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The Victorian Slum, BBC2.
The Victorian Slum, BBC2 Photograph: Joe Sarah/BBC/Wall To Wall Media Limited/Joe Sarah
The Victorian Slum, BBC2 Photograph: Joe Sarah/BBC/Wall To Wall Media Limited/Joe Sarah

Monday’s best TV: Panorama; The Victorian Slum; Derren Brown: Miracle

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The inside story of the collapse of BHS, a disturbing look at the flipside of the industrial revolution – and can the TV trickster replicate the feats of hands-on healers?

BHS: How Did It Happen? – Panorama
8.30pm, BBC1

While most chuckled at David Brent sweetening the pill of mass redundancy by trumpeting his own promotion, one might imagine Philip Green was frantically taking notes. Despite BHS collapsing to cause 11,000 job losses, the business practices that brought down the high-street mainstay helped make Green very wealthy. Jane Corbin reports on the events that saw Green live the high life as BHS staff faced the dole queue. Mark Gibbings-Jones

The Victorian Slum
9pm, BBC2

“We’re in debt before we do anything…” The BBC does well at living history – the costumes, the food, the backstory – and it does so again here. Michael Mosley takes us to a Victorian slum, recreated in east London, and introduces us to the flipside of the industrial revolution: the doss house and its “tuppenny hangover” sleeping arrangements. For the participating families, the 1860s are a slightly scary trip. Above all, money must be earned immediately. John Robinson

Derren Brown: Miracle
9pm, Channel 4

Taking his lead from US evangelical preachers, the trickster’s latest stage show – filmed last year in London – sees him aim to cure his audience’s ailments and afflictions by laying his healing hands on them. Despite his previous scepticism about such healers (as seen in his 2011 documentary Miracles For Sale), Brown now appears to be adopting their exact techniques. But is this smart repurposing or just patent hypocrisy? Hannah J Davies

Drifters
10pm, E4

Jessica Knappett’s comedy about three skint housemates returns for a fourth series on filthily good form. Meg (Knappett) is disgusted to find she’s dating a gentleman, Bunny is convinced she’s psychic and Laura starts a new job flogging broadband, which offers up a sea of eligible men. The action comes together in a disastrous Halloween party, complete with sexy outfits, a gloriously tasteless seance and the appearance of handsome neighbour Scott. Hannah Verdier

Gino’s Hidden Italy
8pm, ITV

Gino D’Acampo, the cheerfully declamatory Italian chef from This Morning, is spreading his wings. In this new series, he’s exploring the culinary traditions of some less-visited corners of his native land. The tone is jaunty but there are plenty of good tips, too: most notably that the best way to cook well is to have good ingredients and keep it simple. Given the culinary virtuosity that often decorates our screens, that’s an encouragingly achievable message. Phil Harrison

The Great Butterfly Adventure: Africa To Britain With The Painted Lady 9pm, BBC4

You might have seen a painted lady butterfly. You may even have admired it: they’re very pretty. You may not have known, though, that they’ve come a long way: the painted lady migrates to Britain (among other places) every year from the mountains of Morocco. This absorbing film, presented by Martha Kearney, attempts to figure out how – and why – the fragile butterfly undertakes this difficult journey. Andrew Mueller

Dara O Briain’s Go 8 Bit 10pm, Gold

Have you ever been relegated to watching everyone else play a video game because they’re one controller short? This show epitomises that feeling, as you watch comedians battle it out on everything from Tetris to Temple Run. Luckily, O Briain can host the heck out of a panel show, so it shouldn’t work but somehow it does. This week, Jason Manford joins the teams for a game of Fifa 16 and the very retro Asteroids. Grace Rahman

Film Choice

Heli, (Amat Escalante, 2013)

1.30am, Film4

There’s an all-too-realistic documentary style to Escalante’s harrowing drama that makes it even harder to watch. It’s an everyday tale of torture, drugs and death in Mexico, with Armando Espitia as the likable young man scratching a living with his wife, their baby, his father and sister, when a stash of cocaine dumps them into a terrifyingly violent underworld of gangsters and corrupt cops. Paul Howlett

Live sport

Tennis: Shanghai Masters

The opening day’s play at the Qizhong Forest Sports City Arena.

6am, Sky Sports 1

Test Cricket: India v New Zealand

Live coverage of the third day of the third Test at Holkar Stadium in Indore, central India.

6am, Sky Sports 5

Football World Cup Qualifier: Faroe Islands v Portugal

All the action from the Group B fixture (kick-off 7.45pm).

7.40pm, Sky Sports 1

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