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Rooster

10pm, Sky One
Steve Carell stars in this campus comedy about a novelist father and his sad professor daughter. Greg (Caryl) visits the college when Katie (Charlie Clive) is going through a divorce from her academic husband who cheated on her with a student. Co-written by Bill Lawrence, who worked on Ted Lasso and Shrinking, look for Scrubs star John C McGinley, chewing up every scene. Holly Richardson

China Dome Corniche Workshop

8pm, U&Y
A fun lifestyle thriller, the mechanic/engineer and graduate of The Repair Shop moves from Kent to Cornwall, where his wife Maria and dog Wendy – both capable co-presenters – help with a massive farm renovation project. First, Dom meets a man at a small place to buy a used Land Rover. Jack Seale

Handcuffed: Last pair standing

9pm on Channel 4
Would you stay handcuffed to a stranger if it meant a chance to win £100,000? As Channel 4’s latest social experiment continues, it’s clear that the two contestants have been paired together to generate maximum friction: how do we explain country activist Claire being roped in by city-loving model Bambi? Continues Tuesday. Graeme Virtue

DTF St. Louis

9pm, Sky Atlantic
The suburbs swim with innuendo as Clark seduces Carol into a flashback with a line about running a deep-sea demolition company (“They call me the explosion master”). Meanwhile, in the present, Floyd’s secret life is being exposed online – and Detective Homer believes he has an open and shut murder case. But all is not as it seems in Steve Conrad’s dry black comedy. Ali Catterall

Minor Prophets

10pm on BBC Two

More surreal comedy from Mackenzie Crook. It’s time for Michael and Casey to dig into the homunculi to see if they can really predict the future. Before that, there were even stranger events: Michael’s father apparently received a letter from a dead friend. Human resources

You try

10.40pm, on BBC One
Series three of the sweet adoption comedy begins, and we last saw Nikki and Jason bringing Princess home on a temporary basis – only to find her brother Tyler hiding in the boot of their car. Can a couple adopt both? That’s unlikely, so they give the kids a nice day before they split up again. Human resources