10,000 BC
10pm, Channel 5
“I’ve always had warped and sadistic dreams of apocalypse situations,” says electrician Oliver. “This is like I’m living out my fantasy.” Not the most comforting remarks from someone with whom you’re about to spend two months in the wild. For this reality survivor series – Big Brother meets The Flintstones – 20 people are going back to wearing furs and discovering fire in a mosquito-infested forest in Bulgaria, pretending to live in prehistoric times for the telly. Continues tomorrow. Ben Arnold
David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities
9pm, Watch
The revered naturalist brings his commanding narration and enthusiastic, boyish presence to a new series, in which he expresses his continued interest in all creatures great and small. Attenborough admits he is still learning new things about the natural world every day, which is a nice standpoint for someone considered the font of all environmental wisdom. Now in his 80s, he seems busier than ever, with series here and on Sky and the BBC. Julia Raeside
The Internet’s Own Boy – Storyville
10pm, BBC4
“We have lost a mentor, let us all weep,” says the inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, in this riveting documentary about the life and tragic suicide in 2013 of boy-genius and “hacktivist” Aaron Swartz – zealously pursued by the US justice system after illegally downloading academic journals with the intention of making them free for everyone. Friends and family, as well as advocates such as Berners-Lee, talk movingly about the man whose manifesto proclaimed that “sharing is a moral imperative”. Ali Catterall
Girls
10pm, Sky Atlantic
Hannah’s enrolment at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop was meant to signal a sudden creative surge, but things aren’t entirely going to plan. Last week, she managed to raise the hackles of her entire class with a pithy summation of their flaws, and an apology letter in tonight’s episode somehow makes things worse. Back in New York, Ray and Shoshanna reconnect during a shopping session, while the relationship between Marnie and her singer-songwriter/sexual partner Desi somehow gets more awkward. Gwilym Mumford
Football: Transfer Deadline Day
6am, Sky Sports News; 10.45pm, BBC1
January’s transfer trolley dash tends to a be a little less manic than its summer equivalent, which isn’t to say that it won’t be given the full klaxon and CAPS LOCK treatment by Sky and their caffeinated co-anchor Jim White. The Beeb’s round-up, hosted by beaming balloon-on-a-stick Dan Walker, is usually relatively sedate by comparison, excepting one or two last-minute shocks. Might one of the big four take the plunge in the closing few minutes of the window? GM
