Live WTA Tennis | 12 Again School Days Special | The Chef's Protege | The Fall | Vicious | Skint | Frost On Sketch Shows | Banshee
*Live WTA Tennis: The Internazionali BNL d'Italia
10am, British Eurosport
*
The most high-profile red clay contest in tennis behind the French Open, the Internazionali BNL d'Italia (or Italian Open) should provide a strenuous workout for those heading to Roland Garros later this month. In the women's draw (televised on British Eurosport) world No 3 Maria Sharapova seeks to retain her title for a third consecutive year, while over on Sky Sports 1, the resurgent Rafael Nadal is after a record seventh victory in the men's tournament. Gwilym Mumford
*12 Again School Days Special
5.30pm, CBBC
*
If you're someone who's relieved to have made it through childhood into the world of grown-ups, where at the least the bullying and backbiting is usually more subtle, 12 Again may not be for you. That's because it features celebrities looking back at their younger selves. Specifically, this special episode features the cast of Waterloo Road, Sam and Mark, Little Mix, Warwick Davis and Tyger Drew-Honey recalling their schooldays. Favourite lessons and the customisation of school uniforms come under discussion. Jonathan Wright
**The Chef's Protege*
6.30pm, BBC2*
Behind many a great chef is a great mentor. In this new series, three giants of gastronomy – Michel Roux Jr, Theo Randall and Tom Kitchin – search for someone to take under their wing for a week. The opening episode sees Kitchin return to his old Perth College to determine which of his four young hopefuls can work the most magic with a handful of scallops, fennel and orange slices. It's essentially a talent show, but there's way more encouragement here than Cowell-style spite. Ali Catterall
**The Fall*
9pm, BBC2*
Gillian Anderson stars as a steely Met detective, flown into Belfast to catch a serial killer played by the too-handsome-to-be-stabby Jamie Dornan. She's from the diva school of TV detectives: fools aren't suffered, the pinot grigio is perfectly chilled, and studly male officers are simply given a room number and expected to arrive scrubbed and ready for action. Meanwhile, Dornan's killer terrorises career women by rifling through their knicker drawer. An odd but promising opener if you haven't had enough shows about murder yet. Julia Raeside
*Vicious
9pm, ITV*
Stuart and Freddie are still sneering, naive neighbour Ash is again pouring his heart out – inexplicably – to the leering pensioners, and Frances de la Tour's Violet is deciding whether to fly to Hungary to perform "depraved sex acts" (something that, admittedly, breaks with this sitcom's painful repetitiveness). But then Freddie gives an ill-informed – and very funny – masterclass on microscopically small acting parts, apropos of his Downton audition: a glimpse of how this series might have turned out had the rest of the script been nearly as clever. Rachel Aroesti
**Skint*
9pm, Channel 4*
From the makers of Amish: World's Squarest Teens comes a new three-parter about unemployment and social deprivation that is likely to tread an equally sensitive path. Over nine months, cameras follow 37-year-old Dean, a father of seven who was let go from his job at the local steelworks in Scunthorpe. Tackling issues such as crime, drugs and the ethics of the benefit system, Skint promises a look at the problems faced by the poorest people in society, hopefully without reducing them to tired, Jeremy Kyle Show stereotypes. Hannah J Davies
**Frost On Sketch Shows*
9pm, BBC4*
Taking a lead from 2010's Frost On Satire, Sir David takes a look at another endangered comedy format, the sketch show. Charting the last 50 years of wanton skittery, Frost speaks to masters of shows past such as Stephen Fry, Ronnie Corbett and Michael Palin, taking in the highs and lows of the format. No preview tapes were available, so whether we'll be treated to the notoriously barbed Timmy Williams Coffee Time sketch from Flying Circus, a barely disguised pop at imperial-phase Frost himself, we have yet to find out. Mark Jones
*Banshee
10.15pm, Sky Atlantic*
Carrie breaks into Ukrainian gangster Mr Rabbit's heavily guarded hutch while he's playing chess and tries to give him his diamonds back. She keeps trying to give the diamonds to all and sundry at gunpoint, but they don't want them. Back in Banshee, boxing legend Damien Sanchez is in town for a big fight, and Lucas has an encounter with Rebecca, the sexually incontinent bar floozy who looks like Laura Palmer. He also warms to his lawmaker role by demonstrating his own particular method of arresting a perp. JNR Reported by guardian.co.uk 1 hour ago.
*Live WTA Tennis: The Internazionali BNL d'Italia
10am, British Eurosport
*
The most high-profile red clay contest in tennis behind the French Open, the Internazionali BNL d'Italia (or Italian Open) should provide a strenuous workout for those heading to Roland Garros later this month. In the women's draw (televised on British Eurosport) world No 3 Maria Sharapova seeks to retain her title for a third consecutive year, while over on Sky Sports 1, the resurgent Rafael Nadal is after a record seventh victory in the men's tournament. Gwilym Mumford
*12 Again School Days Special
5.30pm, CBBC
*
If you're someone who's relieved to have made it through childhood into the world of grown-ups, where at the least the bullying and backbiting is usually more subtle, 12 Again may not be for you. That's because it features celebrities looking back at their younger selves. Specifically, this special episode features the cast of Waterloo Road, Sam and Mark, Little Mix, Warwick Davis and Tyger Drew-Honey recalling their schooldays. Favourite lessons and the customisation of school uniforms come under discussion. Jonathan Wright
**The Chef's Protege*
6.30pm, BBC2*
Behind many a great chef is a great mentor. In this new series, three giants of gastronomy – Michel Roux Jr, Theo Randall and Tom Kitchin – search for someone to take under their wing for a week. The opening episode sees Kitchin return to his old Perth College to determine which of his four young hopefuls can work the most magic with a handful of scallops, fennel and orange slices. It's essentially a talent show, but there's way more encouragement here than Cowell-style spite. Ali Catterall
**The Fall*
9pm, BBC2*
Gillian Anderson stars as a steely Met detective, flown into Belfast to catch a serial killer played by the too-handsome-to-be-stabby Jamie Dornan. She's from the diva school of TV detectives: fools aren't suffered, the pinot grigio is perfectly chilled, and studly male officers are simply given a room number and expected to arrive scrubbed and ready for action. Meanwhile, Dornan's killer terrorises career women by rifling through their knicker drawer. An odd but promising opener if you haven't had enough shows about murder yet. Julia Raeside
*Vicious
9pm, ITV*
Stuart and Freddie are still sneering, naive neighbour Ash is again pouring his heart out – inexplicably – to the leering pensioners, and Frances de la Tour's Violet is deciding whether to fly to Hungary to perform "depraved sex acts" (something that, admittedly, breaks with this sitcom's painful repetitiveness). But then Freddie gives an ill-informed – and very funny – masterclass on microscopically small acting parts, apropos of his Downton audition: a glimpse of how this series might have turned out had the rest of the script been nearly as clever. Rachel Aroesti
**Skint*
9pm, Channel 4*
From the makers of Amish: World's Squarest Teens comes a new three-parter about unemployment and social deprivation that is likely to tread an equally sensitive path. Over nine months, cameras follow 37-year-old Dean, a father of seven who was let go from his job at the local steelworks in Scunthorpe. Tackling issues such as crime, drugs and the ethics of the benefit system, Skint promises a look at the problems faced by the poorest people in society, hopefully without reducing them to tired, Jeremy Kyle Show stereotypes. Hannah J Davies
**Frost On Sketch Shows*
9pm, BBC4*
Taking a lead from 2010's Frost On Satire, Sir David takes a look at another endangered comedy format, the sketch show. Charting the last 50 years of wanton skittery, Frost speaks to masters of shows past such as Stephen Fry, Ronnie Corbett and Michael Palin, taking in the highs and lows of the format. No preview tapes were available, so whether we'll be treated to the notoriously barbed Timmy Williams Coffee Time sketch from Flying Circus, a barely disguised pop at imperial-phase Frost himself, we have yet to find out. Mark Jones
*Banshee
10.15pm, Sky Atlantic*
Carrie breaks into Ukrainian gangster Mr Rabbit's heavily guarded hutch while he's playing chess and tries to give him his diamonds back. She keeps trying to give the diamonds to all and sundry at gunpoint, but they don't want them. Back in Banshee, boxing legend Damien Sanchez is in town for a big fight, and Lucas has an encounter with Rebecca, the sexually incontinent bar floozy who looks like Laura Palmer. He also warms to his lawmaker role by demonstrating his own particular method of arresting a perp. JNR Reported by guardian.co.uk 1 hour ago.