Champions League Football: Liverpool v Real Madrid
7.45pm, Sky Sports 5
Liverpool’s lame capitulation to Basel last time out has done some serious harm to their prospects of qualifying from Group B. They’ll need a strong result here, though their opponents aren’t likely to be too obliging. That said, Brendan Rodgers’s side can draw some inspiration from the last competitive meeting between the sides in 2009, when they pummelled Real 4-0. Over on Sky Sports 1 and Sky1, there’s live coverage of Arsenal’s trip to Anderlecht. Gwilym Mumford
Surprise Surprise
8pm, ITV
Holly Willoughby is back, inviting more unknowing audience members to sit on her couch before unleashing a wave of unfettered surprises on them. This week there’s a couple from Lincolnshire who have been foster parents to 250 children over 30 years, a young ME sufferer who runs a letter-writing project that sends good cheer to people around the country, a girl raising money for the hospice that cared for her father, and a Scottish woman dedicated to children’s causes. Grab your tissues, and let the tears fall. Bim Adewunmi
What Do Artists Do All Day?
8pm, BBC4
This series of profiles of the working habits of artists meets Michael Landy. Landy is best known for his 2001 performance piece Break Down, in which he spent two weeks in an abandoned C&A on Oxford Street, systematically destroying everything he owned. Landy discusses this and other works, including 2010’s Art Bin, in which people were invited to heave sub-standard art into a skip. This show is a good, simple idea, well and simply executed: an expansion into authors and songwriters would be welcome. Andrew Mueller
Gunpowder 5/11: The Greatest Terror Plot
9pm, BBC2
The famous story is brought to life in a rather uneven drama-documentary that draws heavily on a statement by Thomas Wintour, one of the ringleaders of the plot to blow up parliament. For all that it’s a tale revolving around an attempt to overthrow the government, and ends with torture, emasculations and executions, there’s somehow a tragicomic quality to the scheme, the sense that it was a desperate and under-resourced gambit bound to end in failure. Jonathan Wright
Scott & Bailey
9pm, ITV
This police drama sometimes feels as if it operates in an alternative universe: an imagined matriarchal society where authority figures are invariably women. It has excellent crime plots, but what it really excels at is honing in on those grey areas where the professional and the personal overlap. A promotion has already muddied the titular pair’s close friendship, and in this series’ penultimate episode, concern over the wellbeing of their boss casts a shadow over their progress on a murder case. Rachel Aroesti
Baggage Battles
9pm, Quest
Godawful bargain-basement job following a bunch of “larger than life” auction specialists bidding on unclaimed lost property in the US, everything from antique telegraph machines (“Sexting would take for ever on this!”) to fortune-telling automatons. Everyone talks in Comic Sans (“Now that’s a ticket to profit town!”), it’s soundtracked by the sort of cheesy soft-metal that accompanies almost every single one of these imports, and, fittingly, it does make you want to take a hammer to something. Ali Catterall
Grey’s Anatomy
9pm, Sky Living
Shonda Rhimes’s dependable hospital drama begins its 11th series with a gaping hole where Cristina used to be. Meredith is missing her but finding some comfort in doing fast-talking battle with new doctor Maggie, unaware that they’re sisters. On the patient front, a pair of teenagers are caught in an embarrassing position on a first date and the team rescue a man in the desert. Geena Davis starts her guest run as a surgeon who’s keen to headhunt Arizona, but how will that sit with her and Callie’s baby plans? Hannah Verdier
Grayson Perry: Who Are You?
10pm, Channel 4
Brilliant new series in which Perry discusses identity while making portraits of key subjects. He accuses a newly released Chris Huhne of “being optimistic in a built-up area” after 10 weeks in prison. His good-natured probing is thrilling to watch. Jazz is undergoing gender reassignment from female to male and grants the artist access to his life. Perry asks Rylan Clark, “Don’t you worry about disappearing entirely?” Whether it’s a felt-tip, wet clay or the air between him and the camera lens, Perry sees the story. Superb. Julia Raeside
