Restoring Britain’s Landmarks
8pm, Channel 4
The Landmark Trust is on a mission to stop history becoming rubble by restoring important buildings that have been allowed to fall into disrepair. Up for urgent consideration this week is Llywn Celyn Farm in Powys – a medieval hall house, from whose beams and over-door carvings a history of domestic architecture can be discerned. Elsewhere, work continues on Belmont House in Lyme Regis, while on the Waterloo battlefield, Hougemont Farm awaits the moment Prince Charles will visit and nod while wearing a hard hat. John Robinson
The Apprentice
9pm, BBC1
Series 11 of the ego-fuelled Sugar rush begins to find its groove with this highly entertaining instalment. Teams Connexus and Versatile are tasked with buying a checklist of fancy goods at the lowest possible price, nominally to assess their negotiating prowess. But there’s a cross-channel twist, with half of each squad dispatched to France while the others scour the Kent coast. As the daytrippers attempt to haggle with shrugging Gallic shopkeepers, it’s hard not to think of Arthur Bostrom’s language-mangling copper from ’Allo ’Allo. Graeme Virtue
The Face Of Britain By Simon Schama
9pm, BBC2
The art historian talks love and, as so often in this excellent series on portraiture, details linger. When grief-stricken Sir Kenelm Digby called in Van Dyck to paint his late wife, Venetia, pinching of the cheeks was employed in a bid to give colour to the corpse, something Schama describes as “horrible” yet “deeply touching”. Schama also views 18th-century miniatures, Francis Bacon’s “gay altar pieces” and Annie Leibovitz’s intimate image of John and Yoko, captured just hours before Lennon’s death. Jonathan Wright
Alexander Armstrong In The Land Of The Midnight Sun
9pm, ITV
Filtered through volcanic rock for decades, the waters of Iceland’s Thingvellir national park are close to freezing but the underwater views are “bewitching”, as a very cold Alexander Armstrong attests in the second part of this trek around the Arctic Circle. Elsewhere, he tries a spot of Viking wrestling in what resembles “a sort of fetishist Morris dancer costume” and (in something of a surprise birthday present) stumbles across a display of the northern lights, completely by accident. Ali Catterall
Keith Lemon’s Back T’Future Tribute
9pm, ITV2
After a couple of PhotoShopped false starts on social media, today actually is Back To The Future Day: 21 October 2015, the date travelled to by Doc and Marty in Back To The Future Part II. The movie foresaw a world with hoverboards and multi-screen viewing; it didn’t predict Keith Lemon, but perhaps it was just being tactful. Gino d’Acampo, Ashley Roberts and Paddy McGuinness lend their weight to Lemon’s special tribute, which sits lump-like in the middle of a screening of the whole film trilogy. Jack Seale
Gift Of Life
10pm, Channel 5
A tiny, unbearable taste of what it’s like to wait for a life-saving organ transplant, this series follows staff and patients at the Institute of Transplantation in Newcastle upon Tyne. Aaron is 33, has cystic fibrosis and needs to have both lungs replaced; six-year-old Ella requires a new heart. Their hopes are constantly raised and dashed: when organs come in, the patients are there within half an hour, but if they’re not healthy enough to withstand surgery or the organs aren’t right, they get sent away again. It’s an agonising limbo. JS
Bull
10pm, Gold
Not content with hosting many an antique sitcom, Gold now plays home to an antiques sitcom. Leathery lothario Rupert Bull (Robert Lindsay) runs an antique shop alongside laconic chain-smoking sister Beverley (Maureen Lipman), his lofty ambitions counterweighted by his staggering ineptitude. Following confusion between eggs of the free-range and Fabergé variety, a plan must be hastily concocted in order to placate moneyed customer Mr Richards. A primo cast deserve better than what is an underbaked script. Mark Gibbings-Jones
Film choices
Back To The Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985) 4.30pm, ITV2
ITV celebrates Back To The Future Day (see Keith Lemon, above) by showing the whole trilogy, starting with pop-eyed Doc (Christopher Lloyd) sending Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) in his DeLorean time machine back to 1955, where he inadvertently prevents his parents from falling in love – with worrying implications for his own future. As a nostalgia piece it almost ranks alongside American Graffiti, and Zemeckis directs with wit, energy and an impish sense of fun. Paul Howlett
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) 2.55am, Channel 4
Insurance guy Walter Neff and icy beauty Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) hatch a kooky plot to off her husband and collect the insurance; Neff’s mentor Barton Keyes (Edward G Robinson) starts to smell a rat. A trio of superb performances anchor Wilder’s consummate film noir; adapted by Wilder and Raymond Chandler from James M Cain’s hardboiled novel, it crackles with greed, desire and sexy, sardonic wordplay. PH
Today’s best live sport
Tennis: The Erste Bank Open Day three of the event, held at the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna. 10am, Sky Sports 3
Champions League Football: Manchester City v Sevilla City look to boost their qualification chances with a win over the Spanish side. CSKA Moscow v Manchester United airs on BT Sport Europe. PSG v Real Madrid airs on BT Sport Showcase. 7pm, BT Sport 2
Cycling: Six Day London The event enters its fourth day. 8.30pm, British Eurosport 2; Sky Sports 1
