Just Act Normal
9pm, BBC Three
A punchy new comedy-drama with a lot of heart and a really great breakthrough cast. Based on Janice Okoh’s award-winning play Three Birds, the series is set on a Birmingham council estate and follows three siblings – Tiana (Chenée Taylor), Tanika (Kaydrah Walker-Wilkie) and Tionne (Akins Subair) – who are struggling to keep up appearances after their mum disappears. Romola Garai also stars as a well-intentioned teacher. Hollie Richardson
The Repair Shop
8pm, BBC One
Hector is a lifesize model horse used to teach at a riding school for disabled people – but his matted mane and uneven hooves need fixing. Can the workshop’s “teddy bear ladies”, Amanda Middleditch and Julie Tatchell, restore him to health? Also in need of help: an old leather darts case. HR
The Secret Genius of Modern Life
8pm, BBC Two
The history of the rollercoaster is surprisingly wild and is engagingly told by Hannah Fry. She meets a coaster designer at Thorpe Park and offers a brief history of how Nasa, a French physician and a cartoonist called Walt delivered the ultimate thrill machine. Phil Harrison
Grand Designs
9pm, Channel 4
It has been 18 months since Graeme and Melanie bought a tiny garage plot for £275,000 in Hackney. Restricted by their budget and working to a tight schedule, how did their plan to build a modernist bright-red home go? As Kevin McCloud finds out, not without many, many struggles. HR
Building Britain’s Superhomes
10pm, Channel 4
The last edition of Guy Phoenix’s super-smug property series sees the luxury developer and his team race to get his Nottinghamshire “glass castle” finished. He needs to be quick if he wants to make it in time for the lavish birthday party he’s throwing at his own plush villa in the south of France. HR
Targeted: Lebanon’s Deadliest Attack
11pm, BBC Two
It was the single deadliest attack on Lebanon in years. On a quiet Sunday last September, an Israeli airstrike hit an apartment block in the town of Ain el-Delb, killing 73 people, including 23 children. Yemeni-British journalist Nawal Al-Maghafi travels to the town to investigate the attack, and ask why the building was targeted. Ellen E Jones
Film choices
Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story (Jane Mingay, 2024), 9pm, Sky Arts
As the mixed-race lead singer of two-tone band the Selecter, Pauline Black was a pivotal figure in a genre that, however briefly, melded white punk and Black reggae sensibilities into a vibrant, politically engaged musical whole. In this revealing documentary, she tells her own story, and also a sobering parallel history of 20th-century British race relations. Adopted by a white Essex couple as a baby, Black grew up surrounded by racism. She left to study in Coventry, the birthplace of two-tone, and became “the first rudegirl” with her androgynous look and confident stage presence. But the tale also takes in career failures and identity crises. Simon Wardell
The Vourdalak (Adrien Beau, 2023), 12 midnight, Film4
Powdered, bewigged medieval French marquis Jacques (Kacey Mottet Klein) seeks assistance at a remote house somewhere in eastern Europe after being assailed by bandits. Sadly, the family patriarch, Gorcha, has just turned into a Nosferatu-adjacent zombie killer. But engrained filial duty renders the children – including Ariane Labed’s melancholic Sdenka – incapable of stopping their father’s bloodlust. Adrien Beau’s gothic fable is low budget but creepy and, with Gorcha realised as a lifesize skeletal puppet, occasionally intentionally silly. SW
Live sport
Champions League football, Real Madrid v Arsenal 7pm, TNT Sports 1.
The quarter-final return leg from the Bernabéu.
