India 1947: Partition in Colour9pm, Channel 4As share of tonight’s three reveals to impress 75 years since partition, right here’s the main half of of an illuminating two-share documentary that uses newly colourised archive pictures to characterize the atrocities around Britain’s withdrawal from India – which triggered bigger than 1 million deaths. Starting with Lord Mountbatten’s appointment as viceroy in 1947, contributors resembling Heart of the evening’s Furies creator Nisid Hajari, Prof Shruti Kapil and Prof Priya Satia support to reveal the no longer easy record. Hollie Richardson
Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra at the Proms6.25pm, BBC TwoThe Proms will get some emotional heft with this efficiency – a range of this orchestra’s musicians fetch fled their dwelling nation. Canadian-Ukrainian conductor Keri Lynn-Wilson leads them by a tour of Beethoven, Brahms and Chopin. Presumably most interesting is a occasion of Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov, who escaped Kyiv earlier this year. Henry Wong
Queen Victoria and the British Maharajah7pm, Channel 4When Queen Victoria’s godson Prince Victor (who was moreover the grandson of the Sikh ruler of Lahore) married Girl Anne Coventry, the queen allegedly advised them no longer to fetch children. There is a rumour, alternatively, that he had a secret inheritor with one other girl. Gurinder Chadha explores Victor’s noteworthy lifestyles – including his involvement with Indian independence. HR
Van Der Valk8pm, ITVThe Amsterdam-dwelling cop reboot returns for a second series, with Impress Warren’s prickly detective assigned a windmill-adjacent execute tantalizing execrable mutilation and an mature riddle. If the plotting veers into the fanciful, Piet’s dependancy of relocating his workforce to the pub is more relaxing than the lanyard-heavy incident rooms of UK police dramas. Graeme Advantage
The Right Windsors: Queen of Steel8pm, Channel 4What is the long flee of the royal family after Queen Elizabeth? That’s what this tantalizing three-parter appears to resolution. Bigger than 80% of the nation mediate the head royal has “achieved a appropriate job” – however the next generation would possibly well no longer be as accepting of a brand fresh monarch. HR
One Shot: The Football Factory9pm, Sky DocumentariesIn a week of soccer reveals to impress the fresh season (with zero specializing within the ladies folks’s recreation), right here’s a movie following avid gamers who fetch honed their abilities in south London’s fenced-in, man made pitches – “the cages” – and the scouts who uncover to recruit them for skilled golf equipment. HR
Dwell sportMotoGP: The British Nice Prix, 12.25pm, ITV The 12th spherical of the season, from Silverstone.
Huge League Rugby: St Helens v Castleford Tigers, 12.30pm, Channel 4 From Fully Sinful Stadium.
Premier League Football: West Ham v Man Metropolis, 4pm, Sky Sports actions Major Tournament From the London Stadium. Preceded by Man United v Brighton from Mature Trafford at 2pm.