TV tonight: an absorbing investigation about the Albanian mafia

An absorbing investigation by John Sparks explains how the Albanian mafia have cornered the increasingly massive UK cocaine market. The reporter methodically sets out how buying direct from South American cartels, violently expunging all rivals and embracing technology have enabled the Albanians to rule. Jack Seale

Children in Need 2026

7pm, BBC One

This year’s bumper portion of worthy charity cheese comes live from Salford. Mel Giedroyc, Sara Cox, Alex Jones, Rylan and Tyler West are on hosting duties and Owain Wyn Evans will be arriving in the studio after his epic 400-mile cycling challenge. Expect the usual mix of heart-tugging appeals and pill-sweetening comedy. Phil Harrison

Unreported World

7.30pm, Channel 4
To Juárez, Mexico, for another dose of misery from the UW team. Guillermo Galdos fronts this latest film, which gains access to the city’s drug cartel and finds gangsters who were recruited at horrifyingly young ages – including a 13-year-old hitman. More cheerfully, he also visits rehabilitation facilities that aim to rescue kids. PH

War

9pm, Sky Atlantic
Morgan and Carla (Dominic West and Sienna Miller) get their day in court, and guess what? It’s not as much fun for them as it is for their respective legal teams. In this penultimate episode, Johnny’s treacheries threaten to overwhelm him, but can he salvage something from the wreckage? A twisty, nasty delight. PH

The Graham Norton Show

10.40pm, BBC One
Cynthia Erivo, David Tennant and Laura Linney are the glam standouts on Norton’s latest guest list. But dark horse Rob Brydon recently starred as a US chatshow host in horror movie Clayface. Might he be emboldened to take over? Noah Kahan provides the music. Graeme Virtue

Grimsburg

11.30pm, Sky One
The darker comedic impulses of this ribald animated sitcom are offset by the growing bond between hard-boiled detective Marvin (Jon Hamm) and his estranged son Stan (Rachel Dratch). When a silly plot device makes them switch bodies, will it strengthen or shatter their rapprochement? GV

Film choice

Being Heumann (Siân Heder, 2026), Apple TV

Judith Heumann may not be a household name in the UK, but in the US she has been called the “mother of the disability rights movement”. In Siân Heder’s energising fact-based drama, she’s portrayed (brilliantly) by our own Ruth Madeley as a complex woman – inspiring but dominating, passionate yet at times difficult to deal with. The film focuses on her leadership of a coalition of the rejected – wheelchair users, blind and deaf activists – who occupied a federal building in San Francisco in 1977 to protest the failure to sign regulations that would ban state discrimination against disabled people. A rousing tale that’s careful to show that the fight for equality is still far from a done deal. Simon Wardell

Live sport

Nations Championship rugby: France v South Africa, 7.15pm, ITV1 At Stade de France in Paris.

Uefa Nations League football: Scotland v North Macedonia, 7.30pm, BBC Two From Hampden Park.