My Title Is Leon
9pm, BBC Two
Leon is a nine-year-old, mixed-race boy rising up in Nineteen Eighties Birmingham who likes watching TV, enjoying together with his Motion Man and munching on Curly Wurly bars. He additionally desperately needs to be reunited together with his mum and child brother – whom he hasn’t seen since being taken into care. This shifting 90-minute drama based mostly on Equipment de Waal’s novel tells his story, with newcomer Cole Martin giving a ravishing efficiency alongside Lenny Henry and Malachi Kirby. Hollie Richardson
Devon and Cornwall
8pm, Channel 4
Who’s for a cucamelon? Uncommon fruit and veg grown close to Looe are on the menu in an episode with a robust urge for food for positive West Nation produce. There’s additionally a take a look at the perilous technique of diving for Brixham scallops. Plus, some dry-stone walling and issues on a pony farm. Jack Seale
This Is MY Home
8.30pm, BBC One
Final yr’s most unexpectedly sensible actuality collection returns with celebrities making up ludicrous backstories to persuade a panel that they personal the house they’re nosying round. First up: Judi Love, Richard Madeley, Harry Hill and Harriet Kemsley declare to dwell in a three-bed semi in Conwy. Alexi Duggins
Who Desires to Be a Millionaire? For Soccer Support
9pm, ITV
Did Dickens write A Christmas Carol or A Christmas Linda? Eddie Izzard very a lot enjoys the primary query of their quest to win £1m for Unicef. Then the baton is handed to Omid Djalili.HR
Frontline: Pelosi’s Energy
9.10pm, PBS America
Nancy Pelosi is a polarising determine in US politics, partly as a result of she is a robust girl: the primary and solely girl to function speaker of the US Home of Representatives. Right here, journalist Michael Kirk seems to be at how an Italian-American woman from Baltimore amassed affect, and the way she now wields it. Ellen E Jones
Avoidance
9.30pm, BBC One
Can a beta male discover some spine? That’s the query Romesh Ranganathan explores in his comedy a couple of conflict-shy dad who struggles to just accept that his accomplice has dumped him. He’s so frightened of telling their son that he finally ends up kidnapping him. HR
Movie alternative
The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991) 10.45pm, ITV
Novice FBI agent Clarice (Jodie Foster) enlists the assistance of jailed cannibal psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) to catch Buffalo Invoice, a serial killer who skins his younger feminine victims. However what's going to her dance with the satan price her? Jonathan Demme’s thriller is a terrific procedural about utilizing a legal to catch a legal, however it’s additionally a drama obsessive about wanting. Clarice is regularly being stared at by males who belittle, patronise or manipulate her – Lecter’s chilling, unblinking gaze is simply the obvious – together with her success coming regardless of this disturbing scrutiny. Simon Wardell
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