Critic’s choice

Too Much TV 6.30pm BBC2

New magazine devoted to the small screen, featuring guides to what’s on and “watercooler moments you may have missed”. Each weekday, two of Emma Bunton, Sara Cox, Rufus Hound and Aled Jones will pair up to present.

The People vs OJ Simpson: American Crime Story 9pm BBC2

Ridiculed defence lawyer Robert Shapiro (John Travolta) shops around for a legal team to cope with the weight of evidence stacked against his client.

The X-Files 9pm Channel 5

Mulder and Scully head to Philadelphia to investigate the murder of a bureaucrat who has been torn apart in a violent attack – one which it seems no human could have committed.

The Renaissance Unchained 9pm & 2.50am BBC4

Waldemar Januszczak asks why Venetian art was so different to everybody else’s. The answer would seem to be that it was the city’s unique position between East and West – or “location, location, location”, as he surprisingly doesn’t say.

Giles Coren: My Failed Novel 9pm Sky Arts

Sky Arts’ season about the opposite of success continues with Giles Coren ( left) speaking to successful authors including Hanif Kureishi to determine why his own novel Winkler was poorly received.

Fresh Meat 10pm Channel 4

This final series of the sitcom is struggling to take flight – I’m not sure why; perhaps everyone involved has mentally moved on. Anyway, Vod gets a job, and Oregon has found her legacy: a poetry prize.