Dispatches

Channel 4, 8pm

Dispatches asks whether British Airways is still the world's favourite airline. In the past 18 months, the airline has been found guilty of involvement in a price-fixing cartel. A recent study showed that it had one of the worst records for punctuality, and that it was 50 per cent more likely to lose a bag than the average European airline. The opening of Terminal 5 at Heathrow was a letdown, and the airline is believed to have cancelled more flights than any of its main European competitors so far this year. But look on the bright side. At least it's not Alitalia.

Wired

ITV1, 9pm

It's been a while since there has been such an unashamed example of ratings- grabbing old-school rubbish on television. Set in the City of London, Wired revolves around a vicious shark of the most unpleasant sort (Laurence Fox) plotting a multimillion-pound fraud on a bank. With his combination of blackmail, torture, sexism and bad manners, he's so evil he positively hisses. But hot on his tail is a dashing police officer from the fraud squad (Toby Stephens), who is handsome, debonair, louche and heroic. Against a cartoon-banking background, the villain plots villainously while the hero endeavours to thwart him. It dispenses entirely with real life; the dialogue comes at you in arch gobbets of thriller-speak and it is deeply naff from start to finish. But here's the thing: it is also weirdly compelling.

The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall

Channel 4, 9pm

On April 11, 2003, a young British peace activist in Gaza was fatally wounded by an Israeli sniper while he was trying to carry two children to safety. This superb drama follows the efforts of his parents (Stephen Dillane and Kerry Fox) to hold the Israeli Defense Forces accountable and find out why, as the mother puts it, “they were firing at small children, and why they shot an unarmed man who was so clearly trying to see them to safety”. The production is understated, even-handed and performed with total conviction, taking the viewer deep inside the family's feelings of frustration. Sadly, it is productions of this ambition that will be most affected by the cutbacks at Channel 4 next year.

The Dark Side of Fame with Piers Morgan

BBC One, 10.45pm

“My role today,” says Piers Morgan, “is to lift the shroud of mystery and reveal the truth about Nancy Dell'Olio.” To this end, he asks the Italian lawyer - best known as Sven-Göran Eriksson's former girlfriend - when she first became aware she was attractive to the opposite sex, and whether she grew up thinking she could have any man she wanted. But after the initial flirting, he gets down to hard tacks and asks her about Sven's affairs.

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