MEDITERRANEAN WITH SIMON REEVE
★★★½
8.40pm, SBS

Ah, the Mediterranean. Fried fish. Pristine beaches. Ouzo. Maybe a light-hearted affair. Not if you're Simon Reeve. The intrepid yet unfailingly pleasant traveller tonight escorts us to Libya, where the first bit of sightseeing takes in the motorway roundabout where Daesh likes to crucify infidels. Yes. Crucify. But as always with these journeys there is light and shade, so we also visit the astonishing Leptis Magna before heading off to relatively wholesome Tunisia, and then Sicily. As always, utterly fascinating.

SONGLINES
★★★½
7pm, NITV

Coming from beautiful East Arnhem Land, tonight we have the story of Njambi, the flint spear, as told to the children and grandchildren of his skin-group by elder Roy Wuynumbi Ashley. It's a songline that encompasses all kinds of aspects of life and history and it feels an enormous privilege to witness a contemporary performance of a big chunk of actual ceremony. Intriguing, poetic and enlightening, you're left with a visceral sense of a truly living culture.

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S CRIMINAL GAMES
★★★½
11.15pm, SBS

Trust the French to discover the humour – and the ooh la la – in the often-dour works of Ms Christie. This delightful, light-hearted series, taking classic Christie tales and giving them a distinctly Gallic twist, continues both here and on the SBS catch-up service. The sexual politics can sometimes be alarming, but the whole thing is so good-natured it's hard to take offence. Tonight's reinterpretation is of Murder Is Easy.