Golf: World Matchplay Championship
2pm, Sky Sports 4
Day one coverage from the London Golf Club in Kent, featuring the opening round-robin matches. In previous years this tournament has been played in Spain and Bulgaria, but now it’s back in the UK. There’s £2m in prize money on offer, with a 16-man field split into groups of four, the top two in each advancing to the knockout phase. Graeme McDowell will be there to defend his title, facing competition from Race To Dubai winner Henrik Stenson. David Stubbs
Waterloo Road
8pm, BBC1
It’s back-to-school time and new head Mr Fitzgerald drags his mysterious past behind him on the first day. “He’s trendy,” sneers George (Angus Deayton). “Exactly what this school doesn’t need.” But the best thing about Waterloo Road is brassy matriarch Carol Barry (Zöe Lucker). Improbably, Carol’s been cavorting with George over the summer, and the minute he thinks about ending their relationship, she’s out for revenge. Business as usual with the reliable, soapy drama, then. Hannah Verdier
Trust Me, I’m A Doctor
8pm, BBC2
First of three shows aiming to debunk enduring health myths. Tonight, the always popular topic of diet is examined, as scientists investigate the preparation of starchy foods and how changing the way we cook it could lower the calorie content. Michael Mosley, inventor of the 5:2 (or Fast) Diet, explores the positive effects of getting some sun on your skin, while surgeon Gabriel Weston goes to the US to watch a new surgical procedure being used to treat wheelchair users. Julia Raeside
Storyville: Particle Fever – The Hunt For The Higgs Boson
9pm, BBC4
This doc about the Large Hadron Collider makes a fine drama out of a physics experiment. Deftly, the film makes you aware of the various sides – “experimentalists”, such as Fabiola (multilingual, hard hat), and “theorists” like Daniel or Nemeh (chalkboard squiggles, long hair). After 25 years’ prep, when something goes wrong and there’s a helium leak, there’s a British person on hand to contextualise: “Faaacking hell. Look at that!” John Robinson
Swallowed By The Sea: Ancient Egypt’s Greatest Lost City
9pm, BBC2
It was once the gateway to Egypt, and a port that (according to Herodotus) hosted Helen of Troy and Paris. It’s also one of the nearest things to a real-life Atlantis we have: around AD7, the city of Heracleion, named after Heracles, sank into the Mediterranean along with its treasures, until it was rediscovered in 2000, 150ft under the Bay of Aboukir, in a perfectly preserved state. Maritime archaeologist Dr Lucy Blue follows a team trying to work out what caused the plunge. Ali Catterall
Sleepy Hollow
9pm, Universal Channel
Debut episode of the second series of this terrifically silly but nevertheless watchable supernatural drama. Ichabod Crane, the 18th-century spy transplanted to the present day, wakes buried alive – an unsatisfactory state of affairs for many reasons, not least because it permits his nemesis, the Headless Horseman, free rein over the titular town. Forces of good and evil compete to locate the Gehenna Key that opens a door to Purgatory, which is where local cop Abbie was parked at the end of the first series. Andrew Mueller
Curing Cancer
10pm, Channel 4
Around one in three of us will be diagnosed with cancer. Luckily, there are new treatments trialled every year, each aiming to be the one that cures the disease for good. This Cutting Edge film follows patients taking part in groundbreaking trials at the new Macmillan cancer centre at UCH in London. Their journeys – from the anxiety of biopsies and diagnosis through to the euphoria of success, as well as the sad desperation that comes when the trials do not work – are sensitively and compassionately filmed. Bim Adewunmi
The Job Lot
10pm, ITV2
Time for our weekly appointment at Brownall’s Job Centre, where Angela and Natalie discover differing approaches to prising jobseekers off welfare. Bryony finally finds a job for which she feels suited, leading Natalie outside her comfort zone in an attempt to help, while Angela swings her benefit disqualification stick with indiscriminate fury. Elsewhere, Trish undergoes some sub-equatorial grooming to help conceal her real age from Tom, before playing matchmaker for Natalie. Mark Jones
