CRITIC’S CHOICE

PICK OF THE DAY Avoidance

9.30pm, BBC One

A slimmed-down but still uptight Jonathan (Romesh Ranganathan) wakes up alongside his new lover Megan (Aisling Bea), while his sister, the excitable Dan (Mandeep Dhillon) extols the virtues of “gentle parenting” to her heavily pregnant wife, Courtney (Lisa McGrillis) before being offered a new job in the second series of this watchable but rather pedestrian sitcom. Jonathan and his ex-wife Claire (Jessica Knappett, left) also find themselves stuck at a nightmarish social gathering. Don’t expect belly laughs, however, even from gifted comic McGrillis, and this rather safe comedy makes you appreciate Sharon Horgan’s Motherland more.

=== Jane

Apple TV+

Ava Louise Murchison plays Jane Garcia, a nine-year-old budding environmentalist on a quest to save endangered animals. Using her powerful imagination, Jane takes her best pals David (Mason Blomberg) and Greybeard the chimpanzee on stirring adventures to help protect wild animals all around the world.

=== Beyond Paradise

8pm, BBC One

This week’s commercial for the Devon tourist board, sorry “detective series”, finds Kris Marshall’s eccentric, lanky sleuth investigating an attack, courtesy of an arrow, on a moor. Meanwhile, Esther’s daughter,

Zoe, gets a tattoo and Anne (Barbara Flynn) prepares (including cake tasting) for Martha and Humphrey’s upcoming wedding. Like Doc Martin without the acidity of Martin Clunes, it’s the sort of gently paced cop show that makes you pine for the highspeed car chases of Starsky & Hutch.

=== The Twelve

9pm, ITV1

The Australian melodrama, adapted from the Belgian series De Twaalf, staggers on with the cast of jurors becoming increasingly angsty. This week, the 12 troubled souls are taken to Kate Lawson’s house to observe a demonstration of the Crown’s case theory, before Kate’s brother, the heavy-drinking Robbie, takes the stand to provide his testimony.

=== Michael Portillo’s Long Weekends

9pm, Channel 5

The rather pleased-with-himself presenter embarks on another travel freebie, this time he starts in Madrid. His weekend begins in the city centre on busy Gran Via boulevard. No wonder he looks so smug.

=== The Rolling Stones: Rock And Roll Circus

8pm, Sky Arts

“For a brief moment it seemed that rock’n’roll would inherit the earth,” notes David Dalton at the start of this sensational concert film of the Stones’ 1968 performance in a Wembley TV studio that was turned into a circus for the occasion –