OnlyFans: Inside the Machine

    9pm, BBC Three
    A beacon of sexual liberation and entrepreneurship or a giant exploitation machine? As more and more money is made through adult content on OnlyFans, agencies that offer to manage creators’ careers have begun to cash in. Some do their jobs and help businesses to expand. But con artists and abusers are also on the loose. Amber Haque investigates a worryingly under-regulated sector. Jack Seale

    Canal Boat Diaries

    7pm, U&Yesterday
    The last leg of Robbie Cumming’s first narrowboat journey from Wales into Yorkshire. It’s not plain sailing just yet, though: Rochdale canal is known as the “Everest of canals” and his barge (the Naughty Lass) gets into trouble thanks to a leak in the UK’s deepest canal lock. Hollie Richardson

    Invasion of the Parakeets

    8pm, Channel 4

    Who’s a pretty boy? Chris Packham finds out the truth about parakeets. Photograph: Empress Films

    It’s always a thrill to spot one of the many beautiful ring-necked parakeets in London’s parks, but there are claims that the birds are harming native wildlife across the UK. Chris Packham is the man to investigate what’s really happening, which he does by following a parakeet family as they grow. Have they been unfairly judged? HR

    Brexit: A Very British Civil War

    9pm, BBC Two
    The second and concluding episode of a documentary that has illustrated so many of the flaws of recent British political reporting: most notably the preference for drama and personalities over policy discussion. This time, the horrific murder of Jo Cox by a Brexit supporter should (but doesn’t) lower the temperature of the debate. Phil Harrison

    Dolly: The World’s Most Famous Sheep

    10pm, Channel 4
    “This is why we joke that Bill is Dolly’s mum and I’m Dolly’s dad,” says embryologist Karen Walker. “I essentially did the sperm bit.” It has been 30 years since Scottish scientists changed history with Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. The story of how she came to be and the fame that followed is told by those behind it in a lively documentary. HR

    G’wed

    10.35pm, ITV2
    The raucous scouse sitcom goes full bed-hopping sex farce at a swanky country club hotel. The talented Aimee (Amber Harrison) is there to audition for a new Cilla Black musical, but between the hands-on director, an anonymous online assignation and a mix-up with rooms there are “surprise surprises” all round. Graeme Virtue

    Film choice

    The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion, 2021) 12.05am, BBC Two

    Unspoken emotions … Kodi Smit-McPhee and Benedict Cumberbatch in The Power of the Dog. Photograph: Netflix/Kirsty Griffin/Allstar

    Jane Campion’s sensuous, psychosexual western explores the unspoken emotions that can sway people’s actions. Benedict Cumberbatch (cast fruitfully against type) and Jesse Plemons play ranching brothers in 1920s Montana – charismatic alpha male Phil and taciturn, decent George. After George brings home new bride Rose (Kirsten Dunst) and her teenage son Peter (Kodi Smit-McPhee), Phil’s jealousy ebbs as he mentors the kid in the ways of the cowboy. An undercurrent of homoerotic tension runs through a deep, dark tale. Simon Wardell

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