Keeping Britain Fed
8pm, BBC Two
Britain’s supermarkets have become an ancillary emergency service during lockdown, desperately attempting to keep their shelves stocked and customers safe as panic-buying gave way to physical distancing. Sara Cox and Ade Adepitan go behind the scenes in this documentary that charts how the stores are coping and how our shopping habits are changing. Cox spends 24 hours in Tesco as it works through the night to keep its shelves full, while Adepitan visits farmers and distributors. Ammar Kalia
Defying Gravity: Our Lives
7.30pm, BBC One
Make space in your hall of heroes for Lily Rice, the first British person to land a wheelchair backflip. Even cooler: she was just 13 when she nailed it. In this episode of the BBC’s series of remarkable stories, she shares her passion for wheelchair motocross, a sport she hopes more young people will try. Ellen E Jones
Premier League football
Sky Sports Main Event
Football is back. Needless to say, the circumstances are unusual – these games will take place in empty stadiums and, for the first time since the league began in 1992, some fixtures will be shown live on the BBC. Kicking off today, on Sky, are Aston Villa v Sheffield United and Man City v Arsenal. Phil Harrison
Arabian Inferno
8pm, Sky Nature
This new series charts the fortunes of the hardy wildlife living in the scorched landscapes of the Arabian peninsula, battling constantly against water scarcity and wildly fluctuating temperatures. Tonight, we witness how one area on the coast transforms into a marshy oasis for three months every year. AK
George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces
9pm, Channel 4
Clarke kicks off a new series in search of the nation’s best mini builds. In this opener, he meets a couple who are creating a “disappearing” bathroom to save space and a man turning his Reliant Robin into a camper. The whole series is available to stream on All 4. AK
Staged
10.45pm, BBC One
Another Zoom meeting with David Tennant and Michael Sheen playing locked-down versions of themselves in a time of Covid-19. As we rejoin them, the producer Simon Evans must step in to try to patch things up between the pair. Meanwhile, David is nervous about Georgia helping out a friend in labour. Ali Catterall
Film choice
First Love (Takashi Miike, 2019), 10pm, Sky Cinema Premiere
It may not quite match the frenzied excesses of his 2001 film Ichi the Killer, but Takashi Miike’s latest yakuza bloodbath is still head-spinningly violent – and macabrely funny. It features a young boxer, Leo, stepping in, with extreme prejudice, to rescue the abused Monica from the gangsters. Paul Howlett
