Humorous Girl
9pm, Sky Max
Gemma Arterton will appeal your socks off on this bubbly six-part adaptation of Nick Hornby’s 2014 novel, Humorous Lady. She performs Barbara Parker – the beaming bottle-blonde who ditches her Miss Blackpool Belle title, jumps on a prepare to London, adjustments her identify to Sophie Straw and elbows her approach into the world of TV comedy. Set in swinging 60s London, there’s a relentless battle in opposition to the sexism and classism rife within the trade. And whereas it’s not the funniest script, Barbara’s tendency to say it how it’s (“Nobody needs to purchase lipstick from somebody with a smile like Ken Dodd”) together with a steadiness of wide-eyed optimism and willpower make her a star value rooting for. Hollie Richardson
Grayson Perry’s Full English
9pm, Channel 4
For the third and remaining leg of his very English tour, the artist journeys by the north of England largely to have fun the area’s music scene. In Wigan, he learns how Black American music influenced a 60s subculture. In Manchester, he meets Paul Heaton of the Lovely South. Then after a go to to his residence metropolis, Bradford, Perry finishes by asking Chris and Simon Donald, the founders of Viz comedian and his private heroes, what makes that northern sense of humour. HR
Dragons’ Den
8pm, BBC One
The folks behind canine security gates, a second-hand vogue enterprise that makes “preloved look premium” and a revolutionary hands-free electrical wheelchair are hoping for among the dragons’ money pile tonight. However the star of the present is the contestant whose overambitious pitch entails “probably the most thrilling meals motion since natural”. Chances are you’ll realize it as … avenue meals. Alexi Duggins
The Apprentice
9pm, BBC One
The hunt to seek out this yr’s least idiotic contestant strikes to late-stage capitalism’s favorite playground, Dubai, the place the greedy younger entrepreneurs should placed on a lavish company away-day. However will a desert journey or a extra conventional day of glamour and luxurious flip probably the most revenue? Jack Seale
Marie Antoinette
9pm, BBC Two
Navigating the nuances of court docket life, tonight Marie Antoinette is lastly with little one – besides issues are by no means that straightforward. Slander is within the air, because the 18th-century equal of deepfake revenge porn begins to flow into by way of illustrated pornographic pamphlets that query the inheritor’s legitimacy. However will a cuckolded King Louis expose the perpetrator? Danielle De Wolfe
Weight Loss Surgical procedure: Getting Skinny Overseas
9pm, BBC Three
Turkey has turn out to be the go-to place for every thing beauty, from new gnashers to hairlines – and now, gastric bands, sleeves and bypasses. Alex Hollywell-Rolfe, who had an NHS gastric sleeve operation three years in the past, investigates the phenomenon with a deal with the sufferers who are usually not even chubby within the first place. HR
