European Tour Golf: The DP World Tour Championship
8am, Sky Sports 4
The European Tour Race to Dubai finally comes to a close in, er, Dubai. This is day one of the Tour’s final tournament, where the leading 60 players come together to fight over an $8m prize pot. Last year saw Henrik Stenson take the title to round off a spectacular season, notching up a tournament record 25 under par while cementing his place as European No 1. Contenders this time around include runaway leaderboard topper Rory McIlroy. Mark Jones
Game of Arms
8pm, Dave
Mike Selearis and the Arms Control arm-wrestling team from New York take on Erie, Pennsylvania’s fearsome Wrecking Crew. Having fractured his stabilising arm in his last match, Mike is told that going into another competition so soon could have career-ending consequences. Meanwhile, in Erie, middleweight wrestler Bart Wood reveals how he’s atoning for mistakes he made a decade ago that landed him in prison for drugs offences. It’s all excessively macho, but there’s genuine heart here, too. Ben Arnold
Paul O’Grady: For the Love of Dogs
8.30pm, ITV
If the sight of an abandoned shih-tzu pouting into the camera moves you to tears, steel yourself: here comes the last in Paul O’Grady’s warm-hearted series. The inmates of Battersea Dogs & Cats Home are certainly working those emotions for the finale. “You deserve a home,” O’Grady sighs to Krystal the American bulldog, “you’re such a lovely girl.” Pepe the jack russell gets lucky when he finds a posh new residence, but will tricky customer Bailey be so successful? Hannah Verdier
Life Story
9pm, BBC1
Tonight, the natural history department’s eye-popping series narrated by David Attenborough looks at the mating game. Come, ogle the albatross scouring the Galápagos for the lady albatross he met last year. Gasp as a female green turtle bobbing near the coast of Malaysia fends off rival males while trying to have some quiet time with her partner. Marvel at the bowerbird of Papua New Guinea with its awesome Bowie eye trick of seductive genius. Finally, have hankies ready for the albatross catch-up at the end. Julia Raeside
The Fall
9pm, BBC2
As hair-raising as Spector’s activities were last week, this second episode proves they were only the tip of the iceberg. Far from keeping a low profile, tonight we find him repeatedly nudging himself to the centre of the story, his actions dramatising spectacularly the nature of his psychopathy. Gibson is on the verge of a major breakthrough, but can’t escape the fact that her own procedural mistake may have helped precipitate a new attack. Babysitter Katie, meanwhile, is undertaking her own high-risk investigations. John Robinson
Babylon
10pm, Channel 4
After commissioner Miller took a mauling from deputy mayor Delgado last week, he’s out for vengeance. But when a golden opportunity presents itself, he has to mull the potential political fallout and risk making a powerful enemy. On the armed response team, there are still doubts over whether Warwick is up to the job. Meanwhile, Liz meets up with an old flame before having a cocaine- addled brainwave about how to regain the public’s trust in the Met. The best thing on television by a country mile. BA
Puppy Love
10pm, BBC4
The second instalment of the not-quite-happening sitcom starring Joanna Scanlan, hitherto best known for her performance as obdurately useless civil servant Terri Coverley in The Thick of It. Puppy Love recasts her as Nana V, a Wirral-based dog trainer, opposite Vicki Pepperdine – Scanlan’s collaborator on NHS satire Getting On – as one of her customers. In this episode, Nana V works with police to create a Canine Responsibility Day. While the characters are well drawn, this doesn’t atone for a lack of laughs. Andrew Mueller
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
10pm, Sky Arts 1
“I couldn’t care less” is the late Gore Vidal’s typically cranky reply when asked at the end of this documentary what he thinks his legacy’s going to be. Quite right, too. It is, after all, director Nicholas Wrathall’s job to provide a eulogy for the fearless author, essayist and “defector from the ruling class” and to explore his contribution to culture and politics. In this respect, the film mostly succeeds – if in a conventional, hagiographic fashion. Vidal, you suspect, would take issue with it. Ali Catterall
