Cricket: India v Sri Lanka ODI
7.45am, Sky Sports 2
All the action from Kolkata for the fourth match of this five-game series. India’s Eden Gardens has previously hosted four one-day meetings between India and Sri Lanka, the most recent coming in 2009 when the hosts bested the visitors with seven wickets in hand and almost two overs remaining. Following the fiery mid-innings performance of Ajinkya Rahane and Shikhar Dhawan in the opening ODI of the current series, it’s tempting to predict a similarly thumping Indian display here. Mark Jones
The Fall
9pm, BBC2
Return of the glacial detective thriller starring Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan. Stella questions Spector’s only surviving victim in hospital, determined to stop him, despite his flight from Belfast. Meanwhile, the killer is at a location unknown and frying a cooked breakfast in one pan – a sure sign of psychopathy. The press have got wind of Stella’s affair, and Spector’s promise to end his spree looks to have been optimistic at best. A nicely chilling return, like opening a fridge door. Julia Raeside
Neil Diamond: One Night Only
9pm, ITV
A tribute to the astonishingly successful songwriter, based around a performance at the London Palladium last month. Diamond, now 73, is far too often cited as the epitome of easy-listening naffness – unfair on the composer of I’m a Believer and Solitary Man, among other classics, whose songs have been sung by such top-drawer outlaws as Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Elvis Presley. Our host is Rob Brydon, who accompanies Diamond on a journey back to his native Brooklyn. Andrew Mueller
Queen Victoria’s Letters: A Monarch Unveiled
9pm, BBC4
AN Wilson offers a new take on Victoria’s life in the wake of her prince consort Albert’s early demise. The image we’ve inherited is of a woman lost in mourning and, says Wilson, there’s certainly truth in this picture. Nevertheless, drawing on Victoria’s own writings, he also argues that a woman freed from a sometimes domineering husband was able to get involved in the world of politics and make new and deep friendships. Anna Chancellor reads from Victoria’s journals and letters. Jonathan Wright
Drifters
9pm, E4
This comedy about a trio of sexually challenged twentysomethings has had a consistently strong second run, with highlights including Meg’s (Jessica Knappett) “bonk down memory lane” with ex Mark, the girls’ foray on to a Tinder-ish dating app and Meg and Bunny’s (Lydia Rose Bewley) infatuation with neighbour Scott. This week Leia (Verity-May Henry), whom Meg and Bunny met in India, arrives on the scene, triggering an unlikely political turn for Laura (Lauren O’Rourke), while Meg attends an illegal rave. Hannah J Davies
Monty Python: The Meaning of Live
9pm, Gold
There’s a strange melancholy hanging over this documentary, which charts the lead-up to the Pythons’ O2 comeback shows. Perhaps it’s because the now-fragile fivesome were somewhat forced into it. “You don’t get wiser as you get older,” sighs John Cleese. “It’s a myth.” Were they “doing this out of duty” to us, someone asks at a press conference? “What the fuck do we owe you?” Eric Idle snaps, and everybody laughs. Idle doesn’t. Only after a pause does he remember to smile. Ali Catterall
Babylon
10pm, Channel 4
The cachet of its creators – Danny Boyle, Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain – meant the pilot of this Met police comedy-drama premiered to much hype in February. Yet its ambitious scope – all the way down from the upper echelons of the force to the terminally bored on-the-ground teams – and odd tone (as cynical as a satire, but never ridiculous enough to be properly funny) meant it was hard to love. Those are things that still blight this first series proper, but its makers are, hopefully, playing the long game. Rachel Aroesti
Puppy Love
10pm, BBC4
From the geriatric ward to the life of the dog trainer – that’s the leap attempted here by Vicki Pepperdine and Joanna Scanlan, writers and stars of the fine Getting On. This sitcom introduces us to Scanlan’s penurious dog trainer, Nana V, and Pepperdine’s bureaucrat Mrs Singh, and watches their worlds collide. Tobias Menzies is the recently widowed owner of a misbehaving king charles cross, but with the main jokes deriving from his animal’s fondness for eating faeces, this may struggle to match the team’s high standards. John Robinson
