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Richard Ramirez: The Night Stalker Tapes

9pm, Sky Crime

Between April 1984 and August 1985, Richard Ramirez murdered at least 15 people in California. He died in 2013 while awaiting execution on San Quentin’s death row. In this two-parter, interviews with Ramirez’s wife (Doreen Lioy), friends, female admirers and family members, along with those with his victims’ family members, are aired for the first time. It also examines 80s fan culture, and why he was celebrated by some like a rock star. Hollie Richardson

Viennese Waltzes at the Proms

6.20pm, BBC Two

“One, two, three. One, two, three.” It’s a celebration of waltzes in this special lineup to mark 200 years since the birth of “waltz king” Johann Strauss II. The programme starts with his Die Fledermaus overture and ends with By the Beautiful Blue Danube, performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra. HR

Parenthood

7.15pm, BBC One

Kids can be a mouthful … Parenthood on BBC One. Photograph: BBC/Silverback Films

More remarkable wildlife parenting lessons from David Attenborough, this time in the oceans. He starts on a reef with Banggai cardinal fish – the mother lays eggs in the father’s mouth then he protects them for four weeks, unable to eat anything. And after they hatch, they don’t leave his mouth until it’s safe. HR

Ridley

8pm, ITV1

Adrian Dunbar’s eponymous retired detective returns for a second series. In the opener, a violent jewellery heist escalates into murder when a key witness is killed. Ridley and his former protege, DI Carol Farman (Bronagh Waugh), mount an undercover sting to stop the criminal mastermind behind the gang, before more lives are snuffed out. Ali Catterall

Titanic: Secrets of the Shipwreck

8pm, Channel 4

One for real Titanic heads, this two-part documentary series focuses not on the world’s most infamous maritime disaster, but on subsequent efforts to find its wreck. Texas oil magnate Jack Grimm funded a cutting-edge mission in the 80s – but why was he so insistent on bringing a monkey with him? Hannah J Davies

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

9.15pm, BBC One

Dorrigo is having a very bad week in the penultimate episode of the torrid Australian miniseries. His illicit affair with Amy is rudely interrupted when his call-up papers arrive – and before long he’s shipped off to a Japanese PoW camp to face some brutal realities, leaving him haunted by loss in every sense. AC

Film choice

Jimmy’s Hall, 1.10am, Film4

Absorbing … Jimmy’s Hall on Film4. Photograph: Bernard Walsh

Eight years after his 2006 film The Wind That Shakes the Barley delved into the 1920s Irish war of independence and civil war, Ken Loach returned to the country to assess its uneasy peace circa 1932. In an absorbing, fact-based story, communist Jimmy (Barry Ward) returns from the US to his County Leitrim home to reopen a community hall, which exposes the continuing rift between the working class and “the masters and the pastors” who dictate their lives and block democratic change. Simon Wardell

Live sport

Community Shield Football: Crystal Palace v Liverpool, 2pm, TNT Sports 1 At Wembley Stadium.



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