WTA Tennis: Sydney International
6am, BT Sport 2
Day four coverage from the Sydney Olympic Park Tennis Centre. With the first major of the season, the Australian Open, less than a week away, this WTA Premier tournament offers up a final chance for seeded players to get some match practice. To that end, five of the top 10 ranking players in the women’s game will be in attendance, including Petra Kvitova. Absent will be last year’s winner Tsvetana Pironkova, who fell beneath the world rankings cut-off point. Gwilym Mumford
The Restoration Man
8pm, Channel 4
George Clarke visits Great Braxted to meet Jim and Bee Goody, a couple determined to trade Chigwell for a dream countryside home. With finances stretched to twanging point, the restoration project – transforming a derelict schoolhouse originally built by the philanthropist and governor of Tasmania Captain Charles Du Cane – leaves scant room for error. With affairs overseen by a conservation officer proving much less flexible than the credit cards largely funding the project, there are harsh lessons in store for the Goodys. Mark Jones
He Left Me For My Mother & Other Betrayals
8pm, Channel 5
New series looking at headline-grabbing incidents where people have been betrayed by their partners and a close member of their family. It’s classic real-life magazine fodder, with a woman whose fiance was having an affair with her mum and a bride-to-be whose partner was cheating with one of her bridesmaids. Also featured is Rhodri Giggs, who talks for the first time about how he felt when he discovered his footballer brother Ryan had been having an affair with his wife for eight years. Hannah Verdier
Life Of A Mountain: A Year On Scafell Pike
9pm, BBC4
With its sweeping cinematography and sonorous score, there’s a touch of the art-house classic Koyaanisqatsi about this enchanting documentary focusing on England’s highest mountain. However, the humans featured here aren’t merely mute sideshows to the scenery. As shepherd Alison O’Neill says, “the Lake District is honest – and so are its people”. This is as much a tribute to the backpackers, mountain guides and rescue teams who traverse those gorgeous slopes. Ali Catterall
Bones
9pm, Sky Living
Season 10 premiere of the crime drama starring David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel. With Booth (Boreanaz) behind bars for a triple murder he didn’t commit, Brennan (Deschanel) and the rest of the Jeffersonian lab team seek to clear their colleague’s name. They begin to unravel the conspiracy against him, homing in on the murky world of Sanderson Chemical and Dr Durant (JD Cullum), and the death of an Environmental Protection Agency employee 16 years earlier. But as
their investigation intensifies an unexpected tragedy occurs. Hannah J Davies
Weekend Warriors
9pm, Yesterday
“It’s big boys playing with big toys!” exclaims Phil Merriott of the King’s German Artillery, with the wild-eyed intensity of an over-caffeinated Chap magazine reader. You’d be forgiven for thinking that a doc on middle-aged men engaging in staged historical battles would be pure whimsy, but no: this is played with a straight face. As the assembled try to re-enact the 1813 battle of Vitoria, we learn of the tribulations of squabbling soldiers, the frustrations of playing the French and a satisfyingly surreal amputation at the field hospital. Tom Howells
Angry, White And Proud
10pm, Channel 4
There are few creatures more pitiful than the unreconstructed racial supremacist and this examination of the present state of the British far right is timely, following the implosion of the English Defence League. Director Jamie Roberts spent a year getting to know a few people for whom patriotism must be at someone else’s expense, and considers whether the current diffusion of these sentiments makes them more or less dangerous. Andrew Mueller
The Making Of Elton John: Madman Across The Water
11pm, BBC4
Elton’s 2010 album The Union, a duo effort with American session god Leon Russell, was all about honouring the past. This film, first shown in 2011, is an enjoyable attempt to do much the same thing. Here, hard-to-capture celebrities such as Elton himself (and his longtime collaborator Bernie Taupin) detail the humdrum beginnings of Pinner’s leading piano prodigy, detail his early setbacks, and then account for his first US breakthrough with Your Song. Really enjoyable. John Robinson
