The Living and the Dead
9pm, BBC1
Cider with ghosties: after debuting as a box set on iPlayer, this Somerset chiller takes a terrestrial bow. A Victorian psychologist (Colin Morgan) and his free-spirited wife (Charlotte Spencer) abandon 1894 London to try to save his ailing family estate. But their new-fangled farming methods churn up more than just soil. Spectral voices, creepy scarecrows and an audacious twist combine to create an effective opener. Scripted by Ashley Pharoah (Life On Mars). Graeme Virtue
Life Inside Jail: Hell on Earth
9pm, ITV
The US jail documentary gets promoted from the outer limits of cable to ITV primetime. This one focuses on Albany County jail in New York, where violent and petty criminals are – unusually – held side by side prior to sentencing. The facility holds 1,000 inmates, a situation complicated by a recent transfer from Rikers Island. The access is compelling, but the show is more about drugs than prison; 60% of inmates were using when arrested. John Robinson
Born on the Same Day
9pm, Channel 4
Last in the series profiling the lives of disparate people who happen to share the same birthday – a handy way of tracing social history. Ricky Tomlinson, born 26 September, 1939, has a reasonably well-known career path (far-right politics, far-left politics, jail, acting) but what of entrepreneur Vic Young, who faced a crisis during the 1992 financial crash, or midwife Julia Allison, who set out to prove the safety of home births? Ali Catterall
Inside Porton Down: Britain’s Secret Weapons Research Facility
9pm, BBC4
Looking understandably nervous at times, Michael Mosley visits the UK’s “most secret, controversial and misunderstood scientific and military installation”, Porton Down. While much is inevitably off-limits, Mosley gets to follow the destruction of rusty ordnance, witness the distillation of chemical agent VX; and eavesdrop on a test of how long Ebola remains contagious in air. He also traces the history of the 100-year-old facility, and visits desolate Gruinard Island, scene of experiments involving anthrax during the second world war. Scary and fascinating. Jonathan Wright
Egypt’s Treasure Guardians
9pm, National Geographic
Egypt’s ancient monuments may be globally renowned, but the Egyptian revolution has seen tourist numbers plummet. A new landmark museum aims to coax holidaymakers back to the region, but more objects of historical importance are needed to fill it. That’s where archaeologists Maria Nilsson and John Ward come in. Their hunt for treasures missing for millennia makes for engrossing viewing. Mark Gibbing-Jones
Danniella Westbrook: In Therapy
10pm, Channel 5
It seems a relatively recent realisation that using celebrity addiction as tawdry tabloid entertainment is shameful and cruel; it may even take this programme to recognise it in relation to actor Danniella Westbrook and her cocaine use. Westbrook is on the couch in the first of a series that will see celebrities undergo therapy; her pain still essentially our entertainment, but without the censorious slant of yesteryear. Rachel Aroesti
Outcast
10pm, FOX
Episode four of the eerie comicbook adaptation from the creator of The Walking Dead. In the fictive town of Rome, West Virginia, Reverend Anderson (Philip Glenister with a patchy Southern accent) wonders whether a previously exorcised parishioner could still be possessed. Elsewhere, Kyle’s sister Megan is confronted by a figure from her past. Hopefully, character development will improve as it continues its 10-episode run. GV
Film choice
Dawn of the Dead (Zack Snyder, 2004) 1.25am, ITV4
A gorily effective remake of George A Romero’s 1978 cult horror movie, which has humanity largely wiped out by a plague of zombies, and a small group of people fighting for their lives in a Milwaukee shopping mall. Among the survivors are Sarah Polley’s nurse and Ving Rhames’s cop, who is so tough even the flesh-eating undead think twice about attacking him. The action never lets up and there’s a sardonic humour at work. Paul Howlett
Sport choice
Wimbledon Day two in full from SW19 as the men’s and women’s singles continue to work their way through the first round. By this stage it’s usually just Andy Murray left standing, but thanks to the emergence of Johanna Konta and Aljaž Bedene, that may not be the case this year. 1.45pm, BBC 1
Major League Baseball The Washington Nationals host the New York Mets. 12midnight, BT Sport 1
