Live Americas Cup World Series | The British Animal Honours 2013 | Brushing Up On – British Tunnels | Maureen Lipman: If Memory Serves Me Right | Could We Survive A Mega-Tsunami? | Playhouse Presents: Hey Diddly Dee | A Night At The Rijksmuseum | Nashville
*Live America's Cup World Series
1pm, Sky Sports 3
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Coverage of the final curtain-raiser event for this year's America's Cup challenge, which will be held off San Francisco from July. In this week's event, nine teams will race around a course off the coast of Naples. The catamarans involved in this event make for more spectacular television than most sailing, but this remains a sport perhaps more involving to do than to watch. Britain is represented by the Royal Cornwall Yacht Club, captained by recently retired Olympic champion Ben Ainslie. Andrew Mueller
*The British Animal Honours 2013
8pm, ITV
*
Across the nation, animals prepare their furry little disappointment faces and get ready to clap their paws bitterly, as they find out who's scooped the gongs in this live awards ceremony hosted by Paul O'Grady. Even if you love a tale of dog bravery, two hours of plaudits for animals and those who work with them is in danger of wearing a little thin. Still, if you fancy seeing who's been crowned Canine Commando, Guardian Angel and Ray Of Sunshine, prepare to have your heart well and truly melted. Hannah Verdier
**Brushing Up On – British Tunnels*
8.30pm, BBC4
*
Recently seen on BBC4's Goodbye Television Centre bash lambasting the suits for flogging the iconic building, Danny Baker returns for a new series less likely to cause awkward shuffling in the boardroom. Using archive footage to explore various topics, it opens with a look at some of Albion's many subterranean passageways. Promising to cover everything from the Channel tunnel to the underground domiciles fashioned by green protester Swampy, this should prove a treat for all fans of Baker's endlessly engaging verbal riffola. Mark Jones
**Maureen Lipman: If Memory Serves Me Right*
9pm, BBC1
*
Actor Maureen Lipman has been contemplating memory: she doesn't think she has a particularly good one, though she relies on it for her work. More troubling is that her father lost his short-term memory, which deeply affected her, so she wants to find out more about it. This is one of those "personal journeys"– it features her friends and family, her worries and anxieties – but Lipman makes for an intelligent and genial host as she uncovers how memory works, from birth through to old age. Martin Skegg
*Could We Survive A Mega-Tsunami?
9pm, BBC2
*
The volcanic island of La Palma in the Canaries is a ticking time bomb, threatening the coasts of Europe, Africa and the US with catastrophe if it decides to explode one day. The landslip that could occur might send a kilometre-high wave travelling at several hundred miles an hour first to Africa, then to mainland Europe. Then again it might not. This one-off hour of cable channel-standard conjecture is quite beneath the BBC, but still it flounders on with "maybes" and "what ifs" regardless. Ben Arnold
**Playhouse Presents: Hey Diddly Dee*
9pm, Sky Arts 1
*
Peter Serafinowicz, Mathew Horne and Kylie Minogue star in this comedy-drama about the cast of a new Andy Warhol musical putting up with Serafinowicz's monstrous star turn, until the theatre's mysterious cat gets involved. Actor Marc Warren writes and directs a delightful tale of the unexpected, and Serafinowicz has the time of his life swanning about in Warhol's wig. Another treat tucked away on Sky Arts. Keep an eye on them: turn your back for a second and you could miss a gem. Julia Raeside
**A Night At The Rijksmuseum*
10pm, BBC4
*
After running five years over schedule during its extensive renovations, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which charts 800 years of Dutch history, is finally reopening. So has the work been worth all the bother and expense? Keen to find out, Andrew Graham-Dixon goes behind the scenes at the venerable institution as the staff prepare to welcome punters again for the first time in a decade, an event that will see masterpieces by the likes Vermeer and Rembrandt going on display in sometimes radically re-engineered spaces. Jonathan Wright
*Nashville
10pm, More4
*
"Can you get my jet ready, please? I need to get out of here." Yes, it's melodrama o'clock in Nashville once again. The young missy demanding her steel horse of the sky is Juliette, the Swift-alike who's desperate to get a divorce from Sean, whom she married, like, 10 minutes ago. Grand dame of the country music craft Rayna is finding it hard to get a replacement for Deacon ready for the divas' co-headlining Red Lips, White Lies tour. Of course, there's jealousy and upstaging going on at every turn. Marvellous. HV Reported by guardian.co.uk 18 hours ago.
*Live America's Cup World Series
1pm, Sky Sports 3
*
Coverage of the final curtain-raiser event for this year's America's Cup challenge, which will be held off San Francisco from July. In this week's event, nine teams will race around a course off the coast of Naples. The catamarans involved in this event make for more spectacular television than most sailing, but this remains a sport perhaps more involving to do than to watch. Britain is represented by the Royal Cornwall Yacht Club, captained by recently retired Olympic champion Ben Ainslie. Andrew Mueller
*The British Animal Honours 2013
8pm, ITV
*
Across the nation, animals prepare their furry little disappointment faces and get ready to clap their paws bitterly, as they find out who's scooped the gongs in this live awards ceremony hosted by Paul O'Grady. Even if you love a tale of dog bravery, two hours of plaudits for animals and those who work with them is in danger of wearing a little thin. Still, if you fancy seeing who's been crowned Canine Commando, Guardian Angel and Ray Of Sunshine, prepare to have your heart well and truly melted. Hannah Verdier
**Brushing Up On – British Tunnels*
8.30pm, BBC4
*
Recently seen on BBC4's Goodbye Television Centre bash lambasting the suits for flogging the iconic building, Danny Baker returns for a new series less likely to cause awkward shuffling in the boardroom. Using archive footage to explore various topics, it opens with a look at some of Albion's many subterranean passageways. Promising to cover everything from the Channel tunnel to the underground domiciles fashioned by green protester Swampy, this should prove a treat for all fans of Baker's endlessly engaging verbal riffola. Mark Jones
**Maureen Lipman: If Memory Serves Me Right*
9pm, BBC1
*
Actor Maureen Lipman has been contemplating memory: she doesn't think she has a particularly good one, though she relies on it for her work. More troubling is that her father lost his short-term memory, which deeply affected her, so she wants to find out more about it. This is one of those "personal journeys"– it features her friends and family, her worries and anxieties – but Lipman makes for an intelligent and genial host as she uncovers how memory works, from birth through to old age. Martin Skegg
*Could We Survive A Mega-Tsunami?
9pm, BBC2
*
The volcanic island of La Palma in the Canaries is a ticking time bomb, threatening the coasts of Europe, Africa and the US with catastrophe if it decides to explode one day. The landslip that could occur might send a kilometre-high wave travelling at several hundred miles an hour first to Africa, then to mainland Europe. Then again it might not. This one-off hour of cable channel-standard conjecture is quite beneath the BBC, but still it flounders on with "maybes" and "what ifs" regardless. Ben Arnold
**Playhouse Presents: Hey Diddly Dee*
9pm, Sky Arts 1
*
Peter Serafinowicz, Mathew Horne and Kylie Minogue star in this comedy-drama about the cast of a new Andy Warhol musical putting up with Serafinowicz's monstrous star turn, until the theatre's mysterious cat gets involved. Actor Marc Warren writes and directs a delightful tale of the unexpected, and Serafinowicz has the time of his life swanning about in Warhol's wig. Another treat tucked away on Sky Arts. Keep an eye on them: turn your back for a second and you could miss a gem. Julia Raeside
**A Night At The Rijksmuseum*
10pm, BBC4
*
After running five years over schedule during its extensive renovations, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which charts 800 years of Dutch history, is finally reopening. So has the work been worth all the bother and expense? Keen to find out, Andrew Graham-Dixon goes behind the scenes at the venerable institution as the staff prepare to welcome punters again for the first time in a decade, an event that will see masterpieces by the likes Vermeer and Rembrandt going on display in sometimes radically re-engineered spaces. Jonathan Wright
*Nashville
10pm, More4
*
"Can you get my jet ready, please? I need to get out of here." Yes, it's melodrama o'clock in Nashville once again. The young missy demanding her steel horse of the sky is Juliette, the Swift-alike who's desperate to get a divorce from Sean, whom she married, like, 10 minutes ago. Grand dame of the country music craft Rayna is finding it hard to get a replacement for Deacon ready for the divas' co-headlining Red Lips, White Lies tour. Of course, there's jealousy and upstaging going on at every turn. Marvellous. HV Reported by guardian.co.uk 18 hours ago.