TV tonight: Daisy May Cooper is excellent in striking new drama

Cash Carraway has adapted her striking 2019 memoir, Skint Estate, into this eight-part drama – and the result is authentic, original and well worth tuning in to. The excellent Daisy May Cooper plays sex worker and single mum Costello Jones, who is evicted from her home with her daughter Iris (Fleur Tashjian). She can’t find her best friend, Gloria (Ronke Adékoluejo) – last spotted hungover in a telephone box – so she reluctantly goes to slippery Selby (Jack Farthing), who is recently out of prison. Told with black humour, it’s a plucky story of a mother and daughter’s resilience and love as they fight to get a roof over their heads in modern Britain. Hollie Richardson

Naked Education

8pm, Channel 4

Can pubic hair really increase the risk of spreading STIs? What does it mean if you don’t want to cuddle your newborn? Why would being 6ft tall cause a woman to develop an eating disorder? No question is off limits in Anna Richardson’s inclusive series about bodies, which kicks off with body hair (“Pubes before dudes!” declares one woman whose ex ended things when she stopped waxing), childbirth and height issues. HR

Anton & Giovanni’s Adventures in Sicily

9pm, BBC One

Strictly’s Anton Du Beke and Giovanni Pernice continue their romp around Pernice’s homeland of Sicily. This week, they’re once again joined by Rose Ayling-Ellis as they make pasta, do synchronised swimming, play golf and brew beer with monks. Micha Frazer-Carroll

Highland Cops

9pm, BBC Two

This new series explores the challenges of rural policing; the coppers we meet are covering “Britain’s biggest beat” – an area of Scotland the size of Belgium. While some of the crime is region-specific (this week: poaching, missing hikers), much (the drug trade) is sadly universal. Still, even if the subject matter is bleak, the scenery is stunning. Phil Harrison

Celebrity Hunted

9pm, Channel 4

How does the celebrity charity edition of Hunted differ from the original? Well, the civilian fugitives rarely make appearances on live television while they are on the run. Can this high-risk gamble help actor couple Nikesh Patel and Nicola Thorp reunite? Meanwhile, podcasting comedians James Acaster and Ed Gamble raid a dressing-up box. Graeme Virtue

Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled

10pm, Dave

This week’s participants in a deliberately lo-fi, rambling conversation are Jessica Hynes, Emmanuel Sonubi, Amy Gledhill and Patrick Kielty. Topics include falling down a French manhole, drinking with Nickelback and the tale of how Kielty got together with his wife, Cat Deeley – which is like something out of a romcom. Alexi Duggins