TV tonight: Lucy Worsley plays royal dress-up as she dips into the archives (original) (raw)

Lucy Worsley’s Royal Photo Album

9pm, BBC Four

Historian Lucy Worsley continues her penchant for dressing up in period costume with this new documentary special exploring the legacy of the royal photograph. From recreating the Queen’s coronation portrait to delving into the royal ceremonial dress collection and speaking to modern day royal photographers Anwar Hussein and Chris Jackson, Worsley discovers how the royals have cannily adapted to our surveillance- and celebrity-obsessed culture. Ammar Kalia

Absolutely India: Mancs in Mumbai

8pm, Channel 4

Coronation Street alumnus Ryan Thomas and his brothers Adam (formerly of Emmerdale) and Scott (of Love Island fame) continue their harmless if largely inane tour of India. This week, they meet their long-lost cousin Darryl, and enjoy a Bollywood dance lesson. Hannah J Davies

The Great British Sewing Bee

9pm, BBC One

Sportswear Week is heralded by the arrival of Joe Lycett in spangly disco tracksuit. Will this theme bring out the competitive sides of our usually chummy contestants? It might do. That is, if the rugby shirt task, with its fiddly “placket” (buttonhole placing), doesn’t break them first. Ellen E Jones

The Country That Beat The Virus: What Can Britain Learn?

9pm, Channel 4

As “why aren’t we more like South Korea?” becomes more of a coronavirus talking point, this documentary examines the Korean response to the pandemic. Contact tracing, on a scale Britain doesn’t have the infrastructure to match, was the key. Jack Seale

James Brown as seen in Mike Judge Presents ... Photograph: HBO

Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus

9.35pm, Sky Comedy

Beavis and Butthead creator Mike Judge continues his entertaining animated exploration of the history of funk, this time tackling the godfather himself: James Brown. In the first of a two-part episode, we see Brown’s rise in the industry. AK

Code 404

10pm, Sky One

Daniel Mays’ robocop Major continues on the quest for his killer with the help of his partner Carver (Stephen Graham). This week, Dennett has given the pair a new assignment but Major is growing suspicious of his wife Kelly and would rather be following her. Carver manages a distraction: fresh leads on the killer. AK

Film choice

Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016), 9pm, Film4

Alex R Hibbert in Moonlight. Photograph: Allstar/Plan B Entertainment

Barry Jenkins’ heartbreaking drama about black gay masculinity follows a life in three chapters: skinny kid Little becomes lonely, bullied teenager Chiron, who grows into the powerful Black, still wrestling with what, in his world, are necessarily secret desires. It’s a stunning work. Paul Howlett