Rescue Dog to Super Dog
8pm, Channel 4
More than 100,000 dogs are abandoned each year, leaving legions of pooches at rescue centres. Luckily, help is at hand as a new initiative aims to retrain rescue dogs as companions for people with disabilities. This new series follows six such cases. Tonight, it’s Emily, who has narcolepsy and needs assistance at night, and Alan, whose anxiety over his Tourette syndrome has led to a solitary existence. Mark Gibbings-Jones
100% Hotter
8pm, 5STAR
Three cartoonishly judgmental stylists – including, ironically, a hairdresser with a barnet so wretched you wouldn’t wish it on your worst enemy – take people with extreme looks, and tone them down for their own good. But not before exposing them to “feedback” from people they’ve stopped on the street. The “reveal” notwithstanding, it’s a mean-spirited, pernicious show that delights in humiliating its subjects; everyone involved should be deeply ashamed. Ben Arnold
The South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2016
8pm, Sky Arts
Melvyn Bragg presents the 20th iteration of the awards, which – despite or because of the fact that they celebrate the entire artistic spectrum – have never captured the popular imagination in the manner of the Baftas. It’s the visual art category that best demonstrates the ceremony’s breadth and/or unwieldiness: this year’s nominees include Cornelia Parker’s embroidery of the Magna Carta and Banksy’s Dismaland theme park. Andrew Mueller
The Big C & Me
9pm, BBC1
Most of us would rather ignore it until it happens. But this affecting and well-intentioned series forces us to confront the reality of a cancer diagnosis, in the hope of demystifying a process that many of us will have to face. Tonight, we meet nine-year-old Mikey, Phoebe (17) and June (83) and follow their respective journeys through treatment. There’s anguish, of course, but a great deal of uplift, too, thanks to the courage of the subjects and the fortitude of their families. Phil Harrison
Versailles
9pm, BBC2
Episode two of the glossy historical drama and, for all the kerfuffle surrounding the birth of a daughter to the queen (Elisa Lasowski), the real focus here is on Louis XIV’s political manoeuvering. Played by George Blagden as a kind of enlightened monster, he’s a man adept at turning reversals – the appearance of his brother Philippe (Alexander Vlahos) at a soirée dressed as a woman – to his own advantage. A series that’s a cut above such court-life antecedents as The Tudors or The Borgias. Jonathan Wright
Secrets of Growing Up
9pm, ITV
Despite promising much, this hour on what’s going on in the minds and bodies of modern kids delivers little. There’s much talk of “scientists” saying this and that, over plinky-plonky soundbed music and footage of children from toddlers to teenagers, but nary an actual scientist to be seen. Random stories – a five-year-old calling 999 to assist her mother, the 13-year-old who built a nuclear reactor – are tacked together in this shrugsome schedule-filler. BA
Power Monkeys
10pm, Channel 4
Jack Dee is all over the EU referendum, it seems. Tonight, he stars as volatile former journalist Oliver, now working at the Conservative HQ’s Unity Unit, in a spin-off from the comedy Ballot Monkeys, scripted by Outnumbered creators Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin. Written in the hours before transmission to keep the comedy bang up to date, it satirically follows both sides of the debate, and also has an international dimension, with Donald Trump’s plane and Vladimir Putin’s office among the settings. Claire Skinner and Amelia Bullmore co-star. David Stubbs
Film choice
The Look of Love (Michael Winterbottom, 2013) 1.40am, Film4
As creeping gentrification sounds the death knell for London’s smut-central, Soho, Michael Winterbottom reprises the area’s neon-lit, 1960s and 70s heyday with this affectionate portrait of soft-porn lord Paul Raymond. Steve Coogan almost engages our sympathies as the millionaire nightclub owner and pornographer, but it’s a superficial film that leans heavily on Raymond’s awkward relationship with his daughter Debbie (Imogen Poots). Paul Howlett
Live sport
Cycling: Critérium du Dauphiné A 187km route from Boën-sur-Lignon to Tournon-sur-Rhône as the French Tour De France warm-up road race continues. 3pm, Eurosport 2
T20 Blast Cricket: Kent Spitfires v Hampshire The South Division clash at the picturesque St Lawrence ground in Canterbury. 6pm, Sky Sports 2
NBA Playoff Basketball Game three of the NBA Finals. 2am, BT Sport 1
