TV tonight: a new hospital mockumentary for fans of The Office

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St Denis Medical

10.40pm, BBC One
If Scrubs met Abbott Elementary, you’d get something like this American hospital mockumentary series (but lower your expectations a wee bit). It’s from Justin Spitzer – who created Superstore and wrote for The Office – and Eric Ledgin, and follows the dedicated if exhausted team at an underfunded hospital in Oregon. It gets straight into the chaos, with new nurse Matt trying to get through his first day. Hollie Richardson

Alison Hammond’s Big Weekend

8.30pm, BBC One
Hammond is uncharacteristically “nervous” as she meets Mel B – whom she has already interviewed three times and found to be “cagey”. Can she disarm her over a weekend at Mel’s leopard print farmhouse in Leeds? Luckily, the former Spice Girl’s mum, who is a super-fan of Hammond, joins them on the sofa for a big, long chat. HR

Joanna Lumley’s Danube

9pm, ITV1

It’s the final leg of Lumley’s voyage down the Danube and she leaves Serbia to enter Romania via the Iron Gates gorge. After a cup of tea with a nun (not a beer-brewing one like last week), she takes a train along the river then heads to Transylvania in search of brown bears and Dracula’s castle. HR

Joanna Lumley by the Danube.
Joanna Lumley by the Danube. Photograph: ITV

Celebrity Gogglebox

9pm, Channel 4

The celebrity version of this enduring, brilliantly simple couch potato telly-fest returns for a seventh season. Among the sofa buddies are Stephen and Anita Mangan, Rylan and Linda Clark, Mo Gilligan and Babátúndé Aléshé, Jennifer Saunders and Beattie Edmondson and, of course, old faithfuls Shaun Ryder and Bez. Phil Harrison

And Just Like That

9pm, Sky Comedy
While everybody still tries to make sense of the Aidan and Carrie “together-but-not” situation (including themselves), Miranda has the hots for her British colleague and is newly obsessed with a trashy reality TV show (it is so good to have single Miranda back), while Seema tries a new approach to dating – which involves wearing pearls and florals. HR

The Power of Parker

9.30pm, BBC One
The precisely engineered vulgarity of this 90s-set sitcom provides more laughs per minute than the average TV comedy. In the aftermath of Kath (Sian Gibson) getting drunk at an industry awards do, Diane (Rosie Cavaliero) finds solace in a romantic endeavour. But it’s not going well for Martin (Conleth Hill) in his new cleaning job at a care home: “Martin! Rogue turd in room 12! Bring yer gloves!” Jack Seale

Live sport

Racing: The Oaks, 1pm, ITV1
The first day from Epsom.

World Cup football: Wales v Liechtenstein, 7.30pm, BBC Three
The Group J qualifier in Cardiff.

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