The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On
9pm, BBC1
In terms of starting a national conversation about mental illness, Stephen Fry’s 2006 documentary The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive was a landmark. Fry’s first-hand experience of bipolar disorder made him both an empathetic and illuminating subject. A decade on, the BBC returns to the subject, with Fry speaking candidly about his ongoing struggle. The programme also catches up with Cordelia, who featured memorably in the original film. Phil Harrison
The People v OJ Simpson: American Crime Story
9pm, BBC2
If you are under 30, you may not recall how American footballer-turned-film star OJ Simpson’s trial for the murder of his ex-wife Nicole gripped the public on both sides of the Atlantic. This is a rather earnestly dramatised revisitation of his case, culminating in its infamous conclusion. A starry cast features Cuba Gooding Jr as Simpson, David Schwimmer and John Travolta, who turns in a waxy, sinister performance as lawyer Robert Shapiro. David Stubbs
The X-Files
9pm, Channel 5
After getting the band back together in last week’s opener, the new X-Files starts to feel a bit more like the old X-Files. As Mulder and Scully investigate a suspicious suicide at a research facility, they uncover evidence hinting at a conspiracy involving genetic experimentation on young children. It stirs up memories of the baby boy Scully reluctantly put up for adoption 15 years ago, one of the show’s longest-dangling plot threads. Graeme Virtue
The Renaissance Unchained
9pm, BBC4
Debut of a new series by Waldemar Januszczak, which takes a gently iconoclastic look at the Renaissance, or at least at widespread assumptions about it. Januszczak contends that we remain far too beholden to Giorgio Vasari, the father of art history, who was quite the hometown umpire – emphasising his fellow Italians at the expense of equally important artists from the allegedly barbarian realms beyond Florence. It is followed by Sam Roddick’s Botticelli’s Venus: The Making Of An Icon, a contemplation of the era’s signature painting. Andrew Mueller
Tracey Ullman’s Show
10.45pm, BBC1
This may be the end of the current series of Ullman’s refreshingly cliche-free sketch comedy, but lessons refuse to be learned for the varied personas she inhabits. Merseyside money-magnet Pam Garrity continues to singlehandedly fuel George Osborne’s northern powerhouse, Dame Judi Dench wreaks smartphone-based havoc on a double-decker, while the unfortunately named Isis Model Agency continues to raise alarm among potential catwalk strutters. A second series has already been commissioned. Mark Gibbings-Jones
Sara Cox On Friendship
9pm, W
UKTV’s Watch channel has rebranded as W, offering slick US dramas, EastEnders repeats and glossy authored docs such as this one. Cox looks at how social media affects friendships as she joins Facebook for the first time. She also infiltrates a group of teenagers glued to their phones and then bans them from using them for a week. Will they resort to shockingly old-fashioned behaviour such as reading a book or using a landline? Future episodes feature Sophie Ellis-Bextor on fame and Grace Dent on romance. Hannah Verdier
The Walking Dead
9pm, FOX
Season six of the mega-hit returns after its hiatus. Last time we saw Rick’s gang, the walls of Alexandria had come crashing down, allowing legions of rotters to swarm their suburban bolthole. Against hair-raising odds, the scattered survivors have to decide whether to flee or stage a nocturnal fightback. Meanwhile, roaming badasses Daryl, Sasha and Abraham are caught on the hop by some armed bikers. They’re sadistic shock troops for a chap called Negan, who comes heavily hyped as the drama’s latest big bad. GV
Today’s best live sportATP Tennis: Rio Open
Opening day of the event. 7pm, Sky Sports 3
Scottish Premiership Football: Inverness Caledonian Thistle v AberdeenThe in-form Dons head north-west to Inverness. 7.15pm, BT Sport 1
Championship Football: Leeds United v Middlesbrough
The visitors look to maintain their promotion push. 7.30pm, Sky Sports 1
The visitors look to maintain their promotion push. 7.30pm, Sky Sports 1
Test Cricket: New Zealand v AustraliaFinal day of the first Test. 9.25pm, Sky Sports 2
Film choice
The African Queen
(John Huston, 1951) 11am, Film4
Humphrey Bogart won his only Oscar as Charlie Allnut, gin-soaked skipper of the riverboat African Queen. He and Katharine Hepburn’s straitlaced spinster Rose make one of the great odd couples, sparking off each other in every cranky exchange along the leech-ridden river, as they struggle to sink a first world war gunboat.
The Bourne Supremacy
(Paul Greengrass, 2004) 9pm, ITV2
The middle part of the superbly crafted trilogy – with Paul Greengrass taking over from Doug Liman and driving the action along at a lethal rate – is another relentless blend of hi-tech espionage and crunching violence. Matt Damon shines as amnesiac CIA assassin Jason Bourne, up against corrupt Russians and his former spymasters.
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