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TV tonight: behind the scenes at the Museum of Childhood

<span>Photograph: Simon Lloyd/BBC/Blast! Films</span>
Photograph: Simon Lloyd/BBC/Blast! Films

Secrets of the Museum

8pm, BBC Two

The second episode of this series going behind the scenes at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum alights in its sister museum the Museum of Childhood, in east London. The building is about to undergo a major refurbishment, but first its collection of 30,000 toys and games must be carefully moved, including beloved teddy bear Little Tommy Tittlemouse. Meanwhile, at the V&A, curator Tim hangs a series of 10-metre paintings for an exhibition on Iran, and jewellery curator Clare sources a peony brooch. Ammar Kalia

Wild China With Ray Mears

7.30pm, ITV

Bushcraft specialist Ray Mears is visiting the natural world’s most famously reluctant breeders as this enlightening series continues. The giant pandas of Sichuan province are being rewilded in bamboo-rich forests across China. But can the beasts be persuaded to embrace their new environment? Phil Harrison

Bake Off: The Professionals

8pm, Channel 4

The baking pros competition comes to an end after weeks of showstoppers collapsing and harsh words from judges Benoit Blin and Cherish Finden. The remaining teams must first create chocolate hats, before creating a lavish awards ceremony banquet to feed 60 people. AK

Hemingway

9pm, BBC Four

No stranger to getting blitzed, Hemingway rocks up in 1944 London intent on seeing some action, despite carrying physical and emotional wounds. The penultimate episode of Ken Burns’s stately doc covers adrenalised combat highs in Europe but also the writer’s alarming postwar slump. Graeme Virtue

India’s Rape Scandal

10pm, Channel 4

Reporter Ramita Navai investigates the horrifying statistic that 70 Indian politicians are currently facing charges of crimes against women, including eight of rape. She focuses on two controversial rape cases, speaking to the families involved about how they have faced intimidation to stay silent. AK

Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled

10pm, Dave

Davies’s plan-free show returns for a new series with Angela Scanlon, Darren Harriott, Sarah Keyworth and Dara O’Briain around the fake wood table. As always, there’s no real agenda, which leads to the usual amusing anecdotes including Harriott’s freak-out on a bus and Keyworth’s nightmare at a wedding. Hannah Verdier

Film choice

Doomwatch (Peter Sasdy, 1972), 1pm, Horror Channel
A big-screen treatment for the early 1970s BBC eco-drama series. Alongside returning cast members is new character Dr Del Shaw (Ian Bannen) who is investigating an oil spillage off the Cornish coast, but finding instead that dumped chemicals are causing infections, and the MoD is keeping quiet … Paul Howlett

Today’s sport

Cricket: Welsh Fire v Southern Brave Women’s match, followed by men’s teams at 6pm. 2.30pm, Sky Sports the Hundred

Cricket: West Indies v Pakistan First T20 in the five-match series, from Bridgetown. 3.45pm, BT Sport 1

Olympics 2020 Rowing and swimming finals, including the men’s four. 12.05am, BBC One