TV tonight: Poliakoff's Summer of Rockets trundles to an elegant end

Petrukhin tries to infiltrate a moustachioed cabal and learn the truth about the Shaws in the cold-war drama. Plus: Wild Bill continues. Here’s what to watch this evening

Summer of Rockets
9pm, BBC Two

This cold-war drama by the heavyweight BBC auteur Stephen Poliakoff trundles to an elegant conclusion. Poor Petrukhin is ordered to infiltrate a moustachioed cabal of disaffected former men of influence convinced the Russians have penetrated the secret service. At last, he learns the truth about the Shaws. MB

The Trans Women Athlete Dispute With Martina Navratilova
9pm, BBC One

Earlier this year, when the tennis star Martina Navratilova said allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports was “insane and cheating”, she prompted a great deal of controversy. This film follows Navratilova as she explores the issue in greater detail, meeting trans athletes, scientists and sporting officials to explore why the subject has become so controversial. A look at emerging issues around gender and fair participation in sport. Mike Bradley

The Restaurant That Makes Mistakes
9pm, Channel 4

Lorayne was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia at just 48, and told she had between two and eight years to live. Tonight, in this admirable and moving series, we see how she copes serving at the UK’s first restaurant staffed by people living with dementia. Ali Catterall

Wild Bill
9pm, ITV

Bill Hixon (Rob Lowe) in Wild Bill
Bill Hixon (Rob Lowe) in Wild Bill. Photograph: PR Company Handout

Once you get past the decidedly odd premise – Rob Lowe as a US cop in rural Lincolnshire – this turns out to be a nicely understated, pleasingly melancholic drama. Tonight, a murderer is targeting elderly people, against a backdrop of police redundancies. But there is an equally bleak family tragedy at the heart of the riddle. Phil Harrison

How to Get Away With Murder
9pm, Sky Witness

Back for a fifth season, the solid Shondaland drama puts Prof Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) back in the classroom after her momentous supreme court victory. A new mystery starts to unfold as she selects students – the Keating Four among them – for her new legal clinic at Middleton. MB

Emily Atack: Adulting
10pm, W

Meet Millennial Woman: a real-life, TV-friendly hybrid of Fleabag and Hannah from Girls, whom you may remember from The Inbetweeners (in which she played Charlotte) and I’m a Celebrity. Now Atack is closing in on 30 and, in between prep for her new one-woman show, she has some big life questions, such as: “Am I ready for babies?” Ellen E Jones

Film choice

Zsófia Psotta in White God
Lili (Zsófia Psotta) in White God. Photograph: Proton Cinema

White God (Kornél Mundruczó, 2014), 1.15am, Film4
This Hungarian tale of a teenager and her dog is like the savage Amores Perros crossed with Lassie. Lili (Zsófia Psotta) is sent to live with her father, who promptly abandons her pet, Hagen, in the street. The lovable labrador is captured and brutalised by a dog-fighting gang – at which point events turn very strange indeed. Paul Howlett

Live sport

2019 European Games 10am, BT Sport 1. Multi-sports event held in Minsk.
World Cup cricket: New Zealand v Pakistan 10am, Sky Sports Cricket. Early pace-setters New Zealand are in group stage action.
Tennis: Eastbourne 1pm, BBC Two. Day four of the women’s tournament, won last year by Caroline Wozniacki.

Contributors

Mike Bradley, Phil Harrison, Ali Catterall, Ellen E Jones and Paul Howlett

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