Ripper Street
9pm, BBC1
Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) returns to Leman Street for an enjoyably restrained and focused tale. A beautiful aristocrat (Laura Haddock) glides into the nick in evening dress, blood smeared on her clavicles. She is calmly open about the fact that, come morning, her husband’s lawyers will overturn her arrest. Did the lady stab a flower girl for sport? When His Lordship arrives to support his wife, it’s clear H Division must pull an all-nighter to solve the case and stop the ruling class cheating justice. Jack Seale
Piers Morgan’s Life Stories
9pm, ITV
New series of the Uriah Heep celebrity interview show in which Morgan ingratiates himself with notable entertainment types who graciously pretend not to notice the trail of slime leading to his chair. Tonight, he returns with Lionel Richie, who discusses his upbringing in a racially intolerant Alabama, the hit-making highs and the marital lows that make up his more than 40 years in show business. But the naturally tabloid Morgan also prods around in the murk, so there’s a bit about the star’s daughter’s rehab, too. Julia Raeside
Rick Stein: From Venice to Istanbul
9.30pm, BBC2
It’s always nice to see the BBC let Rick Stein out of Cornwall to make a series like this, an earnest selection of olive oil-soaked journeys in the eastern Med. This week he’s treating bailout-era Greece to some much-needed good PR, sampling traditional dishes and visiting villages seemingly unchanged since antiquity. As usual, he whips up some treats of his own, including a creamy custard pudding and pan-seared cheese saganaki with a sweet twist. Hannah J Davies
The Fixer
10pm, FOX
What is it with Eric Dane and boats? The former Grey’s Anatomy star is currently captaining The Last Ship on Sky1, and in this new four-part thriller, he’s got the inside scoop on why a gigantic cargo freighter crashed into an oil rig. From behind a series of moustaches, Dane’s paranoid whistleblower recruits a federal accident investigator to help expose a shadowy cabal causing industrial catastrophes for their own financial gain. It’s not a total disaster, but the clunky dialogue and dodgy CG explosions almost scuttle it. Graeme Virtue
Mountain Goats
10.35pm, BBC1
This broad, shouty, defiantly old-fashioned sitcom set in a Glencoe pub has its detractors, but there’s a certain pleasure in seeing an archetypal ne’er-do-well, kilted malingerer Jimmy (Jimmy Chisholm), hurtle so confidently toward disaster. To the dismay of landlady Jules (the formidable Sharon Rooney), Jimmy is hailed as a hero after saving a young hiker from an unlikely accident. But even as the endorsement deals roll in, the incorrigible boozehound has already sown the seeds of his downfall. GV
Radges
11pm, BBC3
Fern Brady (whose standup show People are Idiots was acclaimed at Edinburgh this year) wields a razor-sharp one-liner, as evinced by this gleefully scabrous sitcom focused on a Scottish pupil referral unit for adolescents with behavioural problems. In tonight’s pilot, Mab attempts to pull a Facebook friend at a dinner party, while wallflower Lauren tries to fend off the advances of Erin (sample love letter: “When I look in your eyes, I feel like a volcano that’s gonna explode and fuck up a village”). Ali Catterall
Bad Robots
11.05pm, Channel 4
Hidden-camera prank shows: forever searching for that nonexistent sweet spot between lame and cruel. This one, in which automated gizmos plague humans, also suffers from a surfeit of implausibly gullible victims. Tonight, there’s fun at the expense of immigrants trying to prove their Britishness (when they say “beach” the show’s fake voice recognition software hears “bitch”), while a woman who hasn’t questioned the replacement of a vet with an android looks as if she might cry when it says her pet is dead. JL
Film choice
Film of the day Milk
(11.05pm, BBC2)
Sean Penn delivers a potent performance as gay activist Harvey Milk, who, in 1977, became the first openly gay man elected to public office in the US.
Get On Up
(Tate Taylor, 2014)
9.45am, 10.05pm, Sky Movies Premiere
Tate Taylor’s admiring biopic of the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, treads a somewhat cliched path, but it’s rescued by the iridescent Chadwick Boseman. Following Brown from hard origins (brought up in his aunt’s brothel) to narcissistic fame and fortune via agent Ben Bart (Dan Ackroyd), Boseman essays an extraordinary range of personas and costume-changes, from Mr Dynamite via Soul Brother No 1 to Original Disco Man: a pulsating performance. Paul Howlett
Pride
(Matthew Warchus, 2014)
3.45pm, 8pm, Sky Movies Premiere
There are shades of Made in Dagenham in this feelgood tale of inspirational industrial action. It’s set during the 1984 miners’ strike and recounts the birth of the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners movement, bringing macho miners and metrosexuals together in funny, rousing, sexy union. A triumphant cast includes Bill Nighy’s old-school activist, Paddy Considine’s striker Dai and Imelda Staunton’s indomitable Hefina. PH
Today’s best live sport
US Open Tennis Action from the fifth day of the final grand slam event of the season. 4pm, Sky Sports 3
Euro 2016 Football: Georgia v Scotland Coverage of the Group D match from Tblisi. 4.30pm, Sky Sports 1
Rugby Aid 2015 Charity match at The Stoop involving the likes of Harry Judd and David James. 7pm, BT Sport 1
Rugby League: Leeds Rhinos v St Helens Coverage of the game from Headingley. 7.30pm, Sky Sports 2
