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TV tonight: the world's best choreographers at work

Danceworks: Firedance – Latin Fever

7.30pm, BBC Four

The engrossing documentary series on the world’s best dance companies and choreographers returns for a second season, opening with Strictly Come Dancing professionals Gorka Márquez and Karen Hauer as they rehearse choreography for a new Latin dance and delve into the uninhibited sensuousness of this discipline of ballroom. The other dancers featured in the series include pioneering Israeli dancer Sharon Eyal and her rave-influenced troupe L-E-V. Ammar Kalia

Jay Blades’ Home Fix

10am, BBC One

Whether lockdown has rekindled your enthusiasm for DIY or simply caused you to run out of excuses for not putting a shelf up, Jay Blades has got your back. In this new series, he will be offering an idiot-proof guide to challenges ranging from the basic (painting) to the complex (upcycling). Phil Harrison

Inside the Factory: Keeping Britain Going

8pm, BBC Two

Celebrating more behind-the-scenes miracle workers, toiling round the clock to keep our cupboards filled. Tonight, Gregg Wallace revisits staff from Manchester’s Essity paper mill (via video calls), which two years ago was making 700,000 toilet rolls daily. Now, it’s 1m rolls a day, every day. Ali Catterall

Gregg Wallace in a Manchester toilet roll factory.
Gregg Wallace in a Manchester toilet roll factory. Photograph: Voltage TV/BBC

Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins

9pm, Channel 4

The celebrity hazing contest comes to a close as Ant Middleton and his fellow hardmen decide which of the six remaining recruits are ready for selection. That means the toughest of all their challenges awaits: a 48-hour interrogation, featuring being locked in cramped dog cages. Who will break? AK

Covid: Our Lockdown in Shanghai

9pm, Smithsonian Channel

A different perspective on lockdown from husband-and-wife film-makers Yu Kung and Crystal Liu as they document six weeks of their self-isolation in Shanghai. As the virus spreads from China, Yu and Crystal explore the lives of their neighbours and how technology is tracking the disease. AK

Normal People

9.10pm, BBC One

In Sweden for Erasmus, Marianne pursues a dom/sub relationship with Lukas (with some controversial deviations from the book). Back in Dublin, Connell enjoys his healthier, but not necessarily happier, coupling with Helen until a funeral reunites our star-crossed lovers. Poor Helen! Ellen E Jones

Film choice

Suburbicon, 10pm, BBC Two
Director George Clooney reworked a Coen brothers script for this amusing if awkward black comedy about 50s American suburbia. It centres on Matt Damon’s apparently regular guy Gardner, his wife and her twin (both played by Julianne Moore) – and a horrifying act of violence. Paul Howlett