The Met: Policing London
9pm, BBC1
To Brixton and Lambeth, where gangs are a never-ending challenge, and Camden, where muggers on mopeds are out of control. Both require carefully planned intelligence operations, which means a lot of men in offices looking at pinboards, followed by men in flak jackets carrying out dawn raids. Neither makes for gripping telly. Nor do the daily duties of two burger-chomping patrol partners – until they arrive at the scene of a stabbing before the ambulance crew, and we’re reminded of what’s been at stake all along. Jack Seale
Japan: Earth’s Enchanted Islands
9pm, BBC2
As a rule, any travelogue headlined by the word “enchanted” should be avoided on the grounds that it’s probably also going to contain the phrase “land of contrasts”. As another rule, however, BBC nature series are unmissable, and indeed this is. This final episode reaches Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island, and its wildest – dissuaded by the winters, the Japanese didn’t properly populate it until the 19th century. When cold Hokkaido is a bitter kingdom of bears, but in summer it becomes Japan’s agricultural breadbasket. Andrew Mueller
Vicious
9pm, ITV
Stuart and Freddie’s nuptials loom. By default, the best man duties fall to Ash (Iwan Rheon), their gormless neighbour who bears an uncanny resemblance to Game Of Thrones sadist-in-chief Ramsay Bolton. Can Ash pull off a decent stag? (Probably best not to let him arrange the wedding.) While the critical reaction to ITV’s broad sitcom has been cattier than any of the sniping between acid queens Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi, the second season has seen a subtle improvement in quality without abandoning the constant venom. Graeme Virtue
How To Be Bohemian With Victoria Coren Mitchell
9pm, BBC4
In this final part, Coren Mitchell explores whether it’s possible to be bohemian amid a conformist sea of WG Grace beards, artisanal ales and tattoos. Are we really, as that Doctor Who-in-waiting Grayson Perry suggests, “all bohemians now”? Among his fellow interviewees, Molly Parkin relates how, among bohos, “sex is just a friendly gesture, like shaking hands”, while Richard Coles makes a somewhat surprising case for the Church as “a profoundly radical, countercultural, world-challenging organisation”. Ali Catterall
True Detective
9pm, Sky Atlantic
The crime drama returns for a second season, relocating from creepy “Carcosa” to sleazy southern California. Such a reboot was always going to be tough to pull off, given the popularity of that first season, and this opener hardly makes things easy for the viewer, introducing a tangle of characters, among them Vince Vaughn’s dodgy casino boss, Rachel McAdams’s hard-nosed detective and Colin Farrell’s compromised cop. Eventually, though, its disparate plot strands come together, with the discovery of a dead businessman. Gwilym Mumford
Man Down
10pm, Channel 4
The second series of Greg Davies’s crude, clever comedy continues to deliver, despite the hole left by Rik Mayall. This week, Davies’s world-worn protagonist Dan is horrified to discover that his former school bully has the lead role in a play that he is attending with his students. Cue group therapy and a lesson in resilience from Aunt Nesta (Stephanie Cole). As per, disaster-prone pals Jo (Roisin Conaty) and Brian (Mike Wozniak) get into a variety of scrapes, too. Hannah J Davies
My Mad Fat Diary
10pm, E4
It’s 1998 in the final series of this endearing but occasionally very painful teen drama, and now in her last year of school, Rae is feeling happy and self-possessed. So happy and self-possessed, in fact, that she decides to turn down an offer from Bristol University in order to stay in Stamford with her boyfriend. Soon, Rae is informed she has progressed enough to end the therapy sessions that provide the backbone of this series and, as quickly becomes evident, the foundation of her mental wellbeing, too. Rachel Aroesti
Today’s best live sport
Baku 2015 European Games Day 11 coverage of the event that bans journalists it doesn’t like from attending. 10am, BT Sport 1
Tennis: Aegon Open Nottingham Coverage from day one of the tournament formerly known as the Nottingham Open. 12noon, British Eurosport
Speedway: Lakeside Hammers v Wolverhampton Wolves Elite league clash. 7.30pm, Sky Sports 1
Women’s World Cup Football Last-16 encounter between the second-placed teams in Groups B and F. 9.30pm, BBC3
