TV tonight: a joyously daft new nature series that is unlike any other

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Planet Weird

7pm, Sky Nature

Not all nature documentaries need to be lofty hymns to the sublime majesty of nature. Sometimes you just want to see an odd-looking creature do something daft. This new series has that covered, with highlights including the mesmeric mating dance of the bowerbird, bold Christmas Island crabs playing a game of Frogger and some eye-searing salmon. Graeme Virtue

Call the Midwife

8pm, BBC One

Two expertly marshalled storylines – a mother of seven is expecting an eighth, unwanted child; the mother of a disabled boy grows impatient with the neglectful authorities – lead to different but equally powerful emotional payoffs. Plus, a new postulant! Sister Catherine (Molly Vevers) moves in. Jack Seale

SAS Rogue Heroes

9pm, BBC One

A downbeat, even elegiac in places, conclusion to this rollicking war series. For now, Paddy Mayne’s mob are finished. After cutting a swathe through Italy, it’s time for the regular soldiers to roll in. The aftermath includes politics in high places and trauma in the ranks. But an even bigger task awaits in an inevitable third season. Phil Harrison

Out There

9pm, ITV1

Martin Clunes’s gritty Wales-set drama about a farmer whose family get caught up in county lines gets messier. Johnny (Louis Ashbourne Serkis) and Sadie (Carly-Sophia Davies) go to meet the dealer who runs the operation – but will Nathan (Clunes) be able to help his son before things get out of hand? Hollie Richardson

The Castaways

9pm, Channel 5

Lost, this is not. But there’s still fun to be had with Sheridan Smith’s thriller about a plane crash on a South Pacific island (which was first streamed on Paramount+ in 2023). Smith plays Lori, whose sister Erin (Celine Buckens) doesn’t make the flight – a curious point that might be central to why the plane goes down … HR

Rachel’s Farm

9pm, BBC Four

“That is it – that is the most hopeful thing I’ve heard!” After running a farm in Australia for more than 30 years, a bush fire forced actor Rachel Ward to reconsider her methods and respond to the threat of the climate crisis. She learned that regenerative farming could be responsible for fixing so many problems, and committed to making sustainable changes. This uplifting documentary follows the ups and downs over the last five years of her practising this way of farming. HR

Film choice

Superman, 3.25pm, Sky Cinema Greats

Another reworking of the Krypton native’s story is due in cinemas this summer, but it will do well to match Richard Donner’s 1978 sci-fi drama. Christopher Reeve is still the best Clark Kent/Kal-El we’ve had, working the switch from nice-guy journalist to superpowered crime-fighter with deft charm, while Margot Kidder has few equals as his go-getting colleague and love interest Lois Lane. Add in John Williams’s heart-lifting score and special effects that have almost lasted the test of time, and you’ll believe a man can fly. Simon Wardell

Bad Lieutenant, 1am, Legend Xtra

Giving his soul to role … Harvey Keitel in Bad Lieutenant on Legend Xtra.

You can rely on Harvey Keitel to give his soul to a role, and he certainly goes to extremes in Abel Ferrara’s heady morality tale. Keitel’s unnamed New York lieutenant is a disgrace as a cop and despicable as a human being. He steals from thieves, sells police-evidence cocaine and brutalises suspects, with an appetite for excess – booze, heroin, gambling. But when a nun is brutally raped, he can’t understand why she forgives her attackers, which sets him off on a skewed road to redemption. Ferrara spares us little in his depiction of a dissolute man barely hanging on. SW