Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks to People
8.30pm, BBC1
If you already think gorillas are a little too genetically close to humans for comfort, the sight of Koko will do nothing to calm your fears. Stanford University student Penny Patterson met Koko as a newborn more than 40 years ago and experimented in talking with her via sign language. Now in her 70s, Patterson has a whopping great beast to look after. As Koko communicates with her human companion, their bond is incredible and moving. Hannah Verdier
Rescue Dog to Super Dog
8pm, Channel 4
100,000 dogs are rescued each year, and in this series, trainers Jo-Rosie Haffenden and Nando Brown are selecting six for a tricky assignment. With intensive training, the dogs will provide support and companionship for people with challenging conditions. This week Dom, a 12-year-old with muscular dystrophy, is paired with a dalmatian, while Enola, who has Morquio syndrome, gets a toy poodle. John Robinson
Power Monkeys
10pm, Channel 4
The quick-turnaround topical sitcom continues. There are seven days left until the big Brexit vote-off and it’s a tense time in the respective campaign HQs. The prime minister is set to pay a visit to the Unity Unit and Ruby is fretting over the quality of her cheesecake, while the Brexit bunch are busily exercising their paranoia muscles over events in Malgosia. Elsewhere, the Trump team employ their questionable charm in a desperate attempt to woo women. Mark Gibbings-Jones
Sensitive Skin
10pm, Sky Arts
The very-classy-indeed Sensitive Skin – a Canadian remake of Hugo Blick’s BBC dramedy from 2005 – returns for a second series, with Kim Cattrall’s Davina adrift in grief and guilt following the death of husband Al. She now has decisions to make. Unable to bear living in their old apartment, she enlists drug-dealing chum Theodore to help her sell it. Unfortunately, she’s yet to find a new pad. Cue a brief stay with her sister and brother-in-law, which doesn’t go at all well. Ben Arnold
Your Child in Their Hands: Kids’ Hospital
7pm, Channel 5
The series following life at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, where parents and medics have to make tough choices, continues. For Joanna and Gary, that means potentially giving permission for an operation to repair their son’s cleft lip and palate, a particularly dangerous procedure because he has a hole in his heart. We also meet Jack, who underwent an amputation to remove a tumour but whose cancer has since returned. Jonathan Wright
Versailles
9.30pm, BBC2
Reviewers can be forgiven for exaggerating how smutty this period wig-shaker is. The sex feels gratuitous because everything is: both script and performance are unconvincing, and nothing happens for a compelling reason, despite everyone constantly verbalising their motives. Tonight, Louis XIV plays mind games with an African prince. A top-quality cast would struggle with the reams of walking, staring and failed epigrams – this lot have no chance. Jack Seale
Adnan Syed: Innocent Or Guilty
9pm, Investigation Discovery
Having kicked off a resurgence in longform radio and true-crime tales, the first series of US podcast Serial is still ripe for spin-off material 18 months on. This unofficial follow-up features interviews with legal experts and friends of both murdered high schooler Hae Min Lee and Adnan Syed, convicted of her killing back in 2000. Despite a dramatic title, there’s disappointingly little in the way of new information on offer. Hannah J Davies
FILM CHOICE
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (Sidney Lumet, 2007), 11.40pm, Film4
Thriller craftsman Lumet tells the riveting story of two brothers – desperate Philip Seymour Hoffman and messed-up Ethan Hawke – who, swamped by a world of financial and personal pain, decide to rob the family jewellery store. Things couldn’t go more wrong if you employed Cameron and Boris to do the job. This is crime, and family life, as complicated and painful as can be. Paul Howlett
Ryan’s Daughter (David Lean, 1970), 11.45pm, TCM
After Lawrence of Arabia and Dr Zhivago, Lean attempted another epic with this essentially intimate tale; the result is overblown. It’s set in an Irish village in 1916, where Robert Mitchum’s widowed schoolteacher asks flighty Sarah Miles for her hand, only for her to run off with young officer Christopher Jones. Freddie Young’s seductive photography and John Mills’s village fool are big plusses.
LIVE SPORT
Tennis: Queen’s 1pm, BBC2 Third day of the tournament, featuring the second round of the singles.
International One-Day Cricket: West Indies v South Africa 5.55pm, Sky Sports 1 Tri-nations series match.
Euro 2016 Football: France v Albania 7.30pm, ITV The hosts continue their Group A campaign. Romania v Switzerland is on ITV at 4.30pm. Russia v Slovakia airs on BBC1, 1.45pm.
