Ugly House to Lovely House With George Clarke
8pm, Channel 4
It is hard to believe in the era of generation rent. However, there are people in this world who not only own properties but have enough money to worry about their aesthetic qualities. This returning series follows the efforts of such householders to remodel. We begin in Gloucestershire: can architect Laura Clark come up with a plan to make a welcoming home from a Dutch barn-style carbuncle known as “the Amityville horror” by neighbours? Jonathan Wright
Army: Behind the New Frontlines
9pm, BBC2
New series depicting the reality of the British army on deployment. The soldiers featured tonight – and the taxpayers who underwrite their work – may have fondly thought, circa the withdrawal from Basra in 2007, that they had seen the last of Iraq. The appearance of Islamic State punctured this notion, putting British troops back into the field as advisers to their Iraqi counterparts – who, as we join them, are attempting the recapture of Mosul. Andrew Mueller
Doc Martin
9pm, ITV
A particularly fine episode of a comedy-drama that has 5 million discerning fans. Yes, it’s quaint and tells the same tale every time, but the array of reliably funny minor characters gives it more laugh-out-loud moments every week than most sitcoms. At its centre tonight is Caroline Quentin as the rogue veterinarian Angela, whose blase approach to both the disruptive behaviour and scarlet fever of her nephew Toby (Rocco Peacock) results in a classic DM clifftop caper. Jack Seale
Trump and Russia: Sex, Spies and Scandal
10pm, Channel 4
This year has seen the world drumming its collective fingers on the table with growing impatience as we wonder whether special counsel Robert Mueller will get the goods on Trump before the latter’s trigger finger gets unbearably itchy. Matt Frei’s documentary offers a progress report on the investigation into Trump’s Russian dealings. It could be a damp squib, or it could make Watergate resemble Pig-gate in comparison. Phil Harrison
Becky Watts: Killed for Kicks
10pm, Channel 5
In February 2015, 16-year-old student Becky Watts from Bristol was reported missing. In March, her dismembered body was found in the Barton Hill district. This doc retraces the subsequent manhunt and the police investigation which uncovered the fact that her stepbrother Nathan Matthews and his partner Shauna Hoare were responsible. So harrowing was the case that the judge broke down during sentencing. David Stubbs
Landscape Artist of the Year 2017
8pm, Sky Arts
It’s pastels at dawn in the annual search for the UK’s most gifted landscape painter, hosted by the now well-oiled double act of Joan Bakewell and Frank Skinner. Hopeful daubers are competing for a £10,000 trip to Jamaica to immortalise the totally tropical view from Noël Coward’s Firefly estate. But the series begins in the slightly more overcast environs of North Yorkshire to try to capture the silhouette of Knaresborough Castle. Graeme Virtue
Stella
9pm, Sky1
Ruth Jones knows a thing or two about quitting while she’s ahead. After the succinct greatness of Gavin & Stacey, she now ends Stella, Sky’s only successful comedy origination, after a comparatively epic six series. There’s plenty still to resolve in this final episode. It’s Stella’s graduation, but what will happen to Nadine and Jag, to Stella and Michael Jackson, or Brenda’s claim to lordly parentage? There’s more drama than you might think before we get to the end. John Robinson
TV Films
Letters to Juliet (Gary Winick, 2010) 1.55am, Channel 4
Talk about la dolce vita – this Verona-set romcom comes with lashings of zucchero and a touching, zesty performance from Vanessa Redgrave. She’s a grandmother in Italy, accompanied by her hunky grandson (Christopher Egan) to find her long-lost amore Lorenzo – a mission that overpowers the troubled romance between young American Amanda Seyfried and her selfish fiance Gael García Bernal.
Live sport
ODI Cricket: South Africa v Bangladesh 9am, Sky Sports Main Event. The second game in the three-match series from Paarl.
Snooker: English Open 12.45pm, Eurosport 1. Coverage of the second-round matches on day three.
Uefa Champions League Football: Benfica v Manchester United 7pm, BT Sport 2. A Group A contest, from Estádio da Luz.
