Grand Designs
9pm, Channel 4
Kevin McCloud launches an 18th (!) series of the endlessly appealing show in which people build their dream homes. The format doesn’t change because it doesn’t need to and, once again, the subjects are well selected, starting with an unusual restoration project involving a crumbling Grade II-listed folly in the shape of a Tudor tower in rural Buckinghamshire that Spanish architect Jaime and his wife Mimi plan to convert into a home. They have only got six months before their next child is due and McCloud is sceptical about their plans. Mike Bradley
Bad Move
8pm, ITV
Despite some middling reviews, the first series of the Jack Dee-fronted comedy about a couple swapping the city for the countryside garnered decent ratings. It returns for a second run, with Steve (Dee) and Nicky (Kerry Godliman) still having problems with their wreck of a home – not least the hole in the ceiling. Hannah J Davies
Upstart Crow
8.30pm, BBC Two
Will writes Julius Caesar, having skim-read Plutarch on the privy “while awaiting the appearance of that shy turtle”. Meanwhile, Ben Elton references Blackadder’s “Bob” episode, as Kate auditions for a woman’s role by pretending to be a hermaphrodite. All this and a Brexit gag, too. Ali Catterall
Trust
9pm, BBC Two
Was J Paul Getty III really the victim of a kidnapping? Last week’s exposition dissolves as the angle of interest switches to Stetson-sporting head of security James Fletcher Chace (a masterclass in deadpanning from the Brendan Fraser, who has disappeared from our screens in recent years), who finds himself dispatched to Rome to retrieve the wayward grandson. MB
Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Adventure
9pm, ITV
Joanna Lumley continues east, moving through Georgia and Azerbaijan, from the Black Sea to the Caspian. She brings her idiosyncratic, dry wit to encounters with farmers, artisans and, in Baku, the architects of oil-financed carbuncles. The latter, however, is the only place where her usually infectious lack of cynicism grates. Jack Seale
Defending the Guilty
10pm, BBC Two
This is the pilot of a corking comedy by Kieron Quirke (Cuckoo) due to air next year about the trials of pupil barrister Will (Will Sharpe) under the casual tutelage of Caroline (Katherine Parkinson, on fine form): “What makes a barrister, Will? The brain of a fox, the balls of an ox, the hugest of cocks.” MB
Film choice
Tootsie (Sydney Pollack, 1982) 6.45pm, Film4
If you can accept that Dustin Hoffman in drag makes a remotely convincing woman, then this is hugely enjoyable and polished entertainment. His jobless actor Michael Dorsay is so desperate for work that he becomes Dorothy Michaels to land a role in a rubbish TV soap series. What follows is witty, funny and satirical. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Cycling: Giro della Toscana 1.30pm, Eurosport 1. The second and final stage.
Champions League football: Young Boys v Manchester Utd 8pm, BT Sport 2. Mourinho’s rabble travel to Switzerland.
Championship Football: Queens Park Rangers v Millwall 7.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event. A London derby in the second tier from Loftus Road.
