TV tonight: exploring Marilyn Monroe’s links to organised crime

A two-part series shows how the film star was drawn closer to the mob by prominent men in her life. Plus: Amanda turns detective in Amandaland. Here’s what to watch this evening

Marilyn and the Mob

10pm, Channel 4
In the golden era, it was far from unusual for Hollywood’s elite to be rubbing shoulders with underground crime’s most notorious figures – and this depressing two-parter focuses on the links Marilyn Monroe had throughout her life. She’s brought closer to the mob via production heads, Frank Sinatra and even President John F Kennedy. Hollie Richardson

Amandaland

9pm, BBC One
Amanda (Lucy Punch) has become a brand ambassador! But as she chucks out her old sofa to make space for the new one she has been given to promote, she finds a used condom. Cue awkward chats with her kids, poor Anne, ChatGPT and even mummy Felicity. HR

Surgeons: At the Edge of Life

9pm, BBC Two
A nerve-rackingly rare procedure in this week’s visit to the surgery theatre: one patient needs a double transplant for their pancreas and kidney. Elsewhere, a woman gets part of her tongue removed to help stop an aggressive cancer. More incredible – if slightly queasy – high-risk hospital work. HR

A Taste for Murder

9pm, ITV1
This escapist crime drama shamelessly ticks multiple boxes: Warren Brown plays a widowed, fish-out-of-water detective who reconnects with his daughter in Capri while solving crimes, learning to cook and potentially finding new love. That said, it’s a perfectly sturdy distraction. This week, a scuba-diving accident has links to a crypto scam. Jack Seale

Peelers: The PSNI for Real

10pm, BBC Two
Shown earlier this year in Northern Ireland but now on the iPlayer, this intense, visceral look at policing in Belfast makes Blue Lights look like Miss Marple. Stephen Nolan is embedded with officers and gets an up-close view of everything, from a bleach attack to a tense incident involving a rehoused sex offender and an angry mob. Phil Harrison

Andrew Davies Remembers: A Very Peculiar Practice

10pm, BBC Four
Starring Peter Davison, Barbara Flynn and David Troughton and set in a fictional university, A Very Peculiar Practice was an exemplary 80s dark comedy that railed, in a mildly abstracted and surreal way, against the priorities and privations of Thatcherism. Writer Andrew Davies recalls its creation here with the whole series made available on the iPlayer. PH

Live sport

Women’s T20 cricket: England v New Zealand, 6pm, Sky Sports Main Event The first in a three-match series.

Europa League final: SC Freiburg v Aston Villa, 6pm, TNT Sports 1 From Istanbul.