Pick of The DAY

WILD ISLES 7PM, BBC1

★★★★★

The second instalment of David Attenborough’s epic nature series, which celebrates the wildlife on our doorsteps, opens with a sweeping shot of the lush green Caledonian Forest in Scotland – an ancient woodland where golden eagles soar. Over this hour-long episode, Attenborough follows Britain’s forests through the seasons, revealing the hidden dramas played out within them by fungi, butterflies (right), flying squirrels and more.

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW 8PM, BBC1

★★★ Fiona Bruce and her team of experts are in London’s Clissold Park, where John Sandon is wowed by a collection of ancient Peruvian pottery. Other highlights include a pipe once owned by Harold Wilson and a large diamond ring that is worth a small fortune.

GRACE 8PM, ITV1

John Simm returns to play Detective Superintendent

Roy Grace in three new feature-length episodes of this gruesome Brighton-based detective series, adapted from the bestselling novels by Peter James (see feature, page 7). In tonight’s first instalment, a woman is raped in a hotel on the night of the Assistant Chief Constable’s leaving party. Grace and his colleague DS Branson (Richie Campbell) are forced to investigate all hotel guests, including some high-ranking East Sussex police attendees. But soon, Grace becomes convinced that the crime greatly resembles one he has seen before...

RISE AND FALL 9PM, CH4

★★★ If you loved The Traitors, put this new reality series on your watch list. Greg

James (right) hosts as 16 people, from all walks of life, enter into a power struggle to win up to £100,000. Tonight, the players are divided into two groups before the contest, which airs nightly at 10pm, really gets going.

INTO DEATH VALLEY WITH NICK KNOWLES 9PM, CH5

★★★ The highest temperature on Earth (57°C) was recorded in Death Valley in California, and in this two-part series, Nick Knowles travels through the region from top to toe. In the first episode, he gets his adrenaline pumping while driving a sand buggy, camps under the desert stars, and learns how to forage for food in the barren landscape. Let’s hope he’s dressed for the weather.