TV tonight: a group of strangers take on a menacing mountain

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The Summit

9pm, ITV1
Come for the thrill of a group mountain adventure; stay for the entertaining bickering and bitching that instantly break out. Contestants who have never climbed a mountain before – including Ace from Gladiators, who is now an ordained minister – need to reach a peak in New Zealand. But they must complete challenges along the way and leave no one behind, all while a menacing helicopter follows them. Hollie Richardson

MasterChef: The Professionals

8pm, BBC One
An overdue return for the high-end cook-off. As ever, we begin with a terrifying skills test, which is set by the 2016 winner (and now national chef of Scotland) Gary Maclean. Then we meet the new judge on the block as Matt Tebbutt joins Marcus Wareing and Monica Galetti to sample the contenders’ signature dishes. Phil Harrison

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK vs the World

9pm, BBC Three
Pussycat Dolls Kimberly Wyatt and Ashley Roberts are in attendance as the Drag Race spin-off revives its legendary Snatch Game segment – this time with a pageant-themed twist. Pop star Jade joins Alan Carr and Michelle Visage on the judging panel. Jack Seale

999: What Happened Next

10pm, Channel 4
In Surrey, a father goes on the run with his son after a late-night supermarket bust-up. Meanwhile in Suffolk, three masked men have broken into a 70-year-old’s bedroom while she is in it. Through footage and interviews, we see how the police responded and pursued the perpetrators. HR

Trying

10.40pm, BBC One
Another sweet double bill of the adoption sitcom, and Jason and Nikki have got their hearts set on Princess – but they quickly realise how hard it will be for her to be separated from her brother. But first, a death in Jason’s family brings them back to his home in Cornwall, where an old flame still lives. HR

Hugh Grant: Love Language

10.45pm, Sky Arts
This sloppy documentary about Hugh Grant’s life and career might well have been conceived, produced and narrated by AI. And yet … you can’t help but be charmed by clips of Grant’s performances, awards speeches, red carpet appearances, relationships and interviews. It doesn’t skip the, er, grittier parts either – but the omissions of Music and Lyrics and the Paddington 2 finale are unforgivable. HR

Film choice

Alice, Darling (Mary Nighy, 2022), 9pm, Film4

Woman sitting in living room chair nervously looks round

Anna Kendrick is well known for bringing the perk to an array of popular comedies, but Mary Nighy’s drama shows she can plumb the emotional depths, too. She stars as Alice, who goes off on a week’s lakeside break with her best friends Sophie (Wunmi Mosaku) and Tess (Kaniehtiio Horn). But her anxious behaviour, and the continual texts from her self-centred artist boyfriend Simon (Charlie Carrick), hint at a disturbing relationship of coercive control and gaslighting. A chilling, enraging tale about how abuse can come in many forms. Simon Wardell

Queer (Luca Guadagnino, 2024), 11pm, BBC Two

Luca Guadagnino’s take on William Burroughs’s novella plays with the author’s transgressive myth in a steamy, lush drama that features a bravura performance from Daniel Craig. His gay American expat Lee frequents the seedy bars of 1950s Mexico City picking up young men, until the arrival of Drew Starkey’s enigmatic Eugene sees him fall hopelessly in love. It’s a romance of sorts, but one of unrequited lust and surreal goings-on, not least on a trip into the Ecuadorian rainforest in search of ayahuasca and an encounter with Lesley Manville’s wildly off-grid scientist. SW