TV tonight: Taiwan’s battle with China to hold on to independence

Could tensions between Taiwan and China lead to war? Plus, the last two contestants go head to head in the Apprentice final. Here’s what to watch today

Inside Taiwan: Standing Up to China

9pm, BBC Two

Jane Corbin’s densely packed documentary investigates the precarious situation in Taiwan. President Xi Jinping’s government is accused of misinformation in its campaign to reunify the island with China, while Taiwan’s first female head of state, Tsai Ing-wen – overwhelmingly voted for by young people – faces a big battle to retain independence. Interviewees include a pro-Beijing campaigner and former gang leader, who shares footage of his party members battling pro-independence students. Hollie Richardson

Dragons’ Den

8pm, BBC One

How do you get the dragons to reveal their soft underbellies? Two tried-and-tested methods are via dazzling demos and tasty treats, so things look promising for an ambitious mum with male and female pole-dancers in tow and a pair of media-savvy chocolatiers with samples to spare. Graeme Virtue

Tonight: Customers – Are We Being Served?

8.30pm, ITV1

As figures reveal customer complaints have rocketed to the highest levels in more than a decade, UK businesses seem unfazed by losing billions of pounds. Adam Shaw looks into this David and Goliath battle. Danielle De Wolfe

The Apprentice: The Final

9pm, BBC One

There’s a £250,000 investment on the table and two exhausted finalists, Rochelle and Marnie, who must now face the ultimate humiliation: putting on their glad-rags to pitch their businesses to Lord Sugar at a black-tie event. At least they can call on “support” from returning “friends”, fired earlier. Ellen E Jones

Cold Case Detectives

9pm, ITV

It’s the finale of this real-life Unforgotten, in which police reopen unsolved crimes. As a 40-year-old rape investigation is renewed after DNA testing of a semen stain, this look at the legwork involved in trying to achieve long-delayed justice is curiously emotion-free. Alexi Duggins

A Town Called Malice

9pm, Sky Max

More Costa del Crime capers from Nick Love, revisiting territory he explored nearly 20 years ago in The Business, replete with pastel sportswear and wall-to-wall 80s hits. This week, the Lord family arrive in Spain, and grizzled, dad-dancing patriarch Albert (Jason Flemyng) has some questions for an under-suspicion Gene. Ali Catterall

Film choice

The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller, 1964), 1.40am, Talking Pictures TV
Samuel Fuller’s bold, brutal melodrama takes a wrecking ball to the hidden hypocrisies and crimes of small-town American life. Sex worker Kelly (Constance Towers) reinvents herself as a nurse for disabled children in white-picket-fence Grantville. Despite the police chief’s refusal to believe her career change is for real, she finds a good man who loves her, Michael Dante’s wealthy local bigwig. But all is not as it appears … Fuller’s pulp fiction roots are clear in the plot twists, but there is real humanity at play here, too. Simon Wardell

Live sport

International football: Italy v England 7pm, Channel 4. A Euros qualifier at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona in Naples.

Contributors

Hollie Richardson, Graeme Virtue, Danielle De Wolfe, Ellen E Jones, Alexi Duggins Ali Catterall and Simon Wardell

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