Wednesday’s best TV

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Midsomer Murders8pm, ITV

It may have reached the milestone of 17 series but Midsomer continues to be recommissioned. Perhaps that’s because, while it wears the clothes of a contemporary cop show, it so often has the atmosphere of an Agatha Christie whodunnit. Witness tonight’s series opener and the way it delights in the brilliantly daffy notion of death by booby-trapped roulette wheel. But how is this spin of the wheel linked to deceased crime writer George Summersbee and a recently discovered manuscript? Jonathan Wright

The Great British Sewing Bee – Class Of 20148pm, BBC2

If watching the intricate business of someone you don’t know sewing a miniature pair of trousers makes you reach for the fast-forward button, look away now. If you have a passing interest in needlework though, here’s a celebration of the last series of the crafty challenge. Charismatic host Claudia Winkleman looks back on the best moments, from the sewers’ humble beginnings as they fashion a simple skirt to the moment when Heather Jacks was awarded the golden mannequin. Hannah Verdier

Churchill: A Nation’s Farewell9pm, BBC1

No one who saw it would forget the dock cranes at the Port of London lowering their jibs in silent respect as Winston Churchill’s funeral barge sailed past. Except it wasn’t a spontaneous gesture; the dockers (who’d normally have thrown him another kind of V-sign), had to be bribed to do so. On the 50th anniversary of the icon’s death, Jeremy Paxman talks to everyone from family members to, yep, Boris Johnson, in a partially myth-busting exercise that ultimately can’t help but doff its cap. Ali Catterall

Wolf Hall9pm, BBC2

Second of six episodes in this exemplary adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Tudor saga. Thomas Cromwell (Mark Rylance) pleads for Wolsey (Jonathan Pryce) in London while the aforementioned cardinal languishes in Esher. We know how this ends but the story through Cromwell’s eyes has renewed interest, largely because, even discounting the quality of the source material, Mark Rylance is the best actor of his generation by a hundred miles and the whole show hangs off his unassumingly brilliant shoulders. Julia Raeside

Grimm9pm, Watch

Season four of the supernatural crime drama loosely based on the Brothers Grimm fairytales begins. Having lost his monster-hunting powers to enemy Adalind at the end of last season, Detective Burkhardt takes Trubel, a fellow Grimm – a guardian of the realm between the human and mythological worlds – under his wing. Unfortunately she’s got some explaining to do after being caught up in the murder of former FBI agent Weston Steward. If that’s not enough, there’s a tentacled creature on the loose who is out to suck up government secrets. Hannah J Davies

Up The Women10pm, BBC2

Industrial inaction breaks out at Helen’s factory as female workers demand their microscopic salaries be increased to a pittance. With working women taking to the streets, Margaret straps on a sandwich board and joins them to elicit support for the suffragette cause. Sadly, her supposedly rousing invective couldn’t rouse a dormouse, with even Eva and Myrtle relying on a chemically curious elixir to keep awake. Luckily, at least one member of the circle is a little more adept at socking it to The Man. Mark Jones

The Legacy10pm, Sky Arts 1

Penultimate episode of the Danish family drama, a Dynasty for the Dogme set. The family continue to cope with the fallout from the decision to award Signe the estate, as well as the revelation that Emil had an affair with Frederik’s wife. Frederik has retreated to the guest room and is again being plagued by visions of his mother, while Emil has managed to get himself in deep with Thai gangsters. Gro, meanwhile, is trying to push on with her career, but has to take ruthless measures when an old acquaintance blocks her path. Gwilym Mumford