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Ammar Kalia, Ali Catterall, Jack Seale, Graeme Virtue and Paul Howlett

TV tonight: Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson in UK debut for podcast spinoff

2 Dope Queens with Jessica Williams, left, and Phoebe Robinson
Out of the pod ... 2 Dope Queens with Jessica Williams, left, and Phoebe Robinson Photograph: HBO

2 Dope Queens

9pm, Sky Comedy

Based on their wildly popular podcast series, Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson bring their insightful and frank celebrity conversations to the small screen for the UK debut of this talkshow. In the first of four episodes, they invite the former Daily Show host Jon Stewart to the couch to talk about his love of New York – and its pizza – while standup performances come from comics Michelle Buteau, Mark Normand and Baron Vaughn. Future guests include Sarah Jessica Parker and Uzo Aduba. Ammar Kalia

Inside the Factory

8pm, BBC Two

Gregg Wallace continues to dominate our screens with another outing to a factory, this week to see how yoghurts are made. With the UK spending an estimated £1.4bn on yoghurt each year, Wallace is in Somerset to see how milk from a herd of Friesians is turned into 1m pots of the stuff. AK

How to Lose Weight Well

8pm, Channel 4

Fewer carbs, exercise, portion control and limiting your daily eating window are surefire ways to shed the pounds. Yet there are dozens of other diets grabbing public attention. Here, Dr Helen Lawal and Dr Javid Abdelmoneim get volunteers to test everything from the chocolate diet to the Korean K-pop diet. Ali Catterall

Animals Decoded

8pm, Sky Nature

Posture and gesture ... a snake shows attitude.
Posture and gesture ... a snake shows some attitude. Photograph: Love Nature/Blue Ant Media

The animal kingdom’s unimaginably wide range of squawks, calls, purrs and growls is, according to this new documentary series, only a small part of the way wildlife communicates. An analysis of posture and gestures reveals how body language is probably every bit as important for critters as for humans. Jack Seale

24 Hours in A&E

9pm, Channel 4

The adrenaline-fuelled fly-on-the-wall docuseries returns for a 23rd season from St George’s hospital in south London. It’s a busy day in the department as we witness 61-year-old Sue being airlifted in after a nasty fall, while 78-year-old Ted’s tumble down the stairs leaves staff worried that he may have sustained a bleed on his brain. AK

Staged

9.45pm, BBC One

If you haven’t already binged all of season two on iPlayer, here is episode four of the quarantined luvvie comedy, starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen as slightly hairier and more insecure versions of themselves. Tonight, their recent callow attempts at sabotage predictably come back to bite them both. Graeme Virtue

Film choice

Michael Caine and Sean Connery in The Man Who Would Be King.
Glorious, by more than a whisker ... Michael Caine and Sean Connery in The Man Who Would Be King. Photograph: Allstar/Columbia/Sportsphoto/Allstar

The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston, 1975) 4.20pm, Film4

John Huston’s glorious adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s story stars Sean Connery in one of his finest roles, and his pal Michael Caine, as Daniel and Peachy, ex-soldiers seeking their fortune in a remote region of Afghanistan. Daniel’s descent into hubris is reminiscent of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Paul Howlett

Live sport

Live snooker: The Masters 1pm, BBC Two. Neil Robertson v Yan Bingtao from Ally Pally.

Alpine skiing: the World Cup 4.50pm, Eurosport 2. The first run of the women’s slalom from Flachau in Austria.

Premier League football: Sheffield United v Newcastle United 5.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event. Wolves v Everton follows at 8pm.


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