The Newsreader
9pm, BBC Two
Anna Torv is back with the second season of this classy Australian newsroom drama, and it’s now 1987 – with the country preparing for a general election. News hosts Helen (Torv) and Dale (Sam Reid) – partners both on and off screen – are under pressure what with having to fill six hours of uninterrupted air time on election night, an ordeal that’s intensified by an old face making a comeback on a rival network. Hollie Richardson
Stacey Dooley: Inside the Undertakers
9pm, BBC One
Dooley thinks death is “completely terrifying”. So, naturally, she has decided to face the fear head on by spending time at a family-run Nottingham undertakers. Will seeing what happens to us when we die, and thinking about her own funeral, help her come to terms with the inevitable? HR
Taskmaster
9pm, Channel 4
On we go with series 16 of a comedy challenge show that apparently doesn’t know how to do a bad episode. This bunch of contestants have a lovely air of mischief about them. Highlights include Sue Perkins tossing her head like a lion, and mass confusion caused by a secret task and a special hat. Jack Seale
Cobra: Rebellion
9pm, Sky Max
A half-inch “smart mortar” presents a dire crisis for PM Robert Sutherland (Robert Carlyle) as the political thriller continues. Led by a traumatised Dan Goddard (Anthony Flanagan), some rather miffed ex-soldiers are threatening to launch an attack if their ransom demands aren’t met – but while Cobra debates, Bob stands firm … until a warning shot is fired. Time is running out. Ali Catterall
Hullraisers
10pm, Channel 4
Lucy Beaumont, Caroline Moran and Anne-Marie O’Connor’s comedy about three thirtysomething women in Hull returns – and they’re navigating issues such as miscarriage, menopause and failure with humour and heart. Toni is obsessed with her mother-in-law’s new fella, Rana is scared of being an invisible woman and Paula won’t stop doing DIY. HR
Brassic
10pm, Sky Max
Typically for a show that is a lot less crass than it might superficially seem, this episode’s focus on lovable idiot Cardi involves him trying to steal a rabbit from a golf club raffle – and this somehow incorporates a lacerating analysis of passive Cardi’s marriage to super-assertive Carol. When the emotion peaks, she breaks into song. It works! JS
