Inside the Rage Machine

9pm, BBC Two
“My goal is to not get sued,” says Matt Motyl, a former senior staff researcher at Facebook and Meta. He is one of the ex-employees who give reporter Marianna Spring the inside story of how social media giants have profited from algorithms that perpetuate divisiveness and hate. She also studies whistleblower documents, the arrival of TikTok and charts how events such as the pandemic and the Southport riots played out across various platforms. Hollie Richardson

Handcuffed: Last Pair Standing

9pm, Channel 4
When the going gets tough, the cuffed get going … It’s the climactic week of the stressful reality show that shackles chalk-and-cheese contestants together to see who can hold out the longest. Tuesday’s final will see one pair claim the £100,000 prize but first, the five remaining duos must try not to fall out while going on old-school UK holidays. Graeme Virtue

Linda Cardellini in DTF St Louis. Photograph: SkyDTF St Louis

9pm, Sky Atlantic
Linda’s a “Go-Getter”. At least that’s the name of her preferred smoothie at Jamba Juice. But it also describes her energy with Clark, and their role-playing affair, in a suburban satire where everybody and everything’s off-kilter. As DTF user “Modern Love” (a brilliant Peter Sarsgaard) says: “No one’s normal. It just looks that way from across the street.” Ali Catterall

Small Prophets

10pm, BBC Two
Will Michael find out what happened to Clea in this finale? That was why he originally made the prophets come to life – but he has yet to actually ask them a question. He needs to hurry up: they are beginning to look unwell and Kacey drained them by asking: “Will I ever be in Neighbours?” HR

Rooster

10pm, Sky One
Steve Carell’s surprisingly sweet comedy continues after college lecturer Katie (Charly Clive) accidentally set her cheating ex-husband’s faculty house alight. Will celebrity-author dad Greg (Carell) get her off the hook? Maybe, if he surrenders to the college dean’s wish for him to stay and teach. HR

Trying

10.40pm, BBC One
It’s a buy-in of an old Apple TV show, so this isn’t being hyped as what it really is: the best comedy on the BBC right now. Another casually exquisite double bill sees Jason and Nikki (Rafe Spall and Esther Smith) explore their different personalities as parents, Meanwhile, their feckless mate Freddy (Oliver Chris) attends Alcoholics Anonymous by mistake. Jack Seale

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