Earth: One Amazing Day
7.30pm, BBC Two
Filmed over three years in 22 countries, and featuring 38 different species, this feature-length offering from BBC Earth Films aims to overwhelm. And it succeeds magnificently, taking us through how life might play out over the course of 24 hours on Earth. There is much less context than an Attenborough epic might offer, but the images – narwhals navigating channels in Arctic ice, giraffes scrapping, a young zebra braving a racing river – are simply stunning. Robert Redford narrates. Jonathan Wright
Russia’s Wild Sea
6pm, Nat Geo Wild
First instalment of a two-part stare into the Sea of Okhotsk – the immense bay in Russia’s far east. It’s rugged and bleak; a place where anything that survives is by definition strong. Featuring bears, seals, puffins and eagles plus the annoying soundtrack apparently compulsory in Nat Geo documentaries. Andrew Mueller
Blind Date
8.30pm, Channel 5
Paul O’Grady returns with another series of the rebooted dating show. In this opening episode, the world’s most romantic partition wall welcomes geordie girl Cali to the stage, where she’ll be asked to choose between a buff butler from Essex, a Mancunian Mr Muscle and a metropolitan medical professional. Mark Gibbings-Jones
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2018 9pm, BBC Two
Grayson Perry curates this year’s Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, the world’s oldest open-submission show, to which anybody can submit art for consideration. Look out for works by David Shrigley and Vic Reeves alongside depictions of Perry’s cat, Kevin. Ali Catterall
All Round to Mrs Brown’s
9.10pm, BBC One
Brendan O’Carroll’s mammy welcomes more guests for japes and single entendre. Tonight’s lucky recipients of Mrs Brown’s wit are Marvin and Rochelle Humes and Alan Davies, while Wayne Bridge delivers footballing wisdom. Picture This provide musical relief from the panto fun. Hannah Verdier
All Girls Live at the Apollo
10pm, BBC Two
Proof that crowd-pleasing comedy isn’t solely the preserve of middle-aged men. Particularly interesting is seeing those people you generally spot behind a panel-show desk or on a sofa. The late Joan Rivers dispenses deceptively ad hoc brilliance, while Jo Brand is withering but actually oddly conservative. John Robinson
TV Film
Sorcerer, 1.05am, Film4
William Friedkin, director of The French Connection, rates this as his personal best. Adapted from the French novel and film The Wages of Fear, it’s a suspenseful tale of four desperate men – including Roy Scheider’s gangster on the run – ferrying a shipment of unstable nitroglycerine through a south American jungle. Paul Howlett
Live sport
World Cup Football: France v Australia Later games are Argentina v Iceland, Peru v Denmark and Croatia v Nigeria. 10.30am, BBC One
ODI Cricket: England v Australia Fifty overs a side from Cardiff. 10.30am, Sky Sports Cricket
Golf: The US Open The third day’s play from Shinnecock Hills. 4.30pm, Sky Sports Golf
