The Foreign Doctors Are Coming
10pm, Channel 4
You might think it would be hard enough just to qualify as a doctor, but foreign medics with dreams of working for the National Health Service must also pass an exam to determine whether they possess the necessary medical and communications skills to practise in Britain. Sue Johnston narrates a sensitively assembled film that follows several candidates as they flock to the Manchester offices of the General Medical Council from as far afield as Brazil and Egypt. Mike Bradley
10K Holiday Home
7.30pm, ITV
So, you want your own foreign vacation bolthole, but you’ve only got 10 grand sloshing about to fund it? What a bind! Julia Bradbury is here to help, meeting people who have combined renovation skills with unfashionable locations to achieve their holiday dreams. This week: cottages in northern Portugal. Jack Seale
Age Before Beauty
9pm, BBC One
Wronged salon manager Bel (Polly Walker) executes her plan to befriend her husband’s mistress, as Debbie Horsfield’s bizarre drama about love and body image continues. It has Shakespeare-comedy levels of disguise, lies and misunderstanding, so perhaps it’s apt that nobody in it talks like a real, 2018 person. JS
Horizon: Jupiter Revealed
9pm, BBC Two
Of all the planets in our solar system, Jupiter is the daddy – the biggest, oldest and boasting more mass than you can shake a sonic screwdriver at. Which makes this look at Nasa’s discoveries about it something to be relished. Big science explained in terms that mere mortals can understand. MB
Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema
9pm, BBC Four
How do you assess a cinematic genre as huge as science fiction in one hour-long programme? Watch Kermode complete the task calmly and professionally in an analysis that praises Back to the Future, nods to 1962’s La Jetée, and concludes that “cinema itself is a time machine”. MB
I’m Dying Up Here
10.10pm, Sky Atlantic
The raunchy but rather listless portrait of Los Angeles’ 1970s standup scene returns for a second season. In the opening double bill, flinty club owner Goldie is reunited with her daughter, Cassie is hyped for her CBS special and feckless Ron lucks into a big-money sitcom gig and embraces the Entourage lifestyle. Graeme Virtue
Film choice
On the Road, 1.05am, Film4
After adapting Che Guevara’s road trip The Motorcycle Diaries, Walter Salles was a natural for this version of Jack Kerouac’s beat bible. Poignant and compelling, it features a fine double act in Sam Riley’s shy Sal Paradise (AKA Kerouac) and Garrett Hedlund’s egotistical Dean Moriarty (Neal Cassady). Paul Howlett
Today’s best live sport
European Championships 8.30am, BBC Two. Day-six coverage of the multi-sport event in Glasgow and Berlin.
Women’s T20 Cricket: Lancashire Thunder v Surrey Stars 2.25pm, Sky Sports Cricket. Super League clash.
Championship Football: Nottingham Forest v West Bromwich Albion 7pm, Sky Sports Main Event. Two promotion favourites meet.
