Taskmaster’s New Year Treat
9pm, Channel 4
If you have ever wanted to see Deborah Meaden talk to a toaster, you are in luck. This fun special proves that you don’t have to be a comic to have fun on Taskmaster – if you are prepared to throw yourself into the general foolishness, the format will take care of you. Joining the dragon in battling to win Greg Davies’s golden eyebrows are 14-year-old Lenny Rush, Zoe Ball, Kojey Radical and Steve Backshall. Phil Harrison
Waterloo Road
8pm, BBC One
It’s a new term at the grim high school, with Angela Griffiths returning as the permanently put-upon head teacher Kim Campbell. She is starting the year with a contentious initiative that targets truants and sets off fireworks everywhere – one teacher describes the staff room as “the bunker from the feral blitz”. Hollie Richardson
Food Unwrapped’s Caribbean Road Trip
8pm, Channel 4
After so many hair-netted tours of factory floors, Andi Oliver and Matt Tebbutt deserve to enjoy the fresh air and fresher flavours of the Caribbean. That means sipping rum in Barbados, buying red bananas in Saint Lucia and baking bread in Dominica. Have you ever wondered how the passionfruit got its name? Ellen E Jones
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild
9pm, Channel 5
For the latest series of the presenter profiling people who went rural the focus is on the musician Vanessa Forer, who left Yorkshire to live up a Colombian mountain. It’s light TV fluff in which they build a cable car and meet an indigenous leader. Alexi Duggins
What We Do in the Shadows
10pm, BBC Two
It’s season four of the dank, silly sitcom about a coven of rubbish vampires in Staten Island, New York, led by a performance from Matt Berry that makes his other comedy work look staid and conservative. The bloodthirsty gang return from a jaunt around the world to find their home almost in ruins – and a strange creature in residence. Jack Seale
First Dates
10pm, Channel 4
First Dates is celebrating its 10th anniversary by moving the romantic restaurant to Bath, but the vibe is still the same. Tonight, look out for an appearance from one of the cast of The Real Housewives of Cheshire. There is also an elevated encounter between a pair of academics. PH
Film choice
Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich, 1973), 9.45am, Sky Cinema Greats
Peter Bogdanovich’s road movie is often considered Ryan O’Neal’s best film. It certainly plays to his strengths – charm, openness and comic timing. His Depression-era conman, Moses, turns up at an ex-lover’s funeral in Kansas, only to be saddled with her nine-year-old child, Addie (Ryan’s real-life daughter, Tatum O’Neal), on his drive to Missouri. She turns out to be a natural grifter, though, and Moses’ heart softens. Funny and touching, with just the right amount of 30s nostalgia. Simon Wardell
