Cuffs
8pm, BBC1
Another sprinkling of cases for the Brighton cops. Carl tries to track suspicious behaviour at the docks without bursting his vasectomy stitches, while Jo tackles identity fraud and Lino goes dating, to the secret dismay of Donna. None of the stories ever acquire any substance, because the action proceeds with all the pace and flair you’d expect if the actors were in the sea, not by it. Someone has told them long pauses are the key to convincing drama; once you notice all the pained staring, it’s hilarious. Jack Seale
This Is Tottenham
9pm, BBC2
What do you associate with Tottenham? Well, the boys from White Hart Lane obviously, local girl Adele … and, unfortunately, a whole heap of negative flashpoints, from Broadwater Farm to Baby P. Taking the pulse of one of London’s most vibrant and diverse communities, Tottenham-born MP David Lammy invites constituency members into his surgery to highlight issues (housing, missing children, unemployment, immigration) that are affecting locals, in a candid, funny, sometimes heartbreaking film. Ali Caterall
Dan Cruickshank: Resurrecting History – Warsaw
9pm, BBC4
The Warsaw of the 1950s may have been a smoking ruin after the Nazis’ attempts to eradicate it, but for the seven-year-old Dan Cruickshank it was an exciting, “utterly romantic” place – not to mention a new home, after his journalist father took a job on the communist London Daily Worker. In this poignant film, from an era when history was once again under attack from extremism, Cruickshank revisits the streets of his boyhood memories and charts the city’s reconstruction. AC
Racing Extinction
9pm, Discovery
Discovery is airing Louie Psihoyos’s documentary across the world at 9pm local time tonight, attempting to create a sense of global urgency about its contents. If the film’s message is accurate, this is fair enough: according to one interview, 50% of the world’s species could perish in the next century. Like Psihoyos’s previous film, The Cove, which exposed dolphin hunting, Racing Extinction films both the threatened creatures and the factors threatening them. Andrew Mueller
You, Me And The Apocalypse
9pm, Sky1
The final episode of a series that has done a fine job of showing the lighter side of total global annihilation. Tonight, Jamie struggles to bring together his loved ones, rescue Layla from the snares of his evil twin and reach the bunker before the approaching meteor strikes. Meanwhile, Sister Celine uncovers something that makes her more anxious than ever to survive the apocalypse, while those racing from America to Sutton’s bunker are jeopardised when their plane ends up landing in a field. David Stubbs
Suspects
10pm, Channel 5
Second in a new series of the part-improvised police drama. With Fay Ripley in charge it has a sure stride, but the sometimes clunky dialogue, squeezing out exposition in the most inelegant fashion, highlights the need for a writer throughout. Improvisation is fine but actors mostly won’t be as adept at making up words as the professionals. An admirable experiment but it’ll never be as good as it could have been. Tonight, the team reopen an old case when one of the guilty is attacked on his release from prison. Julia Raeside
Toast Of London
10.30pm, Channel 4
Toast takes a spill down some stairs, and after bashing his noggin on some masonry finds himself beguiled by Jon Hamm, who makes a special guest appearance this week as himself. Hamm moves in opposite Toast and Ed’s crumbling billet on Meard Street, and a charming courtship begins, but it threatens to be derailed with news that Toast’s father Gonville (a brilliantly booming Brian Blessed) is on his last legs. With his estate to secure, Toast races to Somerset with his brother Blair to claim his birthright. Lovely stuff. Ben Arnold
Film choice
The Vanishing (George Sluizer, 1993) 10pm, Syfy
Disappointing Hollywood remake of Sluizer’s own chilling 1988 Dutch thriller in which a man obsessively searches for his girlfriend who has disappeared from a highway service station: it’s an all-consuming quest that leads to the most horrifying of discoveries. Here the story centres not on the boyfriend (Kiefer Sutherland), but on Jeff Bridges as the pychotic kidnapper, with a pre-Speed Sandra Bullock as the missing woman. Paul Howlett
The Road (John Hillcoat, 2009) 11.35pm, BBC1
In a desolate, post-apocalyptic America, a father and son trudge through a land devoid of colour and hope, evading the bestial gangs searching for victims. Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer-winning novel is bleak, sombre and moving, with compelling performances from Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee as Man and Boy. PH
Today’s best live sport
Snooker: UK Championship Last-16 action from the Barbican Centre in York. 1pm, BBC2
Capital One Cup Football: Southampton v Liverpool Liverpool look to continue their good form under Jürgen Klopp in this quarter-final tie. 7pm, Sky Sports 1
Basketball: San Antonio Spurs v Milwaukee Bucks NBA action from AT&T Centre. 1.30am, BT Sport 1
International Test Cricket: India v South Africa First day of the fourth Test from Delhi. 3.50am, Sky Sports 2
