The Sex Robots Are Coming
10pm, Channel 4
Humankind has long been fixated on the idea of creating humanoids to do our bidding. This doc suggests we are approaching the age of the “sex robot”, which, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence and robotics, goes way beyond the capacities of a blow-up doll. A giveaway, however, comes when one of its would-be creators speaks of its ability to “recognise her owner”. Technically advanced the dolls may be, but their appeal is to backward sexists. David Stubbs
Storyville: The Farthest – Voyager’s Interstellar Journey
8.55pm, BBC Four
In 1977, Nasa seized on a rare planetary alignment and launched a brace of probes designed to get up close to Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Venus. The two Voyagers also expanded the vinyl frontier, chauffeuring the Golden Record – essentially a Now That’s What I Call Humanity! mixtape for aliens – into the great beyond. This film assembles many of the original team to retell the whole inspiring story. Graeme Virtue
Love, Lies & Records
9pm, BBC One
Life for registrar Kate doesn’t get any easier, especially when she finds herself searching for young Lucy, who seems to have gone off with someone she met via the internet. Deepening the digitally enabled travails, an email at work causes a furore. Could it have been sent by stone-faced blackmailer Judy? Kay Mellor’s dramedy has been uneven but it’s getting funnier and, with its treatment of immigration issues, darker, too. Jonathan Wright
Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain
9pm, BBC Two
This look at the effects of wartime bombing on ordinary people moves on to Hull in 1941. One blast hit two neighbouring houses, permanently altering the psychology of the survivors, as documented with sensitivity. The point is that devastation reverberates for years, and in Hull that happened in a wider, even more horrific way: studies of the city were used by British High Command as it mooted its own carpet-bombing campaign. Jack Seale
Trump: An American Dream
9pm, Channel 4
Historians will surely spend the rest of the century unpacking this latter-day House of Borgia; perhaps pinpointing the exact moment Trump decided to run for president as the 2011 White House Correspondents’ dinner, when Obama played matador to Trump’s stony faced bull. The concluding part of this profile sees him rising like an orange-skinned kraken during a new millennium, taking advantage of a toxic populism in a polarised nation. Al Catterall
Living the Dream
9pm, Sky1
Sky’s quest to hit the nail on the head with a Doc Martin/Stella-style comedy-drama continues with this gentle expat adventure. As Mal attempts to fund a renovation of the RV park, jettisoning his deadbeat residents, he must also contend with the arrival of Maureen, his mother-in-law. As you may have guessed, things don’t quite go according to plan, with a Native American hex and a confusing Skype call contriving to stir the pot. John Robinson
The Handmaid’s Tale
11.10pm, More4
The penultimate episode of the most worthwhile repeat of the year. Janine cracks after being forced to give up her baby. Conversely Offred, despite her appalling circumstances, is quietly flexing her muscles: tonight she gets in deeper with the May Day movement. Offred’s story is surely the most harrowing yet hopeful of the year, suggesting that in the face of brutality there’s always some way of asserting autonomy. Phil Harrison
Film choice
The Raid 2 (Gareth Evans, 2014) 1.35am, Channel 4
Gareth Evans’s 2011 The Raid was a state-of-the-art exercise in advanced hand-to-hand mayhem – utter carnage in a tower block full of gangsters; this sequel makes it look like a genteel tea party. The scene is again Jakarta, and the quietly charismatic Indonesian martial arts fighter Iko Uwais returns as young cop Rama, sent to prison undercover to win the confidence of a crime boss’s son. The action is both beautiful and brutal. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Biathlon: World Cup 4pm, Eurosport 1. More action from Ostersund, Sweden, today featuring the men’s individual race.
Golf: The Hero World Challenge 5.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event. The opening day from the Bahamas.
Test Cricket: New Zealand v West Indies 10pm, Sky Sports Main Event. The opening day of the series from Basin Reserve in Wellington.
