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Gwilym Mumford, Bim Adewunmi, Jonathan Wright, Ali Catterall, Hannah J Davies, Julia Raeside, Rachel Aroesti and John Robinson

Tuesday’s best TV

Post-apocalyptic fun … Jack Whitehall in Cockroaches. Photograph: Colin Hutton/ITV
Post-apocalyptic fun … Jack Whitehall in Cockroaches. Photograph: Colin Hutton/ITV

FA Cup Football: Third Round Replay
7pm, BT Sport 1

Much of the third round of the cup went resoundingly as expected, with the majority of the Premier League sides winning through and the remaining non-league outfits all dumped out. Still, there are a few ties to be resolved in replays over the next two evenings, kicking off with West Ham v Everton tonight. Gwilym Mumford

Nature’s Weirdest Events
8pm, BBC2

“Life finds a way,” theorised Jeff Goldblum’s character in Jurassic Park, and this programme, filled with amazing natural problem-solving by flora and fauna across the world, proves it. From swimming pigs in the Caribbean, via the three-metre Bobbit worm that lurks in fish tanks, to the tick that causes avowed carnivores to develop an allergy to meat, this is the place to marvel at the natural world. Presenter Chris Packham is back for more instalments over the next two nights. Bim Adewunmi

The Secrets Of The Tea Chimps
8pm, Channel 5

Between 1956 and 2002, despite strong objections from animal rights campaigners, the PG Tips chimps were regulars on the nation’s TV screens. But how did they come to be stars? And what happened after they retired? This doc looks back at days when the great British public loved watching apes do the funniest things. Featuring testimony from those (humans) involved in making the ads and an encounter with one of the last surviving PG Tips stars, Choppers. Jonathan Wright

24 Hours In Police Custody
9pm, Channel 4

“This isn’t prison. You won’t get an Xbox here.” And with these terrifying words, investigating officer Nash Hussain slings two nightclub-scrapping teenage girls into a Luton police cell, to sleep off the Breezers and have a bit of a think about their future. Elsewhere in the second episode of this series focusing on first-time detainees, there’s a somewhat more pathos-inducing moment, as a frail 61-year-old with a debilitating illness faces a night in lock-up following an argument with a flatmate. Ali Catterall

The 100
9pm, E4

Season two of the dystopian drama continues. Jaha (Isaiah Washington) plans his return from the Ark with an abandoned baby in tow, while on Earth, Raven (Lindsey Morgan) needs emergency surgery and Clarke (Eliza Taylor) confronts President Dante Wallace (guest star Raymond J Barry) in her quest for answers about Mount Weather. Although this run has seen the integration of the show’s older characters into the fold, this YA novel adaptation remains for the most part unapologetically teen-targeted. Hannah J Davies

Suspects
10pm, Channel 5

Fay Ripley and co return for a new series of the semi-improvised cop drama. An art teacher is found dead on college premises and suspicion lands firmly on the shoulders of the creepy handyman. Over the next hour, the detectives conduct their hyper-speed investigation and nail their perp. It has the seeds of a great drama, but the thing about letting the actors write the dialogue is that most of the talking has the stilted quality of speech made up on the trot. Maybe get a writer to do it? Continues tomorrow night. Julia Raeside

Cockroaches
10pm, ITV2

You can’t move for post-apocalyptic worlds on screen these days, but this new comedy proves there’s still drama (and jokes) to be mined from the wastelands. Tom and Suze have been holed up in the latter’s basement since a nuclear holocaust 10 years ago and conceived their daughter in a fug of certain-death panic. Now, the couple are traipsing aimlessly around the badlands of Britain – until they encounter Suze’s swaggering ex Oscar (a cringeworthy Jack Whitehall) and his fun-loving tribe. Rachel Aroesti

Count Arthur Strong
10.35pm, BBC1

Rather changed from its fractionally classier initial proposition, this is now pure mainstream sitcom, circa 1985. If anyone excels in making that kind of thing entertaining, however, it’s Graham Linehan (who co-writes here). Tonight’s episode finds Arthur turning over memories of his life as a gang member “with a chip on my shoulder the size of a family caravan”, and his lost love, Eileen. All of which in a roundabout way finds him taking a flying lesson. Arthur’s inability to understand that the clocks go back brings things to a chaotic end. John Robinson

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