Kirstie And Phil’s Love It Or List It
8pm, Channel 4
Instead of combining their property scouting and renovation wits as a collective force for good, as is Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer’s usual style, the pair’s new show sees them pit their powers against each other seemingly in order to completely befuddle a set of prospective buyers. In this series opener, Phil tries to convince Dawn and Paul that they should sell their Huddersfield home, while Kirstie works to persuade them that their money would be better spent reconfiguring the existing interiors. Rachel Aroesti
Wastemen
9pm, BBC2
In Newcastle upon Tyne, the binmen work all hours to clear the streets, as this new three-parter shows. “I love the smell of rubbish in the morning!” grins wagon driver Kevin; while on matters of recycling, site manager Bob muses there’s been “a massive shift away from landfill – but we need the general public to change as well”. It’s as much an eco-minded dialogue as docusoap – and what with Lightnin’ Hopkins, Bing Crosby and JS Bach on the score, it sounds pretty good, too. Ali Catterall
24 Hours In The Past
9pm, BBC1
Living history is no picnic for this group of celebrities transported back to Victorian times for four days of hard graft. Miquita Oliver is beating carpets with no-nonsense Ann Widdecombe, who shows the youngsters how it’s done. Zöe Lucker and Colin Jackson get the giggles when their wagon goes wonky, while Tyger Drew-Honey is pondering fruit theft with Alistair McGowan as his conscience. Will the group crack when they have to go back to a rat-infested house with an outdoor privy at the end of the day? Hannah Verdier
The Queen’s Big Night Out
9pm, Channel 4
VE Day was, in the words of the Queen’s cousin Margaret Rhodes, “a very one-off kind of occasion”. With Nazi Germany defeated, Londoners took to the streets and “a rather nice mayhem” engulfed the capital. In Buckingham Palace, two young princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret, longed to join the throng. Astonishingly, their father, George VI, agreed to let the girls venture out for a rare night of freedom. Seventy years on, this documentary tells the story of their adventures. Jonathan Wright
Sick Note Skivers Exposed
9pm, Channel 5
Seemingly designed to quash any faith in humanity you may still possess, this one-off profiles some of the nation’s most audacious sick-pay fraudsters. These include a council worker who competed in athletics competitions while off work with a back injury, and two men claiming disability benefits while moonlighting as a bodybuilder and drag queen respectively. Also featured is a nurse who took on agency work though signed off, and the disturbing case of a woman who faked her father’s death. Cynical stuff, loaded with tabloid-style bile. Hannah J Davies
Empire
9pm, E4
Fox’s feted nighttime soap makes its UK debut, with record mogul Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard) forced to plan for the future. However, only one of his three sons – Chris Brown-esque rapper Hakeem (Bryshere Y Gray), business-minded Andre (Trai Byers) and Jamal (Jussie Smollett), whom he has treated as something of an outcast – can be his heir. To add to his worries, ex-wife Cookie (Taraji P Henson) is also back on the scene after 17 years behind bars. And so begins a gloriously hammy hip-hop saga. Hannah J Davies
Broad City
10pm, Comedy Central
Your mate who hotwires US TV online has been raving about it for a year, and now here it is: Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson’s shapeless comedy about two heroically uncool New Yorkers, also named Ilana and Abbi. The pair’s 20s are a time of meaningless jobs, wonky hook-ups, and the sense that the city is a bottomless well of weird. These unbreakable best pals have no plan and few dreams, but what they and the show do have is an absolute disregard for the done thing, which feels very much like freedom. Jack Seale
Today’s best live sport
Snooker: The World Championship The quarter-finals commence at the Crucible. 10am, BBC2
Indian Premier League: Chennai Super Kings v Kolkata Knight Riders The high-flying Super Kings take on reigning champions Kolkata. 3pm, Sky Sports 2
German cup football: Bayern Munich v Borussia Dortmund Last year’s finalists face off in the first semi. 7.15pm, BT Sport 1
Major League Baseball: Oakland Athletics v Los Angeles Angels American League West clash between the sides. 3am, BT Sport 2
