What’s on TV

SHE WALKS WITH APES (2020) 9 p.m. on BBC America. “As a kid, I was really desperate to find strong women role models that I could look up to,” Iulia Badescu, a Canadian primatologist, says in this documentary. She went through a Joan of Arc phase, and a Queen Elizabeth I phase. And then she found Jane Goodall. The documentary looks at the legacies of Goodall, Dian Fossey and Birute Galdikas, three women who found fame doing groundbreaking primatology work in the 20th century. It explores the influence of their studies on three younger researchers, including Badescu. The documentary is narrated by the actress Sandra Oh.

JANE GOODALL: THE HOPE (2020) 9 p.m. on National Geographic. For a deeper dive on Goodall, see this new National Geographic documentary, a follow-up to “Jane” (2017). “Jane” focused on Goodall’s formative years in the 1960s; “The Hope” looks at Goodall’s activist work from the 1980s onward.

SEAT AT THE TABLE WITH ANAND GIRIDHARADAS 10 p.m. on Vice TV. The writer Anand Giridharadas, a former columnist for The New York Times, hosts this new weekly talk show, which covers news and culture. Wednesday night’s debut episode is set to include interviews with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Seth MacFarlane, plus a performance by Taylor Mac.