Wednesday’s best TV: Man Down, The Apprentice, Behind the New Frontlines (original) (raw)

Man Down

10pm, Channel 4

The fourth season of a sitcom that’s more likely than any other current show to provoke proper, hooting, tearful mirth. Greg Davies and his collaborators have an infectious love of imaginative profanity (this week, Stephanie Cole rolls out the phrase “venison bukkake” with some relish) and a delight in methodically creating big visual payoffs: the way two subplots conspire to produce a single glorious shot of Davies looking particularly absurd is a work of comedy art. Jack Seale

Bad Move

8pm, ITV

This latest in a number of attempts to house Jack Dee in a sitcom has been a pretty decent effort – scotching the enduring, romantic notion of swapping city life for a bigger place in the country. In this last episode of the series, Nicky and Steve invite their friends from Leeds for a long-overdue housewarming party, but this is impossible to keep a secret in the village. This leads to the threat of gatecrashers, as well as help from Matt and Meena. David Stubbs

The Apprentice

9pm, BBC1

The remaining crop of potential investees find themselves summoned to Wembley, where they’ll be diving into the world of corporate hospitality for the Women’s FA Cup final. With budgets lean but expectations high, the boys’ team, with Sarah and Michaela drafted over from the girls, decide that corner-cutting is the way forward, while the girls’ team opt for a persistent bickering gambit instead. And if there’s one thing Lord Alan loves, it’s bickering. Ben Arnold

Army: Behind the New Frontlines

9pm, BBC2

Britain hasn’t been at war for three years, but that doesn’t mean British troops aren’t being deployed all over the world. After last week’s look at the fightback against Islamic State in Iraq, this episode of the revealing BBC documentary series takes us to eastern Europe, where soldiers are training for a major Nato operation aimed at deterring Russian expansion. Are we on the brink of a new cold war? Indeed, has it already begun? Ellen E Jones

Doc Martin

9pm, ITV

The gentle comedy series continues. Day-to-day life is complicated by Dr Ellingham’s uniquely abrupt people skills and the strands of the plot stretch out from there. Tonight, Morwenna’s absence from work becomes a dubious research opportunity for her replacement, while there is friction on Louisa’s course when an ex-pupil shows up. And what is up with her co-student Tina, exactly? In other news, Al and Morwenna go glamping, with faintly humorous consequences. John Robinson

What Would Diplo Do?

9pm, Viceland

Mockumentary focused on and exec-produced by superstar beat-maker Diplo. WWDD? had the potential to be a sycophantic mess. Thankfully it’s a riot, with James Van Der Beek excelling in the tongue-in-cheek role of the clueless DJ (sample line: “Jesus’s entourage was kinda corny, though”). As the series begins, he’s locked in a Twitter beef with Calvin Harris (Tom Stourton), and there’s a case of mistaken identity involving a fan. Hannah J Davies

Bounty Hunters

10pm, Sky1

It is hard to imagine an more odd couple than Jack Whitehall in maximum mimsy mode and Do the Right Thing’s spitfire Rosie Perez, the chalk-and-gelignite pairing at the heart of Sky1’s madcap new action comedy. Whitehall plays bumbling student Barnaby who, while minding his dad’s antiques shop, gets embroiled in a plot involving looted Syrian treasure. Enter Nina: a streetwise Brooklyn skip-tracer with some special skills and her own covert agenda. Graeme Virtue

Film choice

Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2015) 10pm, Sky Cinema Premiere

The Palme d’Or-winning director presents a gently funny, ghost-haunted Thai tale. It concerns a squad of soldiers who are admitted to hospital after developing sleeping sickness; they’ve been excavating a building site and, it seems, are being psychically assailed by the spirits of the ancient cemetery they’ve disturbed. Though at times playful and poetic, it’s seen as a profound metaphor for the state of Thai society. Paul Howlett

Behold a Pale Horse (Fred Zinnemann, 1964) 6am, Movies4Men

Zinnemann’s post-Spanish civil war drama, adapted from Emeric Pressburger’s novel, has Gregory Peck as a guerrilla, still fighting the war 20 years on. One man against many, with his old foe – police chief Anthony Quinn – in his sights, he’s a hero in the mould of High Noon’s Will Kane. PH

Live sport

ODI Cricket: India v New Zealand 8.50am, Sky Sports Cricket. The second game of the series from the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium.

Scottish Premiership Football: Aberdeen v Celtic 7.15pm, BT Sport 1. Action from Pittodrie.

League Cup Football: Tottenham Hotspur v West Ham United 7.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event. A fourth-round London derby from Wembley Stadium.