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TV tonight: Timothy Spall stars in dark drama about true story of seduction and murder - The Guardian

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The Sixth Commandment

9pm, BBC One

Timothy Spall stars in this dark drama by Sarah Phelps based on the horrifying real-life case of Peter Farquhar, an elderly, deeply closeted gay academic who was seduced, exploited and eventually murdered by too-good-to-be-true student Ben Field (Éanna Hardwicke). Spall is superb as the melancholy Farquhar, too willing to take Field’s initial admiration at face value and too slow to notice the turning tide in their relationship. Phil Harrison

Extraordinary Portraits With Bill Bailey

8.30pm, BBC One

Bailey hosts a third series of this show in which artists create portraits of deserving subjects: this time, it’s NHS-themed. Martin is a trauma surgeon specialising in injuries caused by knife and gun crime. Sculptor Nick Elphick is keen to capture his selfless essence; the reaction to the unveiling is very moving. PH

University Challenge

8.30pm, BBC Two

The pressure is on Amol Rajan as he takes the reins from Jeremy Paxman for the beloved quiz show’s 52nd series (“I have spent years rearranging Monday nights around the need to be in front of my TV at 8.30,” he says). Battling it out in the opening round: Trinity College, Cambridge and the University of Manchester. Hollie Richardson

Earth

9pm, BBC Two

Chris Packham takes great pleasure in twisting our collective melon as he plunges, often mind-bogglingly, into the farthest reaches of geological time. Explored across a series, via five crucial moments of crisis, transformation and rebirth, he says “everything that exists now is here because something else has died”. Far out. PH

Chris Packham on a boulder in front of a mountain range dressed entirely in varying shades of beige

Long Lost Family

9pm, ITV1

Long Lost Family remains that rare thing: a tearjerker show that somehow never feels emotionally manipulative. Nicky Campbell helps a woman reconnect with the son she gave up for adoption four decades ago, while Davina McCall meets Paul, who is trying to shed light on his late mother’s first marriage. Katie Rosseinsky

Catching My Rapist

10.45pm, ITV1

The stomach-turning story at the centre of this one-off is unfortunately not hard to believe: a young woman exploited by the man promising her work. Using reconstructions and testimonials from the woman herself, it is a harrowing, unsensationalised look at her five-year fight for justice. Hannah J Davies

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