Storyville: Waco – Madman or Messiah
9pm, BBC Four
The opener in this two-part documentary account of the 1993 siege at Mount Carmel, near Waco, Texas, will leave you in no doubt that David Koresh, the dangerously charismatic leader of a splinter faction of the Branch Davidian sect, was anything other than dangerously delusional. But it becomes clear that he and many of “the chosen” did believe he was the Messiah. Chilling newsreel footage and survivors’ present-day perspectives on events contribute to a tale of tragedy and cunning. Mike Bradley
Tom Kerridge’s Fresh Start
8pm, BBC Two
A trim Tom Kerridge – on a recent Desert Island Discs he talked of losing 12 stone – rings in the new year with an inspiring six-part food show that brings together eight families who want to ditch convenience foods and learn to cook delicious homemade meals. The opening menu features an irresistible Mediterranean salad and succulent Greek-style roast lamb. MB
Bradley Walsh and Son: Breaking Dad
8pm, ITV
After pinballing through time in Doctor Who, Bradley Walsh embarks on a different kind of voyage in this four-parter. His 20-year-old son, Barney, has hired a campervan – a Breaking Bad reference? – so the pair can try new experiences en route from Los Angeles to New Orleans. First up: skydiving. Graeme Virtue
The Twinstitute
8.30pm, BBC Two
Diet or exercise to lose weight? Cram or revise over days to fix information? The neat idea in this new series is for identical twins to try contrasting approaches. Twins Chris and Xand van Tulleken present, and personally test whether meditation or screaming profanities works best as a pain inhibitor. Jonathan Wright
What Britain Bought in 2018
9pm, Channel 4
At the close of a disastrous Christmas for the high street, Mary Portas looks back at the year and finds out which events and trends of 2018 had an impact on our shopping choices: from veganism and Gareth Southgate’s waistcoats to a female Tardis wrangler and fears over a plastic apocalypse. Ali Catterall
The Big Fat Lies About Diet & Exercise
9pm, Channel 5
At two hours in length, it is a bit of a marathon – maybe watch while jogging on a treadmill – but this mythbuster lucidly reiterates all the dietary advice you think you know yet probably don’t heed. If it guilt-trips you into changing even one thing about your lifestyle, that must surely be good. Jack Seale
Film choice
Jane Eyre (Cary Joji Fukunaga, 2011), 1.45pm, BBC One
This atmospheric telling of Charlotte Brontë’s gothic romance stars Mia Wasikowska as a pale, oppressed Jane, sent to live at the forbidding manor of Michael Fassbender’s Rochester, where Judi Dench’s housekeeper, Mrs Fairfax, holds sway. The moors are pleasingly bleak, and it is all choked with repressed longings. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Premier League football: Newcastle Utd v Manchester Utd 7.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event. Top-flight action from St James Park, as the visitors look to get their season back on track.
Test cricket: Australia v India 11pm, BT Sport 1. Opening day of the fourth Test.
Tennis: Brisbane International 3am, Eurosport 1. Day four of the men’s tournament, held ahead of the Australian Open.
