BBC Cardiff Singer Of The World 2015
7.30pm, BBC4
Highlights of the first round of this year’s iteration of the BBC’s biennial competition for budding opera talent from around the world. This year, the 20 finalists come from 15 different countries, and have been selected from 350 applicants. The main prize of £15,000 is eye-catching, but the boost to a fledgling career is more valuable still: 2013’s winner, the American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton, has gone on to win the Richard Tucker award. Continues all week. Andrew Mueller
Attenborough’s Big Birds: Natural World
8pm, BBC2
Birds may be masters of the skies – with more than 10,000 species of winged wonder fluttering around the great blue yonder – but it’s the flightless variety given a chance to soar here. Having thrived for centuries while metaphorically thumbing their beaks at the theory of evolution, the likes of the kiwi and the ostrich have shown that birds have more to offer than airborne ability alone. As David Attenborough reveals here, bigger birds prove to be as tireless as the 89-year old host himself. Mark Jones
The Enforcers
9pm, ITV
Triviality and tragedy sit in uncomfortably close proximity in the concluding part of this programme following high court enforcement officers. While the team chase small business owners for unpaid debts and boot travellers off private land in Brighton to the sound of plinky-plonk tunes so familiar to viewers of obs docs, distressing personal cases are featured, too: in Margate, pregnant Natalie is evicted due to rent arrears, and clashes between officers and squatters turn violent in Suffolk. Hannah J Davies
No Offence
9pm, Channel 4
Where is Patrick getting his information from? Viv (Joanna Scanlan) wants to know, but she won’t act until she’s sure the leak is coming from inside her own department. There’s been a shooting on a bridge: a surgeon taken out by a sniper while jogging. But as the team start hunting the shooter, Viv and Dinah (Elaine Cassidy) sneak around doing their own digging. And the ongoing murder investigation finally throws up a shocking breakthrough that leaves Viv reeling and completely losing her usual composure. Not for long, though. God, Viv’s the best. Julia Raeside
Undercover
9pm, Dave
Chris (Daniel Rigby) is an undercover policeman, currently on a mission to ingratiate himself into a violent Armenian family and gain evidence of their criminal dealings. A mild cop show spoof at times borrowing the mock-dramatic pacing of Charlie Brooker and Daniel Maier’s police procedural parody A Touch Of Cloth – but not, sadly, the jokes – what this feels most like is a comedy vehicle for Rigby, otherwise known as the awkward one from the BT adverts. Which would be no bad thing if it weren’t such a feeble effort. Rachel Aroesti
Penny Dreadful
10pm, Sky Atlantic
There’s really little choice with this series other than to leave your naturalistic qualms by the side of the pool and immerse yourself in its lurid red waters. Vanessa and Ethan decide to flee unsafe London and take the Cut-Wife’s cottage on the moors, but their bucolic intimacy is disturbed when a figure from her past re-emerges. Back in London, Lyle and Frankenstein uncover still more troubling information from the Verbis Diablo relics, while it seems Lily isn’t all she’s cracked up to be. David Stubbs
Dara O Briain Meets Stephen Hawking
10.35pm, BBC1
Filmed around the premiere of Hawking biopic The Theory Of Everything, this pairs the physicist with longtime fan O Briain. The nature of Hawking’s condition (at 73, he is the oldest living man with ALS) means it isn’t a particularly spontaneous encounter. However, it does get up close enough to give a flavour of Hawking’s day-to-day life and to confirm those aspects of his personality – devilish smile, flirtatious nature, good sense of humour – previously solely anecdotal. John Robinson
Today’s best live sport
Tennis: Queen’s Club Championships Day two coverage of the Wimbledon warm-up. Meanwhile, another grass-based tournament, The Gerry Weber Open, continues 11am, Sky Sports 3. 1pm, BBC2
Horse Racing: Royal Ascot Opening afternoon of the fashionable five-day festival. 1.40pm, Channel 4
Women’s World Cup Football: Ecuador v Japan Reigning champs Japan play their final group game. British Eurosport has coverage of Switzerland v Cameroon (9.45pm). 9.30pm, BBC3
