The Supervet
8pm, Channel 4
Noel Fitzpatrick is the bionic vet, a man who can fix any broken furry thing you care to throw at him using incredible technology and years of expertise. He’s one of those guys who seems as if he’s always wearing sunglasses, even when he isn’t. Like a Clooney/Bono splicing, he soothes frantic owners with his reassuring manner while they sob and fret over their precious ones. Tonight, he performs facial reconstruction surgery on an injured cat and scans a dog suffering from cancer to determine how long it has left. Julia Raeside
Suspects
10pm, Channel 5
Series four of the cop show that abhors frills and expunges flab. Fay Ripley, Damien Molony and Clare-Hope Ashitey are the detectives whose path to the culprit is ruthlessly edited. Tonight, their hunt for a soldier is muddied when one of his army pals is the victim of a hit and run. Through being partly improvised, the show makes time for telling gestures that reinforce working relationships, but it still goes like a train. That’s perhaps to its detriment: by the time you’ve formulated a theory, you’ve missed 11 new clues. Jack Seale
The Apprentice
9pm, BBC1
After failing to convince Lord Sugar and co that his literary smarts were relevant to propah bizniz stuff, Snottydink mastermind Sam became the latest candidate thrust into the black cab ride of shame. Now the remaining 10 are given just two days to organise big-budget children’s parties, but will it be a piece of cake for the likes of cynical Selina and cocksure Brett? Cue a palaver with party gifts and an oversight that has the potential to cost one team the entire task. A timeless hatewatch. Hannah J Davies
Peep Show
10pm, Channel 4
Romance is in the air. Jeremy is having an affair with his life-coach client (“She’s sexy, artistic, confused – it would be rude not to”) – and, naturally, her boyfriend, too. Meanwhile, Mark is stalking an old university friend: “Corrigan and Google, the maverick detectives who just won’t give up!” For the ensuing dinner party, can he successfully pass off baked beans with fried egg and lettuce as a Moroccan delicacy? (Scribbling on the cheddar with blue felt-tip to pretend it’s stilton is probably a step too far, you fear.) Ali Catterall
Toast Of London
10.30pm, Channel 4
Toast’s love life is in the doldrums. Luckily, Ed’s girlfriend, Penvelope, has a friend, Clancy Moped (Sophie Colquhoun), “a weather girl off the television” who sports a Pussy Riot T-shirt. All goes well until Toast and Ed are asked to judge the International Beauty Contest for Women, a secretive event in the age of feminism. Fitfully amusing – especially the bits tonight with Peter Davison – but three series in, it’s difficult to shake the idea that Toast’s peculiarly heightened world has become too self-contained and self-referential. Jonathan Wright
Tyrant
9pm, FOX
The second series of the Middle Eastern saga continues. It’s kind of fun, in that all the good-looking folk in enormous houses are having themselves a time, but it’s also almost entirely without humour, which gives it a pompous air not conducive to mass enjoyment. In short, it’s a perfectly good soap that thinks it’s an HBO box set. In tonight’s episode, Jamal meets the son he never knew he had and Samira plans her escape with Ihab, but will their idealism thwart their exit to safety? JNR
Josh
10.30pm, BBC3
Hard to believe that a sitcom like this would get made in a post-Peep Show world. Here it is, though: a show about uni mates turned flatsharers, a vehicle for Josh Widdicombe, very much one of the leading lights in gentle observational comedy. Tonight, Josh and Owen have, thanks to landlord Geoff (Jack Dee), tickets to the darts, but no money with which to get sufficiently drunk to attend. The solution? Attend a wedding! Contains good jokes about Macy Gray and Morcheeba, which feel far too old for the characters speaking them. John Robinson
Film choice
Kind Hearts And Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949) 8pm, BBC4
Hamer’s blade-sharp Ealing comedy is celebrated for Alec Guinness’s multifaceted performance as all eight of the doomed D’Ascoynes, but there are other treasures: the suave malice of Dennis Price’s draper’s assistant-cum-serial killer, Mazzini, who decides to murder his way to the family dukedom; the portrayal of Edwardian England and its snobby mores; and the delicious glee with which the awful upper classes are dispatched (Mazzini would know how to deal with the Bullingdon crowd). A bitter and subversive tale. Paul Howlett
Shine (Scott Hicks, 1996) 11.35pm, BBC1
Featuring a virtuoso, Oscar-winning performance from Geoffrey Rush as David Helfgott, the classical pianist who broke down while playing Rachmaninov’s gruelling third concerto, and remained stuck in a twilight world until redeemed by the love of a woman (Lynn Redgrave). Hicks directs this Australian production with care, and the lustre of a polished grand. PH
Today’s best live sport
International Test Cricket: India v South Africa The opening day from Nagpur of the third of four Tests between the sides. 6am, Sky Sports 2
Curling: European Championship More action from Esbjerg, Denmark, where the round-robin stage continues. 12noon, British Eurosport
Champions League Football: Juventus v Manchester City Already qualified City battle it out for top spot in Group D with the Italian champions, 7pm, BT Sport 2 Manchester United v PSV airs on BT Sport Europe from 6.30pm.
