Tonight's TV highlights

Verdict on 7/7; Baboons with Bill Bailey ; Fight for Your Right Revisited; Classic Albums; Invaders: Cocaine Hippos; In Treatment

Verdict on 7/7
7.30pm, BBC2

Newsnight special examining the findings of the coroner's inquest into the London bombings of 7 July 2005. The hearings, under Lady Justice Hallett, began in October 2010 and are not the first official investigations into the murders of 52 commuters, but they are the first to have allowed surviving victims, and families of the dead, their day in court. The inquest has also examined the question of what the UK's security services knew in advance about the four bombers: ringleader Mohammad Siddique Khan had appeared on MI5's radar, but was apparently discounted as a meaningful threat. Andrew Mueller

Baboons With Bill Bailey
8pm, ITV1

Never mind his musical comedy or panel show team-captaining – Bill Bailey makes an excellent wildlife presenter, as he proved with 2006's Wild Thing I Love You, which explored UK wildlife. This series has seen him go further afield, in Cape Town, following the "rivalry, politics and casual violence" of three baboon troops living among people in the South African city. Tonight, the Smitz tribe plan a daring raid on the recent catch of a local fisherman. Rebecca Nicholson

Fight for Your Right Revisited
12midnight, Channel 4

The Beastie Boys weren't about to launch Hot Sauce Committee Vol 2, their first full, non-instrumental album since 2004, without a fuss, so they've made a short film, starring almost every famous funny person, in which their old selves meet their future selves and have a dance off. It's got Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Will Ferrell, Danny McBride, Elijah Wood, Jack Black, John C Reilly and Seth Rogen in it, plus countless cameos, and it's not your average pop promo. If you didn't see it online, here's your chance. RN

Classic Albums
9pm, BBC4

"Just what is it that you want to do? We want to be free to do what we want to do, and we want to get loaded . . ." Peter Fonda's aptly chose sample is at the centre of one of the more unexpected career turnarounds in the 1990s. Before Screamadelica, it's probably fair to say that no one was expecting Primal Scream to release one of the decade's definitive records; 20 years later, it's no surprise to find the album's artwork on a stamp. The all too infrequent Classic Albums finds producer Andrew Weatherall, Creation's Alan McGee and Bobby Gillespie recalling what they can about this stoned, immaculate gem. Richard Vine

Invaders: Cocaine Hippos
8pm, Nat Geo Wild

Pablo Escobar didn't wear his wealth modestly. Among the amusements on offer at his country estate was a well-stocked private zoo. Nobody's too sure where he got the animals – he was the world's most successful drugs smuggler, after all – but Escobar's death on the run left a huge problem in the shape of his collection of hippopotami, which have gone feral and bred. A documentary that insists on calling the hippos "outlaws" (like Escobar, y'see), and looks at efforts to ensure the territorial, powerful and surprisingly nimble creatures don't get too established in their watery, Colombian home-from-home. Jonathan Wright

In Treatment
10.15pm, Sky Atlantic

Two more new clients to meet as Gabriel Byrne's therapy sessions settle in: Oliver, a young boy whose parents have neglected to tell him that they're divorcing, and Walter, a CEO who has been experiencing a string of panic attacks. Anyone worried about child actors dealing with the weighty issues here would be wise to recall the form established by the excellent Mia Wasikowska from the first series. Walter is another treat – John Mahoney (aka Frasier's dad) in a serious role. RV

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