A Year in an English Garden: Flicker & Pulse
9pm, BBC4
Delightful, meditative film that uses the passing of the seasons as a springboard for musings on mortality, renewal and humanity’s relationship with nature. Voiceovers are used sparingly but tellingly as gardeners consider their bond with the land. But, mostly, it’s a feast of time-lapse shots of seedlings germinating, bonfires burning, apples decaying and other signifiers of the implacable march of time. Phil Harrison
Autumnwatch 2017
8pm, BBC2
Chris Packham, Michaela Strachan and Martin Hughes-Games return to the National Trust’s Sherborne Park Estate in the Cotswolds. That wasn’t the venue for 2016’s monitoring of nature’s shift towards winter, but it was the location for Springwatch earlier this year, so there will be a chance here to catch up with specific chicks, cubs and other friends we made a few months ago. Roving reporter Gillian Burke, meanwhile, is on the south coast investigating how clever urban foxes are. Jack Seale
Life at 100
8.30pm, BBC1
“Prepare to be old, to be very, very old,” writes Joan Bakewell at the start of her book The View From Here. We’re living in an era where one in three newborns are likely to be liable for that congratulatory message from the Queen. Who, at this rate, will have to send herself a card. In a Panorama special mapping this demographic shift, Bakewell, the government’s former “Pensioners’ Tsar”, follows seven centenarians and over, to examine their lifestyles and needs. Ali Catterall
Piers Morgan’s Life Stories
9pm, ITV
They’ve made another series of this. In fairness, in putting himself out there as a representative of tabloid obnoxiousness in vaguely human form, Piers Morgan has arguably shown a courage of sorts. Still, it’s a courage for which he is ridiculously over-rewarded. Tonight, he meets Kim Cattrall, who discusses her marriages, Sex and the City and how Sarah Jessica Parker “could have been nicer”. Couldn’t we all, Piers? David Stubbs
My Week As a Muslim
9pm, Channel 4
In the wake of the Manchester Arena bombing, Katie, a white woman from a predominantly white north-west town, is invited to spend a week living with Saima in Manchester’s Pakistani Muslim community. Presumably, at some point during development of this one-off programme, Channel 4 realised their premise sounded a bit Wife Swap and came up with a novel variation: prosthetics. Katie will be transformed into a woman of Pakistani origin. Yes, really. Ellen E Jones
The Walking Dead
9pm, Fox
After a polarising seventh season seemingly in thrall to baseball bat-swinging bad dude, Negan – a capricious panto villain played to the hammy hilt by Jeffrey Dean Morgan – season eight of the stumbling zombie megahit has promised a potentially cathartic all-out war. Can the revitalised Rick and Daryl unite the various enclaves that have been brutalised by Negan’s leathery henchmen and extract violent payback for all their fallen comrades? Graeme Virtue
Supergirl
8pm, Sky1
Have you a long-held desire to don underwear over a monogrammed leotard? Sky1 provides an ideal excuse to attain that life goal with a week of DC Comic concoctions. Tonight, a psychic crim feasts on hidden fears of victims, causing consternation for the Girl of Steel. Tuesday has the Flash meet a menacing meta, while the Legends of Tomorrow team tumble back to 1870 on Wednesday. Thursday sees Arrow’s Anatoly make an unwelcome return to Star City. Mark Gibbings-Jones
Film choice
Ted (Seth MacFarlane, 2012) 11.05pm, Film4
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane’s big-screen debut is a somewhat disturbing comedy about men being big kids. Mark Wahlberg performs gamely as John, whose childhood wish to have his teddy bear come to life is granted. Years later, John is the put-upon buddy of the foul-mouthed, cynical Ted, whose constant misanthropic presence threatens his relationship with Lori (Mila Kunis). It’s funny, furry and offensive. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Tennis: The Erste Bank Open 12noon, Sky Sports Main Event. Day one of the ATP 500 event from Vienna.
Bundesliga 2 Football: SV Sandhausen v St Pauli 7.30pm, BT Sport 1. German football featuring football hipsters’ faves, St Pauli.
Irish Premiership Football: Linfield v Crusaders 7.40pm, Sky Sports Main Event. Coverage of an Irish top-flight game from Windsor Park.
