Hunted
9pm, Channel 4
The dawn of harsh-reality TV: 14 contestants become fugitives, alone or in pairs, attempting to remain at large in Britain for 28 days without giving away their locations via electronic communication or CCTV. They’re being trailed by “hunters” whose day job is tracking criminals, and whose level of access to online information is frightening. The point is that staying off-grid, for even a short time, is both practically difficult and psychologically draining. In the surveillance age, is withdrawing from society even an option? Jack Seale
Cradle To Grave
9pm, BBC2
Wide boys and wider collars: the excellent, atmospheric recreation of Danny Baker’s teen years in south London continues. Danny is trying to blag his way into the pub for a sniff of Skol, while his mother Bet yearns for something more – to broaden her horizons, meet new people, maybe even try drinking wine. But dad Spud can’t see the angle. If hearing a cockney accent emerge from Peter Kay was initially distracting, he’s now settled comfortably into the roly-poly role of incorrigible wheeler-dealer Spud. Graeme Virtue
Boy Meets Girl
9.30pm, BBC2
Second episode of a cute, convention-squashing sitcom, following transgender woman Judy (Rebecca Root) and new boyf Leo (Harry Hepple) as they embark on romance. This week, the pair’s Sunday lunch is gatecrashed by Judy’s loquacious mum and sister, an old friend who hasn’t seen Judy since before she transitioned and Leo’s family, who are unaware of her past. “It could go seriously Jeremy Kyle!” predicts Judy’s sister, Jackie, perhaps underestimating the potential for a foot-in-mouth outbreak. Hannah J Davies
First Dates
10pm, Channel 4
The best dating show on TV returns for a new run of warm, funny, awkward encounters, soundtracked by clinking glasses and scraping plates. Tonight, sagacious maître d’ Fred Sirieix presides as prickly PR Anna is de-barbed by wide-boy Liam, unassuming Josh doesn’t stop laughing with smiley Soraya, and Louis gets hammered with Amber. It’s never too shrill and the casting stays the right side of stunt. Just people trying to present their best sides while actually revealing the real them. Julia Raeside
The Special Needs Hotel
10pm, Channel 5
Episode two of a documentary series following life at Foxes Hotel in Somerset, where those with learning difficulties receive training in the skills they’ll need to work in the hospitality industry. Autistic Calum, for instance, is content to do housekeeping chores, but he’s far less happy with the idea of interacting with guests. Can his tutors help? We also meet Alex, who wants to become a chef but is being held back by his own cheekiness, and Robyn, who struggles to work independently. JW
Rick And Morty
11pm, FOX
Bizarro animated series about a gifted, drunk inventor coercing his fearful grandson into wildly irresponsible sci-fi adventures. It may have started as a deliberately transgressive parody of Back To The Future’s Doc/Marty relationship but Rick and Morty has evolved into something smarter and wilder. Season two will form part of Fox’s new Thursday night Adult Swim block, the cult US channel that launched the show, which will import other content from the channel behind the oddball likes of Robot Chicken and the Too Many Cooks viral video. GV
Madam Secretary
9pm, Sky Living
This season finale sees Téa Leoni’s secretary of state interrogate Juliet in prison. A series of flashbacks to 2005 reveals that they were once colleagues and buddies, with Liz expounding on 9/11 and torture but also leaned on to rewrite a report to validate the Iraq invasion. Pressures arise with Liz’s family as the heat is turned up on her, an inversion of the norm where it is usually the spoilsport wife who yells at her husband hero about what all this is doing to their family. But it’s Henry who comes good in the end. DS
Film choice
The X Files: I Want To Believe (Chris Carter, 2008) 9pm, More4
Here’s another mystery to add to the bulging X Files database: why did series creator Chris Carter decide to go with a story free of aliens and sinister conspiracy? Instead it has out-to-grass former feds Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) on the trail of an abducted agent that leads to psychic paedophile priest Billy Connolly. Not much suspense, and yet that old Mulder-Scully double act is still hard to resist – I want to believe.
Stand Up Guys (Fisher Stevens, 2012) 9pm, Film4
Al Pacino is a 70-something robber, out on parole after 28 years in prison, and it’s time to have fun. So he meets up with old buddy Christopher Walken who, alongside all the joking and reminiscing, harbours a secret that adds a little edge to proceedings. Alan Arkin as a third veteran criminal adds to a craggy cast on top form. It sounds corny but manages to subvert most of the stock situations it sets up.
Today’s best live sport
Horse Racing: St Leger Four races from day one of the meeting at Doncaster. 1.35pm, Channel 4
Cycling: Vuelta A España Coverage of the 18th stage. 3pm, British Eurosport
Tennis: The US Open Day 11 of the final grand-slam event of the year from Flushing Meadows, New York. 5pm, Sky Sports 3
Rugby League: Castleford Tigers v St Helens Coverage of the Super 8s match from the Mend-a-Hose Jungle. 7.30pm, Sky Sports 1
