Broadchurch
9pm, ITV
The second series of this drama starring David Tennant and Olivia Colman is focused on the ongoing trial in the Dorset town, while looping back to reinvestigate Sandbrook – the unfinished business in DI Hardy’s past. Tonight’s episode delivers a tour de force performance from Colman, as she magnificently portrays Ellie’s exile from her community, while revealing her unshakeable grit. Meanwhile, Lee Ashworth decides to have a go at using the law to enact some revenge on Hardy. John Robinson
The Undateables
9pm, Channel 4
This series about both the challenges and possibilities of dating with a disability has long established itself as sensitive and unpatronising in its approach. Although Asperger syndrome makes it hard for Richard to read social situations, he’s keen to meet a lady who shares his sophisticated interests, while Christina – a culinary enthusiast with Down’s syndrome – craves the settled family life her sister has. We also meet Chris, whose dating outlook has shifted markedly since being paralysed in a motorbike accident. Hannah J Davies
Catastrophe
10pm, Channel 4
Anyone who has been stumped by the acclaim attached to Sharon Horgan – who hasn’t really had any sort of hit since her mid-00s sitcom Pulling – should find this new comedy, written with standup Rob Delaney, clears things up. Horgan plays Sharon, a teacher who falls pregnant after a fling with a visiting American (Delaney). With the latter’s good guy credentials in serious doubt, Sharon – cynical, scared, angry and all the more likable for it – tentatively starts playing happy families with a man she barely knows. Rachel Aroesti
Winterwatch 2015
9pm, BBC2
The great Michaela Strachan, Martin Hughes-Games (glasses perpetually tangled in his hair) and eternal indie rebel Chris Packham return for a new series of perving on wildlife in the privacy of their own burrows. They’re coming live from the Cairngorms, where they’ll be sneaking around in the frosty bracken in search of eagles, otters and black grouse, among others. Plus some stuff about red squirrels, still hanging on in there, and randy grey seals. Like a muddy One Show with hay bales for sofas and visible breath. Julia Raeside
NHS Crisis – The Live Debate
10pm, Channel 5
They sorted out the welfare state and immigration. Now, Channel 5’s occasional live debates are back to cut through the complexities of public health. A torrent of mayday cries from hospitals prompted this but, after the schedules were drawn up, the Hinchingbrooke fiasco arrived to make it even more timely. The question of whether profit and care are incompatible might also have been pushed up the agenda. We’re promised views from doctors, nurses, paramedics and patients as well as politicians. Jack Seale
Freedom Summer
9pm, PBS America
Even by the standards of the deep south in 1964, Mississippi was a viciously racist state. Just 7% of its African Americans were registered to vote, with the establishment set on keeping them disenfranchised. This prompted a campaign by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. That summer, hundreds of student volunteers from the north joined forces with locals to raise awareness about this injustice, which, as this documentary shows, still sears 50 years on. The campaign would cost the lives of three murdered students. David Stubbs
Togetherness
10.35pm, Sky Atlantic
It’s episode two of the HBO comedy revolving around the family home of Michelle and Brett, who have awoken from sleepy domesticity when Michelle’s sister, Tina, and Brett’s best friend, Alex, move in. With Tina’s anxious singledom pitched against Michelle’s motherhood ennui, and Alex’s flailing acting career juxtaposed with Brett’s unfulfilling sound recordist job, it’s a set-up that highlights the discontent lurking in all their lives. Bleak at times, at others it has a strangely uplifting effect. RA
Sport Choice – Bowls: World Championships
1pm, BBC2
The very names of the venue, Potters Leisure Resort, and location, Hopton-on-Sea, Norfolk, suggest languid respite from the gaudy ballyhoo now attending almost all televised sport. It seems also safe to assume a lack of fireworks and cheerleaders. The headline match today is the world pairs final, won last year by Greg Harlow and Nick Brett, and Darren Burnett begins his defence of his open singles title in the first round of that competition. Andrew Mueller
