Michael Palin in North Korea
9pm, Channel 5
Quite a coup for Channel 5, this, infiltrating the world’s most secretive shadow state. The well-travelled, well-meaning Python begins his two-part travelogue in the pastel-coloured capital Pyongyang, an eerily quiet city with no adverts but plenty of statues. Despite being flanked by two guides, Palin seems determined to make amiable connections, entertaining a class of schoolkids with his inflatable globe, submitting to a state-approved haircut and mingling with subjects during some raucous May Day celebrations. Graeme Virtue
Emmerdale 1918
8.30pm, ITV
As the centenary of the end of the first world war approaches, stars of the hardy soap opera commemorate Yorkshire grit by celebrating villagers from the county who served. In the first of six episodes, Mark Charnock, who plays chef Marlon Dingle, traces the story of a real-life army cook. Jonathan Wright
Press
9pm, BBC One
It is easy to see why Post editor Duncan has his eye on Herald deputy news editor Holly, but hard to understand the tactics he’s using to court her. Even more baffling is why, now that Post rookie Ed has moved in, she leaves sensitive documents strewn all over the kitchen floor. Some things just don’t add up in this fictional Fleet Street yarn. Mike Bradley
No Offence
9pm, Channel 4
Paul Abbott’s Manchester cop drama gets better by the week. Tonight, the Friday Street team have just hours to track down a poisoned batch of halal meat. Prepare yourselves as Viv performs an unintended striptease; Miller unleashes a mean karaoke falsetto; and Dinah earns her stripes. MB
Hyundai Mercury Prize 2018 Live
9pm, BBC Four
The 27th edition of the curiously beige music backslap and some of the nominations this year suggest an event drifting into middle age. Still, the winner has been hard to predict in recent years so maybe Sons of Kemet or Novelist will burst from leftfield into serious contention. Phil Harrison
Sex, Knives & Liposuction
10pm, W
Cherry Healey deserves some relief after a presenting stint with Gregg Wallace and now she raises her reporting game in the first of a graphic new series that sees her try naked yoga, meet a woman about to undergo a budget “Brazilian butt lift” and ask a labioplasty candidate why she wants to neaten her labia. MB
Don’t Look Now (Nicholas Roeg, 1973) 10.30pm, Sky Cinema Greats
Grief, guilt and a serial killer inhabit out-of-season Venice in Nicolas Roeg’s thriller. Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie are recuperating after the drowning of their daughter. Fragmented clues – glimpses of red, breaking glass, a cry in the night – meld into an awful sense of impending doom. Paul Howlett
Cricket: The County Championship 10.30am, Sky Sports Main Event. Day three of a crucial match in the penultimate round.
Cycling: Coppa Sabatini 1.30pm, Eurosport 1. Coverage of the race from Pisa.
Europa League Football: PAOK Salonika v Chelsea 5.15pm, BT Sport 2. Chelsea visit Greece with Arsenal v Vorskla to follow.
