One Born Every Minute
9pm, Channel 4
A magnificent start to season 10 of the maternity ward obs-doc. Compared with some, the two deliveries are reasonably straightforward: we’re back to the basics of what a baby means for a couple whose devoted love has been tinged with heartbreak, and what parenthood means for a much younger pair who haven’t had time to plan their lives or relationship. The star is 22-year-old Stephen, whose pro-level goofing hides a serious soul. Jack Seale
Save Money: Good Food
8pm, ITV
ITV’s austerity-era money-saving franchise gains a new outlet as Susanna Reid peers at cheap food. As she discovers, the food end of budget retail isn’t all bad – the quantity of actual tomatoes in one economy ketchup is greater than that offered by a branded one at nearly double the price. Elsewhere, there’s blindingly obvious stuff about budget shopping that even the most port-maddened hereditary peer would know, and some cooking with Matt Tebbutt. John Robinson
How to Be a Surrealist With Philippa Perry
9pm, BBC4
Set the alarm on your melting clock for this mini surrealism night on BBC4. First up, psychotherapist Philippa Perry offers a spry primer on the artistic movement shaped by political anxieties in 1920s Paris. Then 89-year-old zoologist Desmond Morris narrates his own lifelong fascination with surrealism while strapping on a sci-fi visor to create unsettling oil portraits of intestinal biomorphs. Genuinely strange TV: Dalí would approve. Graeme Virtue
Catastrophe
10pm, Channel 4
If the current season of the scabrous Horgan/Delaney comedy has been lacking in poignancy, then this finale compensates, and not only because of the reappearance of Carrie Fisher as Rob’s brilliantly awful mother. Its focus is a death in Sharon’s family, raising questions about grief’s odd coping mechanisms, while Fran has her own (rather less serious) loss to deal with. And Rob finally comes clean to Sharon about his relapse – quite literally, by accident. Sharon O’Connell
This Is Us
10.40pm, Channel 4
Series finale time for an American import that hasn’t really found an appreciative UK audience. That’s perhaps because, for all of its many admirable moments, it’s a drama that fails to balance the schmaltz and humour as cleverly as, say, Butterflies writer Carla Lane did in her pomp. For those who have kept up, Jack’s off to Cleveland to make things right with Rebecca, and Randall, Kate and Kevin reach decisions about their futures. Jonathan Wright
Tattoo Artist of the Year
9pm, E4
As two of the artists from Tattoo Fixers, Jay Hutton and Rose Hardy are used to showing off their skills, but now they’re about to become the Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood of the ink world. They’ll be judging as 10 tattoo artists compete in a series of tasks to show off their style, from traditional to Japanese. Fortunately for the people who will be getting tattooed, they’re at the top of their game, so the competition promises to be tough and blunder-free. Hannah Verdier
Highway Thru Hell
9pm, History
A fresh series following the hardcore breakdown recovery crews as they help motorists on Canada’s most beastly byways. First call in tonight’s opener involves Jamie Davies striding forth from an articulated inferno on the Coquihalla Highway to reveal some major changes to his corporate structure. Elsewhere, Jordie beckons his brother back to the family business as they attempt to tackle an involuntarily semi-aquatic vehicle in a river. Mark Gibbings-Jones
Film choice
Un Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1929) 10.30pm, BBC4
This inventive, mystifying and shocking film is a dreamworld built on dreams. Buñuel told his friend Salvador Dalí that he had dreamed of a cloud slicing the moon “like a razor blade through an eye”; Dalí replied that he had dreamed of a hand crawling with ants. These visions form the basis of a revolutionary surrealist mini-movie, a bizarre concoction of richly Freudian imagery and absurdist humour (a man dragging a piano loaded with priests and dead donkeys?), the only rule being that each scene must defy rational explanation. And so they do.
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966) 12.10am, Film4
A masterly recreation of turbulent medieval Russia, where Andrei Rublev was an icon painter portraying man’s inherent goodness, even as the Tartar hordes descended on his people. Tarkovsky creates eight fictional episodes from Rublev’s life, following him through silent despair to rediscovered faith, culminating in a brilliant colour sequence of his work. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Cycling: Basque Tour The second stage of the annual road race.2.30pm, Eurosport 1
Premier League football: Manchester United v Everton Europa League chasing action from Old Trafford. 7.15pm, BT Sport 1
Championship football: Rotherham United v Sheffield Wednesday Bottom club Rotherham entertain play-off hopefuls Wednesday. 7.30pm, Sky Sports 1
