documentary explores how one of the users in the encrypted chat was identified as leader of one of the most dangerous organised crime groups in north-west England, now running his criminal enterprises from outside the UK.
He had no idea that his messages had been intercepted and was planning coordinated shootings against the families of two of his enemies.
