Cougar Town
8.30pm, Sky Living

It's not all about chasing younger men as the likable set of wine-sipping neighbours of Cougar Town return for season three. Chief cougar Jules (Courteney Cox) has been through the divorced-mum-starting-over phase and is now out the other side. She's not happy when Grayson calls her predictable, but maybe he's just trying to hide that big old surprise he has up his sleeve. Bizarrely, it involves lots of toilet paper. Elsewhere, deadpan best mate Ellie and her husband Andy have bigger things to worry about as Stan appears to be turning into their very own devil child. Hannah Verdier

New Girl
8.30pm, Channel 4

This week it's Schmidt's 29th birthday. A reunion with a teen buddy might cheer him up, however, as the gang set off on a drunken and ill-fated party bus ride, in which the hasty booking of a "last-minute stripper" by Jess leads to an unfortunate mix-up. New Girl is perky as a button but the absence of a laugh track doesn't make it more sophisticated; rather, the effect is to reduce the gag count, and its very cuteness remains grating at times. David Stubbs

Melvyn Bragg On Class & Culture
9pm, BBC2

The final part of Melvyn Bragg's series brings us from the late-70s to the present and the fact that Bragg himself was in this period already a TV eminence ups the objective quality of his writing and reporting here. What we're dealing with, in large part, is the decline of British heavy industry presided over by Margaret Thatcher. Whether the cultural responses to this were immediate (as with 2Tone music) or emerged years later (in, say, the film Billy Elliot), the response of the assailed working classes was both polemical and impossible to ignore. John Robinson

Still Bill: The Bill Withers Story
9pm, BBC4

So ubiquitous were his two most famous tunes, Lovely Day and Ain't No Sunshine, the man who recorded them can sometimes be left in their long shadow. And yet, in the person of gentle newcomer Michael Kiwanuka and with a resurgence of interest in Bill Withers' brand of smooth soul, time is probably right for this portrait of the humble ex-serviceman, a man whose writing and wise publishing decisions have made him a role model for how to assume responsibility for oneself in the music business. JR

The Secret Policeman's Ball
10pm, Channel 4

Amnesty brings its comedy fundraiser to the US for the first time to celebrate the organisation's 50th birthday. The line-up is an Atlantic-straddling bobby dazzler at New York's Radio City Music Hall: the US contingent includes Jon Stewart, Sarah Silverman and Kristen Wiig, and the UK sends Peter Serafinowicz, Noel Fielding and Russell Brand. Music comes from Coldplay and Mumford & Sons. The ball always comes off best when it's a combination of standup and sketch comedy, so fingers crossed for some surprise team-ups. Julia Raeside

The Walking Dead
10pm, FX

Things are looking up, if for the viewers more than the characters. While they still don't seem to be in much of a hurry to leave Herschel's farm, the gang do at least venture, reminding us all there's a big, wide, zombie-filled world out there. After their adventure last week, Rick and Shane are pals again, something Dale does not see as a good thing. The series seems to be working harder at making each person's viewpoint more reasoned and less of a plot convenience. Phelim O'Neill