Springwatch 2017
8pm, BBC2
More boing for your buck as the reliably great Springwatch operation relocates to sprawling Sherborne Park in the Cotswolds. For the next three weeks, Chris Packham, Michaela Strachan, Martin Hughes-Games and Gillian Burke will enthusiastically surveil the wildlife that inhabits the farmland, woodland and riverways of the expansive National Trust property, with streaming available daily from 4am on the Springwatch Live web portal. Graeme Virtue
May v Corbyn Live: The Battle for Number 10
8.30pm, Channel 4
After an endless phoney war, this could be where the election clicks into gear. Tonight, Jeremy Paxman, the grizzled rottweiler of political inquisitors, will be directing his full armoury of eye-rolls and stagey incredulity at Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn. Then, the pair will be grilled (separately) by a studio audience under the moderating eye of Faisal Islam. This might be as vigorous and challenging as the campaign gets. Phil Harrison
Doctor in the House
9pm, BBC1
A double-whammy of weight issues are on the agenda in tonight’s episode of the medical series, as Dr Rangan Chatterjee tries to find out why 11-year-old Kiki weighs his own age in stones. It’s not his diet, which is good, and he’s a sporty sort of lad – so why is the poor kid so obese, with such dangerously high insulin levels? Elsewhere, can 16-year-old Hoshi-Rae’s eating disorder be traced back to her mum Lisa’s own history of bulimia? And can hypnotherapy help? Ali Catterall
The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway: The Final Countdown
9pm, BBC2
Concluding part of the documentary updating us on London’s Crossrail project. Again the theme is the sheer scale of the jobs taken on: whether by those in charge of the glass canopy that will shelter the new Paddington station, or the people masterminding new platforms and concourses that collectively take up an aircraft hangar’s worth of space. Meanwhile, in Derby, they’re making the trains on a punishing timetable. Jack Seale
The Kennedys: Decline and Fall
9pm, Channel 5
A followup to the Emmy-winning 2011 miniseries The Kennedys, this two-parter concentrates on events after JFK’s assassination. Katie Holmes is an insipid Jackie, while Matthew Perry plays a truly unrecognisable Ted Kennedy. More baffling still is the low-rent feel of the whole thing: dodgy wigs, fake noses, bad accents and all. An unnecessary sequel that manages to make a mess of fascinating historical events. Hannah J Davies
Primal Survivor
8pm, National Geographic
Hazen Audel is back with another series of deadly survival challenges. Here he tackles the jungles of Indonesia, with deadly creatures slithering, scurrying or swimming through every square foot as he attempts to hunt a wild boar for a tribal ceremony. If that route happens to pass through python-packed swamps or undulating ravines, Audel tackles them with the doggedness of a dad refusing to reprogramme a satnav. Mark Gibbings-Jones
Continuum
8pm, Pick
The year is 2012, which is a bit confusing for cybernetically enhanced cop Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols), who has travelled back 65 years in time. So, too, have a cell of terrorists, and it’s Cameron’s job to track members of a group, Liber-8, that killed thousands in 2077. Free-to-air for the first time, a Canadian sci-fi series that has much fun with Cameron’s culture-shock cluelessness, but has some serious things to say about corporate power, too. Jonathan Wright
Film choice
A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard, 2001) 9pm, Sky1
Howard’s portrait of the Nobel prize-winning mathematician and paranoid schizophrenic John Forbes Nash turns a complex, conflicted soul into a standard Hollywood hero with charming chat-up lines (“Ritual requires that we proceed with a number of platonic activities before we can have sex”) and an occasional delusion thrown in to ratchet up the tension. It won four Oscars, although Russell Crowe didn’t get one despite supplying star quality.
Song for Marion (Paul Andrew Williams, 2012) 10.30pm, BBC2
An old people’s choir lies at the heart of this irresistibly sweet, if a little corny, tale. Gemma Arterton is music teacher Elizabeth, who runs the “OAPz” choir for the 60-pluses. Vanessa Redgrave’s ailing Marion is one of the stalwarts, whose joy in singing is matched by the grumpiness of her husband Arthur (Terence Stamp). Will the old man learn to embrace his inner softie? Paul Howlett
Live sport
Tennis: French Open 9.30am, ITV4. The second day’s play at Roland Garros.
ODI Cricket: England v South Africa 10.30am, Sky Sports 2. Can Eoin Morgan’s team take a win into the Champions Trophy?
Championship Football: Huddersfield Town v Reading 2pm, Sky Sports 1. The reliably thrilling battle for Premier League status from Wembley Stadium.
