Many of us are starting to realise just how often women, and people of colour, are written out of history. Here Black Panther's Lupita Nyong'o sets out to investigate the cohort on which the film's Dora Milaje was based: the Agojie, a crack all-female military unit tasked with protecting the King of Dahomey in East Africa. Unsurprisingly, white traders of the 17th and 18th century wrote home regularly about this exotic corps. Yet after the French annihilated Dahomey, its King and most of its citizens, they almost vanished from history – including local history.

The journey Nyong'o takes through what is now Benin is full of fascinating facts and cultural insights (including that the Agojie were revered for their big bottoms). But this is a story more complex than one of simple girl power or historical oddity and it's to Nyong'o's credit that she's prepared to go there.

Eli Stone

7Plus

Another gem turning up on a free-to-air streaming service, this kooky dramedy starring Jonny Lee Miller was grossly underrated in its day and cancelled abruptly after two short seasons. So now's your chance to check it out if you're in the mood for something fun and feelgood – and with some cracking talent on both sides of the camera. The plot goes like this: high-flying lawyer Eli Stone (Miller) suddenly starts (a) getting the urge to do good; (b) hallucinating; and (c) hallucinating George Michael. That means we get a fabulous George Michael hit every episode (starting with Faith) and occasional cameos from the great man himself, along with a case of the week, and Eli's ongoing quest to discover whether he is in fact a prophet, or just has something very wrong with his brain.

RBT

Nine, Wednesday, 7.30pm

That special blend of public service information and laughing at the less fortunate has made RBT and its many siblings enduringly popular. Personally, I'm always delighted to see drivers who fail to indicate feel the full force of the law. And with this episode taking us all over Victoria, we get quite the insight into the more eccentric members of the state's population.

As usual, we're kept hanging as we wait to see who blows 00 and who doesn't. And then are kept hanging that little bit longer to see who, having escaped being pinged for drink driving, subsequently gets nabbed over that bong they pulled 10 days ago. Whatever the crime or misdemeanour, though, the take home message is always the same: People. Don't do dumb sh*t.