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Hollie Richardson, Danielle De Wolfe, Jack Seale, Alexi Duggins and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: Rosie Jones and AJ Odudu take a very funny trip together

We’ll take the high road… Rosie Jones, right, and AJ Odudu climb Cairn Gorm.
We’ll take the high road… Rosie Jones, right, and AJ Odudu climb Cairn Gorm. Photograph: Catriona Parmenter Photography

Rosie Jones’ Trip Hazard

10pm, Channel 4

“Can we give a woman with cerebral palsy a gun?” asks comedian Rosie Jones. “Sure!” Celebrity travelogues may be an overcrowded genre, but Jones leading the adventure makes it an easy win (especially with Joanna Lumley narrating). To launch this second season in which she journeys around the UK, the host takes AJ Odudu to Scotland, where they have a go at clay pigeon shooting, rowing, (a lot of) whisky tasting and climbing Cairn Gorm. Hollie Richardson

The Dark Side of Direct Sales

8pm, BBC Three

Working 80-hour weeks selling door-to-door is probablygrimmer than it sounds. But in this report, Lora Jones discovers that more young people are being recruited into cold calling sales on the doorstep. They are promised career success, although some don’t get paid the minimum wage, and one man says he was denied toilet breaks. HR

Lion legacy … Tatu and Alan of the Marsh Pride, Maasai Mara, Kenya.
Lion legacy … Tatu and Alan of the Marsh Pride, Maasai Mara, Kenya. Photograph: Simon Blakeney/BBC

Lion: The Rise and Fall of the Marsh Pride

9pm, BBC Two

It’s a very sombre start to this documentary about “the most filmed lions in the world”. We begin with local people who protected the Marsh Pride recalling its demise when the lions were poisoned in 2015. It goes on to celebrate the big cats’ legacy, and explores what their deaths meant in conservation terms. HR

The Pyrenees With Michael Portillo

9pm, Channel 5

No stranger to bold suits and peregrinations, the former cabinet minister ruminates over his ancestral link to the Pyrenees in this poignant four-part series. Tonight, he traverses the isolated communities of the Basque region, and bathes in solitude. Danielle de Wolfe

Irma Vep

9pm, Sky Atlantic

This beguiling meta-froth for cinephiles continues on its meandering path, with Mira (Alicia Vikander) juggling tempting offers – professional and personal. Delicate jokes abound, mixed with delightfully broad comedy, such as a terrific “retreating to a cupboard to scream with frustration” scene. Jack Seale

The Other Half

10pm, Dave

He might sashay down suburban streets as if he’s in a Beyoncé video, but the most glam thing in Navid’s life is an art gallery internship. This comedy pilot (the first of four on Dave this week) is packed full of fish-out-of-water laughs and a skewering of suburban mores as Navid moves house from a Welsh village to his pal’s family – who are so middle class they write letters to Ottolenghi. Alexi Duggins

Film choice

Marina Foïs and Matthieu Lucci in The Workshop (L’Atelier).
Marina Foïs and Matthieu Lucci in The Workshop (L’Atelier). Photograph: Canal+/Allstar

The Workshop (Laurent Cantet, 2017), 11.15pm, BBC Two
In a similar vein to his 2008 drama The Class, French director Laurent Cantet takes a teacher and watches them negotiate a challenging group of students. In this case, novelist Olivia (Marina Foïs) is leading a creative writing workshop in a declining industrial town on the Mediterranean coast. All the pupils seem engaged, except Antoine (Matthieu Lucci), whose morbid fascinations and rightwing leanings frustrate and intrigue Olivia. A slow-burner, full of inchoate teen disaffection. Simon Wardell

Live sport

Cycling: Vuelta a España 1.45pm, Eurosport 1. Stage four, a 95-mile route from Vitoria-Gasteiz to Laguardia.

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