Trust Me
9pm, BBC1
“… I’m a doctor!” Since this potboiler was filmed, Jodie Whittaker has become the Doctor, but her role here is too silly to offer clues about how she will fare. She’s Cath, a dumped-upon nurse who steals a doctor’s identity, moves to Edinburgh and busks it in A&E. That preposterous premise infects every scene with acute implausibility in an opener heavily reliant on medical ickiness. Whittaker tries to tie it all together, but saving the universe would be easier. Jack Seale
The Dog Rescuers With Alan Davies
8pm, Channel 5
The post-Creek Alan Davies walks an interesting line between shaggy panel-show everyman and rather edgier actor. His longstanding presenting gig on this RSPCA rescue series aligns him squarely with the former. In tonight’s show, more dogs – five malnourished crossbreeds, a staffordshire bull terrier, a young spaniel with a nasty neck injury – receive the close attention of professionals Keira Benham and Joe White. John Robinson
Get a House for Free
9pm, Channel 4
Marco Robinson is a property developer who, mindful of his own tough upbringing, has decided to give away a £120,000 flat in Preston to an especially deserving recipient. Among those in the frame are a family of Syrian refugees, an emergency services dispatcher and a young single mum. While Robinson is doubtless sincere, this sentimental fairy godfather-ism feels almost obscene given the scale of the UK’s housing problem. David Stubbs
Utopia: In Search of the Dream
9pm, BBC4
“Remember this?” sighs Prof Richard Clay over footage of Obama’s “Yes we can” speech. “Seems like an age ago, doesn’t it?” So, in these depressing times, three cheers for this sprawling three-parter exploring utopias (and their flipside, dystopias) past and present, taking in everything from Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man to Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies, all via Wikipedia, AKA “thousands of people trying to get things right”. Ali Catterall
Best Before: Music on 4
12.05am, Channel 4
In 2015 it was bothering ears tuned to the zeitgeist, now the show returns for a second series with a different premise: DJs flexing their mix muscles in various special locations to recreate the feel of a one-off party. Launch honours fall to Glasgow’s Jackmaster, who’s taking over Canary Wharf’s Crossrail Place roof garden. Unpredictability is his watchword, so expect anything from 90s rave to grime, Detroit techno and even a spot of Radiohead. Sharon O’Connell
Murder Made Me Famous
10pm, Really
Returning documentary series following those taking a route to infamy way darker than those trodden by reality-show roustabouts. Tonight’s series opener revisits the 1990 murder of 24-year-old Gregg Smart and the subsequent conviction of his wife, Pamela Smart, found to be having an affair with the teenage killer. Smart proclaims her innocence to this day – including in an interview here – and the case continues to fascinate many. Mark Gibbings-Jones
American Ripper in London
9pm, History
American author and former lawyer Jeff Mudgett has an unarguably interesting story to tell about his great-great-grandfather. HH Holmes was a serial killer who preyed on late-19th-century Chicago. In this series, however, Mudgett seeks to prove that his ancestor was also Jack the Ripper. This first episode recounts Holmes’s life and asks if Holmes has an alibi for the time the infamous Whitechapel murders occurred. Andrew Mueller
Film choice
Unbroken (Angelina Jolie, 2014) 9pm, Film4
The amazing life and adventures of Louis Zamperini is the subject of Jolie’s very traditional biopic. A rising star of the US Olympic team in 1936, he enlisted as a pilot in the second world war and survived being shot down, spending six weeks adrift on the ocean, and suffering at the hands of his Japanese captors. Former Skins whippersnapper Jack O’Connell exudes big-screen star quality as the extraordinary Louis. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Test cricket: England v South Africa The final day of the series. 10.30am, Sky Sports Cricket
Athletics: World Championships 2017 More from London including finals of the men’s 800m and 400m and women’s javelin. 6.30pm, BBC2
Uefa Super Cup football: Real Madrid v Manchester United The Champions League winners and Europa League winners meet. 7pm, BT Sport 2
