Animal Super Parents
7pm, BBC1
A last dollop of creatures cutely raising their young, packaged to appeal to human families. The theme is shared parenting. Mongooses bring up identical-looking babies collectively, while meerkat elders teach their extended family how to eat scorpions without being stung. But even as Hugh Dennis lathers up the narration, the anthropomorphism can bear darker interpretations: on a beach in the Galapagos islands, what you’ve basically got is a sea lion who runs a chain of nurseries so he can have sex with the manageresses. Jack Seale
Celebrity Fifteen To One
8pm, Channel 4
The first celebrity edition of the early-afternoon quiz show took place 25 years ago, while celeb specials featuring the likes of Ann Widdecombe, Dara O Briain and Johnny Vegas were tried last year. This new run does much the same thing, as Sean Lock, Alex James and Hugh Dennis battle it out for donations to good causes. The thornier issue is the question of “nominations” in which one contestant can pick on another. John Robinson
Ripper Street
9pm, BBC1
No longer the taciturn bruiser of yore, Bennet Drake (Jerome Flynn) is worried about Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen), a man he thinks is “driven by rage”. It’s soon clear he’s right to be concerned, as a seemingly routine murder inquiry, related to Long Susan’s property portfolio Obsidian Estates, takes Reid into dark territory. At times in tonight’s episode, the operatic sense of Important Things Being Conveyed is perilously close to comic – at least until a scene where the sheer brutality of what’s onscreen takes the breath away. Jonathan Wright
Sinatra: All Or Nothing At All
9pm, BBC4
Can Alex Gibney do no wrong? Having made light work of Scientology with Going Clear, the director turns his focus to that other great American magnet for controversy and money, Ol’ Blue Eyes, via this aural and visual tapestry of voices and archive footage; a lengthy, laudable attempt to definitely profile “the poet laureate of loneliness” as one unseen talking head puts it. Ex-wife Mia Farrow and Harry Belafonte are among the interviewees in this fascinating series, far from hagiography and rich with story and rumour. Ali Catterall
Rick Stein: From Venice To Istanbul
9.30pm, BBC2
New series in which Stein takes in a route that covers the length of the old Byzantine empire (which bequeathed the world the fork, apparently) from west to east. We start in Venice, where Stein regrets that former households, which once offered an olfactory plethora of culinary delights, have now sold up to hoteliers; as if programmes like this will stem the touristic tide. Still, it’s mouthwatering telly all round, the scenery matched by Stein’s cuisine as he rustles up dishes including gnocchi with spider crab. David Stubbs
Football: Brighton And Hove Albion v Nottingham Forest
7pm, Sky Sports 5
Domestic football returns with a Championship clash between two sides who underwhelmed last time around. Forest were tipped for a promotion push, but eventually settled into mid-table, while Brighton failed to win their last seven games and ultimately finished just outside the relegation zone. Neither side is being widely tipped for promotion this time around either, though Brighton fans will surely be excited about the acquisition of Real Madrid’s Scottish youth team playerJack Harper. Gwilym Mumford
