The Big Asian Stand-Up
10pm, BBC Two
Nish Kumar hosts this standup showcase over two nights as part of the BBC’s Big British Asian Summer. It is a smart, very funny alternative to the plodding middle-of-the-road-fest of Live at the Apollo. Highlights of tonight’s show include Eshaan Akbar talking about his parents’ casual racism towards each other and Emily Lloyd-Saini relating an encounter with a flirty waxing technician. Looking for more laughs? Edinburgh Nights with Nish Kumar follows at 11.05pm, in which he takes a look behind the scenes at the festival. Sophie Harris
Britain By Bike With Larry & George Lamb
8pm, Channel 5
The series continues with the Lambs heading to the Isles of Scilly, where they visit tropical gardens and watch a boat race. The good-natured feel is underscored by their amiable father-son relationship. Warning: contains images of Harold Wilson holidaying on the isles in short shorts. David Stubbs
Extraordinary Rituals
9pm, BBC Two
Simon Reeve rounds up some of the most idiosyncratic rites of passage around the world, starting with ceremonies to mark birth, marriage and death – from Japanese babies having the fear shaken out of them by Sumo wrestlers to a bloody coming-of-age in Papua New Guinea and train-surfing in Johannesburg. Mike Bradley
Code 37: Sex Crimes
9pm, More4
Starring Hannah Maes as a fierce sleuth burdened by a team of chauvinistic underlings, Belgium’s answer to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit takes heavy subject matter and treats it lightly. However, in an opening case that starts with a near-naked dead woman, even Maes – the empowered boss – is subject to the camera’s male gaze. Jack Seale
Elvis and the Girl From Vienna
10pm, Sky Arts
In 1956, Elvis Presley caught the attention of aspiring writer Trude Forsher, a Holocaust survivor looking to make her name in Los Angeles. A week after Forsher interviewed the King, the svengali Colonel Parker hired her as a secretary to both men. This film documents the (strictly professional) relationship that followed. MB
Peng Life
11.05pm, Channel 4
Professor Green, Jordan Stephens and Rachel Riley join Elijah Quashie to test a top Segway against a hoverboard and help out in a challenge involving luxury watches. Plus, Quashie’s twin-brother companions compete to bring him the world’s best pizza: will it be the one topped with 23-carat gold or the one that was rustled up at home? MB
Film choice
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson, 2017), 11am and 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere
Rian Johnson concocts a furious and thrilling intergalactic romp as the resistance – under Carrie Fisher’s Leia – confronts the evil First Order in a hyperspace dog-fight, while Daisy Ridley’s rebel, Rey, attempts to coax Mark Hamill’s craggy, careworn Luke to take up the lightsaber once more. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Cycling: BinckBank Tour 2pm, Eurosport 1. Stage five, a 209.2km route from Sint-Pieters-Leeuw to Lanaken in Belgium.
PGA Tour golf: Wyndham Championship 5pm, Sky Sports Golf. Action from North Carolina.
Championship football: Birmingham City v Swansea City 7pm, Sky Sports Main Event. The Swans head to St Andrews.
