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Hannah J Davies, Paul Howlett, Ammar Kalia, Jack Seale, Hannah Verdier

TV tonight: Big Zuu gives Jimmy Carr the luxury fast food treatment

Big Zuu and Jimmy Carr
Funny taste … Big Zuu and Jimmy Carr Photograph: UKTV

Big Zuu’s Big Eats
10pm, Dave

Before he was a grime artist, the rapper Big Zuu worked the grill at Nando’s and his passion for food has endured ever since. In this new series, Zuu pairs up with one comic each week to whip up a satisfying post-show meal from his travelling food truck. In tonight’s opening episode, he is joined by one-liner stalwart Jimmy Carr after a show in Croydon. Carr is a sometime vegan and also a fast food fiend, so a seitan kebab is on the menu, as well as a truffle side dish to cater to Carr’s taste for luxury. Ammar Kalia

Kermode and Mayo’s Home Entertainment Service
8.30pm, BBC Four

Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo begin a new series of lockdown curation, assessing the best that our TV channels and streaming services have to offer. A wry homemade counterpart to Brooker’s Anti-Viral Wipe and an incentive to get watching from home. AK

Modern Family
8.30pm, Sky One

Modern family
Modern Family bows out. Photograph: Eric McCandless/ABC

The extended Dunphy family have become as much of a comedy staple as Friends, but they have now reached their last ever episode. Cam and Mitch are doing the unthinkable: moving to Missouri. There’s also some reluctant charades, an empty nest and a good dose of remembering the good times. Is it too soon to watch the repeats? Hannah Verdier

Virus Hunters: Stopping the Next Outbreak
8.35pm, PBS America

There is an eeriness about watching a documentary on preventing pandemics that was made in 2016. But the void in this film doesn’t matter: its accounts of how Ebola and Zika were tackled is highly educational, especially on the subject of tracking and tracing. Jack Seale

Later… With Jools Holland
10pm, BBC Two

Jools returns with a new series of his live music show, this time beaming from his south London recording studio, where he will be chatting to acts over video link and screening vintage Later performances, as well as screening newly recorded sets from upcoming acts. AK

Dana: The Original Derry Girl
11pm, BBC Four

Half a century on from her Eurovision win with the featherlight ballad All Kinds of Everything, this new documentary catches up with the then-18-year-old who wowed the world. Rosemary Scallon, AKA Dana, reflects on overnight success and her life since, including entering Irish politics. Hannah J Davies

Film choice

The Martian
Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain head up The Martian. Photograph: Allstar/2oth C Fox

The Martian (Ridley Scott, 2015) 9pm, Film4
Ridley Scott’s screening of Andy Weir’s bestselling novel about extreme self-sufficiency in space has astronaut Matt Damon marooned on Mars with air and food running out, and no apparent means of communication. Does this daunt him? Not a bit, as he decides to “science the shit out of this”. Paul Howlett

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