Monday

Singing in the Rainforest 

Watch 

9pm

In one of the most baffling commissions in a while, singer Charlie Simpson, perhaps best known as ‘the lanky one from Busted’, travels to Grashoek Village in southern Africa to make music with the San bushmen.

With his guitar slung over his shoulder, Simpson may look like an overgrown gap year kid, but he is on a mission to work with the tribe to bring two cultures together in one song.

 

Tuesday

Reggie Yates: Race Riots USA 

BBC Three 

9pm

Reggie Yates heads to Ferguson, Missouri to look at race relations, a year after police shot dead unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.

Speaking to police and residents in the town, Yates hears how fining citizens for a violation such as wearing saggy jeans is a prime source of revenue for the local municipality.

 

Wednesday

You, Me and the Apocalypse 

Sky 1

9pm

The names Rob Lowe and Pauline Quirke are not ones you’d necessarily put together, but when the apocalypse is on the way, anything could happen.

The two appear in Sky’s new big budget drama, which also stars The Wrong Mans’ Mathew Baynton, Will and Grace’s Megan Mullally and Plebs’ Joel Fry.

Baynton plays Jamie, a bank manager from Slough who has forgotten how to live.

The drama follows people across the planet from the Vatican to New Mexico as they prepare for the end of the world.

 

Thursday

Who Do You Think You Are?

BBC One

9pm

Countryfile presenter Anita Rani investigates the life of her grandfather Sant Singh, who died two years before she was born.

Rani travels to India to learn what became of Singh’s first wife and child, and hears harrowing stories from the country’s Partition era.

 

Friday

The Kennedys

BBC One

9.30pm

Those who have read The Tent, the Bucket and Me, the childhood memoir of actress and writer Emma Kennedy, will be familiar with her family’s eccentricities and their unique approach to life in the 1970s.

Now Kennedy has written a sitcom loosely based on the book, which centres around her family’s life on a Stevenage council estate.

In this week’s episode, mum Brenda (Katherine Parkinson) takes it upon herself to host the estate’s first dinner party, despite the fact she’s never cooked anything more complicated than an egg.

Meanwhile Emma (Lucy Hutchinson), here aged 10, battles with arch-rival Julie for control of the play fort.

 

Saturday

Rugby World Cup – England v Australia

ITV

7.15pm (kick off at 8pm)

Following England’s narrow defeat to Wales last weekend, it’s crunch time for the nation’s rugby team.

On Saturday they face Australia at Twickenham. The England squad will hope to fair better than Australia’s last opponents Uruguay, who were beaten 65-3 on Sunday.

 

Sunday

From Darkness

BBC One

9pm

Former police constable Claire Church (Anne-Marie Duff) has worked hard to build an idyllic family life in the Western Isles, having left her dark past behind her in Manchester.

However when the bodies of missing women turn up on a building site, Church’s old mentor DCI John Hind calls on his protégé to fight for justice for the women.

While Church would prefer to leave the past behind her, developments in the case means that the past is catching up with her, and she realises she can no longer hide from it.