Britain’s Lost Waterlands: Escape To Swallows And Amazons Country
8pm, BBC4
In this nostalgic one-off, chateau renovator Dick Strawbridge and Professor Alice Roberts explore some of the landscapes that inspired Arthur Ransome’s tales of children messing about on the water. While Strawbridge navigates the waterways of the Lake District, the Norfolk Broads and the Suffolk coastline in a variety of creaky tubs, Roberts prowls the surrounding countryside in search of wildlife. Graeme Virtue
Versailles
9pm, BBC2
Tonight’s episode of the entertaining but silly historical romp finds construction work on the gilded palace thwarted by an angry mob. An understandably miffed King Louis spurns Philippe’s offers of assistance – a miscalculation, it turns out, permitting an opportunity for plotters bent on regicide. However, the question of whether the political intrigue is incidental to the bodice-ripping and pantaloon-unbuttoning, or vice versa, remains open. Andrew Mueller
Boy Meets Girl
10pm, BBC2
A welcome return for the cockle-warming comedy, with Judy and Leo attempting to get on with being in love while their families can’t help sticking their oars in. As is customary in sitcoms set in the north, Leo gets offered a job in London, which is a cue for much pained decision-making. Meanwhile, Pam plays the stereotypical enthusiastic mother with gusto as she heads to a trans support group. Lovely stuff; Rebecca Root’s laidback delivery makes Judy shine. Hannah Verdier
Euro 2016
From 7.15pm, ITV, BBC1
This first semi-final between Portugal and Wales kicks off at 8pm in Lyon. Tonight’s game comes from what has turned out to be the weaker half of an unbalanced draw, and nearly every player on show will be facing the game of their lives. With luck this mean energetic attack against nervy defence, not a cagey 0-0. The other semi is tomorrow. Jack Seale
Power Monkeys
10pm, Channel 4
With political reality increasingly stranger than fiction, it will be interesting to see where the final episode of Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin’s sporadically amusing referendum-based comedy takes us. Expect the Unity Unit to become increasingly desperate, Oleg to stop at nothing to get his way and Gerry to engage in a strange experiment with honesty. Which, in our post-truth political age, might be where the whole enterprise finally collapses into implausibility. Phil Harrison
My Chimp And Me
8pm, Sky1
A documentary about Hester and Jerry Mundis, two writers with an eight-year-old son and a dog who, in New York in 1967, adopted an orphaned chimpanzee they found in a pet shop. Three years of chaotic but happy mixed-species family life followed in their small apartment, until “Boris” outgrew them and had to move out. He’s still alive and well and living in Chester Zoo. After reminiscing about their time living with him, the Mundises visit to see what he remembers. JS
19-2
11pm, Spike
The second season of this hitherto respectable series featuring querulous Montreal cops Ben and Nick opens with an absolutely stunning episode based around a school shooting. Its centrepiece is an unbroken 13-minute tracking shot as the pair are summoned to the school on what seems a routine call. There’s no soundtrack except for the back-and-forth commentary of police radio, with frequent lapses into silence that heighten the extreme drama. Watch. David Stubbs
Sport
Tennis: Wimbledon 2016 11.30am, BBC1
The men’s quarter-finals.
Cycling: Tour De France 2pm, ITV4
Coverage of stage five, which sees the peloton pedal 216km from Limoges to Le Lioran.
T20 Blast Cricket: Gloucestershire Gladiators v Surrey 6pm, Sky Sports 2
The nickname-deficient Surrey visit the County Ground, Bristol.
Film
For Whom The Bell Tolls
(Sam Wood, 1943)
3.55pm, Film4
A slightly soft adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s hard-fisted novel; it eschews the politics of an American fighting for a partisan unit in the Spanish civil war for some straightforward derring-do and traditional Hollywood romance. Still, with Gary Cooper as the hero and Ingrid Bergman as the freedom fighter he falls for, it succeeds through sheer star appeal. It was Katina Paxinou, though, who won an Oscar for her earthy old peasant woman.
