The House of Hypochondriacs
8pm, Channel 4
If it’s got an alliterative title and it’s dealing with personal dysfunction, it must be Channel 4. Dr Christian Jessen invites three people with health anxieties to meet others living with the conditions they fear most, to try to cure their hypochondria. There’s an attempt to shame the trio by showing them how overstretched the NHS is dealing with actual existing problems, as well as a visit to a GP practice and ambulance service, who explain how their hard work is hampered by people trying to self-diagnose via the internet. David Stubbs
Capital
9pm, BBC1
Adeel Akhtar, Toby Jones and Gemma Jones lead a strong ensemble in Peter Bowker’s adaptation of the John Lanchester novel. Trying to make Lanchester’s coldly observational piece warmer and more nuanced is no easy job but Bowker works well with what he’s got. Tonight’s first episode of three sees the residents of Pepys Street, London, receive strange postcards from a sinister stalker in a hood. The plot is a great way of taking a snapshot but the characters are drawn with a fat marker pen. Julia Raeside
The Great Pottery Throw Down
9pm, BBC2
Pots! In the name of love. Sara Cox gives the six remaining contestants their biggest challenge to date: designing and constructing a freestanding garden sculpture. This multi-day project involves some old-fashioned slab building and a lot of discussion about shrinkage, alongside a chimney pot makeover and a demanding technical challenge. All the throwers are suitably fired up, but there’s also a shadowy cold war being fought: the ongoing battle of pointy sideburns between rockabilly Jim and teary judge Keith Brymer Jones. Graeme Virtue
Catastrophe
10pm, Channel 4
Who works and who stays at home? Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan’s almanac of parenting stress reaches the stage where careers and childcare clash. She considers returning to teaching, despite the younger kid only being four months old, while he considers leaving his job, despite earning all their money. As is traditional in a sitcom-with-a-story, this penultimate episode delivers a crisis: both stars have the acting chops to make the anguish real without losing laughs. Jack Seale
Imagine – The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson
10.35pm, BBC1
A tumour the size of a watermelon couldn’t see off Wilko Johnson. “If it’s gonna kill me, I don’t want it to bore me,” was Johnson’s reaction to his cancer diagnosis. And remarkably, he’s still standing after the cancer’s removal. Accordingly, this typically artful and allusive Julien Temple film, which appeared in cinemas earlier this year, is a joyful affair with a beautiful central message; apparently, having no future teaches you to live life to the fullest in the infinite present. Phil Harrison
Blindspot
9pm, Sky Living
When a tattoo-covered Jane Doe is found inside a duffel bag left in Times Square with no memory of how she got there, it’s time to call the FBI. Specifically, agent Kurt Weller – after all, his name features as one of the tattoos. When attempts to reboot Doe’s memory fail, making sense of her mysterious ink takes priority, with one daub seemingly foretelling a terror attack. Despite a concept higher than a participant at a Phish gig, this soon settles into a fairly standard post-24 feds-versus-crims template. Mark Gibbings-Jones
Charli XCX: The F Word and Me
10.30pm, BBC3
The title misleads. This is not, by any stretch of the imagination, an actual documentary about feminism; instead, the zeitgeisty premise appears to be an excuse to broadcast a Charli XCX tour diary, with gig footage and tour-bus antics punctuated with the pop star talking about gender politics with peers in the music industry. It’s not a topic XCX has much insight on, which is absolutely fine (not every woman in the public eye should have to formulate their own feminist treatise), but it does make for a rather pointless film. Rachel Aroesti
Film choice
Never Let Me Go
(Mark Romanek, 2010)
1.35am, Film4
Romanek’s quietly restrained adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel mirrors the 1950s Britain in which it appears to be set. But this is an alternative world in which three friends/lovers (Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield) grow up together in a sad, strictly regimented boarding school and learn a terrible truth about their destinies. A gently compelling, haunting piece of sci-fi. Paul Howlett
Today’s best live sport
Curling: European Championship A round-robin match from Esbjerg, Denmark. 6.15pm, British Eurosport
Champions League Football: Arsenal v Dinamo Zagreb Free-to-air action. Maccabi Tel Aviv v Chelsea airs on BT Sport 2 (from 7pm). 6.30pm, BT Sport Showcase
Motor Racing: Race of Champions Drivers from various motorsport disciplines compete against each other at London’s Olympic stadium. 7pm, Sky Sports 2
Weightlifting: World Championship Featuring the men’s 77kg discipline. 11.30pm, British Eurosport
