Can Alzheimer’s Be Stopped?
8.35pm, PBS America
Despite affecting millions of people around the world and having been discovered more than a century ago, scientists still have no cure for the devastating neurodegenerative disease. Leading researchers explore novel methods of slowing the disease in this documentary, including disrupting the molecular chain of events that causes dementia, as well as examining families coping with the onset of the disease and its often amorphous symptoms. AK
Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back
8pm, Channel 4
More skirmishes on behalf of the consumer from Joe Lycett, this week alongside the guests Katherine Ryan and Mark Silcox – a veritable latterday That’s Life! panel. They investigate a dodgy-sounding money-making venture, lift the lid on Black Friday deals and turn the tables on nuisance callers. Ali Catterall
Kermode and Mayo’s Home Entertainment Service
8.30pm, BBC Four
Week two of the duo’s experimental show, which covers TV as well as film and doesn’t merely ask the public to write in: video contributions have been requested. So, as well as telling you what to stream, it offers you the chance to critically assess Britain’s self-filming skills. Jack Seale
Portillo’s Empire Journey
9pm, Channel 5
Seemingly always on a travelogue to somewhere, Michael Portillo fronts this union-jack-waving series exploring the former colonial territories of the British empire. In tonight’s episode he is in Jamaica, exploring the British invasion and the horrific history of the Caribbean slave trade. AK
Later… with Jools Holland
10pm, BBC Two
The 55th series of Later… is adapting to our circumstances as best it can. Tonight, Holland chats remotely to national treasure Dizzee Rascal, who is working on a new album; he chooses some archive clips of artists who have influenced his journey. Phil Harrison
Big Zuu’s Big Eats
10pm, Dave
Grime star Big Zuu continues his culinary quest to feed the nation’s comics from the back of his travelling food truck. After last week’s vegan escapades with Jimmy Carr, he is now in Portsmouth with Rosie Jones, serving up a Lebanese sausage roll and chips, as well as undertaking a fishing expedition. AK
Film choice
Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller, 2008), 11.15pm, BBC One
Ben Stiller’s hilarious action-movie spoof has a bunch of fading Hollywood actors getting into a real, live war with drug runners in a Central American jungle. Stiller, Robert Downey Jr, Steve Coogan and Jack Black have a whale of a time blowing up every cliche of the genre; plus, there is a show-stopping turn from an artificially portly, balding Tom Cruise. Paul Howlett
