• It’s that time of the year when sport’s biggest names team up with celebrities from the world of entertainment to raise money for charity. We’ve picked out this year’s Sport Relief highlights
• The irrepressible Dom Joly engages in a spot of dog-napping as he follows in the footsteps of comic-book icon Tintin
• Simon Reeve takes on another round-the-world challenge, this time tracing the path of the Tropic of Cancer
• Phill Jupitus heads to America to see if he can make New Yorkers laugh
• NCIS: LA is back, and we talk to Chris O’Donnell about fatherhood, firearms and being the Boy Wonder
• Talking of returning characters - Charlotte makes an unexpected reappearance in Lost. But how? When? Where? And why?
All this, plus of course reviews of all this week’s film premieres, including Marley & Me, a detailed guide to the new Formula One season, and the best listings for Sky and Virgin viewers.
9pm, CSI, Five
Henry’s surprise birthday turns sour when his CSI colleague take him to a remote BBQ joint, only to find it closed down by the health department. Meanwhile, it looks like Dr Jeckyl has struck again.
9pm, The Vampire Diaries, ITV2
When Damon tries to get his necklace back from Bonnie, he’s shocked by the extent of her powers; and Stefan attempts to keep Vicki’s bloodlust in check.
9pm, 90210, E4 & HD
Adrianna visits Navid in hospital, but he has no recollection of who pushed him down the stairs; Silver and Teddy grow closer; and Liam, Dixon and Ivy have a plan to show Naomi the truth about her sister.
9pm, Caprica, Sky1 & HD
Daniel is torn when industrialist Tomas Vergis (Brothers & Sisters actor John Pyper-Ferguson) presents him with an ultimatum that could destroy Graystone Industries.
10pm, Fringe, Sky1 & HD
The team travels to Edina in upstate New York to investigate the murders of three state troopers, discovering that many of the residents are deformed but have managed to hide their disfigurement.
9pm, Glee, E4
Will gets the Glee clubbers to pair-up to sing ballads. When Rachel chooses Will, and sings EndlessLove to him, he soon realises she’s developed a crush on him – and she’s not the only one. Cue Will singing the Police number Don’t Stand So Close To Me. Meanwhile, Finn finds support in Kurt, and Puck tells Mercedes that he’s the real father of Quinn’s baby.
10pm, Trauma, Virgin1
There’s never a dull moment in the life of the San Francisco paramedics. When a driver suffers a stroke and drives into a street fair, the team are thrown into turmoil over who to get to hospital first. Partners Rabbit and Marisa clash over a patient’s treatment, and Boone’s marriage is on the rocks.
8pm, The Office: An American Workplace, ITV4
Michael hopes to go New York to attend the launch party for the company’s new website. Angela sets up a committee to plan a satellite party in Scranton, and Dwight tries to sell the most paper in a day to beat the website.
9pm Lost, Sky1 & Sky1 HD
Brace yourself for this intense Sayid-centric episode. In the flash-sideways he is on his way to see his beloved Nadia in LA but, of course, things are more complicated than they first appear. Meanwhile, back at the temple, Dogen has a mission for Sayid.
9pm, The Mentalist, Five Lisbon is in hot water when fingerprints on a murder weapon connect her to the killing of a child molester she and Bosco arrested several years earlier. She better not fail the lie detector test!
10pm, True Blood, FX & FX HD
Jason - we can’t help liking the poor dumb fool - impresses at the Light of Day conference. But Sookie makes an error of judgement when she helps Jessica revisit her family home.
10pm, Criminal Minds, Living
The team travel to New Mexico to try to track down a particularly nasty serial killer (though aren’t they all?) who kills vulnerable young women after he has made them pregnant, while Hotch has some news for Morgan about the unit’s future.
Yup, after a ridiculously long break, FlashForward is going to be back on Five later this month. We hear the channel will also be showing a handly little recap show beforehand to remind us what happened.
Here, in the meantime, is a trailer which has just aired in the States…
A little backstory: A couple of years ago, Fox announced that it was going to make a US version of Channel 4’s cult Simon Pegg/Edgar Wright/Jessica Hynes comedy Spaced. Pegg, Wright and Hynes were reported to be less than happy, and then a few months later Fox had second thoughts and dropped the idea after the pilot episode was universally panned… And a good job, too, judging from these clips that have just emerged. [via spaced-out.org.uk]
9pm, The Good Wife, More4
With layoffs looming, Alicia is given a make-or-break case representing the daughter of absent lawfirm partner Stern, and finds herself trying to iron out the complexities of Jewish Sabbath labour restrictions with maverick young lawyer Ryan (Rescue Me’s Chris Bowers).
10pm, Brothers & Sisters, More4
Against their better judgement, Saul and Holly enter the recession-busting ‘plonk’ they’ve created into a wine festival, and are stunned when it actually does rather well. Could this mark a turning point for Ojai? Don’t count on it. Things are also looking a bit too good to be true with Nora’s latest love interest, bike-boy Simon.
10pm, Grey’s Anatomy, Living
One of the hospital’s lab technicians discovers he has an apparently inoperable tumour, and challenges Derek to take on his case. The Chief tries to put the stops on the procedure, forcing Derek to lead a surgical mutiny. The final showdown between those two can’t be far off now.
