Animal Super Parents
7pm, BBC1
If you like your wildlife docs one part wacky to two parts gentle, delivered to the familiar strains of pop instrumentals and voiced by Hugh Dennis, this U-rated collection of creatures rearing their young should appeal. Episode one of three focuses on the single parents of the animal kingdom, providing answers to niche questions including: “Why do koalas lace their joeys’ food with faeces?”, and “Why do slow lorises cover their babies in poison?” After tense lion v zebra struggles? Best look elsewhere. Hannah J Davies
RHS Flower Show Tatton Park 2015
7pm, BBC2
Monty Don and his green-fingered posse head for the annual Cheshire bash, a northern powerhouse of horticultural excellence. In this first of two shows, we see small but imaginative “back-to-back plots”, and Monty meets a man who knows his oversized onions, proving just how competitive things can get in the vegetables tent. Elsewhere, Carol Klein offers advice on pot plants, James Wong checks out elegant grasses, and Joe Swift views sheds that double as garden hideaways. Jonathan Wright
Weather Terror: Brits in Peril
8pm, Channel 5
Or … when holiday weather attacks. This new series looks at the Brits abroad who get unexpectedly entangled in matters meteorological. The Brimble family’s camping trip in the south of France goes badly awry when torrential flash flooding sees their camp swept away, leaving them perilously stranded for a gruelling 14 hours before help arrives. Elsewhere, a killer storm strikes a Belgian music festival, and a pair of travellers to the Philippines are hit by the most devastating typhoon on record. Bim Adewunmi
Live Athletics: London Anniversary Games
8pm, BBC2
This event at the Olympic Stadium doubles as part of the Diamond League series while also marking the third anniversary of the 2012 games. The memories will be hard to live up to: Jessica Ennis-Hill, Mo Farah and Usain Bolt are all expected to take part, though Ennis-Hill is nowhere near her 2012 form, Farah is dogged by controversy over his coach, and Bolt has had a mediocre season blighted by injury. All three will be trying to prove a point tonight. David Stubbs
Whatever Happened to Rock’n’Roll?
10pm, BBC4
What could be more rock’n’roll than a panel debate about rock’n’roll? That, evidently, is where we’re now at. For the past 20 years, rock’n’roll has become less a limitless medium for those with no other mode of expression, but something extremely self-aware instead. Lauren Laverne takes the temperature of the form in a time it is being usurped (cut to footage of Jay Z or Kanye at Glastonbury). Eric Burdon and Jehnny Beth from Savages guest – and yes, Noel Gallagher contributes. John Robinson
The Legacy
10pm, Sky Arts
Last episode in the second series of the excellent Danish import. Thomas, who has a touch of the Father Jacks about him, is in hospital and refusing treatment. Meanwhile, Gro, played by the wonderful, Helen Mirren-esque Trine Dyrholm, finds herself cornered as her siblings discover her subterfuge in forging her mother’s artwork. Children are a recurring feature of this episode, as if to reinforce the message of this series: that kids will have their lives complicated by the failings of their parents – their unfortunate “legacy”. David Stubbs
Wanted: a Very Personal Assistant
9pm, BBC3
Disabled twentysomethings enjoy the same highjinks as their able-bodied counterparts? Who would have thought it? This two-part documentary – part of BBC3’s Defying the Label season – sees applicants for personal assistant vacancies challenged to work as carers for disabled people of the same age. In this opening episode, standup comic Josh challenges carer Francesca with his risque humour, and Denny Lee faces up to the more intimate aspects of caring for her client Michael’s needs. Phil Harrison
Film choice
The Science of Sleep
(Michel Gondry, 2006) 11.30pm, BBC2
Another strange, lovely alternative romance from the director of Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind. It’s the story of Stéphane (Gael García Bernal), who moves back to the family home in France, and into a fantasy demi-world where he hosts his own cardboard-constructed TV talk show. Meanwhile, he begins an awkward, touchingly innocent relationship with the girl next door, Charlotte Gainsbourg’s Stéphanie. It’s a tender, charming thing. Paul Howlett
Good Morning, Vietnam
(Barry Levinson, 1987) 11.40pm, Channel 4
Robin Williams’s supercharged performance as a US army radio DJ in ’Nam is hot as a napalm drop; the broadcast routines are brilliant, stream-of-consciousness patter that rile the authorities and cheer the GIs. Away from the mic it’s mainly sentimental twaddle about his attachment to a young Vietnamese and her family, set to a great 60s soundtrack. PH
Today’s best live sport
Football: Real Madrid v Manchester City The International Champions Cup Football continues at Melbourne Cricket Ground. 10.45am, Sky Sports 1
Cycling: Tour De France Coverage of stage 19, a 138km journey from Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to La Toussuire – Les Sybelles. 1pm, ITV4, British Eurosport
World Matchplay Darts The tournament, won in 2014 by Phil Taylor, continues. 7pm, Sky Sports 1
Rugby League: Super League Coverage of a clash on the last day of the season. 7.30pm, Sky Sports 3
