Big Dreams Small Spaces
7pm, BBC2
You don’t mess with Monty Don, who’s back for a new series teaching amateur gardeners some hard lessons. One of those, Valerie, is ready to transform her backyard, but will a high wall be the solution to her needs? Frazzled parents Helen and Dax need an outside space that works for the family. Their digging exposes a bees’ nest and a second world war hand grenade, but there are bigger shocks when Don looms at their apple tree with a saw. Hannah Verdier
Top of the Pops: The Story of 1983
9pm, BBC4
This was a year when TOTP was a venerable bastion under siege from incoming marauders. The proliferation of the music video, gleefully seized upon by a generation of poseurs, threatened its hegemony. The Beeb responded by refreshing the presenter roster, dismissing the in-house dancers – and the show flourished. Interviewees in this inevitably entertaining doc include members of the Smiths, New Order and Kajagoogoo. Andrew Mueller
The Big Fat Quiz of Everything
9pm, Channel 4
No sooner has the Big Fat Quiz Of The Year conga’d by, than a new series returns with more questions pertaining to the past 100,000 years of human history. Jonathan Ross, David Walliams, Katherine Ryan, Aisling Bea, Noel Fielding and Richard Ayoade will once again be answering headscratchers posed by Jimmy Carr, such as why do tennis players wear white? And what diet did William the Conqueror attempt? Ali Catterall
NCIS
9pm, Fox
The military crime drama that’s reliably never quite dull returns for a 14th series. First up, the team investigate a car explosion that leaves a man dead. Turns out it’s linked to an undercover operation targeting a corrupt businessman in Buenos Aires. Meantime, inscrutable special agent Gibbs tries to recruit new agents, which proves tricky as he’s “very particular” about who he’ll employ. For true fans, two vintage episodes precede this opener. Jonathan Wright
Delicious
9pm, Sky1
The soapy Dawn French chef/sex drama continues, and emotions are running unsurprisingly high as friends and family descend upon she and Iain “Game Of Thrones” Glen’s emotionally tangled Cornish idyll for a funeral, with one or two relationships taking a new turn, notably that of Michael and Teresa. Elsewhere, Gina (French) is given the opportunity to show off her considerable culinary skills, while the reading of the will throws up some surprises. Ben Arnold
Lip Sync Battle UK: Danny Dyer v Craig Revel Horwood
10pm, Channel 5
Much like a Comic Relief sketch, Lip Sync Battle is a bit of fun that hinges on the participating celebrity being willing to take the absurd enterprise seriously and to laugh at themselves. No surprise that Vic Reeves and Johnny Vegas have been pretty good at it in the past. Tonight, Professor Green and Mel B host a must-watch edition, in which the Strictly judge takes on the nation’s favourite geezer. John Robinson
Graham Norton’s Big Red Chair
10.35pm, BBC1
Whether you love it or loathe it, the last 10 minutes of The Graham Norton Show – where muggles tell the nation an anecdote and risk the indignity of being flung backwards on the whim of the host – is a distinctly British talkshow tradition. There have been a whopping 500 red-chair stories, and this behind-the-scenes special sees repeats of Graham’s favourites, and interviews with those who have faced the infamous flip. Grace Rahman
Film choice
Chronicle (Josh Trank, 2012) 12.55am, Channel 4
Trank’s debut feature has three kids investigating a large hole in the ground that turns them into superheroes. It’s filmed “found footage” style, like Kick-Ass via The Blair Witch Project. The screenplay by Max Landis (son of director John) plays cleverly with the teen/super powers dynamic and there are fine performances from Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell and Michael B Jordan.
Live sport
Premiership Rugby Union: Newcastle Falcons v Bath, 7pm, BT Sport 1 Action from Kingston Park.
FA Cup Football: West Ham United v Manchester City, 7.30pm, BBC1 The Hammers host Pep Guardiola’s Citizens in the third round (kick-off 7.55pm).
Test Cricket: Australia v Pakistan, 11.30pm, BT Sport 3 The final day of the third Test gets under way in Sydney.
