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Thames Water: Contained in the Disaster

9pm, BBC Two

Thames Water, the UK’s greatest water firm, lately received a controversial £3bn emergency debt bundle to forestall its collapse – for the subsequent few months, no less than. This two-parter goes inside the corporate through the six months main as much as this, as buyer payments enhance and sewage continues to circulation into coasts and rivers. The brand new CEO, Chris Weston, speaks on this opener, because the group face a £15bn gap within the firm funds. Hollie Richardson

Panorama: Lockdown Youngsters – 5 Years On

8pm, BBC Two

Seeing your faculty doorways chained up till additional discover appears like each child’s dream. However when lockdown was enforced in March 2020 it meant two years of fitful training for our nation’s youth. The BBC’s training editor, Branwen Jeffreys, hears from households and academics concerning the long-term results and the way they’re being tackled. Graeme Advantage

Batch from Scratch: Cooking for Much less

8pm, Channel 4

Joe Swash and Suzanne “the Batch Woman” Mulholland meet single dad Darran to assist cease him counting on jarred sauces and oven meals relating to feeding his two children after an extended day’s work. Sausage traybake, slow-cooked beef massaman curry and pizza-flavoured stuffed hen breasts are all on the menu. HR

Chess Masters: The Endgame

8pm, BBC Two

Chess is struggle on a board and the queen is probably the most highly effective piece on it. So how will the aspiring chess champions fare with a “devilishly troublesome” puzzle involving eight queens? It’s laborious to not root for each one of many lovable contestants as they do their greatest to work it out. In the meantime, Sue Perkins seems on, completely bewildered. HR

Virdee

9pm, BBC One

The Bradford-set thriller concludes its first sequence. Harry Virdee (Staz Nair) has already formally cracked the case – however together with his spouse in peril, he has to undergo some very unofficial channels to actually come out on prime. It’s Reservoir Canines meets Line of Responsibility because the endgame escalates. Jack Seale

The White Lotus

9pm, Sky Atlantic

As night time falls in Thailand, the hedonism ramps up in Mike White’s scathing satire of the self-regarding wealthy on their hols. Insecure TV star Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan) and her lady gang are out clubbing with attentive Russians, whereas prickly Rick (Walton Goggins) has ditched Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wooden) for an unsettling rendezvous in Bangkok. Graeme Advantage