TV tonight: David Attenborough takes our plant obsession to a whole new level

The Green Planet

7pm, BBC One

David Attenborough is back to breathe some life into 2022 with this documentary series all about plants. First up: tropical worlds – from the fierce leafy battle for space on the forest floor of Costa Rica (it gets a bit Little Shop of Horrors at times) to the risky defence tactics of the poison arrow tree in Australia’s most ancient rainforest. Utterly fascinating – and don’t turn your back on those house plants. Hollie Richardson

Around the World in 80 Days

6.10pm, BBC One

Our intrepid trio reach Hong Kong, the commercial heart of the far east. While Abigail is looking forward to a “bath the size of Shropshire”, there’s a “tiny fly in the ointment”: the bank has blocked Phileas’s finances. Things go from bad to worse after Abigail prints an article that stitches him up like the proverbial kipper. Ali Catterall

Vera

8pm, ITV

As the 11th series continues, Vera (Brenda Blethyn) suspects an inside job when a heist at a shipping container results in the death of a security foreman. A mystery involving local drug rings and kidnapping ensues. As ever, much of the joy stems from no-nonsense Vera herself, zipping through the case with one-liners and characteristic grit. Henry Wong

The Tourist

9pm, BBC One

“Are you sure you wanna know who you really are? Because, mate, you’re not gonna like it … ” At the end of last week’s cliffhanger, Luci (Shalom Brune-Franklin) then told the Man (Jamie Dornan) his real name and the fact that he had killed someone. As episode three of the amnesia thriller kicks off, Dornan’s character will be less keen to go the police with Luci. Instead, he’ll be asking her a lot of questions, such as the all-important: “Who the hell are you?” HR

The Killer Nanny: Did She Do It?

9pm, Channel 4

After ITV’s recent documentary about Louise Woodward, here’s another, three-part look at the trial of the nanny convicted of shaking a baby to death 25 years ago. It includes new interviews with the scientist who has changed his mind since testifying against Woodward and the detective who still believes she was to blame. Continues tomorrow. HR

The Man Who Bought Cricket

9pm, Sky Documentaries

This fascinating documentary series detailing English cricket’s farcical flirtation with Texas fraudster Allen Stanford reaches its conclusion. Stanford moves his operation to Antigua, where he discovers the power of cricket in the Caribbean. A tragicomic tale, nicely told. Phil Harrison

Film choices

After the Storm, 12.10am, BBC Two

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s 2016 drama is another of the great Japanese film-maker’s understated, comic tales of fractured families and the ways they find to muddle through life. Hiroshi Abe plays Ryôta, a divorced, one-time novelist now gambling away his earnings as a private detective and neglecting his young son. His encounters with his no-nonsense widowed mother Yoshiko (Kore-eda regular Kirin Kiki) and long-suffering ex-wife Kyōko (Yōko Maki) nudge him slowly towards sorting his life out, though not exactly in the way he was hoping for. Simon Wardell

The Sisters Brothers, 10pm, BBC Two

Jacques Audiard, the French director of Rust and Bone, is not the first person you would expect to do a western. But this 2018 film is a fine piece of work, nodding respectfully to the genre staples of gunplay and glorious vistas while sneaking in moments of existential reflection. John C Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix play Eli and Charlie, the chalk-and-cheese assassin siblings of the title, sent to follow Jake Gyllenhaal’s scout John Morris to California and then kill a chemist, Hermann Warm (Riz Ahmed), who has developed a potentially lucrative method for extracting gold from rivers. SW

Live sport

Snooker:The Masters 1pm, BBC Two. Last year’s winner Yan Bingtao (pictured) plays Mark Williams in a first-round match from Alexander Palace, London.

FA Cup Football West Ham United v Leeds United 1.15pm, ITV. A third-round tie from the London Stadium. Followed by Nottingham Forest v Arsenal at 4.20pm.

Premiership Rugby Union: Wasps v Leicester Tigers 2pm, BT Sport 2. The league leaders visit the Coventry Building Society Arena.

Women’s Super League Football: West Ham United v Man United 6pm, Sky Sports Premier League. From Chigwell Construction Stadium.